The coolest things for the coolest phones
Over the past few years, LG has significantly stepped up its game when it comes to mobile phones. We’ve had the Secret, Arena, Renoir and Viewty: all impressive, feature-packed handsets aimed at style-conscious consumers.
That trend continues with the Viewty Smart, a more powerful sequel to the original Viewty. Its predecessor was – as the name [...]
It’s not due until the autumn but it seems Microsoft is starting to build up the excitement about its Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
However talking to Mobifrance, Windows Mobile product manager Audrey Zolghadr said that of the 20,000 apps currently available for Windows Mobile, only 600 will be certified for launch.
Interestingly these will include some from [...]
It’s hard to know how they will make a sustainable business of the back of such a hardcore device, but madcap Spanish outfit geeksphone has press-launched its device – named ONE – that will offer users root access out of the box.
The specs include a Marvell PXA310 processor clocked at 624 MHz, Android 1.5, a [...]
Developer Iliya Yordanov has confirmed that Ananga Ranga has been patently rejected for approval by Apple.
The iPhone app, which chronicles dozens of sexual positions outlined in the Kama Sutra, will not appear on the App Store due to explicit sexual content.
Yordanov wrote to us about the reasons behind the rejection, telling us that Apple made [...]
It has been exactly a month since Nokia launched Ovi Store, the Finnish company’s – let’s be honest – answer to the Apple App Store. How does it measure up
One thing is inarguable – Nokia, or Symbian phones in general, needed an organised App Store. The mish-mash of download sites and services that most Symbian [...]
Following reports that Apple had approved pornographic app Hottest Girls for release onto the App Store, developer Allen Leung is claiming it has sold out.
Searching for the app yields no results and the direct link to the App Store listing from Leung’s website prompts a message outlining it’s unavailability. Instead of being pulled down by [...]
For those who llike to plan carefully, and don’t mind spending ages doing so
Looking at Projekt’s icon (and name, come to that) you might be forgiven for expecting a full-on project management tool like MS Project. What you get instead is basically a list making tool, albeit quite a comprehensive one.
Lists can have up to [...]
The iPhone 3G S has been pitted against the upstart Palm Pre to see which is the faster platform. The Palm Pre did well, but the iPhone 3G S is substantially faster – and utterly demolishes the original iPhone 3G.
Tech site Anandtech performed the tests, one of which compared web page rendering times on the [...]
The iPhone 3G S is in the wild at last and thankfully some other eejits have decided to take the plunge and rip their new iPhones to pieces to save the rest of us the trouble. Inside they have found some surprisingly high-spec kit that can potentially do a lot more than Apple is letting [...]
There are plenty of streaming music apps available for phones: Last.fm, Dizzler and imeem are available on iPhone and Android for example, while Spotify is coming too.
And now, despite his previously negative comments about the platform, Pandora’s Tom Conrad has confirmed the US-only streaming music recommendation and internet radio service is coming to Android.
Frankly, already [...]
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