We’ve seen plenty of applications where the iPhone is used as a remote controller, of sorts. From sound engineering to your music collection, the iPhone’s capacitance-based multi-touch display is ideal for remote-control-use. Cinemar has announced that they’ll be brining iPhone and iPod Touch support for their Cinemar Mainlobby home-automation. Using an AJAX web-app, Mainlobby’s integrated…
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FIFA Manager 08 for mobile coming in January
Fans of the mobile football (soccer in U.S.) management simulations have more choice than ever before. There are already such titles as Championship Manager 2008, Real Football: Manager Edition, LMA Manager 08, and Manager Pro Football 2008 available today, but apparently EA’s mobile division thinks the market is still not saturated. Hence, they’ve announced the…
SMS reaches Kenya’s presidential elections
It’s always good to see mobile industry gaining traction around the world. And while most of us have already experienced all the “glory” of SMS political marketing — also known as SMS spam — people of Kenya just started to feel it. A billboard for one of the presidential candidates says “Let’s reason together. SMS…
Goldvish Le Million costs 1.43 million bucks, only three available
From high-end smartphones all the way (up?) to the ultra expensive feature phones — we cover everything. And while we prefer the former group, it’s time to plug something about the latter for folks that can afford it. Swiss-based Goldvish is behind the phone called Le Million that just craves for attention. And what attention…
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton an iPhone user
We’re getting used to the idea of celebrities using the iPhone. It’s slick and one of the most beautiful handsets on the market today. However, we were kinda surprised to learn the former U.S. president Bill Clinton is an iPhone user — that’s because we’ve never seen him as too tech savvy. It’s Al who…
Helio launches new Samsung GPS-slider for Koreans – Helio Mysto is live
Helio isn’t exactly known for launching new handsets at the almost-dizzying pace that other big-dog carriers like to do, but they’ve just bumped up their lineup with the Helio Mysto. We spotted the Mysto a couple months ago at the FCC, and it seems Helio’s seen fit to launch the sleek-and-slim Samsung slider just in…
Apple teams up with Intel to use Silverthorne chipset in next-gen devices
Apple and Intel. Once rivals, now the bestest of friends – or at least it appears that they’ve gotten all chummy. And, it looks like the partnership has grown even stronger. Apple has reportedly committed to using Intel’s 45nm Silverthorne mobile chipset in Apple’s next-gen device for 2008. We’ve heard that Apple was looking to…
AT&T: Here are the best-selling ringtones of 2007
Wondering what your homies at AT&T are listening? To help you out and to get some media attention along the way, AT&T has released its top 10 best-selling ringtones of 2007. The music is a matter of personal preferences, hence I won’t comment it… Anyway, here’s the list: Shop Boyz – “Party Like a Rockstar”…
GM to incorporate Bluetooth in its vehicles by 2009!
Be sure to file this under “why this haven’t happened earlier,” as I just can’t figure out why it took so long for General Motors to implement Bluetooth technology in its vehicles. This is especially significant as nowadays most of us have Bluetooth-enabled handsets and when we know that other auto makers — especially Japanese…
iPowerRush – another iPhone battery life extender
Not satisfied the battery life of your iPhone? You can always grab one of the battery extenders. Previously, we wrote about the juice pack, and now it’s the iPowerRush that promises to boost the battery life of your beloved handset for another 10 to 15 hours. As you can see from the image above, simply…