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...

50% Off for Christmas!

The Boxing-Day sales have started a little early over in our software shop but who are we to argue? Now is your chance to spend as little as 2 quid on a proper Smartphone or Pocket PC game (none of that Java download nonsense) here. So this Christmas,...

Crazy Frog gets £40,000 fine

Oh shame, the ringtone provider behind the demon cartoon character from hell has been fined £40,000 by phone regulator "Icstis". The ruling which can be found here - states that.. "......following the receipt of consumer complaints by ICSTIS ... in...

Vodafone Launch their HTC Wizard too

Listeners to our podcast will already know about this, however now it's been confirmed. After the T-Mobile Vario and o2 XDA Mini comes the Vodafone VPA Compact II, which is showing on the German Vodafone site right now. It's got a slightly different k...

Gigabyte g-Smart with Push Email and TV

This is the Gigabyte g-Smart Pocket PC Phone with built-in TV and radio (not digital though), a 2.1 mega pixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, a free 256Mb MiniSD card, Bluetooth, WiFi AND Push Email! Although currently only available in Taiwan, it is at ...

1.2 Beta of Skype for Pocket PC now available

The new version of Skype is now online and includes better language support, Windows Mobile 5.0 compatiblity, a wider range of displays, 3G, EDGE and WiFi compatility plus Voice Mail access. If you want to know more about Skype and how it works, read...

Podcast 16 Online

What better thing to do on a Friday than record a huge great Christmas Podcast! This is a big-ass mother of a Podcast, with news of the C600, Visto trouble, free games, the Samsung i300, the MDA Compact II, our reviews and me being raced by some dude …

i-Mate SP5m Reviewed

I'm just wading through my email and stumbled across a link for the i-Mate SP5m at Smartphonethoughts. Here's a taster... "The i-mate SP5m is the first of its kind to hit the street; a Windows Mobile Smartphone with WiFi built-in! Don't be fooled by i...

Quartz X-Mas – Free !

At this time of year everyone loves free stuff, so what better than a free game? Quartz X-Mas is a free follow-up of the popular Quartz puzzle series. It's available here to download now for both high-res QVGA screens (C550/C600 etc) and regular scree...

Samsung i300 released! Yeah! We know!

I've had a few emails regarding the release of the Samsung i300 on o2. There's several Windows Mobile websites out there announcing that it's now available and people are asking why we haven't covered it. Well, erm.. we have. In fact it was almost 10 ...

Visto launches a triple attack against MS

It's all kicked off today in the "push email" arena. True "push email" is promised on Windows Mobile devices early in 2006, however a company called Visto have taken great exception to the technology being used by Microsoft to do this, saying that it ...