Pocket Picks Xmas Special: Messaging

With all hype around social networking and file sharing sites, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time all mobiles did was make phone calls and send messages.
Thankfully, the humble art of texting and mobile emailing still shows no sign of dying just yet as these top messaging services show:
1. Mobikade
Originally a Japanese mobile [...]

Pocket Picks Xmas Special: Top 5 Java mobile apps

Having stuffed yourself silly on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, what better way to pass the time until drinking yourself silly on New Year’s Eve than downloading a new application for your mobile phone? Answers on a postcard please, but in the meantime, check out our pick of five top Java apps…
1. Gmail (pictured)
Google’s mobile [...]

Pocket Picks Xmas Special: Mobile Internet

The big news this year in the mobile internet space was the beginnings of what might be a serious turf war as Nokia opened the ‘Ovi’ on providing its own direct links to its own mobile internet services, ahead of the operators.
At the moment, it’s still early days, but considering that Vodafone was quick to [...]

The 5 best mobile music picks of 2007

Mobile Music has come a long way this year. A good quality music player is now standard on any halfway decent mobile phone and manufacturers are making headway in practical handset designs that making listening a more enjoyable experience.
Enough of my yakkin’, let’s rock:

Pocket Picks Xmas Special: Top Five Handsets

2007 has dominated by two handsets – Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s N95. One was a not particularly advanced mid-range handset without 3G/Wi-Fi or a particularly good camera. The other was a handheld PC on your phone with a five-megapixel camera and almost unlimited potential for mobile apps. Guess which dominated everyone’s attention.
1.    Apple iPhone
No mobile [...]

The 5 best Windows Mobile apps of 2007

As your Christmas dinner settles in your belly and you contemplate if that 15th mince pie would make you feel ill or actually cause you to explode, what better time to reflect on the year’s best Windows Mobile picks?
These are the 5 apps filling the pocketpicks stocking for 2007.
Opera Mobile
The non-free, windows mobile-native version of [...]

The 5 best Symbian apps of 2007

Merry Christmas! Hang on while I open this gold envelope..
In no particular order, the 5 best Symbian apps of the year are:
Nokia Sports Tracker
Essentialy a showcase for the GPS and accelerometer combo that is finding its way into all of Nokia’s high-end mobiles, Sports Tracker sits in your tracksuit pocket and quietly logs your [...]

Top 5 iPhone Web apps of 2007

2008 should see a blizzard of innovative native applications for Apple’s iPhone, once the SDK gets into the hands of developers. Yet 2007 has already seen some innovative and usable web applications, accessible through the iPhone’s Safari browser. Here’s our pick of the bunch:
1. Facebook (http://iphone.facebook.com)
We already spend far too much time on the full [...]

Merry Xmas from all the team at Pocket Picks

Xmas time is here again and the team are being unchained from their PCs so they can enjoy the festivities… at least until the New Year.
We’d like to thank all our readers for their support over the last 12 months, especially those who commented on our stories. With all that’s happened this year, we can [...]