TomTom for Smartphone review

OK, so it's not quite ready - I need to polish it off tomorrow (Friday 10th December) and I'll have it ready by about 9PM. However, I'm tired and I've been typing for hours on it! :) Click here for my review complete with pictures and an example …

Mozilla browser could be coming soon

Mozilla are now targetting the mobile phone market according to this ZDNet article. Their mini-browser, called Minimo (which is the slimmed-down Mozilla browser) is hoped to speed browsing up on mobile phones. Doug Turner, the project leader of Minim...

C500 wins another award

It's just been announced that the Orange SPV C500 (which is available elsewhere under the guise of the SMT 5600, Dopod 565, iMate SP3, TSM 520 etc) has won an award as most indispensable mobile of 2004 by Tech Digest. Find more details here at Tech Di...

Flash files on your Smartphone

There's a lot of chatter about this Beta Macromedia Flash player for the Smartphone right now. It's got the guys at MoDaCo talking quite a bit and they're even developing add-ons to allow you to zoom in on the flash files, like the excellent Flashhack...

Christmas videos at SmartphoneVideoPlus.com

The following contain direct links to the FREE Smartphone Videos - which you can use :)As it's Christmas time - enjoy these - FREE XMAS Smartphone Videos!Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's ChristmasBing-Crosby_White-Christmas.mpgBoSelectas_ProperCrimbo.w...

Fizz Traveller 2.0 – Smartphone – New Release

Fizz Traveller 2.0 - Smartphone - New ReleaseVoted Best “Designed for Windows Mobile™” Application 2004 Welcome to the award winning Fizz Traveller 2.0 Your feature packed travel mate. Some of the best weather forecasts ever seen on a Microsoft ...

Stolen skins

How's about this for a bit of theft? Yes, according to the Celluloco.com website... "Celluloco.com has compiled a few trendy "skins" (home screen savers) for your smartphone on this freebee page dedicated to all of those who have purchase smartphones...

Motorola MPx gets stamped

I've lost count now.. I think about 700 people have asked, "when is the Motorola MPx coming?". Well, the short answer is.. dunno. Soon. Crap answer isn't it? "Soon mate". However, it could be "very soon" now because the FCC have now given it their st...

Win an Orange SPV C500 and more with the Paper Film Festival

Neil just emailed me about the Orange Paper Film festival. It's a very interesting idea where you download paper chararacters (y'know, those characters from the Orange adverts) and backdrops, then film the characters on your phone and send them in! Th...

Why the price difference ?

Benn has emailed in with a very interesting and valid point. DVD to Smartphone, which we've raved about here already is on sale for a mere £12.99 ($24.99 / €18.82) in our shop here. However, the Orange software shop, run by Handango. are selling ...

Voq comes to Canada

Voq Professional Phone™ makes its Canadian debut Cellcom Wireless and Uptown Communication House work with Sierra Wireless to deliver the Voq Professional Phone to the Canadian market. Sierra Wireless announced that the Voq Professional P...

SmartNotes Source Code Sale

CoolSmartPhone can exclusively announce that the author of SmartNotes (Mark Davison) is seeking a buyer to continue development of this application. The successful purchaser will get: - The full source code for the application (VB)- The full customer ...

Another day, another new name for the HTC Typhoon (C500)

That HTC built Typhoon gets around more than Jordan at the minute. It's already known as the Orange SPV C500, the Audiovox SMT 5600, the Dopod 565, iMate etc etc etc.. now, now it's got yet another badge on it and yet another name - this time in …

SmartNotes Price Drop

The price of Smartnotes, which is an excellent utility which enables you to create / edit notes on your PC, then access them via the Programs menu on your phone, has now dropped to just $10 - that's about £5.18. Check the link below for screen sho...

Orange SPV M2000 gets official launch

The Pocket PC Phone Orange SPV M2000 was officially launched today by Orange. It's built again by HTC (the "HTC Blue Angel") and is also known as MDA III, O2 XDA IIs and iMate PDA2K. It's got a slide-out keyboard and a while lot more. The full press …

Dozy robber gets caught by his camera phone

Doah! Think you're having a bad day ? Well, at least you're not as stupid as David Kelly, who decided to rob a local estate agents. Driving down to the estate agents, in his OWN car, he proceeded to wave a hammer at staff and claim that it …

MPx220 Coming to o2 – December 13th

As we hurtle toward Christmas, what could be better than confirmation that yet another Windows Mobile Smartphone will be launching in the UK ? Well, the Motorola MPx220 will, according to my sources (they live in the cardboard boxes behind mobile phon...

SmartPhoneChatter Competition

Tong has emailed me (Who ? Pete Tong ? Ramalama ding-dong? .. oh, no.. different person.. it's Tong Zhang, the webmaster of the site below) to say that his new US-based Smartphone site / forum, SmartPhoneChatter.com is hosting a three-week giveaway ev...

Another name for the T-Mobile SDA

OK, so you know the deal by now. An until-recently-fairly-unknown company called HTC makes the handsets, then the network plonk their badges on and call it their own... or other companies if you want. Heck, if the network pays enough they can change t...

Quit smoking with your Smartphone

If, like people I know, you smoke, but deep down you'd like to stop - then "My Last Cigarette" may help. It's (rather unsurprisingly) a piece of software to help you stop smoking for good. Plus, with smoking likely to be banned from many places, and t...