Motrorola Q Passes FCC Tests

PhoneScoop.com report today that the Motorola Q has now passed the necessary tests at the FCC, making it ready to rock 'n roll. This comes after the Q was spotted lurking around the Verizon site. This FCC ruling should mean no further delays for the Q...

More Coolsmartphone.com developments

A totally new downloads area will be online soon. It will, for quite a while, run in tandem with our existing downloads section here. This is to maintain all previous links from articles, news items and other pages around the web. Due to the fact that...

GPRS Remote Control

GPRS Remote Control lets you connect and remotely control your desktop computer through your mobile phone. You can send and receive mail, browse net, edit documents and hundreds of other things that you'd typically do behind your home or office comput...

QTek 8500 Available May 10th

Are you after the super-slim QTek 8500 ? Well, according to expansys.com this will be available on May 10th for £359.95. You can also get it at the USA site here for $569.95, although there's no release date on that site. Links - QTek 8500 @ expansys...

iTech Virtual Keyboard

You may recall that I spotted posted a story about the this Bluetooth virtual keyboard in the Orange shop at Lichfield. It's selling for £129.99 and is compatible with the Orange SPV range and other Windows Mobile phones and Pocket PC's - you can Fro...

o2 XDA Exec Push Email Update is here

Remember last week we mentioned the o2 XDA Mini update that enabled push-email ? Remember how we said, "..although the Exec update isn't here yet.." ? Well, now it is :) Just click here if you have an o2 XDA Exec and you'd like to use the Microsoft …

Orange SPV M600 Now available to all

Noel Guthrie has emailed in after spotting that the excellent Orange SPV M600 is now available to us regular people in the orange.co.uk store. This means you no longer need to be a business customer to get one. Yay! Prices currently start at £99.99 f...

More on the QTek 8500 and 8600

Smartmobil.no have a great article here all about the QTek 8500, aka the iMate Smartflip / HTC Star 100. Both the pink and the black version can be seen here with some nice shots of the device in action. While we're talking about new phones, Martin ha...

Things are a-changing at CoolSmartPhone

Nearly 4 years ago all of this was a just a single web page. It's evolved over the years into the epic beast you now see before you. However, at the start of this year I wasn't 100% happy with things. The new login system was slowing the …

Motorola Q spotted on Verizon.. (sort of)

The guys at QUsers.com have managed to fish out this picture of the Motorola Q from a backstage area of the VerizonWireless.com site. They've also spotted the date on the phone - 10/11/2006, which some might say indicates an October release :) (Before...

Get some free stuff baby!

The guys in our games and applications shops have had a fantastic idea. In fact, I thought they were a bit nuts when they came up with it, but heck - it's their money and their idea, so I'm backing it all the way! :) They've got a …

Samsung i300x Shipping

If you're after the new Samsung i300x with its 4Gb internal hard drive then check out DOML.com, where it's now selling for £429.99 ex VAT. The SIM-Unlocked handset comes with a 240x320 screen, 1.3 Megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0 and you can get ...

The rumour mill turns and turns

Hmm.. I've had way too many emails about this. You may know about the Orange SPV M3000 and the fact that it's not getting launched in the UK. It's safe to say that were were a tad disappointed by this decision, but we're getting a heck of a …

Orange Partner Camp – Get involved!

The Orange Partner Camp, being held from May 8th-10th is a chance for mobile games, ringtones, music, business solutions, applications, handset and network enablers or any other wireless services providers, to come together with Orange. This year the...

Exclusive first – v1240 and v1640 Now selling on Vodafone!

Remember a while back we exclusively revealed that Vodafone were testing the new Vodafone v1240 and v1640? Well, we're revealing that they've actually hit the shops and you can buy them right now!If you check the Vodafone UK Business store you'll find...

Red and Pink Handsets from i-Mate

Check this out! It's one of only 100 Ferrari red i-Mate JASJAR handsets. You've probably seen in less bright colours under different branding across the world (SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec etc). According to NewMobile.com this and a pink version of the i-Ma...

o2 XDA Mini Push Email Update

Just a few days a go we told you to keep an eye on the new xda.o2.co.uk site for details of the push-email update for the o2 XDA Mini and o2 XDA Exec. Well, although the Exec update isn't here yet, the XDA Mini update is. If you've …

MobiLuck now for Windows Mobile 5.0 too

About this time last year we mentioned something called Mobiluck, the "BlueJacking" software that lets you detect all nearby Bluetooth devices and send / receive messages. Now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets Mobiluck is a bit more than ju...

Shozu branches out

Shozu, the direct-pictures-to-web-from-your-phone-app, has announced that they're branching out to offer photo and video uploading to multiple personal blog and citizen photo-journalism sites such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, CNN, the BBC and Scoop...

No more MSN in SPVs – The case continues

Michael Pearson has sent an email about this Orange Press Release which is actually from the 3GSM show on February 13th. It may explain the decision to drop MSN Messenger from the SPV range. The Press Release states an agreement between Vodafone and O...