Phones

Astraware press release:

Astraware mobile site – now with simpler checkout for Club Astraware members.

THE MIDLANDS, UK – December 22nd 2006 – Astraware would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and Holiday Season! If you’re away from your computer over the holiday break and want to pick up a new game to entertain yourselves during long journeys, or even to share some fun with the family, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve made a couple of changes to Astraware’s mobile site to make purchasing a little easier.

As Club Astraware already stores address and device details, you can now login to Club Astraware via our mobile site and this makes the checkout process easier – plus, of course, you can access all the usual Club Astraware discounts!

Simply connect your device to the internet, via your phone or PDA’s data or wi-fi connection, and the Astraware mobile site is formatted to detect a mobile web browser. Once connected you just need to put in the regular web address – http://www.astraware.com – login to Club Astraware and you’re all set! Download the trial of the game you want, and then checkout in the usual way. Have a fun-filled Holiday!

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Tracy & Matt, Astraware, M3100, Glyph]

Our friends over at Brando Workshop have just released their own headphone adapter for the new HTC devices.

The adapter will work on the HTC Trinity, HTC P3600, Dopod D810, HTC Artemis, HTC P3300, Qtek G200, T-Mobile MDA Compact III, Dopod P800W, HTC TyTN, Orange M3100, Vodafone v1605, and many other HTC devices and variants.

The price is a very reasonable $10 which at the moment works out to about £5! It looks like a much better solution than the adapter on back order at eXpansys.

Go check out the Brando product page.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, spv headphone socket, m3100 spv usb cable, M3100, HTC Hermes, HTC TyTN, SPV, Orange SPV M3100, Hermes Headphones]

The eagerly awaited Orange SPV M700 has appeard for sale on the Orange France website.

Based on the HTC Trinity (Aka HTC P3600) the Orange M700 looks great in its white casing. It is currently selling for 299.00€ which seems to be a bargain.

We hope to have one of these for review soon!

Orange SPV M700 Specification

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Tracy & Matt, Orange, M700, HTC Trinity, SPV, Orange SPV M700]

Up until a few days ago the HTC Athena was the subject of much rumour and speculation. However, new ‘real’ images of the Athena have since surfaced.

The HTC Athena looks more like a UMPC or Tablet than a PocketPC and it would appear that HTC are trying to bridge the gap between mobile and laptop products. Let’s hope that they work on the design a bit more though as currently it’s an ugly device and not one that I would want to be seen with! Also I’m not sure that I would be happy with a PocketPC OS on a device as large as the HTC Athena and would have thought that full blown XP or Vista would be better, after all there are UMPC devices that are not much larger than this.

HTC Athena Specification (speculation)

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, HTC, Athena, HTC Athena, Tracy & Matt]

We first mentioned the O2 Graphite some weeks ago but today the device has been officially anounced by O2 and has appeared on their website.

“The O2 Graphite is built around a simple idea – to make communication easier for you. 3G-enabled, it allows you to make both voice and video calls, access your emails and the Internet with just one device. It’s easy to use with the familiar mobile phone interface and yet has a fast processor and intelligent capabilities to make light work of mammoth tasks. With the new O2 Graphite, communication is easy again.
Now that’s a thought.”

O2 XDA Graphite Specification

It’s also worth mentioning that the Graphite is NOT manufactured by HTC but rather ASUSTek and is based on an improved version of their Vodafone V1210.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, XDA, Graphite, O2, Tracy & Matt]

Our friend Gears over at CoolSmartPhone has just published an excellent and thorough review of the T-Mobile MDA Compact III (aka HTC Artemis).

“Having GPS inside your phone is pretty damned cool. For a start you don’t have any oiks breaking into your car because you left your precious SatNav stuck to the windscreen. The phone is always with you and – even if your mates don’t answer a call to tell you how to get to the pub – CoPilot will. In short I love having GPS in-built. For me I don’t really use GPS daily, so I don’t see any reason in going and spending several hundred pounds on a sat-nav.”

T-mobile MDA Compact III Specification:

Go and read the full review HERE.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, HTC P3300, HTC Artemis, T-Mobile, MDA Compact III, Tracy & Matt]

Voxtel are to release the first PocketPC phone to include a 4 mega-pixel camera.

The Voxtel W740 is a tri-band GSM Pocket PC phone with 64 MB RAM, 128 MB Flash, 200 MHz processor TI OMAP, miniSD expansion, 2.8 inch QVGA screen and bluetooth 1.2. However, it also includes a 4 mega pixel camera with auto focus!

Currently only available in Russia the Voxtel W740 will set you back around £275 if you were to import it.

More info (in Russian) on the Voxtel Site.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Voxtel, W740, Voxtel_W740, Pocket PC Software]

There are currently several rumours circulating about a possible deal between Orange and Google, the result of which would be a Googlephone.

It is widely accepted that the Google-branded device may well come pre-loaded with mobile versions of Google apps like Google Earth, Gmail, etc. It is believed that the phone itself would be manufactured by HTC, which seems logical and would suggest that it would be some kind of Windows Mobile based device.

Other sources tell us that the talks are at a much more advanced stage and that plans are afoot to release a HTC Trinity or HTC Artemis based device as a Google-branded phone in partnership with Orange.

More news as we get it.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, HTC, google, HTC Trinity, googlePhone, Tracy & Matt]

Anyone looking for memory cards should take a look at MobyMemory. They seem to be about the cheapest place on the web at the moment.

One of their current offers is a 4Gb MiniSD card for just £39.99! Definitely worth checking out.

Other offers include a 2Gb MicroSD card for £39.99 and 4Gb High Speed SD Cards for £37.99.

Source: MoDaCo.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Tracy & Matt, Orange, M3100, HTC Hermes, HTC TyTN, SPV, Orange SPV M3100, Orange SPV M3100 Review, MicroSD]

We’ve mentioned the HTC Vox a number of times in the past but now the HTC Vox has been named the HTC S710 and ‘real life’ photos have just surfaced.

Confirmed to be running Windows Mobile Smartphone this will be the first ‘candybar’ smartphone device to have a sliding Qwerty keyboard. However you’ll notice that, like the P4350, this is another device from HTC where the keyboard opens the ‘wrong’ way.

It looks like a nice compromise and I expect that this is likely to be popular!

HTC Vox (HTC S710) Specification

Source: boygeniusreport

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Tracy & Matt, HTC Vox, HTC S710]