The coolest things for the coolest phones
No price has officially been announced but underlying the importance of location-based services in the mobile internet world, Nokia has bought social atlas service Dopplr. The price range was suggested as being between €10 – 15 million.
In a short press release, Nokia said:
“Nokia and Dopplr announced today that Nokia has acquired Dopplr Oy, a privately-held [...]
Vodafone has just announced its new social networking service, Vodafone 360, will launch before the end of 2009 in the UK.
On one level, it’s an integrated real-time address book that you can sync with Facebook, across mobile devices, and PC.
Layered over this are services which ensure you’re always up to date with changes in your [...]
3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 32GB of storage, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA and wi-fi connectivity, a web browser based on Mozilla that supports Flash, a five-megapixel camera, A-GPS plus mapping services, and Nokia’s slinky Linux-based Maemo software holding it all together.
You can pre-order now for £500 SIM-free at Nokia’s store.
Here’s just the thing for BlackBerry owners who keep losing – or upgrading their phones.
Social network and identification company BeBeMe has launched its service which enables you to turn BlackBerry device PIN numbers – used for the BlackBerry Messenger network – into unique, personalised aliases.
This ensures you maintain your contacts if/when your BlackBerry is lost, [...]
Known for its cheap and cheerful phones which come with integrated features such as Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, UK manufacturer INQ Mobile will be standardising its platform on Android.
It makes complete sense, of course, as Android already comes with integration to Google’s mobile services and is flexible enough that manufacturers can customise the hardware/software to [...]
Motorola is another mobile phone manufacturer that’s looking to Android to resurrect its fortunes.
It’s unveiled a new platform for future devices based on the OS.
Called MOTOBLUR, it will enable real-time access to Facebook, email, Twitter and other online social services via the main menu, rather than making you open apps to access them.
Neatly, the first [...]
I’ve previously written about the Shazam for images – kooaba.
It’s a vision recognition app for Android and iPhone that enables you to take a photo of a CD, DVD or game and get information ranging from artist details on Wikipedia to price information via Amazon.
Now the service has been extended to newspapers and magazines.
Again, all [...]
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