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Here is another great offer from our friends at Clove Technology – £25 off when you purchase an Eten Glofiish M700!

The ETEN Glofiish M700 is now available on the Clove website.

To take advantage of this brilliant offer all you have to do is type TM25PDEC06 into the voucher box on the order form once you have selected to buy the Eten M700 and £25 will be deducted at the checkout stage. To visit the Eten M700 on the Clove site click here.

This really is a good offer and we are confident that this is the cheapest Glofiish M700 in the UK and we are offering you £25 off to boot!!

This offer is for our readers only and is valid until the end of December 2006.

EDIT: Offer extended, please see this post.

Overview
Compose and send e-mails, SMS message or create and edit documents on the move with the Eten Glofiish M700. The Glofiish M700 is a compact Windows Mobile 5 device featuring an integrated sliding keyboard, Quad-band GSM/GPRS with support for EDGE, SiRFStar III GPS Receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi 802.11b/g and 2.0 mega pixels camera. With all these features you only ever need to carry one device, to stay in contact by phone, accessing the Internet, managing documents, appointments and contacts, and taking quality pictures.

GPS navigation is also possible with the Eten Glofiish M700, due to the integrated SiRFStar III GPS receiver, ensuring that this is truly an all in one device.

Matt

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Yesterday saw a new Beta Version (v2.2) of Skype launched.

Smartphone users will be pleased to learn that this version supports Windows Mobile Smartphone and that some 120 new devices are now supported.

There are a few limitations with this version, for example, at the moment, Skype calls only come through the loudspeaker or a headset. Skype say that they are working on this, but in the meantime, you’ll need to use a headset for the best audio quality.

So far it seems to work perfectly well on my TyTN but it’s early days!

Check out the Skype download page HERE.

Matt

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Following a successful promotion with our friends from Clove Technology, we have extended Eten Glofiish X500 offer!

To take advantage of this brilliant offer all you have to do is type TM3PDEC06 into the voucher box on the order form once you have selected to buy the Eten X500 and £30 will be deducted at the checkout stage. To visit the Eten X500 on the Clove site click here.

This really is a good offer and we are confident that this is still the cheapest X500 in the UK and we are offering you £30 off to boot!!

This offer is for our readers only and is valid until the end of December 2006.

Edit: Check out the latest X500 offen in this post.

Matt

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Nedge2k over at MSMobileNews has just posted a great review of the ETEN G500.

The ETEN G500 is was one of the first devices to include a built in GPS unit.

In what will be the last review nedge2k does for MSMobileNews he has this to say of the G500:

“The first thing that strikes you about this device when you get it out of the box is its size. When you see pictures of it, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s huge when in reality it’s a pretty average size. Packed inside the G500 you can find an SiRF Star III GPS chipset (with TMC), 400Mhz Samsung CPU, 1.3MP camera, 2.8” QVGA TFT touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0, Quadband GSM, 128MB of user memory (256MB on the G500+), FM radio (with RDS!) and a miniSD slot.”

“This phone is one hell of a mixed bag; so many good points but at the same time, quite a few bad ones. It has some really great hardware but then gets let down by poor build quality. It has handy, well thought out applications that get let down by what I hope are just mistakes/oversights.”

Read the whole review on MSMobileNews.

Matt

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Latest press release from VITO Technology:

VITO Technology announces updates for VITO AudioPlayer and VITO RingtoneEditor. New versions of these applications offer more features and bring you the best experience of listening to music and creating ringtones.

VITO AudioPlayer is the easiest way to listen to your favorite music: all options are within a couple of clicks. VITO AudioPlayer can play your music content in different ways: as a single file (once or repeatedly) or all files in the folder and subfolders; it can also play file as an audio book. New features in VITO AudioPlayer:

VITO RingtoneEditor is the easiest way to create your own ringtones. With VITO RingtoneEditor you can easily create as many ringtones as you wish from your favorite music. The idea is as easy as to listen to a music file, select a piece that you like and assign it as ringtone. Let your individuality sound through your ringtones! New features in VITO RingtoneEditor:

VITO AudioPlayer and VITO RingtoneEditor are available for $9.95 each.

