Intel appears to be hitting a bit of a problem with their XScale chips, in that they're sucking battery power. Intel have released an "optimisation kit" to help deal with these issues. This should improve battery performance quite a bit. Gaming especi...

A full review for the splendid Jabra Bluetooth headset is now available here in our reviews section, so take a look and see what you think.Although the Smartphones of today do not have Bluetooth built-in, this is a great way around the problem and all...

Hmmm - I really don't know what to make of this. Southtele.com appear to be displaying the original Orange SPV (the HTC Canary) with improved specs and .. Windows Smartphone 2003 on board.More on this as it comes in. Source - msmobiles.com and click h...

Enrico from Pocket PC Italia has just emailed in his video of the new clam-shell Smartphone from Mitac. View it by clicking here. This is in addition to the earlier video from mobilejoe.de and shows off the phone well. Check it out.

I've just added a link that was emailed to me for a new Skins website. I feel it needs a mention on the front-page here because the quality of the work is just amazing. Check out kleinweder.ch here. Click "Smartphone" then choose a category - some ski...

The splendid SendSMS software we reported on last week has now been updated to V1.1. This impressive software allows you to send an SMS (Text) Message directly through you phone just by typing it on your PC.Although it requires the Microsoft .NET Fram...

The Register reports here that sales of Mobile Phones are on the increase again. Plus, it shows that additions like cameras are helping to pull in more punters and get their existing phones upgraded. The IDC research report also says, "After remarkabl...

Just a few short months ago I bodged together a single web page and called it "My SPV Stuff". It had a few tricks 'n tips for the original Orange SPV, which I'd bought from a shopping centre a few days before. Little did I know that some …

I'm constantly amazed by how popular this site is, and I try my hardest to make sure you lot enjoy it. I spend a lot of time updating, writing articles, uploading stuff and replying to around 30 emails and questions a day. The site itself has to be …

I need a favour! I'm not teriffic at the graphics side of things, and could do with one logo doing for .. something. If anyone can assist, can you email me and I'll explain more ? It should only take a few seconds to do. :)

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After quite a long power cut last night, followed by a stream of fire-engines flying past the house (ok, not "flying" as in really flying, but you get the drift)... I couldn't get email, but today this arrived ... The Mitac Mio in action! It's a 9 Meg...

More pictures have appeared of the claimshell designed Chi Mei Smartphone, which takes the name of "Beethoven". These can be seen on the smartphone2002.info website, which have been taken from the official FFC report. If you want the manual, plus test...

Verizon, Telefónica and France Telecom (owner of Orange) have announced good profits. Verizon, who are Americas largest phone company, announced a net profit of $338m - up from the $2.1bn LOSS last year. France Telecom also announced profits, after...

A fantastic new way of shopping is coming out of Japan. Mobile phone users are soon to be shopping by snapping a photo of a special bar code which will sit alongside a product. Mediastick, the firm behind the idea, will licence their special MediaSti...

A new light-projected keyboard is being worked on by Californian company Canesta. Their chipsets will allow a beam of light to project a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface! NEC and an un-named American manufacturer are already working on h...

Here's the full translation (thanks to Ian Charlton) of the email sent to smartphony.org from the Smartphone project at Orange France... An e-mail to Smartphony.org from the Head of the Smartphone Project, Orange France   I’ve just received an ...

Looks like an early August launch for these cards ! These things look great and surfing/syncing whilst strolling around home without those GPRS charges is all good news. However I cannot find any compatability listings for the Smartphone OS, I presum...

Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics have decided to form an alliance to fend off market dominance from Microsoft and Intel in the mobile phone arena. The two chip manufacturers said that they had "formed an alliance to spur development of a wider...

Today sees the closure of two great Smartphone websites, which have been around since the early days and have helped to build and develop the Smartphone community. Firstly, the excellent French site SPVNews.com is to close, which has had Cyberb0b at...