Record your mobile calls

Ever wished you could record phone calls on your mobile for posterity? Call Recorder Pro Series 60.3, from Rock Your Mobile!, can record phone conversations and store them on your phone.
The software will either automatically start recording conversations, or ask the use beforehand. Both incoming and outgoing calls on your mobile can be recorded. The [...]

Quit smoking with help from your phone

Struggling with the new public smoking ban or simply fed up with being addicted to the evil weed? QuitmateME is a Java application which records each cigarette the user smokes and then calculates a quitting regime for them to follow.
The smoker is then encouraged to beat targets set by the software to gradually reduce their [...]

Samsung’s Beat slips out

As revealed earlier in the month by the Boy Genius Report, Samsung’s Beat has popped up in the company’s US press RSS feed… But the story links off to a ‘page not found’.
The Beat (or SGH-T539 to use its full ID code), will initially be released for T-Mobile in the States. The only line of [...]

Nokia’s Vertu selling €18,000 Ferrari phones

Nokia’s luxury brand Vertu has done it again with another over-priced handset for people with more money than sense.
The Ascent Ferrari 60 has been released to commemorate Ferrari’s 60th anniversary. Only 60 of the phones have been produced.
According to IT World, it’s so exclusive Vertu has been selling it for several months already in its [...]

Disney drops failed mobile service

Disney has quietly pulled the plug on its mobile virtual network Disney Mobile, and will stop the service at the end of the year.
The Walt Disney company said the reason was the difficulty it faced getting its offering into retail stores despite parents’ enthusiasm for the service which let them track the location of the [...]

3 launching ‘Flext killer’ next week

3 is launching its own version of T-Mobile’s Flext tariffs on 1 October, called Mix&Match.
Mobile Today has claimed that Mix&Match, dubbed a ‘Flext killer’, will offer much better value to customers who opt for cheaper handsets, compared to those taking the latest hi-end models.
Flext offers bundles that can be divided between minutes and texts by [...]

O2 introduces new mobile internet data plans with miserly 200MB limit

O2 has announced details and pricing for its new UK standard data plan, O2 Web Bolt On.While the £7.50 monthly fee is in-line with offerings from 3 and T-Mobile, its idea of ‘unlimited’ is not. Whereas both 3 and T-Mobile set their ‘unlimited’ plans’ ‘fair use’ limits at 1GB per month, O2 is launching its [...]

Palm’s new baby, the Centro, unveiled

Yeah, its pretty small (107 x 53.5 x 18.5mm), and yeah, the 320 x 320 pixel touch-screen is good for such a pint-sized phone, but aside from that and its EvDO networking (3G in the US), Palm’s latest addition to its US range, the Centro, offers little to get excited about. Such as?
Try a 1.3MP [...]

Microsoft adds Office 2007 file format support to Office Mobile 6.1

You kind of have to ask why this wasn’t included in the first place, seeing as how Windows Mobile 6 hasn’t been around all that long. But still, it’s good to hear that Microsoft is supporting its own file formats, with the addition of .docx to Office Mobile.
The Unwired is reporting that this 6.1 update [...]