What do you get when you mix a social-networking touchscreen handset with one of the hottest new movie releases of 2010? You get Samsung’s new Monte Iron Man 2 special edition kinda-smartphone on the O2 network. To celebrate – or, more like leverage the movie’s popularity – Samsung has announced a special edition version of…
AlertMe free iPhone app maps energy use cost & CO2 in the UK
AlertMe has launched a free iPhone app called EnergyMap, providing users with a breakdown of average energy spend a year and the related carbon footprint comparing 408 boroughs across the UK from the Shetland Isles to Penzance. Logging into Energy Map, the iPhone’s geo-location immediately locates the user, identifies the borough and presents the average…
Vodafone Adds More Own-Brand Devices To Its Range
As part of its regular own-brand portfolio refresh, Vodafone has announced eight (yes, eight!) new handsets designed to for a range of market segments – from ultra low cost, through fashion and design influenced, to competitively priced mobile internet devices with cutting-edge smartphone functionality. So what did they announce? Check the devices out after the…
iPhone and iPod Touch get Fast & Furious: Adrenaline courtesy of I-play
I-play has announced the global launch of Fast & Furious: Adrenaline for iPhone and iPod touch. The game is based off the popular (at least I think it’s popular) series of films starring actors like Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Ahem. Racing and Fast & Furious fans everywhere will, for the first time, be able…
BMW ConnectedDrive integrates BlackBerry email and text messages into BMW dashboard!
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced a few fairly impressive BlackBerry smartphones and showed off a preview of their upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system at WES 2010 this week, but the coolest thing at the conference was a demonstration of the BMW ConnectedDrive system. The next-generation of BMW cars will offer an option to integrate…
Android-powered Vodafone 845 coming soon to Vodafone UK
Vodafone UK already has a ton of Android-powered smartphones in its range, and customers will soon have even more choice available with the launch of the Vodafone 845. The 845 is the first VF-branded handset to be based on Google’s Android platform. It will run on Éclair, the latest version of the Android platform, and…
Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus get minor webOS update (webOS 1.4.1.1)
If you’re like us, you’re probably a little distracted by HP’s late-Wednesday announcement that the company will be buying Palm for a cool $1.2 billion dollars. So distracted, in fact, that you may not have noticed that Verizon is pushing out an update for your Verizon Palm Pre Plus or Palm Pixi Plus. The webOS…
O2 Launches Embedded Laptops
O2 today made its latest play in the mobile broadband market by announcing two laptops with built in mobile broadband exclusive to O2. The new ultra-thin Asus UL30A laptop and the Samsung N150 netbook with embedded SIM cards will only be available from O2. The launch of O2’s first embedded devices follows a launch into…
CoPilot Live HD navigates to the iPad 3G!
ALK Technologies today announced that it has submitted CoPilot Live HD to the app store. With street maps stored on the device, CoPilot Live HD takes full advantage of the iPad 3G’s in-built GPS receiver and high resolution touch screen to provide the ultimate large-screen voice-guided navigation experience. CoPilot Live HD makes it easy to…
AT&T outlines iPad 3G data service costs and other details
By now, it’s fairly well known that Apple and AT&T are again in cahoots to provide 3G data service to iPad customers. AT&T will be providing Apple iPad 3G + WiFi units with 3G data service on its “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network” starting April 30th, when Apple drops the 3G iPad on the the US.…