VITO Technology ltd. is known for its high-tech products in the field of Pocket PC and Symbian software, GPS navigation and custom projects. Introduced in the present article VITO AudioPlayer is an easy to use MP3, OGG, and WAV player for Smartphone and PPC. VITO Ringtone Editor is a utility for creating custom ringtones on Smartphone and PPC.

Matt

[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Vito, AudioPlayer, RingtoneEditor, Pocket PC Software]

I was having a conversation with a software developer the other day and he mentioned something about the HTC P4350 that, while I’d noticed, I hadn’t really considered.

Take a look at the picture above. Those of you with an HTC TyTN or Orange M3100 notice anything ‘strange’? The keyboard on the HTC P4350 opens in the other direction to every other sliding keyboard device from HTC.

“So what!?” I hear you say. Well from a developer point of view you can no longer make the assumption that when the keyboard is open and the device is in landscape that the keyboard is to the left of the screen, now it could be to the right too!

So should anyone else care? Well as I look at the device I think that the keyboard opening to the right is going to suit me better. As a left handed person it will be easier for me to slide open with one hand.

Is there a good reason for this change or is it just because the designer at HTC is left handed? Any thoughts?

Matt

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The XDA Flame is set to be the next VGA Windows Mobile PocketPC to be released.

This is a fairly large device which looks similar in size to the HTC Universal, but you may also notice the lack of slide-out keyboard.

The TV out connector sounds interesting, I’d like to see PockekPC screen out put to TV, this could make an interesting device for Powerpoint presentations.

The Flame is a 3G PocketPC Phone with a generous 3.6″ VGA display powered by NVIDIA’s GoForce 5500 GPU for next-generation mobile graphics. I cant wait to see software that can puch this 3D graphics!

O2 XDA Flame Specification

The XDA Flame is said to be shipping in Q1 2007.

Check out MrPalm for more images.

Matt

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There seems to be something of a buzz surrounding the device that is slated to replace the HTC Excalibur, the HTC Cavalier.

The guys over at Mobinaute have managed to get their hands on a Cavalier and have taken plenty of photos.

The HTC Cavalier is a bit larger than the HTC Excalibur and the design is more angular and less ‘curvy’ than the Excalibur.

According to Mobinaute the HTC Cavalier will be on sale, in France at least, in March 2007. That’s are earlier release date than we anticipated.

HTC Cavalier Specification

Matt

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It was only a few weeks ago that the first screen shots of Microsoft’s new Mobile OS, codenamed Crossbow, were leaked on the internet. Now according to this thread on XDA-Developers there are HTC Hermes devices out there running the new OS.

These low quality photos, presumably taken from another camaera phone, appear to show an Orange SPV M3100 running Crossbow. This has prompted a lot of discussion about the likelyhood of Orange releasing the a ROM update to customers or supplying newer M3100’s with Crossbow pre-installed.

I think it’s extremely unlikely that Orange will provide this as an update for existing M3100 owners, this isnt a simple ROM update, it’s a whole new OS and would be subject to different licensing argreements etc. It’s more likely that the device shown in the photos is a test platform for the new OS.

Matt

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File this one under rumour at the moment but images of the HTC Vox have appeared on the web.

You’ll no doubt have noticed that no only does the HTC Vox have a slide out keyboard similar in layout to the HTC Magician but there is also an regular Smartphone style keypad on the front. This is the first hybrid device from HTC.

While we realise that the image above is a computer generated concept it would appear that the proportions aren’t quite right if we are to believe the information we have. It’s claimed that the screen will be 240 x 320 but looking at the image this ratio seems more like a square screen.

HTC Vox Specification

Information via Coolsmartphone, via MSMobiles, via ce4arab.com.

Matt

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