HTC buys design firm

When we saw the HTC Diamond we assumed that it was all the work of HTC design dudes, but in reality the guys at One & Co helped out with the design and engineering. HTC were obviously impressed with the results, and have announced the full acquisition...

T-Mobile Shadow II pictured and detailed

This is the T-Mobile Shadow II. It's coming soon to the US network and there's already manual and photos online. The handset, which has a slide-out numeric keypad, runs on a TI Omap 260Mhz CPU and has 256MB ROM, 128MB DDR RAM and uses the non-touch-sc...

BBC iPlayer on Windows Mobile – Another way!

Earlier in the week we took a look at the new Skyfire browser and it's Flash capabilities. A lot of interest centred around the BBC iPlayer, which at last became sort-of-functional in Skyfire and has long been a "want" of most Windows Mobile users. No...

European networks to slash data roaming charges

We've all seen the endless scare stories of huge phone bills following trips abroad. Whilst roaming call charges were reduced a while back following an intervention by EU parliament, texting and data access is still shockingly expensive. Now EU Telec...

GPS.SOS – Locate and help people in need

I'm sure we've all seen children with mobile phones. Some of you may have had heated debates about whether it melts their brains or if it's just a great way to check that they're safe. GPS.SOS! is a new program for your loved ones and, with one press …

Zune-based Windows Mobile coming soon?

I'll be honest here and say that I've never seen one of these in the flesh. It's an MP3 player from Microsoft called "Zune" and there's many who will obviously compare it to the iPod. Anyhoo, there's rumours flying around the net that this could merge...

Get yourself free delivery plus free extras too!

Right, we know that Christmas is around the corner and money is a bit tight but here's a deal for you. You may have noticed our "Free delivery" offer on the top right of the site. We'd like you to take advantage of it so, as an extra …

Skyfire Browser. Open Beta. Get it. Get it now.

The Skyfire browser is now more widely available with those in the US, Canada, and UK getting special attention. I've had quite a few mails about this, some saying, "It's as buggy as hell" and some saying, "It's the best thing since beer was invented"...

Elecont Weather Updated

Elecont Weather has just been updated and now includes severe weather updates. Now, in the USA a severe weather warning is probably something like a hurricane, in the UK I'm assuming it's more than two snowflakes. ;) There's also a new 10-day worldwid...

Winterface Mobile GUI updated

The the new version of Winterface has just been announced. 1.2 brings bug fixes and extra features including automatic start on reboot, Bluetooth switch, enhanced battery status, favourites and orientation switch with the navigation pad. You also get ...

NVIDIA Powered Windows Mobile rumoured

Rumours are building yet again that Microsoft may be working on their very own handset after more stories of a tie-in with the NVIDIA Tegra CPU. In theory this would give a high-def video playback and rapid graphics. According to The Inquirer the resu...

txtForward – Send all your texts to any email address

Bear with me if this gets a little garbled, I've just had 6 cups of coffee and anything could happen :) This is txtForward from Electronic Pocket. It's a simple idea - forward every text message you receive to any email address you specify. It's a goo...

Samsung updates for Omnia i900 available

The Samsung Omnia i900 appears to have been updated recently with this vanilla update and this Vodafone one. The 109MB file brings more stability and something called "Rich Internet", there's an app-store too (COUGH iPhone COUGH!). The updater will ...

HTC Touch HD running Xperia Panels – Part 2

Just the other day we saw the HTC Touch HD running the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 GUI - "Panels". Well, we've managed to get the Xperia Panels installed on the Touch HD we're currently loaning from the nice people at devicewire.com and ... well... we dec...

Samsung T*Omnia runs 806Mhz CPU

The T*Omnia was launched on November 3rd and many sites, including us, didn't really cover it much. The device is the bigger brother of the Omnia and the Korean model has a slightly larger screen and a 480x800 pixel resolution. There's also a digital ...

XDA Zest available to buy on o2 website

Johnny De'Silva has just tipped us on the availability of the o2 XDA Zest. It's available on Pay Monthly and Pay & Go. If you choose the lattest then it's £249.99 to buy, with contract customers paying between nothing and £149.99 depending on your c...

Xperia Panels on Touch HD

A few weeks back you may have seen this post on MoDaCo showing the HTC TouchFLO 3D system running on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Now someone has managed to do the opposite, running the Panels interface from the X1 on the HTC Touch HD. The proof of …

Orange launch Mobile Forms

Are you looking for a way to captured data and send it back to your company in real-time? Try Orange Mobile Forms. It uses a simple drag and drop system to design your form on the web, so there's no coding needed. Data is transmitted securely and you …

HTC MAX 4G To be launched next week

The HTC Max 4G is now sitting on the HTC website. Destined for Russian WiMAX network "Scartel" (Yota) on November 26th it'll be the worlds first ever integrated GSM / WiMAX handset. The network will enable a rich multimedia experience and a high quali...

Auto orientation switching plus more Touch HD fun

The other day I published lots of videos showing the HTC Touch HD in action. Today there's another video showing the GPS and camera application. Now, I also mentioned in a previous video how good it would be if the screen rotated in every app - not ju...