Received an email this morning from the good folks at Dropbox. The news? They’ve released a Dropbox iPhone app… Cool! The app is of course free, and offers access to your Dropbox while you’re on-the-go. Access, view and download your files right from your iPhone for offline viewing. Take new photos or videos and sync them to your Dropbox… Or even share links to files in your Dropbox, all from the convenience of your iPhone.
In case you’ve never heard of Dropbox before, here’s the official skinny:
Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers.
Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they’ll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you’ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!) Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website.
For my own personal use I’ve used Dropbox to share files, pictures, movies and more. On the business side I’ve used it while collaborating on projects… uploading new documents, design files and more to a central location, ensuring the latest versions were always up and ready to go. Dropbox is truly a handy tool.
For more information on the new Dropbox app, hit up the App Store (iTunes link). For more information on the service in general (and to setup a free 2GB account) hit up Dropbox.com.
Bill Perry, Senior Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia (NYSE: NOK), posted some statistics from the Ovi Store which has now been open for 5 months. The Ovi Store is available on over 100 devices, with users from over 180 different countries, and developers from 65 countries. There are 8 countries that have an Ovi Store in their native language and support operator billing: UK, Spain, France, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Italy and Russia. By the end of Q1 2010, that number should rise to over 20 countries. The top 10 countries accessing the Ovi Store are Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia and the UK. In most of those countries the top 2 devices used to get to the Ovi Store are either the Nokia 5800 or N97. Each registered user downloads an average of 8 pieces of content, and the number of downloads in October compared to September is up by 70%.
Couple that data above with the information Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo gave during the Q3 2009 financial results conference call held on the 15th of October, where he said:
We grew our active users from 46 million to 61 million.
61 million users x average of 8 pieces of content per user = 488 million downloads?
Why isn’t Bill Perry providing any figures such as number of applications? The media would take that number and compare it to the massive 100,000+ applications in Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s App Store and claim Nokia is failing.
Why isn’t Bill Perry providing any figures for the number of downloads? Same reason as above.
Want to totally customize your new Curve 8900, but really don’t want to send the whole device in? I can’t blame you, going without your ‘baby’ for more than a day is a hard thing for most of us. Thankfully, Colorware is now offering a ‘parts only’ option for their Curve 8900 customization. How does it work? You select the colors you’d like to have, and Colorware will send you the parts. From there, you get to do all the nitty-gritty dirty work and install for yourself. Pricing for this option is $175 (rapid return of your device is $159, and the purchase and customization of a new device is $599)…
In my eyes this service is truly a luxury… Not necessary at all, but ranks high on my personal ‘BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) goodness’ scale. Yeah, Colorware is awesome
Those that know me know that I love to golf. They also know that I own way too many golf clubs than necessary. As I sit here in my office I’ve got three full sets of clubs… and leaning against the wall are roughly 10 putters that I practice with from time to time. Yeah, I love golf. So you can imagine my extreme pleasure and excitement when one of my favorite ‘used’ golf club retailers combined my love of golf clubs with another love… mobile devices.
3Balls sent me a quick message the other day notifying me of a new promotion. The deal? Get a free BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) on any purchase from their site. Awesome. Now I can jam all of my golf bags full of shiny new BlackBerry devices Of course, the deal is contingent on you signing a new 2-year signature… But if you were going to pick up a new phone anyway, this isn’t such a bad thing. Oh, and there’s also a pesky activation fee you’ll need to pay too (I hate activation fees).
You can pick up all the details here. To claim your device look for the ‘choose your phone’ button on the order confirmation page. Fore!
TELUS (NYSE: TU)’ MiKE network is currently running a promotion that will be of interest to anyone looking for a new Motorola (NYSE: MOT) iDen device. From now ’till December 31st, you can save $50 on the Motorola i9, i365, i365is, Clutch i465, i576 and i580.
The rebate form itself is quite specific. Make sure you use black or blue ink and scribe CAPITAL LETTERS only now! Also, include your original store-identified sales receipt with the purchase price circled. After that, give me 5 laps, 20 push-ups and hit the showers.
