The coolest things for the coolest phones
An Android hacker has worked a minor miracle and given his Nexus One the ability to act as a USB host. A USB host – as we are sure you knew – is a device that can have USB stuff plugged into it, rather than one that plugs into something else. Your PC can act [...]
It’s the sort of app that fascinates thanks to a combination of frisson and revulsion, but The Pits [App Store link] for iPhone and iPod touch will certainly gain some attention. Basically a fairly random selection of the arm pits of young ladies, cropped from various existing photos rather than taken especially for, it’s hardly [...]
Coming across as The Stepford Teenagers meets Minority Report, this overly polished commercial from Korean outfit Inbrics makes me want to roll around in the mud for a while with my ZX81. “Experience the inspirational moment” indeed. Still the company’s M1 Android-based smartphone cum mobile Internet device, which features an AMOLED touchscreen that slides to [...]
What do you do when you don’t want to work? Generally, I surf around sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Digg, Flickr, idly looking at what it is that other people are looking at. In which case, you might want to check out the free SearchTrends app, which is now out on the App Store It [...]
A couple of months ago, I tried to work out what the whole BudTrap thing was about. To recap: On one level BudTrap is a simple piece of plastic you secure to your iPhone, MP3 player etc using the 3.5mm jack. It then enables you to securely tie up your cable and reduce stress. Easy. [...]
A new telephone directory service has been buying up the contact details of millions of mobile phone users and compiling them into the most comprehensive mobile directory to date. 118 800 is the name (and number) of the new UK based service. Unlike competing 118 XXX services it doesn’t simply provide a yellow-pages like listing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Smartphones often have this effect on women I’ve noticed And again after the break
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