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HTC Wizard shows itself

The other day we ran a story about the Orange SPV M3000. It had some grainy pictures of the device courtesy of SmartPhoneFrance. Well, now it's the turn of WindowsMobile.no, who have some spectacular close-up shots of this hot new phone. Although this...

PH-S8000T – More pictures and detail

Remember our earlier story about Pantech announcing their innovative Swivel design Smartphone? It's the PH-S8000T, or the 'Quritel PH-S8000T’. It comes with an Intel CPU, Windows Mobile 2003SE and a 1.3 MegaPixel Camera. The 180 degree swivel design...

Motorola Q – Yes, yet another handset!

Yes, it looks like the rumours were true - a cousin to the Motorola RAZR is on the way and yes, it is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. The Motorola Q is the "thinnest, lightest and coolest QWERTY on the planet" and is yet more fantastic news for …

Orange SPV C600 – Is this it?

It looks like the Orange SPV C600 rumour mill has kicked into gear again. You may remember our story which forecasted it plus the this earlier picture from Mobile-actus.com. Well, now SmartPhoneFrance.info have got a picture of it (right) plus this st...

Samsung M600 ?

Apparently Ubergizmo.com reckon that this is the new Samsung M600. Is it? It looks a lot like the Samsung SGH-i750 to us. Have they changed the name ? UberGizmo say that the "M600" is designed to..."...challenge Korea’s first Microsoft based smartph...

Pantech PH-S8000T debuts in Korea

Pantech have launched their PH-S8000T handset in Korea today. Running an Intel Bulverde 400Mhz the handset, which has an innovative tilt and twist screen, comes with a mega-pixel camera and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Sung-Kyu Lee, President...

Orange SPV C550 Official Press Release and Specs

We've just received the official release information from Orange on the SPV C550. The Press Release and super-jumbo sized pictures of the new phone can be found below (click "Read More"). We also have a specification sheet, which you can download by l...

Krome Spy goes on sale in Australia

Ok, so you know by now that Windows Mobile Phones and Pocket PC's are known as lots of different names around the world. Usually, a company called HTC in Taiwan make them, then they get badged by various networks and providers and sold on. Well, meet ...

UK Orange SPV C500 Update – AT LAST!

The long, long awaited update for the Orange SPV C500 is now available to download here which adds Windows Media Player 10, MP3 ringtones, ringtones from your SD card plus compatibility with the THB car kit. Grab the direct download here - don't forge...

Opera will fix their browser for C500

Remember this news story from last week? Well, Opera has finally come out of beta - however it didn't seem to load on SPV C500's at all. Oh dear. Opera have now identified the problem and announced a fix for it, which should be available as a complete...

Vodafone VPA Compact to come to UK

Initially only available in Germany, the teeny-weeny HTC Magician is about to make an appearance in the UK as the Vodafone VPA Compact about September time. Orange are launching their variant of this - the M500 - any day now, so it looks like Vodafone...

Look ma, it’s the SPV M5000!

Yesterday at TechEd 2005 Orange showed off their latest handset - due to arrive later this year we believe - to the crowd. It's the Orange SPV M5000, which we saw back in February as the "3G SPV". MSMobiles.com have the story on this device, which is ...

Jeyo Mobile Extender Version 2

The guys at Jeyo.com are a little too modest in my opinion. They've released version 2 of the excellent Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook with bug fixes (remember these bugs we mentioned in our review of version 1.11 ?) and a free upgrade path for exis...

2Gb SD cards and loads more to be reviewed!

I've just taken delivery of an incredibly quick 2Gb SD card from MobyMemory.com - yes 2Gb!!! I've still got a Hard Drive that big in a PC upstairs!! The SanDisk Ultra II 2GB SD memory card is the largest capacity card currently available in the SD fo...

Peabody cometh – with full-fat WM 5.0

Blimey, we'd almost forgotten about the Peabody. It's a cheapo mass-market handset made by Flextronics and will run Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0. If you've not heard of Flextronics then prepare to be quite amazed. They're actually one of the world'...

SPV C550 and SPV M500 on Orange.co.uk

Yet more excellent Windows Mobile devices are on the way. Today Orange - the network that brought us the first ever Windows Smartphone back in 2002 - put the Orange SPV C550 and the Orange SPV M500 on their shop in the "Coming soon" section. Click he...

Dopod 828 / SPV M500

Slashphone have themselves a Dopod 828, which is pretty much identical to the forthcoming Orange M500. Running Windows Mobile 2003 SE this mini Pocket PC phone has an Intel XScale PXA272 416MHz CPU, 64MB ROM / 128MB SDRAM, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, an S...

How to PhotoBlog

Blimey, it's a bit warm. At about quarter to five last night it was still a blistering 30 degrees C here in Merry Ole England. While I was having a nice boozy barbeque last night (along with the rest of the UK by the smell of it), it …

Right! That’s the last time I miss Top Gear!

