Eurotel Update

For our Czech readers there is now update 1.50.5.11 for the Eurotel Smartphone - for more details, click here. This update allows the Tanager / Canary Smartphone (SPV / E100 etc) to run with UK English language and T9, along with that is the fact that...

Free Smartphone Battery Gauge

Mark Davison - the guy who brought us the excellent Smartphone Notes, is now back with a useful PC-based util which keeps an eye on your Smartphone battery. This useful util also alerts you if your Smartphone battery is getting too low whilst sitting...

V700 Preview

There's a small preview of the Motorola V700 Smartphone over at mobile-review.com. The phone appears to have two batteries, which at first sight addresses the battery-life issue head-on - however the back-up battery only supplies enough power to keep ...

MiTAC Mio 8380 Reviews

Edd has just emailed to inform me of two new reviews of the Mio 8380 out on the web. Firstly there's comparitve review between the Nokia 7650, P800 and Mio8380, plus there's more on the Mio 8380 itself over at MyPDACafe.com here.The app-cert...

3G Woe, Symbian Joy

Poor old Hutchinson, they're having a really tough time trying to get 3G off the ground here in the UK. They have now lost £300 Million from their "Three" network, as other networks (who are due to launch 3G soon) watch closely for any signs of suc...

Exploding Nokias!!

This poor lady dropped her Nokia whilst she was shopping, but when she picked it back on and turned it on - the thing BLEW UP! The 33 year old lady suffered burns from the phone. Best of all is the comment from Nokia... "Similar incidents had happene...

Games! Games! Games!

Lots of games coming out at the moment, here's a selection. Firstly there's Fight Hard 3D, which is a stick-fighting RPG and is available here to buy. It reminds me of the Xaio Xaio movies.. :)Next up is a cool game called Pocket Golf - this one remin...

Terminator 3 skin

This Terminator 3 skin comes from Rey J. Vegafria, who runs the excellent Smartphone site www.airfagev.com over in the Philippines. This site is well worth a visit and is growing daily.Rey has lots of exclusive content, skins, ringtones...

Sunnysoft MailCenter

Sunnysofts' MailCenter (although I'd spell it MailCentre myself) ;) is a brand new application for Smartphone users. You'll probably have noticed that it's not impossible to manage more than one email account on the Smartphone, but now Sunnysoft ...

Freddy vs Jason Skins by DeBuG

More fantastic work from DeBuG today in the form of two brand-new skins for fans of the popular slasher movie "Freddy vs. Jason", currently out in cinemas. Click on the pictures below to go to the appropriate download and get the skin for your Smartp...

Confusing tariffs

Analyst house Quocirca recently looked into the confusing world of tariffs. It appears that, although voice tariffs are pretty simple to understand - the advent of mobile data tariffs, MMS, GPRS, WAP and SMS "bundles" is confusing the hell out of Joe ...

Mobile implants?

Silicon.com asks whether it may be a good idea to have mobile devices implanted into children. This comes off the back of recent news announcing the HUGE uptake in mobile phones for children, plus the increasing revenue gained from ringtones etc. Cra...

PDA’s?? They’re old hat! :)

The market for Pocket Organisers (PDA's) is expected to decline for the second year running, as customers choose to buy Smartphones and phone-enabled PDA's instead. Worldwide shipments for unconnected PDA's are expected to decline during 2003 by 8.4 ...

Add your pictures here

I've now added a new link called Your Photo Blog where you can easily email in your fave Smartphone camera shots!Just attach the picture to an email using your Smartphone (or send it from your PC if you wish) to [email protected] and your pi...

You are the reporters!

Check this out - we only mentioned it a few days ago and already the "BlueHereNow" website, which allows Smartphone users to email in pictures for news stories and breaking events, has been at the forefront of todays events. Click here to see picture...

Be ready for Windows Mobile 2003

Yes it's coming - Windows Mobile 2003. these screenshots from smartphone2002.info show the new OS in action, and it features the new "Start" button instead of the Programs button, as seen in the .NET video. Speaking of which - this video included the ...

Tomb Raider 2 Skin

Tomb Raider 2 - The Cradle Of Life is coming out August 22nd here in the UK (where it was filmed too!) and to celebrate we have been sent this from Joel Francisco (DeBuG) direct from the Philippines.This is currently gracing my Smartphone and looks ex...

Clearvue Document Viewer Solution

WestTek have announced the availability of their Clearvue range of viewers. I've already had a heads-up on this one and I have to say that it's absolutely excellent. You can view Word Documents, Powerpoint Presentations, Excel Spreadsheet etc easily, ...

Thoughts for the day..

As a Smartphone tweaker, I'm always browsing around all the sites in the links section to check the "vibe" and see what the latest news is. The latest from MS Mobiles intrigues me. I see quite a bit of MS Smartphone bashing in my everyday life to...

Orange SPV / E100 Update 1.6

Modaco.com moderators are currently testing the latest update from Orange for their SPV range. This new update appears to be very similar to the QTek 7070 update here in that it fixes the SMS counter fully, some battery-life improvements etc. It's not...