Tired of your BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)’s default look? Why not change the color of it? The folks that are usually known as color-customizers of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s products are expanding their offering to the BlackBerry devices. Actually, they’ll start accepting orders within few days when you’ll be able to make your BlackBerry — Pearl, Curve or 8800 — look more like a fashion than a business handset.
Personally, I don’t like the idea, but ColorWare is in business for some time, so I guess some — not many — people disagree with me. Wondering which device they’ll choose next for customization…
Although we could hardly say this is the single most useful mobile phone accessory, somehow we like it. But that’s “like it” as an interesting gift for your girlfriend, not as something you’ll run out and buy it for yourself. If you consider it as a mobile phone related gift which is not a strap, it’s kinda cool. On the other hand, it’s stupid and useless… It’s a slow news day, I’m sure you can tell.
Let’s say you’re so rich that you don’t have an idea what to do with all that money. Buying the most expensive car is always a viable option, but what about your phone? You do carry it around with you all the time, so why not make it really breathtaking? Why not add extra gold on it?
The same folks who made the Platinum iPhone are now offering the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 8800 Arte gold edition. Yeah, it’s Goldstriker and you bet its expensive. But then again, if you really don’t know what to do with all that money, do you really care?
Go Gadget for Windows Mobile (and soon to be J2ME) is an application that turns your device into a Vista SideShow device. SideShow is Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s way of giving you remote access to your PC via small applications which can do a variety of thing. Watch this demo to see why I’m certainly impressed. If Microsoft took this guys work, integrated it into MSN Live and Windows Home Server then Microsoft would have a very competent rival to Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s Ovi.
Just read this snippet of news on textually titled “Villagers walk 20 kms to charge mobile phones” and it just made me shake my head in dismay. Someone needs to do something to give these people power where the only infrastructure these people know is the cellular network. All this talk of being a green company, yet renewable energy is one facet that has yet to be explored, especially for countries where people need it the most.
I get a lot of emails asking me if Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s next flagship will have 6, 7 or 8 megapixels and when I tell people that the number is irrelevant they like to call me silly little names. When you get a chance read this article called Megapixel Madness and find out why that is.
It is short, it isn’t too technical and it will make you feel a little less ignorant.
Turns out that O2 (NYSE: TEF)’s claims of the iPhone being the fastest selling device in the carrier’s history wasn’t all marketing-talk. O2’s head honcho recently paid his Jobs-ness a visit in Cupertino, California to presumably give each other their “high-fives” over how well the iPhone is doing in the UK. Despite reports of slow-sales, O2’s Matthew Key told Steve Jobs that O2 should move around 200,000 iPhones by the end of January (we should note that other reports indicate that iPhones have been selling very well).
More importantly (especially for O2), Key told Jobs that the iPhone has spurred incredibly high data-usage rates on the UK network. With 60% of iPhone users clocking more than 25MB of data per month, O2’s data revenue has gone through the roof (compared with 1.8% of O2’s general subscriber base using 25MB of data every month).
With data-revenue the key money-source from O2’s iPhone customers, it’s pretty much a lock that O2 will be picking up the 3G iPhone when it launches next year.
Good for you, O2. Way to meet your iPhone sales goal.
We’ve seen our share of iPhone-advertisement spoofs. Some are funny, some are just lame. But, this one really stands out. Apparently, this guy, Claude M, crafted his own iPhone-style advertisement – you know “This is how you play music, this is how you view photos, this is how you make a call” – as a means of proposing the life-long union that we call marriage.Claude apparently played the video for his sweetheart as they strolled through the college where they’d first met. She said yes. Check out the video below – who would say “no” to a proposal like that?
The ROKR E8 has one trick up its sleeve, the buttons change depending on what application you’re currently running. It doesn’t have a touch screen, it doesn’t have a fancy camera, it runs Motorola (NYSE: MOT)’s poor Linux implementation, but at least it has a 3.5 mm headphone jack which is worth a lot of points in my book.Last month The Boy Genius got his hands on this device, check out his gallery here.
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