The European Regulators are set to stamp down on mobile roaming charges. The commisioner in charge - Viviane Reding (right) - stated that they have long been concerned with the cost and complexity of international roaming charges and have admitted tha...

Whilst browsing around NewMobile.nl I found this Orange SPV M600 .. now doesn't that look like an HTC Prophet to you? Why I think it is! You may have already seen this as the Dopod 818 Pro / iMate JAMin. Let's see... 2.0 Megapixel camera? Check. WiFi?...

Steve Fossett is currently at the controls of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer in order to set the record for the longest flight of all time. He's attemting to fly over 700 miles further than any aircraft or balloon has flown. Conchango are the Web Mi...

NewMobile.nl has always been one of my most checked websites. It contains a mountain of mobile phones, comparisons and photos of all the latest devices. Now it's even better because their English version is online at newmobile.com. If you're ever conf...

One thing that slipped through my net recently was the launch of EDGE in the UK on Orange. This is great news for those of you with EDGE compatible handsets (like the Orange SPV C600) however it still doesn't signal the release of the Orange SPV M3000...

Our friends at Phonethemes.com have published news of a case study into the development work required to produce WM5.0 applications. This follows last year's presentation of the PhoneThemes PocketPC media player by Bill Gates as he launched Windows Mo...

It looks like the Cingular 8125 we mentioned some months back has now launched in the USA. According to MobileMag it's currently... "...only offered to Cingular’s Business 2 Business partners, so for the average consumer, it is still just a bit out ...

Steve Litchfield has just published his fourth Smartphones Show which is available here and features a full video review of the Windows Mobile powered i-Mate SP5. His next show should feature the QTek 8300 music smartphone, so it's well worth keeping ...

I'm a big fan of VoIP however I feel that the existing peer-to-peer clients like Skype don't tell the whole story. Today a company called iC-Talk have announced the launch of their revolutionary business-class telephone solution. This is pure VoIP and...

MoDaCo mentioned this Eye On Call (PhoneSharp) software today so I decided to give it a bash. The software is delivered as a Zip file so you have to copy the contents across to your phone. When you initially run it you'll need to start "Loader.exe" an...

Back when PCs were the same speed as your Windows Mobile phone everyone was "overclocking" their CPU's. For the unaware Wikipedia states that overclocking is.... "Making a computer component run at a higher clock speed than the manufacturer's specific...

Owen from MSMobileNews has emailed in about a rather interesting issue. He's gone into Start-> Settings-> Security-> Certificates-> Root and found that the "GTE CyberTrust Root" one is due to expire in just a couple of weeks time. We're not 100% sure ...

I've added a review of the baby pink T-Mobile MDA Compact II. It's also available in a graphite colour too, so have a read if you're in the market for a tiny Pocket PC. The handset comes with a megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, 128MB of memory plu...

When you read stories of mobile phone masts being pulled down by concerned local residents it is usually due to the fact that they're fairly big, fairly visible and right next to a school or local houses. Some may question the anger. I myself remember...

Last month there were lots of news stories coming out of telecoms show "CES", however you may have missed one rather surprising announcement. Unbelievable yet true, the DECT standard has only just been approved in the USA. Approved late last year by t...

Spotted here at MSMobiles is something that looks quite familiar. O2 MediaPlus is an application that comes with the XDA Atom and gives us a interesting view of how the Windows Media Center interface style can be used on portable devices. You can see ...

More bad news for travellers today after this story highlighted the case of Joanne Lancaster. After getting the flu whilst on holiday Joanne decided to check a few film trailers on her Orange phone. Unfortunately, because she was in the French Alps, s...

Tom Baker has been brought in as the new voice of BT's text-messaging system. Now, when you send a text message to any landline in the UK, the recipient will hear the voice of Little Britain speaking back to them. The new system is much clearer and le...

OK so it's Monday and I've had a nightmare choosing winners! We've had Stuey Roscoe sending in pictures of girls, girls and yet more girls. We've had Lee Sainsbury freezing his phone to make a real "CoolSmartPhone", weird car accidents from Jonathan H...

This is the E-Ten G500. It's a Quad-band Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with a GPS SiRF Star III, MiniSD slot and a 400Mhz Samsung CPU. This is the first Pocket PC Phone from E-TEN to have fully integrated GPS capabilities. There's also a 1.3 Megapixel ca...