Wowzer! The Android-powered Google Nexus One rocks in to an online shop in the UK, packing serious heat in the pricing department! Play.com, a popular online retailer for music, DVDs, and more recently mobile technology, has a listing for the Google Nexus One – and it’s on there for a hefty £599! Apparently it’s going…
Adapt to launch a 100 lumens DVB-T micro projector next month
Wow. Check out the rate of progress on the hardware accessories front – in this case Pico Projectors! Typically you might find connectivity between a mobile device and a pico-projector (be it iPhone, Android device, or other), but in this case, the device has its own DVB-T tuner! The ADPP-450 Pro will have 800×600 resolution,…
Telmap Partners with GyPSii for Location-Enabled Social Media Solution
GyPSii and Telmap have jointly announced today a partnership to develop and introduce advanced location-based social networking as part of Telmap’s Mobile Location Companion. As part of the cooperation, Telmap will introduce social networking and user-generated content, to the Telmap5 Mobile Location Companion using GyPSii’s Open API, OpenExperience. Telmap5 will offer users access to all…
Sygic Mobile Maps for iPhone gets free major update
Sygic Mobile Maps for iPhone has got a major update. It is bringing a whole UI reworking to its users free of charge – sweet! It is traffic-ready and the traffic info system will be gradually launched to the regions during this quarter. Additionally, it supports speed camera or road incident sharing between the app…
Hands-on review: Knomo Sleeve for iPhone 3G and 3GS
I am constantly on the lookout for the ultimate Apple iPhone case – I’ve seen and tried lots of pretenders to the throne, but I think finally I might be nearing the end of my mission. Why? Well, the Knomo Sleeve for iPhone 3G and 3GS (retailed by Mobilefun) is a pretty good effort! Here’s…
Orange retains position as top mobile broadband provider in UK
Orange has retained its position as the top mobile broadband provider in the UK, according to a survey by independent research company YouGov. Orange was ranked top for customer services and reliability, while customers also rated Orange’s mobile broadband service top in a further seven out of 15 categories, including ‘ease of use’ and ‘upload…
New Projector Phone in China has wacky ad
Our buddies over at picoprojector-info.com have come up with a little gem of an advert (if somewhat wacky) for a new Pico-projector phone in China. The projector module is LCoS-based (the projection module is made by iView), and it supports audio/video/photo files, and also some documents. It’s also a TV receiver. The phone is Quad-band…
UK sends 11 million text messages an hour
The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has made public a summary of its latest report on the texting habits of the UK population – saying we like messaging is a bit like saying ‘a fish is keen on water’, but perhaps we didn’t recognize the scale of it before (no pun intended)! The continued growth of…
ElleUK launch iPhone App
ELLEuk.com is launching its first iPhone application, giving FREE access to ELLE’s hugely popular Horoscope content. You can receive on-the-go daily, monthly and yearly astrological updates straight to your phone, provided by ELLE’s resident astrologers, The Saturn Sisters, who apparently have attracted a large and loyal following with daily visitors to the ELLEuk.com site – so…
OCOSMOS OCS5 packing nice features, including huge AMOLED screen!
There’s a glut of Android phones coming to market at the moment, some well-known, others not – and this one we’ll file in the ‘not’ category. However that could soon change with this spec-fest: 1Ghz CPU, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, twin stereo speakers, T-DMB. How’s that for starters?! Possibly the party trick (or not –…