MobileGadgetNews.com goes up for sale

Sean Murphy @ MobileGadgetNews.com has just posted this... "It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. Tomorrow at around noon Pacific time, MGN will go up on the auction block on Ebay. I have been running this site since October of 2003 and it...

Music Dock – It’s here!

Remember how I said I was ordering a music dock? Well, it's arrived. In fact it arrived yesterday but after the problems this weekend I've only just started playing with it. It took just 10 days to arrive from Hong Kong and works perfectly with the Or...

Samsung i300x Appears

This my friends is the Samsung i300x. It's just like the Samsung i300 that's selling now but with a bit more "oomph". This uprated version has a bigger hard drive - 4 Gb instead of the 3Gb one previously. It's also got a 1.3 megapixel camera and a …

CoolSmartPhone Server Update

A quick thank-you to the guys at Spoonydunappa for helping me get CoolSmartPhone.com back online today. We were hit by a double-blow this weekend. Firstly we had several thousand IP's trying to grab a rather large file from our downloads area directly...

We’ve been hit

Jeez.... Log files.. I hate looking at them. That's all I've been looking at this weekend, mainly because we have been attacked, massively. I've never had a Denial Of Service Attack before and I never want to again. This one, I believe, was a "distrib...

SOTI Pocket Controller v5.05 Now Available

Pocket Controller-Professional v5.05 is now available here. It's the program to use if you want full control over your mobile device. The new version brings ... - Multi-Lingual Keyboard Support : Enter data into your mobile device in any language inc...

Video Ringtone Maker for Windows Mobile released

This is Watchtone Studio Pro 2.0 from Makayama Media. Windows Mobile support has now been added to this software, making it the first video ringtone solution for Windows Mobile phones. The software lets you create video ringtones for more than 50 mobi...

Podcast 17 online, plus.. look what we’ve got..

We've added another one of those fantastic Podcasts online today. Download it here or subscribe to the RSS feed. Don't forget that you can get a huge range of RSS feeds here at CoolSmartPhone, and if you don't know what they are just click here and I'...

Smartphone TV Show Airs Over The Internet

A new internet TV-show is now available at smartphones-show.com covering all smartphones, not just Windows Mobile ones. It also touches on Windows PC's, video iPods and more. I've had a brief look at the first show, which has the T-Mobile MDA Vario, w...

Now watch UK Traffic Cameras on your Smartphone

The guys at Vizzion have announced that their innovative traffic-watching system "Traffic Vizzion" is now available in the UK. Using roadside and traffic cameras Traffic Vizzion brings the latest pictures to you, so you can quickly check your regular ...

Control your phone using TrueConnect

Whilst doing some handset reviews recently I had to find a new way to remotely control a device and take screen shots. You can use this power toy if you're running an older Smartphone or Pocket PC, however it doesn't like the newer models. I settled o...

Get more news on The Back Page

The amount of news flinging out of CoolSmartPhone is getting quite hefty now and stuff sometimes doesn't stay on the front page long. We've already added the option to see the last 200 news items, plus there's the "News Extra" block on the top right o...

Dualcor High Quality Pics

Following our earlier story about the Dualcor handset, the guys at Dualcor have agreed to send us one to review!! Wehay! .. oh... wait.. no.. Apparently I got that a tad wrong. Apparently their email says that they're sending some high quality pictur...

CES: Motorola Q on show

We've already seen some of the booths at CES in Las Vegas. The Microsoft and Motorola stands are looking prety nice, however Geekzone now have some hi quality photos of the device everyone is asking me about - the Motorola Q. Here it sits on a pink di...

CES: DualCor Continues to Amaze

This DualCor device has kicked up quite a bit of media interest of late. It's a whole new kind of device which combines Windows XP Tablet Edition and Windows Mobile 5.0 in one device. Equipped with not one but two processors (a 1.5 GHz and 400 MHz one...

Slingboxes coming to PAL countries

Following our earlier story on the Slingbox it's now been announced that they're to launch a PAL version of they're product. The SlingBox will stream and let you fully control your TV, DVR / PVR, DVD Recorder etc from anywhere with an internet connect...

Update – Screw it, I’m ordering a Music Dock! :)

I've been waffling on about about this Music Dock quite a bit over the past few days. As I couldn't find it locally I've gone and ordered one to see if it'll fit my C550. If it does, then I want to hear the sound of European and …

CES: Microsoft and Motorola Booth Tours..and..

Engadget have a tour of the the Microsoft booth at CES in (y'know, that Consumer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas). There's some great shots of.... err.. Windows Vista.... ... ermm.. more Windows Vista... Err.. Vista.. Oh! Look.. Windows... Media Cente...

T-Mobile MDA Compact II in Pink and Grey now available

We've now managed to get both the grey T-Mobile MDA Compact II and the baby pink MDA Compact II into our handset shop. Yes, you heard right. Baby pink. Both of these devices come with Windows Mobile 5, Pocket Word, Excel and Outlook plus a 1.3 mega-pi...

CES: Navtones Launches Celeb Satnav Voices

If you've got TomTom or CoPilot installed on your Smartphone or PocketPC you may be aware that a range of voices are available to download. From John Cleese to Darth Vadar, you can have them telling you which is the best way to your destination. Now h...