The iPhone OS 3.0 is a bit buggy. With stories of bugs and general instability floating around, the inevitable iPhone OS 3.1 update is looking pretty nice. Thankfully, we may not have to wait too long for Apple to go public with the iPhone OS 3.0 update. Apple has today seeded an iPhone OS 3.1…
Archives for June 2009
The DIY iPhone tripod made simple, cheap
The dedicated do-it-yourselfers out there will probably have already slapped together an iPhone tripod using some spare toothpicks and a fork, or two. The rest of us haven’t even considered making a DIY iPhone tripod. For those of you in that second category, iPhone-modder Scott Patrick has posted a DIY video that explains how to…
Fluent Mobile Launches with Vision to Bring the Speed, Reliability and Convenience of Desktop Web Browsing to Mobile Devices
Fluent Mobile launched today, along with Fluent News, its first application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Fluent News is apparently the first iPhone and iPod Touch application to aggregate exclusively made-for-mobile content from the most trusted news sources across the Web into a single, easy-to-read and up-to-the-minute mobile newspaper. It’s also supposed to be…
Multi-Country study examines how we use mobile phones now and what we might do in the future
A multi-country study released today by Lightspeed Research shows the increasingly prominent role mobile phones are taking in our lives. With ownership of mobile phones so high and so many different functions now available, it is increasingly important to understand how people are using their mobile phones and what future opportunities there might be for…
UK: eXpansys: bringing a cracking HTC Hero deal!
eXpansys are always quick-to-market with the best and latest deal, and today is no exception: HTC Hero with £30 worth of eXpansys vouchers Now only £399.99 Buy the Android-powered HTC Hero from eXpansys and we’ll give you £30 of eXpansys vouchers to spend on accessories. Why not use them to get yourself a HTC Car Charger or…
UK: eXpansys competition: Nokia E75
Only a short amount of time before this comp closes, but on the assumption that some of our UK readers are nightowls, I am going to post on this…. eXpansys are running a comp to win a Nokia E75 (I’ve posted about this before) that closes at Midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 30th June –…
Skype 3.0 goes final on Windows Mobile
Skype users rejoice! The Skype 3.0 application for Windows Mobile has officially matured past “beta” status, and is now available for download. If you haven’t yet tried Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile, we’d suggest taking a quick look-see. The 3.0 version features an SMS messaging feature that is supposed to cut down on international texting…
Capacitance touchscreens for Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones?
We can only hope. The iPhone helped popularize the smartphone. The iPhone’s user-focused UI and more natural capacitance-based touchscreen has changed the mass-market’s expectation of what a smartphone should be. It’s just too bad Windows Mobile has yet to catch on – it’s still fully backing resistive touchscreens (you might know them as “squishy” touchscreens).…
Fennec Coming to Android?
Last week, the Android Native Development Kit was released, allowing developers to code their apps in C or C++, rather than using the Java virtual machine apps had been running on to date. This new tool has tickled Mozilla’s fancy, and they’re now considering bringing their in-development mobile browser, Fennec, to Android as a result.…
Bluetooth SIG hints at Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade for HTC Snap!
The HTC Snap has already proven itself a top choice for cost-conscious smartphone fans looking for a Windows Mobile smartphone with a good QWERTY keyboard. But, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard running the show, the HTC Snap is going to feel a little dated when Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5 later this year. Unless, that…