The Garmin name is synonymous with GPS and satellite navigation and this new nuvifone M10 couples Asus’s phone expertise with Garmin‘s proven GPS navigation technology. It should make for a formidable integrated navigation device. -Matt
There aren’t too many Windows Mobile handsets being released at the moment but we have seen a few lately. The HD mini follows in the footsteps of its bigger brother, the HD2, and offers a very similar experience albeit within a smaller package. -Matt
There’s a raft of new Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets hitting the market at the moment. LG want a piece of the action and have launched the LG GM750. The GM750 is quite similar in form and spec. to the Samsung Omnia Lite that we reviewed a few days ago. It’s strange how LG and Samsung [...]
If you’ve been following closely you’ll know that a few weeks ago I went off to one of the XPERIA X2 launch events in London where I got to play with the handsets as well as speak to some of the nice people from Sony Ericsson. On Friday SE send over a pre-release sample of [...]
We’ve been looking at quite a few of the Samsung Omnia handsets recently from the Omnia Lite a few weeks ago to the Omnia Pro B7330 just last week. So quite a few reviews are already in progress and will start going up next week so this morning I got my hands on the Omnia [...]
You cant fail to have noticed the news stories and blog posts about the HTC’s new flagship model, the HTC HD2. The HD2 is an excellent handset and despite having a massive 4.3″ screen HTC have managed to put together a package that feels relatively small in your hand and is slim enough to fit [...]
The F900, still showing fairly obvious Eten design characteristics, appears to be Acer’s answer to the popular HTC Touch HD, having virtually the same screen and a similar footprint. Whether or not the F900 can hold its own against the Touch HD we’ll find out over the next few weeks as we test it for [...]
It has been quite a while since we saw a Windows Mobile device from Toshiba and this, the TG01, looks like being one of the more popular handsets they’ve released. Rumours of the Toshiba TG01 surfaced about 8 months ago but Toshiba put and end to the rumours and speculation by announcing the TG01 officially [...]
In this video I unbox the Acer M900, the sliding QWERTY equipped high spec Windows Mobile Professional device from Acer. The Acer M900 is available to buy now from eXpansys. P
The Acer M900 is a similar size to the TP2 and also has a large WVGA (480×800) touch screen display and, perhaps more importantly, a good sized slicing QWERTY keyboard. The M900 is a little cheaper than it’s rival but has a comparable specification so it’s not surprising that we’re being asked whether we think [...]
It doesn’t seem like long ago that I was all excited and telling you about the latest HTC Touch Diamond2 that I’d managed to get my hands on. However this week something else turned up at tracyandmatt towers that I think could be even better! I am of course referring to the eagerly awaited HTC [...]
Although it was only announced a few months ago at MWC, it feels like I’ve been waiting ages to get my hands on the HTC Touch Diamond2. I guess I must just be impatient to replace my original Diamond! – Matt
This is one of the first Dual-SIM Windows Mobile devices to make it to the UK and the first from Acer since acquiring E-Ten last year. The Acer DX900 allows you to have uninterrupted access to two separate phone services, for example; one for business and one personal, or one for calls and another for [...]
The HTC Touch Viva is one of the latest handsets from HTC within the Touch range. The Viva is actually a fairly entry level. However it does have a reasonable amount of ROM/RAM and also has WiFi. The spec may seem a bit mean, especially in the CPU department, but having used the Viva briefly [...]
In this video I unbox the Pantech Matrix Pro, available from AT&T. This Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) handset features both a QWERTY slider and a 12 key slider and is a follow up to the Pantech Duo. P
In this video I unbox the innovative ‘ice’ handset from new player in the market Mobinnova. The device features an innovative WQVGA display with a dedicated shortcut area, and a secondary screen in place of a directional pad that fan adjust it’s functionality depending on the application in use. The handset will be available to [...]
Here I finally get to unbox a retail, black, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1i! Hurrah! P
The HTC Touch HD is another important device for HTC – many claiming it as HTC’s asnwer to the iPhone. It’s glorious WVGA display sets the HD apart from many of it’s competitors and it has the power under the hood to match. HTC Touch HD Review – Matt
I’m unboxing two handsets in this video, the Velocity Mobile 83 and the Velocity Mobile 103. Velocity Mobile are fairly new to the Windows Mobile arena. – Matt
The Glofiish X610 is like the V900′s ugly sister, there isn’t a TV tuner in this model but you can still find a built in SiRF StarIII GPS chipset and a reasonably fast CPU. There’s only 64MB or RAM though so it can struggle from time-to-time. Eten Glofiish X610 Review – Matt
Ok, ok so this is another video that isn’t really an unboxing but it is a popular and important video. Paul and I were quite literally the first to get our hands on this production unit at the launch event that we weren’t really meant to have! – Matt
Yet another massively popular device from HTC the Touch Pro was deemed by many to be the replacement for the ageing HTC TyTN II. The Touch Pro that you see in this unboxing video was literally one of the first here in the UK and altough it is full retail hardware we had a while [...]
