Tag: windows mobile
Yes, we've just had it confirmed by T-Mobile UK themselves. Following our earlier story T-Mobile emailed to confirm a UK launch which will be announced shorty. More on this as we get it. Also while I'm here we did have a stack of response to our sugge...
The T-Mobile MDA Vario II should be out in Germany this coming Monday. The Vario II has undergone a bit of cosmetic surgery since we saw it last and now sports a cool new button layout and coloured keyboard. Giving theoretical internet speeds of up to...
The HTC Oxygen was spotted recently as the Orange SPV C100 and now there's a review of this entry-level Smartphone here. It's in Italian but you can do a machine translation by clicking the appropriate flag on the top right. They've even got some comp...
Based on the download rates for our more "risque" downloads this piece of software should prove very popular indeed. It's called "Arcades For Adults" and contains not one, not two but three different sexy games for all Windows Mobiles devices. Aimed a...
If you've purchased Legacy (Pocket PC or Smartphone - £10.45 / $19.96) then you'll be glad to know that there's a new expansion pack available. Called "Land Of Despair" it retails for a mere £2.88 (around $5.50) and should keep you entertained for h...
Newsland.net is a personal news service which syncronises your chosen news channels directly to your phone. Although it lacks a search function (something they've promised me they'll add) you can choose news sources from various different areas and ha...
VITO Ringtone Editor has now been upgraded to version 1.1. The new version brings lots of new features including... -Fast forward and rewind with joystick while creating long ringtones -Pause before playing to capture song from its very beginning ...
The Orange SPV M3000 is a great handset. It got released by Orange in most of Europe but not here in Britain. It's appeared on o2 (XDA Mini S), Vodafone (QTek 9100) and T-Mobile (MDA Vario) but Orange UK didn't release it. We got mad. We started a …
Hot on the heels of the HTC Excalibur graphic comes the actual device itself! Here it is running what appears to be a T-Mobile flavoured Smartphone OS. Yes, it looks like T-Mobile are testing this out ready for a possible launch.This blurry shot (whic...
In May we showed you a new piece of software called Gentimer which includes several configurable alarms, a stopwatch, timers and world time with maps. It brings a much more advanced alarm-system to the Smartphone which is far better than the lacklustr...
I've been having quite a few emails from CoolSmartPhone readers who are having problems getting hold of the excellent Orange SPV M600. We reviewed this a while back and we were very impressed by it, however there appears to be a temporary blip in supp...
Camera phones, they're everywhere. Surely there's got to be more useful things you can do with them than simply taking shots of your mates drunk? Well yes there is. This QuickMark software installs to your phone (I found that the Dopod 577W software w...
Windows Powered QWERTY-phones seem to be all the rage right now. We've seen the Motorola Q and the Samsung i320 so far, both super slim messaging handsets for text and email addicts. HTC, makers of the majority of Windows Mobile handsets, are now gett...
You may remember that we were first to tell you of the QTek 9000 arriving on Three. Well, they've now got an information and specs page online plus this picture of how it'll look on the Three Network here in the UK. Three will be offering their own …
msmobiles have a blurry shot of that Palm Treo 750v we told you about last week. As you can see it's the same as our previous image but with the usual Vodafone red homescreen and a white Vodafone sticker. If you like the look of this and you're …
You guys from the US should be getting the lovely Star Trek sometime soon. You may remember we spoke about this just the other day when it got approved by the FCC so we figured it must close to release. Today, according to Gizmodo, it should be around...
James Warburton has sent me in some lovely shots of the HTC TyTN (info and details here) alongside his HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000) and SPV M600. This is pretty much the same device as the Orange SPV M3100 we saw the other week that'll soon be arr...
The guys at TechDigest have a rather interesting write-up on their visit to Microsoft in Seattle. They've had a good nosey around at the latest Windows Mobile phones and they're pretty damned impressed by everything. They managed to get a look at Wind...
"That" flip-phone, the HTC Star Trek / iMate Smartflip / Orange SPV F600 has been approved by the FCC for use on cellular networks and there's rumours that US network Cingular are sniffing around it too. There's a couple of versions - one with and one...
There's a rather interesting article here at The Register called "Whatever happened to Smartphones?" by Andrew Orlowski. It's a rather frank discussion into todays "dumbphones" and how advanced they are plus how popular they still are when compared to...
