The coolest things for the coolest phones
Nokia’s Mobile Web Server has always seemed like a solution in search of a problem. Apar from the tiny minority who would want to run an actual website from their phones, there has never been much in the way of killer apps for the tiny S60 web server.
With the release of their new Facebook app [...]
According to many pundits on these here interwebs, Web Apps like Google Docs, Writely and Backpack will soon be the dominant platform – rendering your choice of operating system irrelevant. All you will need to do some work is an internet connection.
And there’s the rub. What happens when your ISP decides to do some maintenance [...]
I’m at the BREW 2008 show in San Diego, where tech firm Qualcomm is outlining its plans and strategy, as well as some new services.
However, one of the most intriguing came from the company’s Len Lauer, EVP and Group President at Qualcomm. He said the company is keen to put its MediaFLO mobile TV platform [...]
On the face of it the iPhone would seem to have a lot going for it as a gaming platform. It’s a decently-specced portable computer, with a high-quality full colour screen and excellent sound hardware.
The one thing it doesn’t have is buttons. As any gamer will tell you, a solid set of controls can mean [...]
TechCrunch have a load of photos and video clips from the Google I/O keynote that gives us our first proper look at a working Android system – and very impressive it looks, too.
Some real effort has gone into the GUI, which combines a lot of the ease of use from the iPhone with some nice [...]
Google Maps on the iPhone is all well and good but surely a device so high on flashy graphical flourishes deserves something more akin to Google Earth. Enter earthscape, a tailor made iPhone geographical browser that bears more than a passing resemblance to Google Earth.
Frank Taylor over at Google Earth Blog was lucky enough to [...]
Though we all love our QWERTYs, a more elegant solution for typing on mobile phones quickly, is still something of a design holy grail.
The latest to have a stab at making mobile typing less finger wrenchingly uncomfortable is I-O Data with a simple Bluetooth 2.0 keyboard. Admittedly the CPKB-BT is a little on the impractical [...]
Samsung has just officially announced the SGH-L870 S60 smartphone. It has a classy stainless steel slider body, housing a 3-megapixel camera, 2.4” QVGA display, 100MB of memory, microSD slot, FM radio and Stereo Bluetooth. On the connectivity side the L870 is a tri-band GSM unit with single band UMTS/HSDPA 3.6Mbps support thrown in too. Not [...]
Myvu Corporation has signed on the dotted line with O2 to distribute its range of Myvi Crystal video eyewear in the UK.The device is tailor made for viewing video via mobiles and is designed to to connect to any media device with video out functionality – such as the iPhone, Nokia N-Series and most Samsung [...]
If any of the images currently spread across engadget’s pages are the real deal, we can only assume that Steve Jobs is currently marching around Apple HQ firing people right, left and centre and generally causing heads to roll in every which way.
You see, it’s uncharacteristic for the ultra secretive Apple to spring so many [...]
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Big Ben is a combined phone lock, screen saver & reminder app for S60 5th edition phones. A jack … [More...]
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Google has announced the launch of a Buzz widget for Android 1.6 and above, which allows users … [More...]
Sony Ericsson's new Symbian handset, the Vivaz, already looks like a nice bit of kit. Mobile … [More...]
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