Now this is a hot topic and naturally something we cannot officially condone. Downloading movies is one of those things that officially is illegal and yet everyone does it.
Until now, you’ve only been able to download movies to your computer from file sharing sites and then jump through technical hoops to reformat them to work [...]
ZML offers the latest Hollywood movies for your phone – illegally?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2 Comments
Twitter limits SMS replies to cut costs
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Twitter, the messaging service that lets you whack out SMS messages simultaneously to all your friends, has apparently been a victim of its own success.
Although users can update Twitter by sending unlimited (paid-for) messages from their phone, their friends’ replies arrive via a free SMS and this is where the problem lies. Because Twitter doesn’t [...]
A phone with built-in Bluetooth headset storage – will it catch on?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Now what a great idea this is – no more frantic scrabbling around for your Bluetooth headset when your phone rings.
The Star NX788 is a Chinese-made device but it has a feature that might just catch on – a small compartment on the back that stores your Bluetooth headset.
The Star NX788 itself has is pretty [...]
TAG Heuer to launch luxury mobile phone range
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Watchmaker TAG Heuer is the latest company to sign up with French design house Modelabs for a series of luxury branded mobiles.
TAG Heuer follows in the footsteps of companies like Hummer and Levi Strauss, in agreeing for phones to be made using its name by Modelabs.
No word on what the phone will look like (will [...]
Vscaller – contacts app with added iBling
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
VSCaller from the wonderfully named VirtualSpaghetti is a contacts manager/phone list that lets you flip through your contacts using a fancy 3D-effect interface.
Contacts can be imported from your phone, and there is a simple way of grabbing portions of larger photos and making them the associated image for a particular contact – useful if you [...]
Unyverse Mobile Wiki
Monday, November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
As users of the world’s biggest probably-correct encyclopedia – Wikipedia – will know, a Wiki is an easily-edited collection of linked web pages. What is less well known is how useful a personal wiki can be for organising notes and scraps of information.
Unyverse Mobile Wiki works as a client app for Wikipedia, allowing quick searches [...]
Turn your mobile into a masseuse
Monday, November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
We have seen plenty of innovative applications here at Pocket Picks but this latest one really takes lateral thinking to the next level (perpendicular thinking maybe?). Massage Vibra is a massage application for your phone that uses your handset’s vibration function to sooth your aches and pains.
The application has pre-installed massage programs for almost every [...]
Carphone Warehouse gets green on mobile charging
Monday, November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Carphone Warehouse is pioneering an exclusive ‘green’ mobile phone charger. Now before you start thinking, ‘ooh, that will go lovely with my jungle camo wallpaper’, think again because is all about the environment rather than providing a colourful alternative to the standard black or grey option.
The key innovation is that the charger stops sucking [...]
Mobile internet will one day surpass domestic use: Yahoo sets a date
Monday, November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
When will the mobile internet overtake normal internet? Next week? Never? Nope, it’s neither according to Yahoo!’s Geraldine Wilson who has predicted that 2017 is the year mobile internet use will surpass internet use via a computer or laptop.
Speaking to Total Telecom, Wilson, who is Vice President of connected life at Yahoo! Europe, commented:
Within 10 [...]
SideShow for Windows Mobile?
Monday, November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
If you have shopped around for a new laptop recently you may have seen a few with a little auxiliary display on the front of the lid, This is Windows SideShow – a new feature of Microsoft Vista that displays selected info (new email notifications, weather, etc) even when the laptop is powered down.
SideShow [...]
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