Say "RSS feeds" to most people they'll fall asleep. Although most people won't have any idea what they're for or what they do, they are very clever indeed. RSS / ATOM / XML, whatever you wanna call it they're basically stripped down data feeds from we...
If you're a Mac user then you're probably one of many walking around saying, "Why can't I sync my Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with my iMac?" Well, now you can. MarkSpace.com have announced the launch of The Missing Sync version 2.5 which adds the much ...
You may have spotted news the other day that Microsoft and Palm were working on something for Vodafone which would "target the adoption of wireless push email in Europe". Well it's now official - the Windows-powered Vodafone Palm 750v (aka Lennon) dev...
CoolCamera is more than just a util for taking shots on your handset. It'll also record video and it can turn your Windows Mobile device into a webcam too. I've only played with it for a few minutes and I've already found that it can record 320x240 vi...
YouTube, which I tend to pronouce as "Yow Teeyowwb" 'cus I'm from Dudley, have this video from mess.be showing Windows Live Mobile Beta. You can see how this will look on a Smartphone plus all the new features included since MSN Messenger. Whilst I wa...
CAB files - they're a bit confusing for most people. If you're told "Here's a CAB file, go install it", most users will be a little lost. Sure, you could follow our instructions however you can now use CabviaActiveSync. This free edition, courtesy of ...
The classic "Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars" has always been a favourite since it first appeared on the PC. This is a splendid adventure game which will keep you glued to the screen until you finish it. It's choc full of fluid animation, ful...
I've just stepped back into the house after a little trip to London for the MoDaCo event. The day went very well with lots of excellent sessions from Microsoft and Orange plus games from Astraware and give-aways galore! I'd have to say this was probab...
Wohoo! We're back on Google today so I'm celebrating with a few cans of lager. Sure, my boss seems to have an issue with it, but it makes the day go quicker :) Anyhow, this is the HTC Hermes, now known as the HTC TyTN. It's featured in …
Some of you guys may have spotted the F-Secure Mobile Security software before. It's an easy-to-use anti-virus solution for Windows Mobile handsets, however until now it wouldn't run on Orange handsets due to a certificatation block. Today F-Secure an...
See the mighty atom! Well, that's what this new o2 website is called - dedicated to the new o2 XDA Atom with it's Intel XScale PXA 27x 520Mhz CPU, Wifi, 240x320 screen, 2 megapixel cam (with flash), 192Mb ROM / 64Mb RAM and Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE. It'...
Microsoft T'Interweb Explorer is now on version 7 with Beta 3 being available to download here. It lifted a lot of good stuff from Firefox plus it added a phishing filter to stop you giving away your ebay or bank details. Not to be outdone there'll be...
Some of you may be aware of a new service launched by Sky TV recently. If you're lucky enough to have one of their whizzy PVR's then you'll already be used to the live pause and recording to hard disk. However, recently they announced their Sky by Mob...
It looks like Vodafone Germany are to take on both the HTC Hermes as the Vodafone VPA Compact III (press release here) and the HTC STRTrk (press release here) as the Qtek 8500. Both devices should be an excellent addition to the network and will prove...
Microsoft have released a new ActiveSync - version 4.2. For the unaware ActiveSync enables the transfer and syncronisation of your Outlook details plus documents, music, videos, pictures and software. The new update resolves some issues that gave an e...
Samsung have announced the launch of their SGH-i320 QWERTY handset which will beat the Motorola Q into Europe. According to Samsung the SGH-i320 will be available in Europe this month with further launches across the rest of Europe and Asia later. We...
Nick Butcher emailed me over the weekend regarding the new HTC brand and the pretty hefty advertising they're doing here in sunny Britain. This advert (click here for big) was placed in blokes gadgety mag Stuff - y'know the one, it's usually got some ...
Apart from having a keyboard like an old Nokia 5.1 and only a 1.3 Megapixel camera (we loved the 2 Megapixel cam in the M600 and want to see more), the MTeoR from HTC looks pretty cool and is featured in this video review.The MTeoR has a 300Mhz …
Just before I went off on honeymoon the HTC Oxygen appeared on the web with a rather bland specs list. I say bland because it's got a 1.3 megapixel camera - something which would've been great in 2004, a low-res 176x220 screen and a few other bits inc...
Are you interesting in dogging? Well, maybe you should try Hubdog.com which isn't actually anything to do with driving into the woods late at night but is actually an RSS reader, podcast player, search engine, video and media provider all in one. It's...
