3D Volcano Island for Smartphone

3D Volcano Island for Smartphone 1.0: Discount 30% off! Now only $6.95!Escape the everyday for an enchanted tropical adventure. This frantic action game starts when our hero is mysteriously swept away from his vacation cruise and finds himself on a ha...

Even more off Lingvosoft products!

Lingvosoft.com have just told me about another fantastic deal exclusively for CoolSmartPhone readers! You can now get a whacking great 30% off all dictionary software - last time it was only 25% off :) To receive this discount, simply enter your gi...

C550 Release date

The latest gossip is that the Orange SPV C550 (pictured) will be launched on Orange on July 11th 2005. Yes, I know.. we said May.. that's what we heard, however, now we're hearing different :) Hey, it's always fun with release dates! :) Oh, and there'...

Free SIM unlocking available

Over at MoDaCo there's a very early version of some SIM unlocking software for Orange SPV C500 handsets (only!). Coded by Zone-MR and available for application-unlocked handsets this appears to be a new, free way to get your Orange SPV C500 working on...

Come on Orange – where’s the C500 UK update?

French Orange SPV C500's were updated on April 19th 2005. Windows Media Player 10 was included, as were a few other fixes such as the "bleeping" noise when you insert a symbol into a text message. Although the update wasn't major, we're left wondering...

Free call revolution

MSMobiles have picked up on a TV Show called The Money Programme that was shown on BBC2 Friday. In the show a group of elderly people were given the chance to use Skype and call their friends for free across the planet. The programme found that the AL...

More free vids for your phone

14 Free 3GP videos available now:  Army(BritishTroopsInIraq)_Is-this-the-way-to-Armadillo.3gp (free) Britney_Baby-One-More-Time.3gp (free) Britney_Spears_-_Toxic.3gp (free) Bryan_Adams-Everything_I_Do.3gp&nb...

Flexiskin and miniBuds Reviewed

I've just added a couple of reviews today - both very good products and well worth splashing some cash on. The first review is the Flexiskin case from Boxwave. It freaked me out a tad when I first got it, but it's the first phone case I've ever …

UPDATE – TomTom Mobile 5 is here !

At last, the news you've been waiting for, the new TomTom Mobile 5 is now available to buy as a complete package here! You may remember our review of the earlier version, in which we praised this GPS navigation solution. The new version 5 brings us ...

Orange TV Launches

Today marks the launch of Orange TV - the UK’s first TV-on-the-mobile service. It operates on the Orange 3G network and brings news, sport and entertainment programmes onto your phone. 9 channels will be available including ITN News, CNN, Cartoon Ne...

SPV M2000 gets featured in TV Show "24"

If you're a fan of TV Show "24" then it may be worth checking out this story from mysmartphone.no. The Orange SPV M2000 / QTek 9090 / AudioVox 6600 / VPA III / Siemens SX66 is actually shown in the episode as a Sprint PPC 660, available here …

Memory cards for your phone just got even cheaper

The guys at MobyMemory.com have just emailed in to say that they've gone a bit mad and dropped their prices even lower than normal. Check out the price of a 1Gb miniSD ! It's now only £82.99 ! 1GB mini-SD - £82.99 512MB mini-SD - £35.99 256MB mini...

That bloody frog! (Part II – by Martin)

That annoying thing, commonly known as the crazy frog.  That sound was on a website, www.studentfreestuff.co.uk long before som muppet decided it sounded like a crazy frog, and a very lucrative frog too.  If anyone is prepared to pay up to

Follow-up for developers – LocateMe!

You may remember some months back we mentioned an event at Kingston Uni telling you how to build and deploy applications on Microsoft mobile devices. Well, Keni - who chaired the event - has now followed this up by blogging some blogging some code cal...

C500 gets another award, HP Smartphone gossip and THAT Frog!

Good to see that the Orange SPV C500 and the iMate JAM are in the top 5 best smartphones in Total Mobile Magazine this month. Also, it would appear that our our earlier story regarding the HP Smartphone could indeed be true. We've had an anonymous ema...

Armour Case for the iMate JAM!

Check this out - it's a new Armor Case (that's "Armour" for those speaking proper English) :) :) for the i-Mate JAM! BoxWave's Armor Case is a form-fitting metal case made of aluminium that is designed to protect your i-Mate JAM from everyday wear a...

UPDATE – Meanwhile, out in Iraq…

I've just spotted this news story about British troops from the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq. To keep moral high they produced a spoof version of the video for Amarillo, recently re-released by Peter Kay and Tony Christie. They called it, "Is this the...

Samsung i730 News

Rumours still surround the Pocket PC Samsung i730 Phone, coming soon from Verizon Wireless. Shown here running Windows Mobile 2003SE it's capable of high speed surfing and mail collection through the EVDO (3G). Dates for release of this handset, which...

AudioVox 6600 now available in Canada

Well hello - what's this ? Why it's the AudioVox 6600 of course!? Now available from Telus Mobility Canada here. Yes, it's that HTC-build Pocket PC phone again, already seen on Orange as the M2000 (review here) and Vodafone as the VPA III. This handse...

A cradle for your C500 / Audiovox SMT 5600 / SDA

Ian Moore has just emailed me in about this i-mate SP3i USB Cradle. In theory this should work with the T-Mobile SDA and, we think, the Orange SPV C500 too. Here's a picture of the bottom of the iMate SP3i - the handset this cradle was made for... …