Here’s my unboxing video featuring the T-Mobile MDA Compact IV… the slightly restyled HTC Touch Diamond variant! It’s nice… P
Here’s my unboxing video of the groundbreaking HTC Touch Diamond, complete with furry carpet background! P
There was a big gap between Windows Mobile device from Toshiba, this being the first since their G900 which, when launched the year earlier, was met with very mixed reviews. This G710 is a Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) handset so there’s no touch-screen. There are definite similarities between this and the popular Blackberry devices so [...]
“It’s a busy, trail-blazing life you lead and Atom V with its intelligence and reliability is designed to fit right into it. With the sleek Atom V, you know you’re always on the right track wherever you may find yourself. Thanks to sophisticated inbuilt GPS*, powerful processing and a complete suite of multimedia features including [...]
The HTC Touch Diamond was launched in May 2008 and got instant rave reviews. I still use my HTC Touch Diamond to this day and suspect that, for me, the only handset to knock it off my top spot will be the Diamond2. This was also our first introduction to TouchFlo 3D which you’ll still [...]
The i-mate Ultimate 9502 – a device that promised so much… and delivered so little! Great specs, but poor design and software ultimately let it down (in my eyes)… P
I must confess I had a bit of a soft spot for the Asus M530W, as did Chris, my podcast co-host! Here I unbox it on video. P
Here’s my video unboxing of the Eten / Glofiish (now Acer!) M800… a sliding QWERTY equipped Pocket PC (Professional) device. Competing with the Kaiser (aka TyTN II) at the time was difficult, but with it’s VGA screen and excellent GPS, it was a decent all round machine. P
Until the launch of the HTC TyTN II back in September 2007, my phone of choice was the Samsung i600. I liked the integrated keyboard and slim form factor but the one thing missing was built in GPS. However, Samsung recently released the i780 which looks like an updated version of the i600 but has [...]
Previously known to us as the HTC Pharos, the P3470 was introduced by HTC early in 2008 as a budget GPS enabled Windows Mobile. First impressions are that the device seems quite capable and despite the relatively slow CPU (just 201 mHz) it seems to run along quite smoothly, probably aided by the 128MB of [...]
Here is a video of me unboxing the MWg Atom Life. MWg, formerly known as O2 Asia, released this device exclusively through their investors eXpansys. P
The HTC Touch Cruise is another one of those devices from HTC that everyone seems to be talking about and waiting for. It’s the latest in the line of devices from HTC to bear the Touch monica and to include the TouchFLO software and the extra-sensitive touchscreen. Looking a lot like the HTC Artemis the [...]
Here’s my video of the Benq E72 being unboxed, a tiny candy bar Smartphone. P
Here is a video of me unboxing the X600 from Eten / Glofiish (now Acer). P
Here I unbox the original T-Mobile Shadow for the USA, the Windows Mobile Smartphone slider with the 20 key keypad. Superceded by the Shadow II now, this still remains one of my favourite devices of all time! P
Here I unbox the innovative dual slider Pantech Duo… now replaced by the Matrix Pro! This remains unique in that it has the sliding 12 key and sliding QWERTY keypads, and if it only had WiFi and a standard charging connector, I think it would have been a lot more popular! P
The HTC S730 was another BIG device for HTC. Perhaps not to the same scale as the TyTN II or the Touch series – but it’s got to be number 3 in line. It sounds too good to be true really – a candybar phone, a large QWERTY keyboard and the still new Windows Mobile [...]
Here I unbox the 20 key HTC Touch Dual and compare it with the 12 key version. This is a truly excellent handset, that at the time of writing is still yet to be replaced (sadly). The 20 key version was only available outside the UK. P
The HTC Touch Dual was another device that everyone was talking about before Christmas 2007. Thanks to our friends over at Clove Technology we’ve managed to get our hands on one to review. Despite the original Touch having a somewhat limited spec, it sold by the bucket load. When HTC released a new group of [...]
In September 2007 the HTC TyTN II finally went on sale. It was an instant success, most retailers sold out on launch day and were selling pre-allocated stock for weeks later. Even now you can find TyTN II’s for sale at most mobile retailers and on some of the UK networks still carry the handset [...]
Yes the Orange version of the HTC Touch (HTC P3450 or HTC Elf) was essentially the same as the HTC branded unit but there were a few differences in the OS build which I highlight in this unboxing video. – Matt
The Samsung i600 (Samsung Blackjack) was a popular handset back in 2007 and while it’s somewhat long in the tooth now it can still be purchased for a bargain price from a number of online retailers. Initally launched with Windows Mobile 5.0 Samsung made a Window Mobile 6.0 update available a few months later. Matt
Here I unbox the T-Mobile Ameo, also known as the HTC Advantage / Athena! P
The Garmin name is synonymous with GPS and satellite navigation and this new nuvifone M10 couples Asus’s phone expertise with Garmin‘s proven GPS navigation technology. It should make for a formidable integrated navigation device.
-Matt