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C500 gets another award, HP Smartphone gossip and THAT Frog!

Good to see that the Orange SPV C500 and the iMate JAM are in the top 5 best smartphones in Total Mobile Magazine this month. Also, it would appear that our our earlier story regarding the HP Smartphone could indeed be true. We've had an anonymous ema...

Windows Mobile 5.0 is annouced ! Get screenshots and more here!

As I type Bill Gates is getting on stage in Las Vegas to announce Windows Mobile 5.0. You'll hear a lot in the coming days about "Windows Mobile Five Oh" and it makes me wonder why they didn't announce it in Hawaii (Hawaii Five-O? Geddit? Eh? Eh?!) Wi...

Skype comes to the Smartphone

Well, sort-of - it doesn't support voice yet. You'll also need to plug your SmartPhone into your PC (ActiveSync) to avoid a big GPRS bill. It's a bit of a shame that the voice hasn't been implemented yet, as it'd make the SmartPhone into a "SkypePhone...

Sale Sale Sale! Much Cheapness!

Summer is just around the corner now and people are out buying patio funiture and barbeque sets in droves. You might think they're mad, but people get these things now 'cus they're cheaper. The same is true about the excellent deal we've just got from...

Skweezer Integrated into the "Toyota Hub" Telematics Portal

Greenlight Wireless today announced that its Skweezer service, which optimizes Web content for handheld devices, has been incorporated into the "Toyota Hub" mobile computing portal created by Toyota France. Skweezer's content reformatting technology...

DAT Group PLC acquires Synchronica GMBH

DAT Group PLC have just announced the acquisition of Synchronica GMBH and will add the Synchronica OMA compliant DS/DM and FOTA servers to compliment DAT’s existing DMP platform which supports WindowsMobile, Symbian and Palm devices. This is obvi...

MPx220 Latest from Motorola

CONNECTIVITY WITH BLUETOOTH® WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY Perfect for the multi-tasker, the latest addition to Motorola’s Bluetooth® portfolio make sure you never miss out.* HS820 – Wireless headset with Bluetooth® (Surf ...

Off-Road Maps & Charts for Smartphones

A New Ring to Outdoor Safety and Navigation Turn Your Windows Mobile Smartphone into an Outdoor Atlas 60,000 Off-Road Maps and Boating Charts for only $20! Maptech, Amesbury, MA – Some of us plan our outdoor escapes while others like to wing it...

TomTom Mobile 5

Looks like TomTom have released a new version of their excellent TomTom Mobile, which we reviewed here earlier. The improvements are fantastic - TomTom Mobile 5 now has full compatibilty with the Orange SPV C500 (I presume they're selling it on MiniSD...

DAT and Dangaard Telecom launch mobile email service for MPx

Today, DAT Group plc and Dangaard Telecom announced they would form a new company, Tabella LP, to develop and market a new mobile email solution. The service has been specifically designed to match the market demand for managed mobile messaging soluti...

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...

Even Smarter Smartphones!

This Register story reports on a new breed of smartphones which will, in the future, predict where you're going and who you'll meet. The original news release comes from the New Scientist and details of "what could be" are quite interesting... "The Ne...

Orange SPV C500 is a top gadget!

David Knipe has just nudged me about this BBC News story for Stuff Magazine's top Christmas Gadgets. Topping the chart is (rather unsurprisingly) the iPod, however the Orange SPV C500 is in the list too, which is well deserved. You can buy Stuff Magaz...

SPV M2000 (HTC Blue Angel) now online at Orange.co.uk

The latest Pocket PC Phone from Orange - previously code-named the HTC Blue Angel - is now online here at the Orange shop. Yes, this is the one with the sliding keyboard!The SPV M2000 comes with a massive list of features, some of which are included b...

More reviews of the C500 and AudioVox SMT 5600

Essentially both the Orange SPV C500 (Europe) and the AudioVox SMT 5600 (USA) are the same handset and they're getting some excellent coverage across the web at the moment. However, I'm annoyed to see the silly "bad points" mentioned in some web revi...

Orange 3G handsets coming 2005

Orange are to launch their range of 3G handsets in 2005, according to this PC Advisor article. Orange CEO Sanjiv Ahuja spoke at the Etre technology conference in Cannes... "There's a lot of hype in the industry around convergence but more often than...

Visto Mobile 5 Released

VISTO PUSHES INSTANT MOBILE EMAIL TO MASS MARKET   New ConstantSync™ technology delivers up-to-the-moment Email, contacts and calendar to multiple devices   (Redwood Shores, CALIF., October 8 2004) — Visto Corporation (www.visto.com), ...

