How creative can you be in 15 seconds? Extremely creative, judging by the five nominees in the Nokia Shorts 06 awards, which have been announced today. Nokia asked film-makers to come up with 15-second shorts around any topic they liked, and has boiled the entries down to the final five. They include animation, comedy and [...]
Watch ITN News on your phone
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Leave a Comment
BT has announced that it’s adding the 24-hour ITN News channel to its digital mobile TV service BT Movio. The channel will broadcast updated news bulletins every 15 minutes, covering sports, business, entertainment and politics.
Currently, you can watch the BT Movio service if you buy Virgin Mobile’s Lobster 700TV handset, with the TV channels being [...]
ShoZu 3.0 launches
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Leave a Comment
The latest version of the ShoZu cameraphone application has launched, for Nokia Series 60 and Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphones. New features include the ability to configure any website or blog as a destination for your snaps, separate destinations for your videos and photos, support for uploading your stuff via Wi-Fi to save on data charges, [...]
Lara Croft goes mobile gambling
Monday, October 30, 2006 Leave a Comment
When she’s not fighting off wolves and baddies, Lara Croft is hammering slot machines. This, at least, is the conclusion I draw from her appearance on the list of games at Wild Jack Mobile Casino, which lets UK gamblers have real-money flutters via their phones.
The Tomb Raider game is a five-reel, fifteen-payline slot machine game, [...]
NTT DoCoMo’s fertility phone
Monday, October 30, 2006 1 Comment
Ladies, forget having to carry round a detailed chart of your monthly cycle when trying for a baby, so you can whisk your other half off for a spot of fertilising when the time is right. A new phone from Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo rings to alert female owners three days before ovulation, and then [...]
Solio iPod charger
Monday, October 30, 2006 3 Comments
Don’t you just hate it when you’re sitting on the beach sipping a Pina Colada, and your iPod runs out of battery power just before you get to Club Tropicana? Fear no more: the £49.95 Solio Charger uses the sun’s warming rays to charge your iPod up, giving up to nine hours of additional tunes [...]
E-Ten Glofiish X500 PDA
Monday, October 30, 2006 2 Comments
Yes, some people are still making PDAs, despite their capabilities being comprehensively nicked by mobile phones. E-Ten claims its strangely-named new Glofiish X500 is the world’s thinnest PDA, with a svelte 1.6cm thickness belying its powerful features. They include the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, a built-in mobile antenna, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth AND a GPS receiver. [...]
Watch out what mobile videos you upload to YouTube
Monday, October 30, 2006 Leave a Comment
Video website YouTube has become a popular way for people to share their cameraphone clips with the rest of the world. But soon you’ll have to think hard about what videos you upload, now that YouTube has been bought by Google.
A Google executive has told MPs that the company will move quickly to remove videos [...]
Nokia 330 Auto Navigation
Monday, October 30, 2006 Leave a Comment
Planning a motor jaunt across Europe? Nokia has a new gadget that may come in handy. The 330 Auto Navigation is a GPS satnav gizmo with a 3.5-inch colour touch-screen, and a 2GB memory card full of maps of European countries, and detailed route information. You can view the display with 2D or 3D graphics, [...]
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