There’s no doubt that Espoo is banking on their Nokia 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen smartphone (once known as the “Tube”) to take on the burgeoning touchscreen handset market with their touch-enabled S60 5th Edition mobile OS. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic brings to the table all those high-end goodies that we’re used to seeing from the Finnish…
TouchType iPhone application brings landscape mode to iPhone Email
When it comes to niggling feature-quibbles, the iPhone and iPhone 3G have their fair share of disappointments. Overall, the iPhone and iPhone 3G deliver an unmatched user experience and has redefined what touchscreen smartphones should be capable of, but they still have their downfalls. One curiously lakcing feature is the iPhone OS’s lack of landscape…
AT&T to kill off pre-paid unlimited 3G GoPhone data plans
It seems AT&T has wised up to customers looking for a cheaper alternative to the post-paid unlimited 3G data plans. AT&T has been offering pre-paid customers unlimited 3G data packages with their GoPhone pre-paid plans for some time now. And, with the GoPhone unlimited 3G data packages costing just $20, compared to the $30 that…
iPhone Ringtones: Create FREE iPhone ringtones using iTunes 8
Remember those good, old days when creating an iPhone ringtone was as easy as renaming a song in your iTunes library to a “.m4r” extension and then syncing it back with your iPhone? No? Well, trust us when we say that iPhone ringtones were never easier (or free-er) to create. That is, until iTunes 8.…
Next-generation LED lightbulbs could replace WiFi – Optical wireless networks on the way
Convergence this, convergence that. In the mobile world it’s all about converging multiple devices/features into a single, mobile device. The latest converged technology concept comes to us from Boston University’s College of Engineering. Using a National Science Foundation grant, researchers are looking to converge wireless data communications into a lowly light-bulb. The engineers hope to…
PwnPlayer – The iPod alternative for jailbroken iPhone
If, for whatever reason, your iPhone or iPhone 3G’s iPod music player just isn’t cutting it for you, PwnPlayer could be just the thing to cure your music-blues. The PwnPlayer jailbreak application allows the user to play back music from a directory on the iPhone, search through music libraries, supports Coverflow view, and has screen…
France to get Iron Man Blu-Ray with iPhone features
Remember when we told you about NetBlender’s BD Touch technology that promised to bring interactive Bluray player controls to your iPhone and iPhone 3G? Right, well, it looks like the French release of Iron Man on Bluray Disc will be using NetBlender’s BD Touch technology as part of the “Remote Haxey” application for the iPhone…
eWallet iPhone Application – Keep all your account information handy with your iPhone
In our push to converge all sorts of devices and daily activities into fewer and fewer gadgets, we seem to have overlooked the wallet. With memberships to all kinda of organizations, accounts at all manner of institutions, and multiple identification cards, our wallets are brimming with pieces of plastic and paper taking up space. Chalk…
Nokia’s touchscreen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic misses 2008 for mature markets
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic made its way around the various interwebs as the Nokia 5800 “Tube,” promising to bring with it Nokia’s answer to the current touchscreen revolution sparked by the iPhone and iPhone 3G. With S60 5th Edition, S60 Touch if you will, enabling complete touch functionality on Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen smartphone, Espoo…
iPhone 2.2 OS to feature Google Maps Street View and other goodies?
When it comes to “openness” there are few tech companies (if any) more secretive than Apple. With their iPhone developer NDA recently lifted, however, Apple might be turning a new leaf – “might” being the operative word here. For now, things are business as usual for the locked-down iPhone maker. The latest iPhone 2.2 OS…