I can't remember the last time I sat down to watch some TV because I had nothing else to do. I always miss the good TV shows or I only catch part of it. So, I decided to find a way to work around this problem without having …

Samsung SGH-i300 at CommunicAsia

Over at Phonemag.com is yet another story about yet another Windows Mobile-powered phone from Samsung. This time it's a SGH-i300 running the Smartphone version of Windows Mobile on the SGH-i300. The SGH-i300 comes with an inbuilt 3Gb hard drive and is...

BenQ P50 to debut next week

According to Slashphone, the BenQ P50 Pocket PC Phone will be out in Taiwan next week.Specs below..Mode  GSM Quadband 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900  OS  Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC Phone Edition Second Edition  Dimensions&nbs...

Goodbye Voq, we didn’t really know you..

Oh dear, the Sierra Wireless Voq is dead. The company announced the news today and we could almost see it coming if we're brutally honest. The handset was big and looked a bit like a prop from Star Trek. Aside from the design of it, Sierra Wireless ma...

Orange gossip..

Apparently the HTC Universal will be out on Orange later this year - late Autumn time probably. The "3G SPV" or C600 will be it's name.Also the M500 shown right should be out for business customers some time soon - possibly at the end of this week.Thi...

Orange SPV C550 – Pictures and details

Well ok, it's not strictly a C550, it's a QTek 8200 - however the handset is the same. Alexander from MySmartPhone.no has the scoop with pictures and details galore. These shots finally put to rest some of the Orange SPV C550 rumours.. 1) No WiFi or ...

BenQ grabs Siemens Mobile

Keni texted me this morning following the news that BenQ are to buy Siemens Mobile. What does this mean for Siemens Windows Mobiles such as the SX66 ? Will BenQ be looking at making a Windows Mobile phone ? Have a read of Keni's blog for these and …

C550 Still on the way…

There's a lot of hoo-har about the C550 at the moment. Various websites are mentioning release days and shots of the Orange magazine. Although June dates are being mentioned, we're still expecting July 11th to be more realistic, and don't forget that ...

TomTom 5 Price Increase?!

Following our earlier story here it would appear that TomTom have increased the price of the excellent TomTom5 for the Windows Smartphone. Originally we were informed via their website that it'd cost €249, but now it appears to have gone up to €29...

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...

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...

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...

ActiveSync 4.0 online

The direct link to ActiveSync 4.0 is now available at Microsoft.com here. You shouldn't really need this version unless you're using a Windows Mobile 5.0 device though. CoolSmartPhone member Lee found it and says... "It's marked as a developer previ...

AudioVox SMT5600 is on Cingular! No, really! It is!

Yes, we now have confirmation. Cingular announced today that is is to re-introduce the Audiovox SMT5600. This excellent handset - a clone of the Orange SPV C500 - got pulled from shelves of AT&T Wireless following a merger with Cingular. Cingular say ...

Orange SPV C500 Update coming Tuesday ?

Our spies reckon that May 3rd could be the day when UK Orange SPV C500 owners get the Operating System update which includes Windows Media Player 10. This update was announced recently on Orange France here. May 3rd is a Tuesday, which may sound a li...

The SMT 5600 goes back on sale – now on Cingular

Visitors from the USA have been pretty much left out in the cold as far as the Windows Smartphone is concerned. The Audiovox SMT 5600 (AKA the SPV C500) was released on AT&T Wireless, but then AT&T Wireless promptly got taken over by Cingular and the ...

More pictures of the Orange SPV C550 appear

Arne over at theunwired.net (it used to be called PPCW.net) has these pictures of the upcoming Orange SPV C550. The design itself now appears pretty similar to that of the Orange SPV C500 albeit with a few buttons and a funky logo on the back. With ru...

Vodafone IS getting the Motorola MPx220 !

Vodafone have confirmed that their customers are to get the Motorola MPx220 very soon. Their media centre is now displaying the handset complete with a customized Vodafone homescreen here. The revelation comes after our earlier story and then through ...

Rumour ? Or truth ?

A strange guy wearing a long coat and a fake beard met me in a park today. After exchanging code-words, he passed me a piece of paper with this scribbled on it... - C550 will be launched in May - Orange will roll-out EDGE across the full UK …

Motorola MPx hits the buffers

After our recent story regarding the Moto range of Windows Mobile phones, it appears that a Motorola spokesman has now confirmed that they've stopped production of the MPx. This PhoneScoop article also states that Motorola won't launch the MPx beyond ...

Orange SPV C550 is coming to the Netherlands too

I've just spotted the Orange SPV C550 over at Orange.nl. As far as we know, this is the first time that Orange themselves have admitted the existence of the Orange SPV C550. The Dutch site gives the features as... - Tri-band - MMS Support- Orange Wor...