Now, I can understand governments are banning officials to use mobile phones at the cabinet meetings, but banning the mobile phone usage on a beach just doesn’t make much sense. It’s not a spa, people are heading to beach for different reasons – why would someone ban you from using your phone? Privacy of other…
Archives for August 2007
Vodafone offers Pocket Gamer’s content to its subscribers
Vodafone is one smart company when they decided to bundle content from the Pocket Gamer website to their mobile portal. Naturally, not all content will be available through Vodafone — only the games selling through their Vodafone Live! service. Still, it’s nice to see the big company like Vodafone offering some independent editorial to educate…
Live full-length college football games coming to V CAST Mobile TV
To get more subscribers to use advanced services, Verizon keeps pumping its mobile TV offering with additional content. Now, they are teaming up with Qualcomm-owned MediaFLO to bring live, full-length college football games from a variety of broadcast and cable networks to their V CAST Mobile TV service. Apparently, the carrier scheduled to air more…
Hands on Nokia N81 music phone
Apart from luxury Vertu phones, Nokia N81 is one of the most beautiful phones Finish handset manufacturer has ever made. The stylish slider is a music and gaming dedicated device, powered by Symbian OS V9.2 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (S60 3.1). It’s selling in two flavors – one with the microSD expansion…
ComBOTS Mobile brings rich media communication to many of the Java-enabled handsets
While I’m personally not that familiar with ComBOTS, their solution should enable “integrated rich media messaging, advanced telephony and reliable file transfer in one easy to use tool for PC and mobile.” Naturally, there’s a PC and a mobile client, and ComBOTS shines in syncing the two. Their recently launched ComBOTS Mobile works on all…
iPhoneSIMfree: Release of software unlock solution for the Apple iPhone in three days
It looks like the AT&T legal hounds haven’t gotten to the guys at iPhoneSIMfree.com yet. Unlike UniquePhones‘ questionable software unlock status, iPhoneSIMfree has already clearly demonstrated, through independent means, that their software-based unlock solution truly does free the Apple iPhone from AT&T’s evil grasp. Today they’ve released FAQ on their website in which they outline…
Nokia N95 8GB Black glamor shots from London’s Nokia GoPlay Launch Event
That’s it, it’s official. No more speculation and rumor about the 8GB Nokia N95 Black – it’s for real, in the flesh and ready to pull duty as Nokia’s flagship. We remember way back when the 8GB N95 was just a glimmer in an enthusiast’s eye, it’s come a long way. As we all expected,…
Nokia gets official with the Nokia N81 N-Gage gaming phone
So, after yesterday’s time-traveling escapade to the Nokia N81 and N95 8GB launch today, we aren’t really surprised to see these pics. But, it’s nice to finally catch up with the future – we call that “temporal sync.” The Nokia N81 has hit the market as a revamped 3G N-Gage mobile gaming platform and packs…
Nokia launches Ovi brand, consolidates all Nokia services – watch out iTunes
Nokia has opened “the door” to it’s new internet services brand “Ovi.” Apparently, Nokia isn’t satisfied with just dominating the mobile phone market, now they want to try their hand at internet-based services – music, games, and maps. With “Ovi,” which means “door” in Finnish, Nokia will be consolidating the Nokia Music Store, N-Gage, and…
The Google GPhone may be launched in as little as two weeks – could the Google Phone be upon us?
Rumor, speculation, hype. They’re all staples of this industry and we thrive on it. But, when we get wind of rumors related to Google’s almost mythical Google Phone (the iPhone-fighting GPhone), we get worked up with frenzied excitement. We already have confirmation that HTC will be manufacturing the GPhone. It is most likely going to…