Mobile phone pedal power from O2

Taking a mobile to a festival is brilliant for finding lost friends after they wander off in a daze while you stand around gawping at crustys doing ‘circus skills’.  When the juice runs out, though, you are just left with a useless lump of plastic.
You could try Solar power, but given the standard British festival [...]

Adobe still working on iPhone Flash

Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen has confirmed that his company is still working on porting a Flash interpreter to the iPhone, despite Apple’s lack of interest.
A team at Adobe now has a working build of a Flash plug-in for Safari that runs under an iPhone emulator.  They plan to continue development and test it on [...]

Vodafone and MySpace partner for Vodafone Music Reporter service

Vodafone has announced a new deal with MySpace which will make footage from Vodafone’s sponsored music events (of which there are loads these days) available to users of MySpace.
Reuters is reporting that the new service, called Vodafone Music Reporter, will launch in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The Vodafone Music Reporter will feature user-generated [...]

Lost your iPhone? Mobifindr can answer your prayers…

The last thing anyone wants is to lose their iPhone. In our experience, owners of said device can get quite attached, more so than most mobile owners even (except the Blackberry crowd obviously).
So how about an application that, in the event that you lose your beloved companion, texts you from the device to let you [...]

iPhone 3G to get MMS at last?

A memo is rumoured to be circulating the offices of AT&T that suggests the new 3G iPhone might finally ‘do’ MMS.
Lack of Multimedia Messaging was one of the main complaints about the origonal iPhone (that and ‘no 3G’, ‘no keyboard’ and ‘costsa bleedin fortune’) so this would seem like an obvious addition.
It’s just a rumour [...]

Toneshared – actually half decent free ringtones

Ringtones tend to split a crowd. For some they are a wonderful hors d’oeuvre  in the buffet of life, for others a horrible fly in the soup of urban existence.
If you insist on rockin’ a party every time your mum rings to tell you your tea is ready, why not step outside your musical comfort [...]

Pot Noodle gets a dedicated mobile website

Good news, fans of salty processed-food snacks. Pot Noodle has got its very own mobile site, which can be found by tapping potnoodle.mobi into your phone’s browser.
It includes a bunch of videos, including the infamous ‘Tipping Pot’ viral, which has been watched more than two million times on the web, as well as offering up [...]

Just because it’s a Friday afternoon – behold the handset condom jockeys!

We don’t use this phase often but seriously, WTF?
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O2 PAYG iPhone 3G details let out of the bag by mistake

O2 has just fessed up some solid details on Pay As You Go pricing for the iPhone 3G and the good news is that it’s surprisingly wallet friendly. Which is great, as when Germany and France were finally forced to allow consumers to buy the original unit unlocked (due to strict consumer laws), the cost [...]

Motorola’s chunky HMD patent

Good grief.  We see a lot of unusual and innovative phone designs here at Pocket Picks.
Sleekly contoured handsets, foldable e-paper displays, holographic displays.. we’ve seen them all.  Few, though, have come with quite the “Eh?” factor as this patent from Motorola.
Look at it – it’s a mobile with a Head Mounted Display.  In fact, the [...]