Over 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices before the end of 2009? Yes, according to DigiTimes there'll be 30 devices from 15 different manufacturers. Benjamin Tan, Senior Director in the "GCR Mobile Team" at Microsoft China revealed the tit-bit of inform...
Hey HTC Hero users. Have you been having problems with HTC Peep of late? Yeah? You're not the only ones. We've seen that "unexpected error" and "force close" far too much of late. Luckily Paul over at MoDaCo has spotted that if you clear the cache it ...
Listen up coffee lovers. If you're a regular at one of the UK's Starbucks then this will definitely be of interest. You'll no doubt have seen the BT Openzone WiFi access points but perhaps ignored them due to the price. However, there is a way to get ...
Got Gmail ? Got Windows Mobile? Cool. There's some good news from Google. Now you can get your Gmail sent directly down to your phone via the push-email / Exchange protocol. It means that mail comes directly into your WinMo mail client. Try it out he...
Fancy a chance of winning something ? We love giving stuff away and today there's a chance to win CoPilot Live 8. It's worth £73.99 and it'll work on either Android or Windows Mobile. You know the deal - this is an award-winning sat-nav system giving...
Oh what's this over on the Vodafone coming soon pages? Not one, not two, but three hot new phones we've been covering. First is the HTC Tattoo is coming to Voda exclusively in black next month. It's the Android device for the masses and has a 3.2 mega...
Arne from theunwired.net has managed to get one of those generic boxes we love messing with. Inside is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 - the new Windows Mobile device with 8.1 megapixel shooter, laptop-esque sliding QWERTY keys, WiFi, aGPS, 3.5mm headset ...
Let's be honest, this isn't the best picture ever. I mean sure, there's a Sony Ericsson logo at the top and a Android-esque home keys at the bottom but it's still a "possible" sighting of the new Android-powered Xperia X3. We were all ready to ignore ...
The Leo. We've added post after post here at coolsmartphone,com and although we already kinda knew it'd be the Touch HD successor there's now even more evidence courtesy of these pics from techblog.gr. Now sure, round the back there's some nice "HTC P...
If you own a HTC Hero then you'll no doubt have heard of the new updated ROM which gives a smoother, faster response and extra features. The down side is that, until now, it was only available to those buying the phone directly from HTC. For those buy...
With many competitors already doing great business from their application stores Microsoft have recently discussed the inner-workings of their own "Marketplace". The Microsoft app store will be on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices launching on October 6th an...
Another video of the HTC Leo - this time even longer - is now available online. Labelled with the new "HTC Pro Three" branding it certainly looks pretty slick. The Leo is quickly becoming the most saught-after WinMo in the land with a super-fast 1Ghz ...
American readers will soon be getting the HTC Whitestone in the shape of the "HTC Imagio" on October 6th for Verizon customers. The device, which features Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a 528Mhz CPU and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, will be one of t...
Owners of the unlocked HTC Touch Diamond2 can now download a hotfix to sort a small but annoying bug. The issue relates to the LED not showing "green" when the battery is fully charged. Grab the patch on the link below, and don't forget the Caller ID ...
The Acer F1 is a powerful beast. Powered by a 1Ghz Qualcomm 8250 CPU it's got a 3.8" WVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. All the other goodies are in there, including WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, aGPS, microSD exp...
With Windows Mobile 6.5 still not (quite) available there's yet more detail on the next version - Windows Mobile 7. According to Micorosoft job adverts there's a heavy shift towards integrating social networking into version 7. The ad states that.. "T...
Agh. More bullets for Windows Mobile. Today Jon Rubinstein, CEO at Palm, confirmed in a financial results conference call that Windows Mobile was no longer part of their future line-up. He stated that... "Due to importance of webOS to our overall stra...
So, the new HTC Hero update is out and the world is now a happier place.. isn't it ? Well no, of course not. This update is only for "direct from HTC" phones, so if you bought your handset from Orange or from T-Mobile (as the G2 Touch) …
As you may know, we started this site some 7 years ago. To begin with we were covering the classic "Smartphones" - those Microsoft-powered non-touch devices like the Orange SPV E200 and so on. We branched out to "Pocket PC's" and, just recently, we've...
We'd heard the rumours but now it's becoming more official by the hour - i-mate is gone. The company, headed up by Jim Morrison, closed it's Dubai office today. Staff were told to take "compulsory two months unpaid leave" in an email last Wednesday, w...