Skype sent me a nice email today to tell me that “Skype is now mobile“. Apparently, “More and more people are using Skype on the move – on mobile phones and in WiFi hotspots on the latest portable devices“…. conveniently they listed out a number of ways for me to make use of their mobility…
Huawei adds Mobile TV Tuner to USB Pebble Modem
Huawei has upgraded its USB pebble HSDPA modem to include a digital TV tuner. As many of you may already know Huawei is active in a number of areas within Mobile – both as an equipment manufacturer, but also as a channel for other vendors. The Pebble, (otherwise known as the E510) inlcudes HSDPA up…
UK: Asus Eee PC pops up on my high street – but only for a day!
(Pic courtesy of my favourite SIM-free Mobile/PC online retailer, Expansys) I was perusing my local retailer of electrical goods the other day, and happened across the Asus Eee PC – now I know it’s not anything particularly new, but it IS an intruiging little chap, especially as it was sat with a bunch of other…
The Spracht Aura Mobile BT speakerphone
Spracht is introducing a new hands-free mobile speakerphone, the Aura Mobile BT. It looks ideal for everyone from the executive user to “moms on the go” – and uses Bluetooth to transform mobile phones, cordless phones or computers into a high quality, digital conference phone. Here’s what the PR says: “The Aura Mobile BT™ turns…
Follow-up: video: Imagination Techologies
Remember a few days back I mentioned about gaming, and how it should be advancing due to things like hardware acceleration? Well there is a nice short video on the BBC News website, which features a mini-interview with a spokesman from Imagination Technologies – one of the companies involved in this next generation of boosting…
More on 3D: with and without hardware acceleration…
Following on from my post yesterday about the best 3D handsets, I’ve come across this absolute nugget of a story, which is also a remnant from MWC. Imagination Techologies had a stand at MWC which compared the N81 (without dedicated 3D hardware) and the Nokia N95 (which does have) – so this was the N81…
Top 10 phones for 3D performance
Pocketgamer has been busy, working out which handsets on the market have the best 3D performance – of course, this is a somewhat subjective measure, because as anyone familiar with benchmarking knows, if you give a processor a task it excels at compared with others, it is bound to win! Anyhoo, the test in question…
nVidia go large at MWC…
Obviously there were several hundred announcements, press releases, events and so on at MWC – however I figured this one is probably worth highlighting – if only because it shows some truly awesome UI – and we all like a good UI don’t we! nVidia (those of meaty PC graphics card pedigree) have announced their…
Babies and Mobiles – part 3: various
So you might remember I am posting occasionally about Babies and Mobiles – today I have a small selection of thoughts, loosely grouped together… Thought #1: MWC – I’m off to MWC this week, and it’s the first time I won’t see her for a more than day. That in itself isn’t great, but I…
UK: Sat Navs damage railway bridges…
Well, not directly. But nearly! Apparently 2000 bridges are hit each year as a result of lorry drivers following the now incredibly popular ‘Sat Nav’ devices. Network Rail (a British company that owns the rail infrastructure) says that as a result, this costs the Rail Industry £10m per year, with 5000 hrs delays! Wow! I…