If you’ve got a brand spanking new mobile phone that’s got Wi-Fi inside, you may want to find an excuse to travel to Newcastle or Leeds in the coming months. Why? GNER has completed the installation of Wi-Fi in all its trains, ensuring passengers can get wireless internet access on the move.
While it’ll mainly appeal to business types with laptops, there’s no reason why PDA or mobile phone owners can’t use it too. GNER says it’s easy to configure, and you pay £2.95 for 30 minutes’ access, £4.95 for an hour, £7.95 for two hours, or £9.95 for a full 24 hours. That’s a helluva long train journey.
Coulrophobics look away now! That’s people with a phobia of clowns, by the way. When Evil Calls is the first horror show made purely for mobiles, and it’s kicked off today. The episodes can be downloaded to your phone by texting WISH to the shortcode 61616 if you’re on O2, Orange or T-Mobile. Actors include Dominique Pinon (you’ll recognise him if you’ve seen Amelie) and Chris Barrie, out of Red Dwarf. Oh, and there’s a seriously scary clown in it too. Yikes! There are 20 episodes in all, so plenty of frights.
Imagine if your iPod could turn into a phone at the press of a button. Well, imagine no more. Gear4’s BluEye does just that, effectively turning your iPod into a Bluetooth headset, so you can take calls, with the incoming number appearing on your iPod’s screen. It also acts as an FM receiver, so you can listen to the radio through your iPod - a feature that Apple hasn’t yet seen fit to include in the device. It’ll cost £49.99 when it goes on sale in the next couple of weeks, and has just scooped a ‘Best of Show’ prize at the MacExpo show, proving that Apple-heads love it too.
Forget kitting your car out with a standalone satnav system. Mobile phones are increasingly capable of navigating you from A to B (while avoiding those pesky roadworks at C, D and E). Mobile operator 3 has started selling Nokia’s E61 phone, for example, with TomTom’s navigation software and a GPS receiver, enabling you to plan routes for both driving and walking. If you buy the phone, 3 will also give you three months of free traffic alerts too. The phone plus extra bits costs as little as £99 on some tariffs.
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A new disposable charger called Cellboost promises to give you an extra hour of talktime and 60 hours standby. It’s designed for those moments when your phone runs out of juice, but you can’t get to a plug socket to recharge it. You simply attach it to your phone’s power socket.
And that’s saying something. Just in time for Halloween, Jamster has a new video ringtone called ‘Scream’ (although sadly it’s nothing to do with the film series, or the even scarier collaboration between Michael and Janet Jackson).
Tom Cruise’s third M:I film may not have gone down a storm at the box office, but it could now find a whole new audience on mobile phones. Nokia has announced that it’s launching Mission: Impossible III on memory cards, which will be given away with selected new Nokia phones, such as the N93, to watch on the handsets.
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