T-Mobile MDA Compact Pocket PC Phone hits the shelves

Here's some exclusive shots from a T-Mobile shop of the MDA Compact. These shots were taken on an SPV C500 and the RRP seems to be £169.99, but you can bring down that cost on certain tariffs.Plus we've got news of the T-Mobile SDA, which has started...

Motorola MPx220 – New OS and more info

Yes, another news item on the MPx220. :) Although here in Europe the MPx220 is yet to make its mark, it's interesting to see what's coming. The 220 has a megapixel camera, bluetooth and is Motorolas' second clamshell Windows Mobile phone after the ver...

MPx220 – More pictures from the camera

I've had quite a few emails since this news item about the MPx220 went online. You guys wanted some more info about my Motorola MPx220, like what version of the OS it's running and where it came from. You also wanted to know when it was coming out …

Mobile Photography Developments

Marc Wintle has been emailing me for a few days now about a new service from BonusPrint which prints your Smartphone photos or puts them into an online gallery. I've been a little slow to pick up on it and it's now been mentioned elsewhere (see this M...

Even more site improvements

Another addition today is the improvement and re-working of the syndicated feeds coming in from other Smartphone websites. You can find these here and they now all have very clever little sub-menus too. Updated also is your photo blog, where you can i...

Meteor – Smart Breakout on your Smartphone!

Mobile Stream have released a beautiful breakout-style game - Meteor - for MS Smartphone 2002/2003 You have to destroy bricks, saving your meteor from enemy missiles and getting as much power-ups as possible. Game features : 90 levels over 60 types o...

More site improvements

After spectacularly falling off the non-drinking wagon last night, I did some of my infamous late night completely drunk PHP coding. The end result, as I look at it the next morning, seems quite good. It basically means that you can now quick link to ...

The MPx220 – is it all that bad?

Well, in a word. No. We've heard about the camera issues it had, plus the low volume on calls. However, I've got one right here with the very latest OS Version and I wanted to put a few things right before finishing off a full review. Firstly, the …

CoolSmartPhone is BACK!

A few hours ago I posted this story about the CoolSmartPhone server being shut down by our hosting company. Well, it would appear that it was all one big ... umm.. well, we're not sure what happened. I'm sat here just trying to figure out what the duc...

CoolSmartPhone is dead… Goodbye cruel world?!

For reasons best known to themselves, the company hosting this site believe that I have been using my server for "an eBay scamming scheme". I have just received an email saying that my account will be closed and the server will be removed immediately....

Homescreen Designer – New Version!

I see that MSMobiles have picked up on the new version of Homescreen Designer. This piece of software is without doubt the best way to design a funky homescreen for your phone. If you want to see it in action, just click here. The new version fixes so...

Blazar Blazes onto your Smartphone

A tastic new game from Elements Interactive hits the streets today and you can buy or try it here. It's a classic arcade-esque side-scrolling space shoot-em-up and features a unique level every time you play, powerups, radar, multiple bosses, weapon ...

We have moved again!

Quick update, we've now moved again! We're now located in California and have an even bigger server this time, with room to play with both bandwidth-wise and storage-wise. If you're reading this and are having trouble logging in, it may be worth tryin...

Cute DV1 – Wow!

Just when you think you've got a funky phone, along comes someone with an even better one. Step forward XCute Mobile Corp, who've produced this digital movie camera / 3 mega-pixel digital still-camera / DVD player (with TV-out!) / MP3 / phone combo ! ...

Voda gets more customers, but….

Looks like Vodaphone have grabbed themselves 5.4m more customers in the last quarter of 2004. However, the actual spending of their user-base is down and the "ARPU figure" (ARPU stands for "average revenue per user" fell. Hmmmm.. sounds like they coul...

Betaplayer new version – 0.5

Lekus from MoDaCo.com posted this interesting news story about the excellent free movie player - Betaplayer. This excellent utility allows you to play AVI, MPEG and even squished down DVD movies! "I just noticed that a download for BetaPlayer 0.5 STAB...

That bloody crazy frog!!!

Stop the world, I want to get off. Yes, not content with annoying everyone with 30 adverts per hour featuring "the crazy frog ringtone" on most Music TV channels, it would appear that they've now remixed it and plan to release it on CD. Chris Moyles p...

Worradeal ! 1Gb MiniSD cards for £119.99

CoolSmartPhone member Wez (hi Wez), emailed in about a great deal he's spotted on MiniSD cards here at MobyMemory.com. At the moment they're only £119.99 for a whole GIG! Each card comes with a 5 year manufacturers warranty and 14-day money-back guar...

SmartphoneTV gets even larger

The new version of SmartPhoneTV.com that has just been launched. SmartPhoneTV.com can officially claim that they are now the worlds largest video site for mobile phones. They now cater in wmv, mpg and 3gp videos (which the newer windows smartphones pl...

MPx220 on Voda very soon?

Youssof emailed in with info on the proposed release date of the MPx220 on Vodaphone in the UK. Hopefully we may even see the MPx ... "I got this message from Vodafone and thought u might like to see it. I sent them a question concerning the MPX's …