Bill Gates collects his Knighthood

Slightly off-topic this, but interesting none-the-less. Today Bill Gates attended Buckingham Palace to receive his honorary knighthood. The title of "Sir" isn't allowed though as he's not a British Citizen, however he will be able to use the letters K...

Handsets to arrive in 2005

The 3G SPV that we've featured here should be out later this year. Umm.. I think. See, to be honest I'm not sure because I've had a sneaky look at the device road-map for Orange in 2005 and it mentions that... "A Windows Mobile-based 3G phone will al...

Seagate releases 6GB mini-hard drive

Seagate recently announced that it is shipping the highest capacity one inch hard drive available, with a capacity of 6 gigabytes. The drive is projected to be able to store 150 hours of music, or about 3 000 songs at 128kbps. Expect a 6GB iPod mini ...

Orange SPV C500 – Free plus free Bluetooth headset!

The excellent Orange SPV C500 now comes free on certain plans, plus you'll get yourself this free Bluetooth headset if you take a plan which costs £30 or more per month. Now that's a bargain! :) Click here to learn more.

More SPV C550 Details

There's still some confusion over whether the SPV C550 we revealed last week will be 3G compatible. Although it would appear to be listed as a 3G handset there's no mention of video calling and there's no inwardly-facing camera, so you'd be unable to ...

CoolSmartPhone makes the news

It seems CoolSmartPhone is in the news itself, albeit only on the web. As an IT type person myself, I regularly trawl a number of sites aimed at like-minded profesionals. One such site is www.TheRegister.com, who are highly regarded as a source of new...

No SDA Music for the UK?

I've chatted to Joe from MobileJoe.de in the past and he's always been very complimentary about T-Mobile Germany and the support they've given him. T-Mobile were always keen to show the latest Windows Mobile Phones and get as many developers and custo...

Exclusive first – Orange SPV C550

I had an email about an hour ago from an anonymous source with this picture attached. Now, being the trained journalist I am (!), I've decided to post this picture without checking anything out first. I've decided to do this just in case this all work...

New StripPoker models

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New software from EdgeQ

I've just added a couple of nice applications from EdgeQ to our downloads section. The first free beta is called TrafficEdge and gives you up-to-the-minute traffic info for parts of the USA. It even includes traffic camera images so you can steer clea...

Fizz Traveller Update – 2.1

Fizz Software have announced today a new update to their excellent Fizz Traveller for Smartphone. You can get the latest version now, which is a 5 day trial, but if you're a traveller this is worth a go. The latest version is 2.1 and features.....

EasyMobile and Orange go to war

Oh dear, flamboyant Stelios, head-honcho at the "easy" empire, has landed himself in a bit of doo-doo with Orange. Only last week Stelios announced his new easyMobile service with T-Mobile. Stelios, who's always keen on protecting his "easy" brand nev...

Newgen D2000W with QVGA and Wi-Fi!

MoDaCo have picked up this iDNES.cz story showing the new Newgen D2000W. If you don't want to translate, try visiting the NewGenTel.com site itself here and have a butchers. It's a slide-design and looks very nice indeed. It comes with a very quick In...

T-Mobile SDA and MDA Compact go live on the T-Mobile UK Website

The T-Mobile SDA and MDA Compact are now available to buy direct from the T-Mobile UK Website. SDA prices start from a crazy £19.99 (on the Relax 400 plan) and MDA Compact prices start from £119.99. T-Mobile have given both devices a "5 star" rating...

Build and deploy to Microsoft mobile devices

There's a presentation and live demo on how to build and deploy applications on Microsoft mobile devices at Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey. It takes place on February 22nd 2005 and is a completely free open lecture. Places are lim...

More pixels baby!

MSMobiles.com have got themselves a sneak peek at the very early stages of a Samsung Smartphone. In the pictures here you can see the "demo board" - this is basically the insides of a phone, but not quite squashed up enough to fit into a case just yet...

Orange France go broadband crazy

Orange have announced a massive rollout of EDGE in France and aim to cover the entire country with EDGE, 3G and WiFi by the end of 2006. EDGE, for those who don't know, is like GPRS on drugs. EDGE will enhance the number of bits that can be …

New homescreens from Kleinweder.ch

Here's two new homescreen skins from kl1wd. The first, called BlueSky and features the MSN butterfly. The second, strangely called IamRunningOutOfNames and features the Windows Mobile logo. Get both of these by clicking the links below.... - BlueSky...

Off-Road Maps & Charts for Smartphones

A New Ring to Outdoor Safety and Navigation Turn Your Windows Mobile Smartphone into an Outdoor Atlas 60,000 Off-Road Maps and Boating Charts for only $20! Maptech, Amesbury, MA – Some of us plan our outdoor escapes while others like to wing it...

Animated homescreens from MadBeetle

So, we reported already on the PhoneThemes.com story, we showed you how animated homescreens were indeed possible. However, they've not released their work fully as yet. Step forward Madbeetle, who've generated their own homescreen plug-in for the Win...