It's definitely worth keeping an eye on the guys at SmartGV, as they've lots of MS Smartphone software in development and ready to download. For me personally I've been eagerly waiting SmartDesiginer, which will allow you to easily create full skins. ...

Well, it's finally here - http://web.orange.co.uk/assets/sw/backupandrestore.exe - this is the Orange Backup and Restore tool that allows you to safely upgrade to the newest Orange update. The link above was spotted on MSMobileNews.com and will hopef...

In a blatant act of sexism, I've brought back the "sexy" backdrops, which you can use with any homescreen layout. You may remember in the "early days" of the MS Smartphone, many people sent in errrmm.. well, very, very naughty pictures. I put them in...

I had an interesting email the other day. It was only a one line email. It said, "Hi, I just bought Sendo Z100 - one of the ten prototypes in the world, can i use on it qtek programs and games? Thanks." "EH?", says I, "Yes you can …

Ok, so I've just received my Orange MPx200. It's great - sure, it runs MS Smartphone 2002, but it's still great. The first thing I did was to download the Bubbles skin from Kleinweder.ch. I use it on the SPV, I've used it on the E100 too.. all …

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I find myself in a tricky situation here. As you will no doubt have seen on MoDaCo.com and MSMobileNews.com plus several other sites, a new apparently fully working SIM Unlocking utility for the 1.6 OS is available at SmartEase.net (English translatio...

I've been asked by Orange Netherlands to mention again the latest Orange update for SPV and E100 users, as there's still quite a few people who haven't downloaded it. If you're an Orange SPV or Orange SPV E100 user, then be sure to click here now to ...

As you know, rumours are always flinging around. We've already had the "C200", which actually turned out to be the E200 ..... and the MPx100 picture, which probably isn't the MPx100 after all. (It's the Motorola MS230 - you can see it here!) Now we h...

Paul from Smartphone forum MoDaCo.com has been playing around with the various "flavours" of OS for the SPV e200 (aka the QTek 8080 / xPhone). He's found a few very interesting differences. Firstly, when compared to the Orange SPV e200 build, the QTe...

Alexander Dreyer Johnsen from Windowsmobile.no has emailed in to say that Norway has now got the SPV e200 too! In the shape of the QTek 8080 handset, which comes hot on the heels of the QTek 8060 handset. Dangaard Telecom will be launching this hands...

MTekk, an Australian website, reports on a possible OS update for the Samsung i600 Smartphone. They take a snippet from the microsoft.public.smartphone newsgroup. Douglas Genetten writes... "I just spoke to a very well-informed technical manager at t...

The recent update for Orange SPV and Orange SPV E100 handsets meant that a lot of data would be wiped from your phone. Although this was OK, we were all waiting for the backup utility to restore this info. Well, thanks to Patrice at huge French site ...

People often ask me just what Microsoft Smartphone I use on a day-to-day basis. Well, as you know I received an Orange SPV e200 from Orange recently, and all was good. Or at least it was until the joystick started playing up. :( I sent it back to …

HTC, the guys behind the SPV and QTEK handsets, are quoted in in this Digitimes.com article as saying that the Smartphone handset market will triple during 2004. As the first widespread Microsoft Smartphone handset manufacturer, they're definitely wo...

The Mitac Mio 8390 will be available in TW around the end of this month. The offical annoucement said that the Mio 8390 was going to be launched at 8th of Jan. However, they now decide to delay the launching somehow till after Chinese New Year. Mayb...

You may have entered our recent competition to win an Orange SPV E200 handset, or one of four Orange SPV E100 hansets - courtesy of our good friends at Orange. If you didn't win, don't worry - you get another chance! This time, courtesy of the good pe...

Over at Dangaard.fr,there is news of the QTek 8060. What's a QTek you may say? Well, the geezers behind the SPV and QTek models are a company called HTC. They make the phones, then the networks tend to call them what they want. In this case, Orange ca...

SmartFone.net is reporting here that the Motorola MPx220 is on it's way and will appear in March this year. They also state that .. "the MPx200 model will have an upgrade to Smartphone 2003 released from Motorola." For those of you with a Motorola MP...

Poor MiTAC users - they get a rough ride at times! Sometimes we forget that there are MiTAC Mio handsets out there! :( Another extended MiTAC Mio ROM can now be found here at the massive German portal, mobilejoe.de. This is NOT a hacked version, but ...