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 [...]

Hands on: Vlingo beta (Symbian)

Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that has been offering hands-free SMS, note taking and web search on the iPhone and BlackBerry. We got hold of a beta of the new Symbian version of the app and gave it a good talking to.
Vlingo is a voice recognition system similar to more fully featured desktop interfaces [...]

iPhone app hands-on: ColorSplash

The iPhone is not really the go-to device for high grade image manipulation. But for us peasants, unable to afford a nice tablet PC, the iPhone’s touchscreen does present a tantalizing opportunity to have a go at some fancypants digital finger painting.
At least it does in conjunction with the recently released app, ColorSplash. The app [...]

Hands on with the Nokia E71

A shiny new Nokia E71 has landed on my desk, and jolly nice it looks, too.
If you think of Nokia’s smartphone range in terms of a mullet hairdo, the N-series is the ‘party at the back’, with the E-series sitting firmly in the ‘business up front’ end of things.  That’s not to say that this [...]

Rumour: Motorola Alexander eight-megapixel camera phone

Motorola is having a tough time at the moment, for all manner of financial reasons, some of which may be connected to the fact that the RAZR simply isn’t the zeitgeisty style icon it once was. In other words, the pressure’s on Moto to come up with something new. The well-connected Boy Genius Report blog has details of [...]

Photos leak of clamshell BlackBerry Kickstart

You can’t really describe BlackBerry handsets as having a candybar shape. Not unless it’s a square-shaped candybar, anyway. But it’s a fact that Research In Motion hasn’t taken its smartphones down the clamshell path. Not yet, anyway. The latest leaked internetweb photos hint that this strategy is about to change, with a new BlackBerry codenamed ‘Kickstart’. There’s details [...]

Motorola’s Kodak branded handset gets official

Motorola’s 2008 lineup has not been a very well kept secret, least of all the Kodak branded snapper that’s cropped up in various leaks over the last few months. Now however, we have an announcement and details for said camera phone, officially known as the MOTOZINE ZN5.
The big feature is the 5 megapixel camera complete [...]

Nokia 5800 ‘Tube’ pics leaked/released

Well, it might be a leak or it might be a cunning attempt to tred on Apple’s big 3G iPhone reveal.
Either way, some new photos of the 5800 XpressMedia (aka the ‘Tube’) have emerged.  The Tube is reportedly Nokia’s answer to Apple’s finest with a revolutionary new touchscreen UI.
Assuming these are real it.. looks just [...]

PocketSurfer2 – the GPRS web device – Germany bound

 
Say we’re behind the times and we’ll say just keep reading. But in the case of PocketSurfer2, the handy web-based device from wireless services/printer company Datawind and we might admit to some tardiness.
Launched before Christmas in the UK at the recommended retail price of £180, PocketSurfer2 is a mobile web device that lets you surf [...]