The most visited technology blog, Engadget, recently changed their design. People appear to have mixed feelings about the new look, and I could personally care less since I read Engadget via RSS. That being said, I think I speak for everyone at IntoMobile when I say that Engadget was what inspired us to start blogging in the first place, and eventually, one by one, come together to form IntoMobile. Engadget has done, and continues to do, a fantastic job at throwing fuel on to the fire known as techno-lust that is deep inside our cores. That being said, their RSS feed has changed, subtly, for the worse.
When Engadget, and many other technology blogs, cover a story, there is almost always a source that is attributed. At IntoMobile we usually have a link at the bottom of our stories with pointing people to where we got our information. The text reads: [Via: NAME_OF_SOURCE]. Engadget does the same thing, and with the redesign they’ve made that source link stand out. Look at the bottom left:
This information is no longer present in the RSS feed however. As a reader I have to go to the page that has the article I’m interested in to locate the source of information. Here is a screenshot of the item above as it appears in my RSS reader, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader:
Why did you do this? You’re better than this and you know it.
Please consider fixing the “issue” or at least walk us through the decision to make your RSS feed the way it is now.
Update: And before anyone asks, there is another site that does this: Slashdot. Their RSS feed removes links that point to the sources of information used to write their articles. They’ve been doing it for a while now. I hate it, but they have not changed their ways.
Update: Looks like someone at Engadget has read this post (or at least my ego would like to think that) since I just saw this in my RSS reader. Notice the scrunch up text that says SOURCE? I’m assuming they’re working on fixing that bug, but at least they’ve started listing sources now!
AT&T made the commercial below to get back at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless for airing commercials that point out AT&T’s lacking 3G coverage. Not only is AT&T’s commercial stupid, but the money they spent hiring some actor who has a rather familiar face, sadly his name escapes me at the moment, plus production costs, could have instead been poured into something more useful such as improving the actual network Verizon is mocking. Don’t forget to add the court fees as well. AT&T is acting like a silly little teenage bitch, almost as bad as that (ultra potty word removed) from “My Super Sweet 16″ who said her mother ruined her life by buying her a Lexus.
ZTE wants its piece of the Android pie. The Chinese company is apparently in the midst of talks with all four major carriers in the U.S., pitching them with what will officially be their first Android smartphone, which they’ll launch in 2010. Moreover, we’ve heard they are already testing some devices on one of the big four networks.
Details are unknown at this stage, but we do have ZTE’s managing director of handset business marketing, Dale Ying, saying they [ZTE] are serious when it comes to smartphones. “We hope to sell our smartphone to these operators next year. We see big potential in the smartphone market. We are targeting to ship more smartphones in the coming few years which will help to improve our gross margin,” he added.
As the smartphone market evolves, prices go down and ultimately consumers win. We’ll certainly be watching where this goes. Stay tuned…
HTC announced that Australia is now officially blessed with two of the company’s Android smartphones – Hero and Tattoo.
The first of the two is a more capable device, sporting a large 3.2-inch HVGA (320×480) capacitive touchscreen, HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, 5-megapixel camera, and so on. On the other hand, the Tattoo is known as an entry-level Android handset that prides itself with personalized cover support, 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen, HSDPA, WiFi, GPS and 3.2-megapixel camera. In addition, both phones come with HTC’s own Sense UI that runs on top of Android, allowing for additional personalization.
Price wise, the Tattoo is available for AU$599, while the Hero could be yours for AU$200 more. That’s the price sans any contract signed, of course…
Samsung’s Corby devices are ideal for youth and emerging markets. In the latter sense, we have the Korean company bringing two phones from the series to India. The “world’s fastest growing mobile phone market” will get the CorbyTXT as well as Corby Mate, which will be available for Rs. 7,900 and Rs. 7,300, respectively.
The first of the two, CorbyTXT (B3210) comes with a 2.2-inch screen, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity support, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM Radio and a microSD memory card slot. As for the Corby Mate, its screen is little smaller (2-inches), and it has a side-slider form factor, whereas rest of the specs are pretty much the same. Both handsets come with full QWERTY keyboard and are thus ideal for heavy texters…
Of course, the deal is contingent on you signing a new 2-year signature… But if you were going to pick up a new phone anyway, this isn’t such a bad thing. Oh, and there’s also a pesky activation fee you’ll need to pay too (I hate activation fees).
