I’m not suggesting you need quirky capitalisation in your product name to win a Forum Nokia Pro award, but it must help. Also commended at this week’s bash was cameraphone application (and friend of Pocket Picks) ShoZu, which scooped the prize for Best Branded Content Application. Meanwhile, Telcogames’ cool SiL (which stands for The Silhouette [...]

Want to read your favourite magazine on your mobile phone? It might be easier than you think. A company called Refresh Mobile has been working with various websites and magazines to create downloadable mobile versions, which can be updated with new articles over the network.
Those supported include T3, Glamour, Holy Moly and a very fine [...]

Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is going to continue being big news in the year ahead, allowing you to make free or super-cheap calls from your mobile handset via the internet, rather than your mobile operator. Nokia has just announced that a VoIP application called Gizmo is now available for owners of its N80 Internet Edition phone.
It’s not [...]

Nokia has been revealing more details of its next-generation N-Gage mobile games platform, which will put 3D connected games into Nokia’s range of N-Series multimedia handsets next year. At launch, 5-7 phones will be able to play the games, and some of those handsets are on sale already! Existing owners of those will be able [...]

Imagine an iTunes for your phone – except this one sells movies that you can download and transfer to your handset. No, Apple hasn’t released a swizzy new version of its store. Instead, ROK has come up with Media Store, which lets you buy, yes, media, stick it on a memory card and then play [...]

Punchy short film What’s the Point? proved itself a real BIFA scooping a British Independent Film Award for ‘Best Fifteen Second Short’ alongside its victory in the Nokia Shorts competition.
The mini movie depicting a disastrous ballet audition was created by Katherine Taylor from London. Having joined her fellow finalists and to stride the red carpet [...]

The Finnish handset giants are at it again, with four new models unveiled at their massive Nokia World conference in Amsterdam this week. Due to hit the street (and your pocket) in the new year we’ll doubtless bring you more info on each in the future. Right now here’s a quick intro to the foursome.

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While we’re on the subject of all things adult, Cherrysauce has launched a mobile dating service called CherrySource, which it says runs the gamut “from fun and flirty to down and dirty”. The service already has over 72,000 active members, with more than 40% of them being women
It works on all five UK operators, and [...]