11. Cheat in a pub quiz by sending a question via text message to the new ANSA Q&A service. Be aware that every other team is probably doing the same, mind.
12. Turn your smartphone into a streaming webcam. Just don’t get mucky.
13. Sync your Google calendar with your mobile using ZYB, as well as backing [...]
30 things to do with your phone before 2007: 11-20
30 things to do with your new mobile phone: 1-10
Got a new handset from, ahem, Father Christmas? Don’t just sit there calling people…
1. Download the Gmail mobile application and enjoy slick email action on your phone (i.e. you can reply to that deposed Nigerian dictator offering you his fortune even if you’re not at your desk).
2. Attach a mini-tube of Bourjois Effet 3D lipgloss [...]
The Top 50 mobile games of 2006
Phew. It’s almost Christmas, and we’ve still got about 18 presents to buy. We are considering buying relatives some good mobile games instead (ideally on their bills, obviously). If only we had a handy list of, say, the 50 best mobile games to have been released in 2006…
Well whaddya know? Pocket Gamer’s Festive 50 was [...]
Tornado Mania: the mobile game that makes natural disasters fun
If you want a new mobile game to while away those slow Christmas hours (i.e. get out of making stilted conversation with your aunts), you should buy Tornado Mania. Now. It’s marvellous, as Pocket Gamer has made clear in its review. To get a feel for what the game is about, click to watch the [...]
ModeLabs eco-friendly phones
Who said gadgets had to be power-sapping earth-killers? Well, everybody. But at least someone’s working on making mobile phones more green. French designer ModeLabs has three concept mobile phones which rely on your movements to recharge them, rather than power sockets.
For example, one, the YoYo, swings from your neck, drawing power from the motion, as [...]
Wondershare 3GP Video Suite
No, 3GP isn’t what you see if you video-call a friend while they’re in the loo. Although it’s a thought. Instead, it’s the video format used by most mobile phones. Wondershare 3GP Video Suite is a PC application that turns pretty much any video format into a 3GP file, for watching on your phone.
Handsets supported [...]
Brits sent 30 million picture messages in October
Yes, I know that’s not strictly up-to-the-minute news, but these things take time to collate. Anyway, the Mobile Data Association says that 88 million MMS messages were sent in the UK during the third quarter of 2006, while 30 million were sent in October alone. After a slow start, it seems us Brits are finally [...]
Keep your satnav safe this Christmas
Christmas is coming, and thieves are hoping to get fat (on the proceeds of nicking stuff from your car). Garmin has announced seven tips to help keep your satnav units safe:
1. If your sat-nav unit gets stolen the last thing you want is for the unit to guide the thief to your home address. Make [...]
Samsung SGH-Z560 HSDPA mobile
HSDPA is definitely the next mobile acronym you need to be aware of, given that it promises broadband data speeds on your phone. Samsung’s SGH-Z560 was the first HSDPA-capable handset launched in Europe, running on T-Mobile’s web’n’walk service.
Reg Hardware has reviewed it, and while fairly impressed, makes the point that however fast they download, graphics-heavy [...]
First photos of the LG/ Prada handset posted online… then taken down!
Oh, those spoilsports at LG have asked the Dial-a-Phone blog to take down its exclusive snaps of the new Prada-branded LG phone. Bah. Instead, they have pics now of LG’s KE850, which the new Prada phone is apparently based on, along with the information that the Prada one will have a white-on-black user interface, rather [...]











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