Find a local pub :)

This story caught my eye. Mainly because I like lager.. and pubs.. :) I wouldn't normally recommend SMS cash-sucking systems, but this one sounds like a great idea.It uses the ITagg system to triangulate between transmitters to pinpoint your position ...

i600 Goes to Sprint

MSMobiles.com are reporting today that the Samsung SPH-i600 is now coming to the US Mobile network Sprint. Until now the only major networks in the US selling Windows Mobile phones were Verizon (Samsung i600) and AT&T Wireless (Motorola MPx200). Spri...

Nav software from ALK

It looks like ALK are to join the Smartphone navigation battle with their CoPilot software. This works in tandem with your bluetooth-enabled Windows Mobile phone and a bluetooth GPS receiver in your car. CoPilot Live for Smartphone also incorporates t...

@Sat Orbiter Locator+

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest version of @Sat Orbiter Locator+ is now available for Microsoft 2003 Smartphones Austin, Texas—August 25th, 2004. The latest version of SurvivorSoft’s flagship title, @Sat Orbiter Locator+, is now available for Mi...

UPDATED – C500 Review now online

As you may know by now, Orange officially started the sales of the SPV C500 handset yesterday (see "read more" for full press release), and you can either get details from this Orange Shop page or from our friends at FoneTastic. So what else do you ne...

Sagem MyS-7 Press Release

Paris, July 27th, 2004 – SAGEM, a major international player in the field of telecommunications, announced today the launch of its first Smartphone, the myS-7 featuring Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ software for Smartphones, combining the high ...

Moto MPx range rumours

I'm back in England and at the moment I'm testing out the recently re-launched Fosters Export. Now, as you know, there's lots of rumours about the new handsets coming out soon which run the Windows Mobile operating system which is found in the existin...

Smartphone Virus Protection

It seems that the latest Smartphone virus, which affected Symbian Smartphones (not your Windows Mobile handset!), has ruffled a few feathers. According to this silicon.com article Microsoft is to build-in virus protection in future versions of Windows...

Reviews Good and Bad

Some good and bad reviews around the net today. The i-Mate Smartphone 2 (it's a rebranded E200) is making its long-awaited debut in New Zealand and is met with quite a good review in the New Zealand Herald here, however the Samsung i600 got slated in ...

Voq wins award

Sierra Wireless Voq Professional Phone™ wins Excellence in Product Innovation Award British Columbia Technology Industries Association gives the 2004 award for superior innovation to the Voq Professional Phone at annual industry gala Vancouver, B.C....

MPx220 – Video on line!

MoDaCo.com have managed to get their hands on this 11Mb video of the Motorola MPx220 in action. UPDATE - The animation is a rather large Macromedia Flash movie, which should run fine on any browser, however if you're having problems you can download...

MS researched in Europe

In Neil Enns third video for Channel 9, he admits that Microsoft did indeed do most of their research (before entering the mobile phone market) in Japanese and Europe. Why? Well, mainly because these areas are more advanced in mobile technology and if...

Cool Face !

Cool Face is an image software for Smartphone that can change the face expression. It makes you adjust and beautify the face expression in your photo. Cool Face adopts the image morphology technology to mobile phone, it can let you treatment the face ...

IntelliSync for Windows Mobile

Intellisync launches desktop synchronization for Windows Mobile-based Smartphones Windows Smartphone Compatibility Fuels Intellisync's Objective Of Keeping Mobile Professionals In Sync, Regardless Of Device Or PC Application SAN JOSE, CA (04/21/04) ...

2003 SE is real and HI RES!

The key thing in this MS Press Release (apart from the fact that, yes, Windows Mobile 2003 SE exists and is on it's way) is... "The Windows Mobile platform adds support for dynamic screen switching between landscape and portrait modes and square scre...

Mobile Video Solution

Microsoft, TWIi and Vidiator Team Up to Launch Mobile Video Solution End-to-End Platform Reduces Barriers for Quick and Easy Deployment of Video ServicesFor Wireless Devices REDMOND, Wash. — March 11, 2004 — Microsoft Corp., TWI Interactive (TWIi)...

Next Gen – Wear that phone!

Over at 3GSM, MSMobiles.com is reporting on some sexy ladies wearing gadgets. Eh ? Oh, right - you want more info.. Not just pictures huh ? Well.. I don't have any .. it's basically to showcase the new "wearable technology" that should be along soo...

Microsoft Press Release

Microsoft Technology and Partnerships Align at 3GSM World CongressTo Accelerate Mobile Web Services, Mobile ProductivityAnd Multimedia Offerings Wireless Industry Leaders Partner to Drive New RevenuesAnd Deliver Rich Wireless Experiences CANNES, Franc...

MPx100 Press Release

The Motorola MPx100 Helps Mobile Professionals “Detox the Inbox” By Simplifying Communications on the GoNew Handset Delivers Mobile Work/Life Balance via E-mail, Bluetooth® Connectivity, Music, Video and More CANNES, France, 3GSM World Congress