News just in from Eten is that they are just about to launch their new Glofiish X800!
The X800 is the device that was rumoured back in November of last year and boast a VGA screen while maintaining a slim, 113.5 x 60.5 x 15.8mm, form.
ETEN Glofiish X800 Specification:
You can also see more on MoDaCo
Matt
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As a direct result of your email requests, we’ve just added some ways for you to contact us. You can now contact us via our Skype username: tracyandmatt or via telephone/voicemail on *0208 123 3757. We would be very pleased to hear from you!
I’ve been really impressed with Skype and have been using both the PC and the Windows Mobile versions. We now hope to be able to bring you a couple of reviews of Skype certified WiFi phones over the next few weeks.
*Please Note: This is MY Skype phone number – I am NOT affiliated or associated with Skype in anyway other than as a paying customer so please do not ring me with complaints about Skype services or to talk about credit card payments. Skype do not have a contact telephone number, for issues regarding your Skype account please visit the Skype website for guidance.
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Skype, VoIP, Tracy & Matt]
This is a public service announcement! 😛
For our visitors from the US, Canada or Mexico there is an update available from the Microsoft Daylight Saving 2007 Update page.
Updated March 5, 2007
Congress has changed the dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the United States starting in 2007. Canada has adopted similar DST dates. These changes could cause clocks and Microsoft Outlook calendar appointments on Windows Mobile-powered devices to display incorrect times for March 11 – April 1, 2007 and October 28 – November 4, 2007 and again in subsequent years. You can find more information about the exact dates and potential impact in the Changes in DST section.To make sure your appointments on your Windows Mobile devices are accurate, you’ll need to update your device. If you regularly synchronize your device with your PC, you’ll need to update Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook as well.
We have three tools that will help your make these updates:
2007 Time Zone Update for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Outlook Time Zone Update Tool Daylight Saving Time 2007 Update Tool for Windows Mobile
So if you are in the United States, Canada and Mexico you should immediately install these updates. You should also install these updates you travel to the United States, Canada and/or Mexico or if you book meetings with attendees from these countries.
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, DST, Daylight Saving Time, Tracy & Matt]
We have been talking about headphone adapters for HTC devices for ages now but it looks like the people at GPSforless.co.uk have finally come up with an adapter for a reasonable price!
I know that a lot of you are looking for SPV M700 headphone adapters and this one should work with all the latest HTC devices. At under £5, that’s more like it!
Thanks to Steve for the heads-up.
Matt
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Looks like our friends at MoDaCo beat us to the post with this one but the Orange version of the HTC Excalibur, the Orange SPV E600, has just appeared on the Orange Business Site.
At the moment the E600 is only available to business customers but I suspect that it wont be long before it’s available to all.
Benefit from the svelte and compact design, with a full QWERTY keyboard and a large screen, composing emails and viewing attachments is almost as easy as if you were in the office. And when you’re out of the country, even continent, thanks to quad band technology it’s not problem – so that’s one less thing to worry about.
One thing I did notice is that the blurb (see above) says the E600 is quad-band yet the details specification, also on the Orange site, clearly states tri-band. Maybe Orange isn’t sure!?
I’ve been using an HTC S620 (basically the same device) for some time now and it’s one of my favourite devices and definitely my favourite smartphone. It will be interesting to see what the Orange customisation does to the SPV E600. Get your sugar cubes ready!
Orange SPV E600 Specification:
Check out the Orange E600 page HERE.
Oh and the SPV E600 is quad-band by the way!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Orange SPV E600, HTC, HTC Excalibur]
The people over at MGCMAG.net have managed to get their hands on an HTC Advantage and have posted a video review. Visit the site to watch over 12 minutes of video putting the Advantage through its paces.
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, T-Mobile, Ameo, HTC Advantage, HTC Athena, Tracy & Matt]
The HTC S730 was rumoured quite some time ago but details of the device have recently emerged the S730 is once again thought to be another one of the HTC Smartphones set for release later this year.
The HTC S730 (aka HTC Wings) supersedes the S710 (which has only just been released) and has a very similar design.
HTC S730 Specification:
Note the integrated GPS and 400mhz CPU which is unusualy fast for a smartphone!
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Wings, HTC S730, Tracy & Matt]
We need your help!
If you are an iPod Nano 2nd generation owner I would love to hear from you. We currently have some products that need reviewing and we do not have a 2nd gen Nano.
So if you have a 2nd Gen iPod Nano and think you are up to writing a review for us then please drop me a line. You’ll get to keep the items you review too!
EDIT: We’ve got a few people lined up for doing a review for us. Many thanks for all the offers!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Windows Mobile Blog]
Edit: Our Orange SPV M700 review is now online!
Tracy and I have been playing around with a couple of Orange SPV M700’s for a few days now and we had a bit of a problem with the GPS on one of them. I gave Orange a call to see if we could find out what the problem was. Initially customer services thought that I was reporting an issue with GPRS despite me stating several times that I really DID mean GPS. After that Orange insisted that the M700 didn’t have GPS and that I would have to purchase one at extra cost.
This wasn’t just one person getting their facts wrong, I spoke to three differnt CS representatives!
For those of you that are thinking about buying an M700 let me point out that the M700 really, honestly, defintely does have built in GPS!! My problem ended up being a simple problem that we easily resolved (ourselves) and the GPS works perfectly well now.
Secondly, we had a couple of messages from Alan. Alan has been trying to buy an Orange SPV M700 in black but Orange insist that it’s only available in white. Strange that I have two M700’s then, one black, one white…
….come on Orange, your customer service staff can do better than this cant they?
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Orange, M700, HTC Trinity, HTC P3600, SPV, Orange SPV M700]
Looks like HTC are going to have a busy year with lots of new device in store for us. January/February saw 4 new devices confirmed in their range and now, barely in to March, we discover more devices said to be part of the 2007 line-up.
The HTC P3450, an HTC Elf based device, is expected to arrive in Q2 2007. It looks like being one of the smallest touchscreen devices that we have seen from HTC and reminds me a little of the Neonode N1.
HTC P3450 Specification:
Note the lack of 3G/HSDPA and WiFi.
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Advantage, HTC Elf, HTC P3450, Tracy & Matt]
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