Tag: windows mobile
Check this out! It's one of only 100 Ferrari red i-Mate JASJAR handsets. You've probably seen in less bright colours under different branding across the world (SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec etc). According to NewMobile.com this and a pink version of the i-Ma...
Just a few days a go we told you to keep an eye on the new xda.o2.co.uk site for details of the push-email update for the o2 XDA Mini and o2 XDA Exec. Well, although the Exec update isn't here yet, the XDA Mini update is. If you've …
About this time last year we mentioned something called Mobiluck, the "BlueJacking" software that lets you detect all nearby Bluetooth devices and send / receive messages. Now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets Mobiluck is a bit more than ju...
Shozu, the direct-pictures-to-web-from-your-phone-app, has announced that they're branching out to offer photo and video uploading to multiple personal blog and citizen photo-journalism sites such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, CNN, the BBC and Scoop...
Michael Pearson has sent an email about this Orange Press Release which is actually from the 3GSM show on February 13th. It may explain the decision to drop MSN Messenger from the SPV range. The Press Release states an agreement between Vodafone and O...
Featured in my gadget photo blog is the Orange SPV M600 which we reviewed last week. I spotted it this afternoon in the Lichfield Orange store after grabbing a coffee. It just goes to show that this device is now readily available in stores. Interesti...
Lutzh at MSMobiles has yet again got his hands on one of the hottest Windows Mobile handsets around. The new HTC Star Trek, which is now also known as the HTC STAR100 and being sold as the QTek 8500 is a very slimline flip-phone that we've constantly ...
You may remember our previous story on the o2 XDA IQ, it's going to be the first big release of a WiFi-capable Smartphone. o2 UK now appear to have made it official, with this web page giving stacks of details and links for the handset. The new xda.o2...
We've mentioned previously how to get started with all this push-email business. If I'm honest I wish it was slightly easier for end users, so that they could simply bang in a few details and get their POP account email sent straight away. Actually, I...
Something I've just spotted whilst looking for a registry editor is this PC-based tool which connects to your phone and shows / edits your registry. I've been looking for one as I'm having trouble app-unlocking my C600 after the AKU2 update. Well, alt...
This is the HTC Foreseer, featured in this Phonescoop article covering the CTIA Wireless industry show in Las Vegas. Bearing a slight resemblance to the Virgin phone, it's a new DVB-H TV phone to be launched by Modeo in America. The HTC Foreseer has a...
Aha! It's all done now. Get the full, completely finished review right here. Overall I was quick impressed with the 2 Megapixel camera and the design of the M600 is splendid. You may remember last night I put the "almost finished" version of the revie...
Astraware have just announced that their popular Sudoku game has been updated to version 1.30. The new update gives you an improved menu system which was implented as a result of customer feedback. Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware, said.. "Our cust...
You may remember the beta version of AtomicCannon we reported on earlier. Well now it's fully available and you can get more information here. It's already the best shooting game of last year, so don't waste any time in grabbing a copy. The controls h...
AvantGo is a free mobile content delivery service for your handset. It'll let you sync-up thousands of news feeds which are specifically made to fit your mobile device. AvantGo call these "channels" and they contain all your favourite news, weather an...
There's an interesting blog post here by James @ root6technology.com. He noticed that after applying the AKU Push email update for his SPV M5000 he could no longer run managed software that was built by Visual Studio 2005. Compact Framework 2.0 won't ...
o2 are currently prepping the new o2 XDA IQ. Now, we heard a while back that this was appearing on o2 Asia as the o2 Orion, however it was then strangely cancelled. It's also popped up on QTek as the 8310 and on Dopod as the 577W. The …
This free software is billed as a "bargain hunter" and works by pulling the latest shopping deals and offers down via RSS feeds. It has the added bonus of letting you change the feeds and grab any RSS/XML feed you fancy. RSS feeds are basically text f...
Orange Netherlands have now released the necessary ROM updates to enable the push email functionality. Install these updates if you're in the Netherlands and you have an Exchange server to sync with. Both the Orange SPV C600 and Orange SPV M3000 are n...
The Orange SPV M600 handset now appears to be available from this Orange Business page. It comes with a huge list of features, unfortunately not totally correct (there's no MSN Messenger, although you can install it here and it apparently has both Win...
Fizz Software have announced that Fizz Weather version 2.2 is now available. Fizz Weather, which costs $14.99 (around £8.60 / €12.46) is a fully featured app and a home screen plug-in which supports over 58,000 cities around the globe. This new ver...
