Review: Eucalyptus (iPhone)

Kindling for the e-reader flame war

The oil of the eucalyptus tree is so flammable that hazy clouds of the stuff can ignite under the hot Australian summer sun. Swathes of oil-fuelled fires take out entire forests, leaving the tenacious eucalypts to rise again.
From the charred remains of the Kindle fire, Eucalyptus also weathers the [...]

Sony Ericsson extends PlayNow arena platform with movies

Continuing to fill in the gaps of its Communication Entertainment strategy as laid out at the Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson has added movie support to its PlayNow arena content delivery platform.
Called PlayNow arena with movies, this is bundled movie service which is included out-of-the-box for selected handsets, and enables you to watch up to [...]

How does mobile visual search engine kooaba work?

Hands on with iPhone and Android visual search app kooaba

There’s something a little bit scary about what kooaba can do. Labelled – rightly as far as I can ascertain – Shazam for images – kooaba is a very neat app that enables you to categorise (and build) your CD, DVD and game collection via the power of computer vision and some database trawling.
The process [...]

Review: Sony Ericsson W705

Dares to be a little bit different
Call me jaded, but when I opened up the Sony Ericsson W705’s box, it was with a feeling of tired familiarity.
SE has unleashed countless Walkman handsets onto the market and each has promised to dramatically improve on its predecessor. Actual enhancements have been slight.
In many respects, the W705 continues [...]

Palm Pre getting iTunes and Twitter integration

Two chaps from Palm gave a talk at the Wall Street Journal-sponsored All Things Digital conference in California today. The purpose of the talk was to show off the new Palm Pre and fill in the eager crowd about some of the features that haven’t been made public yet.
First up – and probably most significant [...]

Satio’s so hot, hot girl’s clothes fall off

Smartphones often have this effect on women I’ve noticed

And again after the break

Sony Ericsson renames Idou. Hello to Satio

It’s been the hottest new phone since it was revealed at Mobile World Congress but now we can speak our love’s true name as Sony Ericsson’s highend phone previously known as Idou is officially renamed Satio.
It’s as beautiful as ever of course: with a 16:9, 640 x 360 pixels, 3.5-inch touchscreen; a 12.1 MP camera [...]

Imeem, Last.fm and Dizzler beware: Spotify’s demoing its Android app

Captain Obvious reports: iPhone users addicted to the worldwide web

Analysis released Wednesday from metrics house AdMob shows an astonishing rate of iPhone owners tapping into the web on the go.
According to their report, the iPhone dominates figures for mobile access of the Internet. 43% of all mobile web traffic originates from iPhone handset. That number climbs to 65% of HTML traffic accessed from a [...]