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Pantech unveiled what seems as an awesome Android smartphone in South Korea – Vega X. Its awesomeness comes from few things: It comes with a large 4-inch WVGA touchscreen, There’s a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 processor under the hood, and It rocks DDR2 memory which is said to be 1.5 faster than DDR1 (used in existing…
NAVIGON updated its navigation app MobileNavigator for the Android platform. Version 3.5.3 adds several new functions, including: Address Click – ability to select an address from any app that supports address export. By clicking on an address, NAVIGON MobileNavigator will be launched to provide turn-by-turn directions. Contacts as Interim Destinations – contacts are now added…
Personally, you may like or dislike the Sony Ericsson LiveView micro display, but some developers are apparently digging the idea of having another device in their “sphere of influence” with about two dozen compatible apps already being available in the Android Market. However, some of them [developers] have also experienced problems when trying to make…
Sprint, looking to extend the life of their 17 year old iDEN network that for some strange reason remains popular thanks to the push to talk feature that annoys countless numbers of office workers, students, and just about everyone else, has inked an agreement with Motorola who will support the network for an additional 3…
As a kid, I can remember watching episodes of ‘The Two Ronnies’ on the CBC. It was a British comedy, and I loved the darn thing (this perhaps explains my love of British humor to this day). The show featured ridiculous sketches by two very funny men, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. Ronnie Barker passed…
E-reading app Kobo for iOS devices got another update, allowing users to “interact with books and easily share their love of reading.” In other words, this latest version integrates Instapaper enabling you to save articles and other types of web content to read later. The Instapaper clippings can by synced across all devices — any…
Jabra launched what it calls a Bluetooth headset for beginners and first-time users – Jabra EASYGO. The idea here is to make Bluetooth experience as seamless as possible, though I’m not sure I’ve heard that many people have problems with their regular, “not for beginners” headsets. Feature wise, the EASYGO comes with large icons, on-off…
Here’s one for the iPhone users looking to leave their single status behind in 2010. clubZone recently updated its offering in the AppStore with… (drums please)… pickup line generator. I’m not sure I can recommend using the sentences made by the app on an “as is” basis, but they will certainly get the conversation going.…
Atari launched a new game in the AppStore. However, unlike their usual practice of porting some of the old classic titles to Apple’s mobile platform, the company is out with its first original iOS game called I Love Strawberries. We’re talking about a casual platformer that sees you controlling a strawberry-addicted Box Boy. His (actually…
The mobile VoIP battle for the hearts and minds of the iPhone users is continuing as Morodo launched version 2.0 of its mobile VoIP application MO-Call in the AppStore. This release contains a number of new features including an improved user interface, additional payment options and full account features such as call records, order history…