This is the car currently being driven around the UK as part of a Microsoft advertising campaign promoting both Windows Mobile and the WindowsMobile.co.uk website. The Mini has a vivid green colour and the Windows Mobile swooshes on the roof and this ...
Here's the new T-Mobile MDA II. We've seen the real device already at CeBIT however these are the shots that'll be used to market the device to German customers very soon. You can get a full size picture of this here or this other shot. Our friends at...
Over in the Netherlands Orange are keeping you on the cutting edge with the SupperClub. Yes, SupperClub. Not SuperClub. Here in the UK "Supper" is an evening meal, so you'd think a club for this sort of thing is just plain weird, however in the Nether...
In our continuing mission to keep you informed on the latest Windows Mobile handsets we've managed to get hold of an Orange SPV M600 for the next few days. I've had stacks of emails about this one and I'll be working on a full review as soon as …
You may remember we covered the SlingBox Windows Media Player before. Simply put, it lets you watch and control your TV and decoder boxes from any web-enabled device and now from your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone too. Unlike Orb, which lets ...
Owners of this (imate SP5m) and the imate SP5 (HTC Tornado) will be glad to hear that the push email update is now available. Download the new 2.6.331.2 version here. There's many other extras in this update too, including file beaming over Bluetooth ...
I've had about 2000 emails (ok, slight exaggeration) asking just how to set up the new whizzy push-email functionality after the Orange SPV C600 and Orange SPV M5000 Updates. Well, there's a rather excellent guide here at HTCClub.net. It's not quite t...
MobileMag are reporting that Microsoft are working on a SIP-enabled VoIP dialer for Windows Mobile 5. Apparently "a trusted source familiar with the inner workings" of Microsoft has been speaking to them about the move. If true, this would let you mak...
For those of you lucky enough to have a device with the new hi-resolution QVGA screen (like the Orange SPV C550, C600, Cingular 2125 etc) then you're probably one of many people saying, "Hey, sometimes when I buy / download a game it comes out all sma...
More good news for you on this St. Patrick's Day - the M5000 DirectPush AKU2 update has just been published on the Orange website. Click here to get it plus more detail. Orange say of the update... "As part of our commitment to enable Customers to get...
Makayama have today announced a new version of their DVD to Smartphone product which, as the name suggests, converts whole DVD's down so that they can be viewed on your Smartphone direct from the memory card. Now called "Smartphone Media Studio", this...
The brilliant Virtual Pool Mobile has been given the full hi-res QVGA treatment and is now Windows Mobile 5.0 compatible. This pool simulation is so real it's almost guaranteed to improve your game in the pool hall with an intuitive interface allowing...
Wouter at PocketInfo.nl has posted an extensive review on the HTC Star Trek handset, which is shortly to be sold as the i-Mate Smartflip and Qtek 8500. It's one of our most talked about handsets and we love the look of it. The PocketInfo article (mach...
MoDaCo have this secret shot of the upcoming HTC Breeze, the 3G handset will run Windows Mobile 5.0 however from that we really don't know that much apart from what you can see here. Oh, and that on the right is the new HTC Star Trek that we've …
We've now got the promised push-email update for the HTC Wizard in the form of the QTek 9100 AKU2 update and the HTC Universal with the i-Mate JasJar one. But what of that Orange SPV C600 update? Well, it's here that I'd like to ask you guys a …
I had an email today from Ollie. His email was short - "Check out Orb.com. It's a neat piece of software" So I did.. and by god it's fantastic. Seriously - this is excellent. I always score things on basic principles - 1 - Does it install and …
PhoneThemes have just announced their first ever animated themes for the PocketPC on Windows Mobile 5.0. You may remember that PhoneThemes showed this off when Bill Gates announced Windows Mobile 5.0 in his keynote speech in MEDC 2005. Plus there's g...
Yet more games for you today, this time it's Meteor by Mobile Stream. It'll make use of your entire hi-res QVGA screen plus it'll work a treat on every other Windows Mobile out there too. There's 90 - count them - 90 levels, smart fullscreen graphics,...
We've managed to get a great deal for you guys on the excellent GPrime Xtreme. Right now you can get 10% off the price of our exclusive CoolSmartPhone Edition just by quoting the promotion code of "XTREMECOOL" at the checkout. Give it a try here - bla...
