CES 2006 – Bill Gates and Windows Mobile

Last night Bill Gates made his keynote at CES in Las Vegas (webcast here). In the speech he states that there's now a hundred Smartphones on 93 networks in 55 countries with 5 million devices being shipped in 2006 - 36% up on 2005. The Treo 700w, whic...

Cheapy MiniSD Cards

Are you sat at home sorting through the Christmas gifts and finding socks, socks and more socks? Is your girlfriend / wife out at the sales buying 5 identical-looking tops "because they're half price"? Well maybe it's about time you bought yoursel...

Free: AirFix for Windows Mobile 5.0 and ActiveSync 4.x

So, you're using ActiveSync 4.x and you're happily browsing over your WiFi connection on your Pocket PC. You decide to syncronise everything by ActiveSync'ing, but just when you plug in the USB cable - horror of horrors - you're WiFi connection is sto...

Smartphone Music Dock

Although this has been mentioned before this could feasibly work with other Smartphones like the Orange SPV C500 / C550 / C600 due to the placement of the Mini USB and audio ports. This iMate SP5m Music Dock is available from Brando.com.hk and will he...

Yet more themes and homescreens!

Another excellent homescreen website for you today. This time it's JDSKins.com who've also now added a seperate section for QVGA screens like the C550 / C600 etc. Click here to browse and then get yourself a cool homescreen or a complete theme like th...

Start the New Year with a New Homescreen

If you've received a nice spanky new Windows Mobile Smartphone for Christmas then you should definitely make sure that Kleinweder.ch is on your favourites list. Yes, I know I keep plugging the Kleinweder.ch website, but his homescreens are unbelievabl...

Skype (sort of) working on your Smartphone

Here's an interesting story I spotted whilst browsing SmartPhoneThoughts. Blogger "Headworx" has himself an i-Mate SP5m which comes with WiFi on-board. One problem though is that you can't really run stuff like Skype on it as the current Smartphone ve...

Sharp W-Zero3 on show

Some lucky dude at Engadget has got his hands on the Sharp W-ZERO3 / WS003SH Pocket PC Phone. It looks a bit like a PSP and a darker-than-average screen. It's got a megapixel camera, a polished black finish and is bigger than the HTC Universal (M5000...

Happy New Year from CoolSmartPhone

I'm currently vegging out in front of the TV for the regulatory New Years chill-out Day following one too many beers last night. I'd like to pass on my best wishes for a Happy New Year to all our visitors. 2006 is going to be a pretty massive …

More Awards for Windows Mobile

It looks like Windows Mobile has scooped quite a few of the Total Mobile awards for 2006. Jasons blog has the details which reveals that... -Best GSM Mobile - Samsung SGH-i300. Runner-up - Orange SPV550 -Best Smartphone - o2 Exec. Runners-up - iMate J...

Astraware Hogmanay Party – 50% or more off

As we get closer to the biggest boozing night of the year it's good to hear that our friends at Astraware are having a 14-day long Hogmanay ! They'll be offering a different product every day with at least 50% off. Just click here from 8am to find …

HTC Wizard Cradle

Our friends at Boxwave have just launched this HTC Wizard cradle. The Wizard is known as the O2 XDA Mini, Orange SPV M3000, T-Mobile MDA Vario, Qtek 9100 and the i-mate K-JAM. If you'd like yours to sit up straight in it's own special holder then this...

Jokers Quest 2

Exclusive to our shop you'll find Jokers Quest 2 - Revenge of the Bosses. It's the second episode of the funny action strategy game set deep in an underwater world. There's excellent gameplay, graphics, sounds and stacks of levels to get through. Get ...

Verizon to launch XV6700 January 5th

Engadget are reporting that the HTC Apache will be launched under the "Verizon XV6700" name on January 5th. You may remember that competitor Sprint launched the same thing as the PPC 6700 some months back. Although Verizon have a bit of catching-up to...

Free Christmas Videos for your Smartphone

Free Xmas mpg/wmv videos! Yet more great stuf from the guys at SmartPhoneVideoPlus.com  Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas.mpg  Bing-Crosby_White-Christmas.mpg  BoSelectas_ProperCrimbo.wmv  Cheeky-Girl...

C600 – Now for upgraders too

The Orange SPV C600 is now available if you're upgrading here. However, we've spotted a strange thing. A lot of people have noticed that Orange Backup has vanished on the C600. According to the mails we've received it's been removed because the persis...

Christmas Wishes from CoolSmartPhone

We're now running at well over 9 million hits per month according to the stats, which continues to rise month by month. I love doing this site because of the supportive and appreciative emails dropping into my inbox, so today I just wanted to say a ma...

ClearVue becomes fully WM5 compliant

If you're looking for a way to view Microsoft Office files on your Smartphone then ClearVue is the answer. ClearVue suite is now confirmed as being fully compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0, so owners of the Orange SPV C600 or Cingular 2125 can grab th...

Getting Podcasts onto your phone easily

If you're interested in getting the very latest podcasts onto your phone automatically then this new article from Eric will help you a great deal. With his advice you'll be able to sign up to the RSS syndication feed (like ours here) and get the newes...

o2 XDA Exec ROM Update

The o2 XDA Exec handset has been issued with a software update which can be downloaded here. The update will change the hefty o2 Active user interface and disable error logging on the handset. This will upgrade your handset to v1.13.188 and is availab...