Pocket Picks‘ multi-talented editor Stuart Dredge might be able to navigate three handsets simultaneously whilst playing Tower Bloxx with his feet, but that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten what it was like to be starting out with mobile content.
Accordingly, he’s just written an excellent How To guide for Vodafone subscribers over on our sister site Pocket [...]
How To: Find and buy mobile games on Vodafone Live
Thursday, September 28, 2006 Leave a Comment
eMusic taking on iTunes with indie tunes and mobile support
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Leave a Comment
The news that the US’ second biggest online music site eMusic is setting up shop in Europe is a couple of weeks old now, but I’ve just had a chance to have a look at what’s on offer and how it all works. And it’s good news for mobile users, as long as your tastes [...]
Mosquito ringtone provider is doin’ music for The Kids
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1 Comment
It’s time to switch into grumpy pensioner mode. Music nowadays, eh? It’s all just noise silence. In my day, at least songs had tunes bits you could hear.
Confused? The company behind the infamous MozzyTone – the ringtone that only teenagers can hear – is now launching a song using the same technology. Ringtonia reports it [...]
More thoughts on Nokia’s Music Recommender service
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Leave a Comment
Right, I’ve had a chance to think more about Nokia’s new Music Recommender service, which I was a bit snippy about here yesterday. To recap, it’s a service where independent record shop owners from around the world recommend their favourite new tunes, and you can sample them on your mobile and then pay to download [...]
Nokia launches 8GB music phone, signs David Bowie up for mobile music community
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2 Comments
It turns out Nokia’s announcement yesterday of four music accessories was just a warm-up for the really cool stuff. The handset-maker has come out with a barrage of announcements today that will have music fans dribbling with delight.
They include music-themed editions of existing phones the N70 and N73. The main new features appear to be [...]
Pocket Gamer launches dedicated iPod section
Monday, September 25, 2006 Leave a Comment
A little off-topic for Pocket Picks perhaps, but we thought you might like to know that sister site Pocket Gamer has just kicked off a new section dedicated to iPod games. (Well, it’s mobile content of a sort!)
There’ll soon be reviews of all nine iPod launch games in the section – already evaluated are Zuma, [...]
eBay to let you rebid on items via text message
Monday, September 25, 2006 Leave a Comment
But only in Spain, sadly. eBay Spain has signed a deal with mobile firms mBlox and Dynetic to launch a new SMS rebidding service. The way it’ll work is that users will be able to sign up for ‘outbid’ alerts – text messages telling you when you’ve been outbid on a particular item. And you’ll [...]
Nokia launches new range of music accessories
Monday, September 25, 2006 Leave a Comment
Like your music and own a Nokia handset? The company has just announced four new accessories to give your mobile music more oomph. The HS-81 stereo headset has been developed with headphone specialists Sennheiser, and has a neckband to support it, and comfortable earpads.
Meanwhile, the HS-62 music headphones are a foldaway pair that have been [...]
Read Digg news stories on your mobile phone
Friday, September 22, 2006 Leave a Comment
A bit of background if you’re not familiar with Digg. It’s a marvellous website where members submit interesting stories from around the Web, and then vote on which are the best. The result is a handy guide to everything that’s interesting, as chosen by the community, rather than a single editor.
Anyway, B1TE Entertainment has launched [...]
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