Develop on an e200

Ora.co.uk are now selling developers handsets - but not just ordinary handsets, these are brand new Orange SPV E200 handsets! Orange is offering a unique opportunity for developers to purchase SPVs for development purposes. You can purchase an SPV wh...

More gossip..

Yes, yes - I know.. I've mentioned it loads of times, and we've been told lots of dates previously, but just to keep your hopes up and keep that cash in your pocket, I'm now hearing that... A few Orange Shops have confirmed to coolsmartphone.com user...

ORA E200 Accessories

        ORA     Ora - the UK's Sole OEM Accessories Distributor for SPV, is set to launch the full range of accessories for the all new e200 over the next two weeks.   ORA was established in...

Phone & Drive – The Truth

The new legislation kicks in on December 1st 2003 in the UK which makes it illegal to use a hand-held phone whilst driving. Already though, we have confusion. Some police forces have said that wired personal hands-free kits are also illegal, whilst t...

E200 Review by MoDaCo.com

Over at MoDaCo.com is this review by Paul (webmaster). He seems to like it too! Here's a few quotes... "The speed with which the menu appears also gives us a hint as to the greatly improved performance that both the new operating system (based on Win...

Yes, BlueJacking is here

Yes folks - you heard it - strange pranksters are actually standing within 10 metres of people with Bluetooth enabled phones and trying to .. ermm.. well.. I don't quite know what they're trying to do really.. I'll leave that up to this young'un (who ...

MPx200 gets the CNET thumbs up

A very good, very high-quality video (especially if you pay a mere 19 quid a month for broadband) at CNET today, featuring Joni Blecher and Brian Cooley chatting about the Motorola MPx200, the first widespread release in the US of Microsoft's Smartpho...

1.6 update?

I'm posting this out of sheer morbid curiosity. It's a link for the Orange v1.63.00 ROM update for the SPV and SPV E100 from a personal website here... http://home.planet.nl/~haver574/RUUInst16300_ORG_NL_EraseIPSM.exe I have not checked this.. it come...

TV2Phone.com

Bob @ tv2phone.com has pointed me toward his new service, offering live TV streams direct to your MS Smartphone. Just browse to tv2phone.com and click on music, news or whatever and bingo!Some streams work in the cradle (saving your GPRS charge!) - th...

E200 Available next week

I've heard it on good authority that the E200 will be available in UK Orange shops towards the end of next week! I happened to to pop into my local orange shop today to pester them a little more about E200 availablity. I picked the right day because …

AT&T Moto Trouble?

Firstly it was noticed by Pocket PC in the microsoft.public.smartphone newsgroup and now msmobiles.com have picked up on it too. Yes it appears that there may be a bit of a security worry in the AT&T model of the Motorola MPx200 Smartphone. It relate...

Orange GPRS changes

Ohhhh .. well, I've had quite a few emails about this - and I had a letter about it myself yesterday. It seems that Orange are to change their GPRS packages. On the good side, (depending on package) you will now get 3MB for £4 each month, however …

E200 deals on the web

The E200 release is now right around the corner, so it's worth checking out the deals on offer. This one, from One Stop Phone Shop, is well worth considering. You can get the phone for 34.99, 200 minutes of crossnetwork calls - anytime. 2000 free text...

Hosting…

As you guys know, this site is hosted on its own server and is taking up quite a bit of bandwidth. However, I've now reached.. a problem, shall we say. Basically I need some hosting, and sharpish. I've asked this before, and had lots of generous offer...

MustHaveMoto

The Motorola MPx200 is featured on page 43 of the Orange Magazine (the new edition with the gorgeous Keira Knightley on the front). There's also a feature on the new Orange Store in Buuuuurrrminum Bull Riiing (that's Birmingham's new Bull Ring Store f...

MSN Update available now!

An MSN Messenger Update is available for the Samsung i-600. it's a simple file, and you can find instructions here. Very simple...just copy the file and execute it. Pronto!

Alarm Plugin by Richie M

Kleinweder has already got a large range of beautiful skins. Now, however, there's even more with the magic Alarm Plugin by Richie M. Richie programmed this excellent plugin which will show your alarm time on your home-screen. This is beneficial to th...

Boom! Nokia goes bang!

After yet more reports of exploding batteries on Nokia mobile phones, with Nokia saying, "Nuffin to do with us, it's your dodgy third-party batteries". Belgian consumer watchdog "Test-Aankoop", reckons that's not strictly true. Some of Nokia's own bat...

Cool cases!

Check out these cool cases from InnovaCases.com - they're very cool. Currently we can only see cases for the Tanager (E100, Smart Amazing Phone) but there will no doubt be more to come for other MS Smartphones! More details - here (InnovaCases.com)

SmartCab 1.1

My French isn't that brilliant. In fact, whilst studying French Language in school we had to act out a "real life" situation. We were supposed to revise for about a week, learning how to state that someone was ill, and describe their illness in detail...