The coolest things for the coolest phones
Almost exactly a year ago we brought you a rumour that Dell was considering making a smartphone with the help of Google – using the then-untested Android OS to make a ‘Google Phone’.
A year later, and now there is a Google Phone – kind of – but Dell stil hasn’t come through with the goods.
A [...]
You have to hand it to Aussie mobile outfit Kogan Technology – they are tryers. The Kogan Agora Pro was meant to be the second commercially-available Android handset and, what’s more, it was aimed squarely at the budget end of the market while remaining fairly fully-featured.
Alas, it was not to be with the phone running [...]
Opera has released version 4.2 of its lightweight, free mobile browser Opera Mini – as distinct from Opera Mobile, which costs actual money – for Android mobile phones.
The initial Opera Mini outing on Android was a bit shoddy, with no video support and plenty of bugs. The new release CAN do embedded video – it [...]
Anyone worried by the announcement of the spooky-sounding Curse of Silence bug earlier this month can breath a sigh of relief. Nokia has finally come up with a fix for the damage the ‘Curse’ can cause.
If you missed the memo and are assuming we have gone mad, the Curse of Silence is a particularly nasty [...]
The new Android handsets are starting to roll in as manufacturers begin to realise that they can save a bit of cash by using the OS and start using the word ‘leverage’ a lot in their Powerpoint presentations. Next up on the hopper is the General Mobile DSTL1.
The phone is one of those dual-SIM jobs [...]
Apple has been granted the US patent for its multitouch technology, as used in the iPhone and iPod touch.
US Patent #7,479,949, awarded to ‘Jobs et al’, credits Apple with the technique for “detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display” and details some of the gesture controls (such as pinch-zooming) that make [...]
There seems to be a rash of leaked photos of up and coming handsets around at the moment – either the mobile industry is staffed entirely by untrustworthy moles or marketing types have cottoned on to an easy way of getting plenty of blog mentions.
The latest slice of photographic gold comes in the form of [...]
US Congressman Pete King (pictured) is worried that people with cameraphones might be using them to take photographs of things that they are not meant to be taking photographs of. Think of the children!
To combat this modern menace, he is sponsoring the “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act” – a bill that aims to make a [...]
Since the App Store opened its shiny doors, many iPhone owners have questioned the need for Jailbreaking their devices. You can get all the apps you need in one handy place – usually for less than a quid. Why risk turning your phone into a brick?
Apple still holds the platform on a tight leash, however, [...]
Uh-oh. The open source Android operating system may just have received its first piece of malware – MemoryUp.
Following the pattern of so many examples of Windows crapware, MemoryUp promises to optimize your G1 phone’s performance by freeing up system memory. While some on the Android Community Forums where the app was posted question th eneed [...]
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Sling Media is to release a version of its SlingPlayer app for Android mobile phones and tablets. SlingPlayer … [More...]
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