Astraware contest hots up!

Astraware have just sent me this press release. It's good to see that there's some Smartphone people sending in entries too! Even if they are of ..err.. cows.. :)--------------It's week 4 of our Play Anywhere and Win contest and the fourth set of entr...

o2 XDA Mini S Comes to o2 Germany

Looks like o2 Germany are about to start selling the HTC Wizard if this article is anything to go by. This o2 Press Release states that the German carrier will launch the device as the o2 Xda Mini S (no, not the one made by BMW). The Wizard …

C550 – The fight to be THE music phone

A couple of weird stories I've picked up on today which I can't make sense of. Firstly, Liam Billington told me about this rather strange Inquirer article, which talks about ... "(Orange) will release a version of its SPV C550 smartphone featuring Wi...

iMate SP5 and SP5m – More HTC Tornado based handsets appear

Antal van Wijk from NewMobile.nl has just emailed me about a couple of new handsets from iMate. Yes, you heard right... more new handsets. They're coming from every angle at the minute and I'm extremely happy to say that it's almost difficult to keep ...

Exclusive: Qtek 9100 – Another HTC Universal comes to play

You know about this device by know.. surely!? Well,vit's the HTC Universal. It's going to be sold on o2 as the XDA Exec, on Orange as the SPV M5000, on T-Mobile as the MDA Pro and i-Mate as the JASJAR. Well, know Qtek are getting in on the …

HTC Universal spotted browsing a very nice website indeed

A rather interesting bit of CoolSmartPhone promotion over at MSMobiles.com today (wehay!) in this article. The MDA Pro is shown here browsing CoolSmartPhone.com in both "portait" and "landscape" formats. There's still a little bit of scrolling needed,...

Orange SPV C600 – Maybe it isn’t such a mystery!

Aye up, here we go again. Yet more news on the Orange SPV C600. We covered this on July 24th when SmartphoneFrance.info had a grainy photocopy of the handset. Now however we have a full colour graphic. The phone itself looks like a mix of the previous...

Exclusive: o2 XDA Exec launching this month

Here it is people, the o2 Xda Exec. Available this month on o2. It's the "latest and most advanced evolution of the Xda family" and it's.. yes, the HTC Universal again. We can now add this to the increasing list of brand-names - T-Mobile MDA Pro, Oran...

Midtown Madness 3 Reviewed

Following our earlier story, there's a great review by AWarner of Midtown Madness 3 over here at MoDaCo.com. He says of the game.."Initially I found the controls took time to get used to, but with a bit of practise the basic movement with the controll...

Technical details of HTC Universal (M5000 / MDA Pro)

Full specs of the HTC Universal (SPV M5000 / T-Mobile MDA Pro / i-Mate JASJAR) are now available. They can be found below (click "Read more" if you need), or you can check them out at the source here at Club iMate It's a sure sign that this …

Motorola Q coming Q1 2006 to Verizon USA?

According to this Smartphonethoughts.com story, the Motorola Q could well be appearing on Verizon Wireless in Q1 2006. The news comes from a conference and a Motorola rep ... "Everything that I've read about the Moto Q has talked about a GSM device....

o2 XPhone IIm – Look, it’s the C550 in disguise :)

Whilst looking for more information on the o2 X-Phone II I found the seeo2.com website, which has a plethora of handsets - all made by HTC (oh how I wish I'd bought some shares in THAT company a few years ago!). The handsets sell mostly in the Asia-Pa...

Exclusive: o2 XPhone II in the UK

Neil Deadman has emailed in to say... "I went into my local O2 shop the other day, and picked up a brochure. To my amazement, there was a listing for the O2 Xphone II with contract for free!!" "I've heard no mention of this on any site!" It's …

Orange SPV M5000 – Date moved forward?

We're hearing gossip that - on the same day that T-Mobile Germany announced the launch of the T-Mobile MDA Pro in just a few short days - Orange may indeed be launching their Orange SPV M5000 at the start of September too! At the moment we've only had...

Midtown Madness 3 – Super-smooth driving action!

This is flippin marvellous. I've even played it on the toilet this morning. Super-slick 3D game Midtown Madness 3 is now available from our shop here and has a natty auto-accelerate option so you don't need to hold down the joystick on your Smartphone...

T-Mobile Pro set for September 1st launch

According to this Infosyncworld.com story, the T-Mobile Pro will appear on September 1st... in Germany at least. No word as yet on the rest of Europe, however we are hearing very positive signals that there won't be much of a wait. The race is still o...

Samsung i300 coming to o2 UK in October – Confirmed

The Inquirer.net have just put a story on line entitled "3Gb Windows Smartphone Spotted". The article rattles on about "a party given by O2 (UK network) ... (we) stumbled across an impressive new Samsung Windows smartphone. It's either called the i300...

More GPS Windows Mobile handsets arrive – the HTC Galaxy

French phone site Mobinaute.com have a preview on yet another GPS-enabled handset, this time it's good old HTC back again with the HTC Galaxy here. We saw some murmourings about this a few weeks back but these are the first real photos we've seen. Thi...

T-Mobile USA to launch the HTC Tornado in October

Engadget.com reckon that the Qtek 8310 we saw earlier at Pocket PC Club will be out in the USA on T-Mobile in October. This Engadget story states.. "(The HTC Tornado) is going to be the first (and possibly only) US carrier to get its hands on the H...