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We're not quite sure how many people have been affected by
this problem (I've not experienced it), but HTC have just released a hot fix for the HTC Touch Dual. It rectifies a screen
problem causing icons to vabish and words to overlap. It also corrects a
problem where characters are displayed incorrectly.

A couple
of weeks back we spotted the HTC P6500 sat proudly on the Orange UK
website. Forum member "Pickett" has just had his delivered and luckily for us
he's snapped some rather
excellent shots of the handset.

Imagine the scene, you've just left home and you've forgotten
to turn your PC off. Tskk.. your local electricity company will be dancing with
joy and your girlfriend could come home to see those "interesting" websites
you've been viewing. What to do ? Do you turn around and go all the way back?
Well, now there's no need, because you can actually turn off your computer (and
a whole lot more) by text message.

A few weeks back the HTC video issue was
being discussed everywhere on the web. After a while HTC posted their official response to the
issue and said that there was no problem and their handsets were operating as
expected. Now there's an extra twist to the story, as HTC's top engineers have
been on the case and have found a fix which should "dramatically improve

It's been some time since we spotted the Samsung i640 as "Coming Soon" on the
Vodafone website. David B has emailed in to point out that it's now available to buy.

You may remember how Microsoft have tied up with Zumobi to help
distribute and promote their new product. It's a mobile entertainment and
information gateway with a slick GUI and updated news from various sources.
It's controlled with a zooming interface using the numeric keys on your phone
or with the navigation control.

We started this site nearly 5 and a half years ago now. At the
time we were stumbling across issues with the original Orange SPV Smartphone
and finding work-arounds. Now it's February 2008 and still I'm finding problems
- and this time it's with my brand new HTC Touch Dual. So far we've already
covered two bugs with it (here and here) along with fixes,

Feeling a bit nostalgic? SmartGear is a multi-console / handheld game emulator which
supports GameBoy, GameGear, MasterSystem, NES, TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis. Right
now there's a stonking 50% off for just 48 hours, so be quick and you can get
it for just £2.57!

The Samsung i780 is now available on Orange with some of you
bagging one for £29.99 on a 12 month contract. Viktor Bijelovic has sent
us in some more photos of his device, this time showing off the box contents
and comparison shots next to the SPV M3100.

Owners of the HTC Touch Dual / T-Mobile Touch Plus may have
already seen our coverage of the MMS sending bug and fix, but there is
another rather annoying issue with this handset. When you're sending a text or
email you'll no doubt have seen that the letter "a" continually gets changed to
the letter "c" when you're typing. This is particularly annoying when you're