It looks like HTC are on a mission to bring the Android platform to the masses with the HTC Click. Pitched at the cheaper end of the market this will echo the Windows Mobile cheap-and-chearful Viva - it even looks similar. If HTC can bring the HTC Sen...
Rumours, rumours, rumours. Gotta love them, or - if you're Microsoft - hate them. Following recent HTC announcements that they're "fully committed to Windows Mobile" there's now rumours via Digitimes that next year half of HTC kit will be powered by t...
want more pictures of the upcoming Xperia X2 from Sony Ericsson ? Head over to this xda-developers.com thread where there's comparison shots next to the existing X1. The X2 pictured here is a prototype and the keyboard may get a few tweaks before laun...
We've been talking about the new application store for Windows Mobile for some time. Apple have an app store, Google have their Android Market. For months now we've heard about Windows Marketplace and it's arrival on Windows Mobile 6.5. We all smiled ...
Right, unless we're going completely bonkers it looks like the HTC Hero is now fully available on the Orange website. This Android-powered device has been in my pocket for a week or two recently and, although I'm still a Windows Mobile fan, it's impre...
Woah, check this out. It's an app that turns your WiFi-capable phone into a router. To get it working, install this CAB from XDA-developers, ensure your phone has a data connection, then fire up the Mobile Wi-Fi Router program from your shortcuts. It'...
It looks like there's some final tweaks going on with Windows Mobile 6.5. In these shots it looks like a more finger-friendly interface is now developing with some of the tabs being dumped in favour of larger arrowed buttons and chunky check-boxes. No...
A short while back I managed to get the HTC Hero for a whole week. I did 9 videos and spent the entire week using it as my primary phone. We answered stacks of your questions but, sadly, there wasn't enough time to show the compass system. Luckily …
Buying shares in Microsoft has been a solid investment for many years. Microsoft is a large company with many different products and a collosal customer base. However, in recent years Google, Apple and others have proved to be a stong competitors in m...
Lovin' your TouchFLO? Yeah? What about those Today screen plugins huh? Well, they're tucked away and until now the only way to see them was to turn off TouchFLO. Now there's this Manila Today Page. It'll make one of your TouchFLO tabs into the classic...
If people decide to leave Windows Mobile it'll usually be for one handset - the iPhone. Until recently the iPhone 3G has only really been available on o2 here in the UK, but now there's news that both T-Mobile and Orange could be retailing the device ...
The FCC is always a great place to find out about upcoming phones and today the LG GW600 has popped up in a lovely shade of red. We've always loved the look of WinMo-powered LG's, especially the KS20, but there's never really been much sight of them h...
This is the new o2 XDA Venn. It's just popped up on the o2 XDA website. It comes equipped with two keyboards - a sliding QWERTY from the side and a numeric keyboard from the bottom. Showing as an o2 exclusive we think it may be the Pantech …
Want to record your calls? Try ACR (Auto Call Recorder). Tell it where to save calls, whether to ask first and whether to record incoming or outgoing calls - or both. There's two different WAV formats and several quality settings to chooe from. .NET ...
The Omnia 2 (i8000) should be appearing this weekend in Singapore. The Windows Mobile 6.1 handset has already caught our eye in t'interweb videos and WinMo 6.5 should be available for the phone shortly after launch.Softpedia.com reports.. "Although t...
A few weeks back we managed to grab the HTC Hero for a week and gave it a full workout. Now other sites are getting their mitts on it, and you can see two of them side by side - the graphite and white one - at hdblog.it. …
We have another video of the Toshiba TG01 online. This time it's an up-close look at the software included on the handsets and some of the options available to you. We also do some browsing and picture viewing with the zoom function. You should be ab...
It looks like Microsoft may be quickly changing their mind on the Windows Marketplace compatibility issue. Previously, and to much criticism, Microsoft announced that the new on-board-shop would be "for Windows Mobile 6.5 and above ONLY". This provoke...
Ok, so it looks like the Hero is going to take a little longer. The Android-powered device has already had loads of coverage here at coolsmartphone.com and on YouTube but it's now being pencilled in for the first week in August. This delay applies to ...
Windows Marketplace is coming to Windows Mobile 6.5 but, with the OS still no appearing on handsets, there's increasing app-store competition. HandMarket are currently trialling their store and LG are launching a store too. Both appear to be fully com...
