SPB Mobile Shell has always been good but now the very latest version brings enhanced personalization and customization. Widgets are now included which support Facebook and Twitter plus there's new enhanced Internet searching. Available from today you...

A few days back we launched a competition to win CoPilot Live 8. The sat-nav software comes courtesy of our friends at devicewire.com, where you can buy it for £73.99. We had hundreds of entries and our randomizer has picked out Bizhan Shokouhi as th...

Yesterday we were pretty much the first people to reveal that the iPhone was officially coming to Orange. It explains why o2, who have had the exclusive rights on the iPhone here in the UK for two years, are sniffing around the HTC Leo / HD 2 and …

Two ROM updates have just appeared on the HTC support site for the HTC Touch Pro2. An update is available for the Vodafone and Orange versions to bring your device up to the latest version. There's no real detail on what is improved here, but if you w...

Seriously, how much are we probably going to love the HTC Leo when it arrives ? The benchmarks are now available at it shows the 1Ghz CPU leaving skid marks all over the shop. The stats show a 300% speed boost over the existing Touch HD on 3D …

Linux users may already be well aware of the old "what's open source and what's not" argument. Certain flavours of Linux will appear without certain parts you'd expect because they're not legally allowed to be distributed that way. Sure, you can downl...

We've added a video showing the Touch2 being unboxed. It's a preview unit, but we've got WinMo 6.5 and TouchFLO on board and it's looking all ready for the October 6th launch. We take a look around the handset, contents of the box and the all-new Wind...

The Boy Genius has managed to get his hands on the Motorola CLIQ - soon to be coming to our shores as the Motorola DEXT. It's an Android-powered device with a 4-row sliding QWERTY and 5-way directional pad. The CLIQ has a 3.1" capacitive display, 5 me...

We reported a week back that i-mate had closed up shop and CEO Jim Morrison had left the country. Then, just recently, Jim popped up to state that "fraud" had caused the company to suspend operations for a while. Now, though, it's emerged that the ope...

We doubted it. We couldn't understand why o2 would want to pick up a potential competitor to the iPhone, especially when they have the exclusive on it. Following the earlier story the guys at engadget have had a picture showing promo material with the...

Shh.. Keep this on the down-low. pocketnow.com have just got some more bits of information regarding the HTC Leo / HTC HD2. Yes, it will be called the HD2 and yes, it does have a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The BIG 4.3" WVGA capacitive scr...

Look what just arrived - the HTC Touch2. It comes equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 and has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8" QVGA screen, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD expansion. A review will be online in a few days and we'll have...

A quick apology. If you tried to get to coolsmartphone.com between 23:00 BST and 03:30 BST or anytime around 14:45 today then it probably would've failed. The news from our data centre is that an emergency router firmware upgrade went a little wrong l...

Android users may well have heard about the CyanogenMod. It's an optimized and tweaked build of Android based on bits of Donut and some excellent contributions from xda-developers.com. Now, whilst ROM cooking and tweaking has been going on for years w...

Before the video interview took place Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted a few things that we kinda already knew at the Venture Capital Summit in Silicon Valley. People in the audience posted Tweets as the event took place. Twitter user beninato tel...

There's an interesting interview with Steve Ballmer over at TechCrunch today. He did touch on mobility, discussing the "Microsoft Phone" that kinda got revealed yesterday with two phones appearing based on Sharp hardware. Although they're not "built b...

Just a few days ago we said our goodbyes to i-mate. It was a sad farewell but, just when you thought CEO Jim Morrison had packed up and headed into the sunset, he then re-appears. Apparently the company is merely going through some "troubles" which a...

It seems that the HTC Leo is becoming more popular by the day. Now there's even more juicy information - the Leo is apparently due to appear on o2 on October 12th. According to engadgetmobile.com... "A trusted tipster with a proven past just gave us t...

Got Windows Mobile ? Want to stay with it ? I don't blame you. However, you've probably experienced a small amount of envy when you see how well Twitter is integrated into the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Hero (well, if it worked). There's news fro...

We've been told several times that Microsoft Pink doesn't exist. We've also been told even more times that an Microsoft "own branded phone" doesn't exist. Well, the latter is partially true, there won't be a phone "built by" Microsoft but it may have ...