Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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Weeeeell, okay, we’ll post one more iPhone story today… Playboy has just released a free-to-download package of ‘iPlayboy’ content for new iPhone owners. The 76MB pack includes wallpapers, photos, video and a music track.
Of course, the content would probably look fine on a few other mobile phones too, so if this arouses your, er, interest, then click here for the direct download link.
…but don’t be too disappointed to find that the images are all non-nude. These are high-brow pictures of naked women we’re talking about, don’t you know? Our brows were pretty high after looking at them anyway… Boom!
Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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UK telco T-Mobile has just announced that Yahoo’s Messenger is now available on its Sidekick handsets. According to the release, ‘Sidekick users will be able to log into Yahoo! Messenger with their regular Yahoo! user ID and password, see their friends online (“presence†information) and send and receive Instant Messages immediately.’
We quite like the Sidekick; there’s always a novelty in the way it flicks open. It’s not clear whether the new Yahoo Messenger service is only available to new Sidekick owners, so if you have one it might be worth giving T-Mobile a bell to find out whether you can get it.
Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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According to Esato board member xumdeo, these are some of the first pics of Sony Ericsson’s new high-end handset for Japan, the SO704i. Other than dimensions of 105 x 47 x 19mm, the biggest thing to note from the shots is the range of colour themes that are being considered.
Shown here, left-to-right, are ‘Silver Shiny’, ‘Pink Butterfly’, and ‘Purple Star’. Others on the chart include ‘Golden Moon’, ‘Twinkle Fairy’ and ‘Royal Mirror’. Sadly, the SO704i will be for Japanese twinkle fairies only.
Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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…while Apple rises swiftly to 10th place in the new edition of the eco group’s Guide to Greener Electronics (via All About Symbian). The Greenpeace Guide is compiled as a way of chiding and encouraging the world’s gizmo makers to create products that are free from PVC and brominated flame retardants. More and more discarded gadgets from rich Western nations are ending up as hazardous waste in Far Eastern and African recycling depots, where workers often toil unprotected from the toxic scrap.
We can all do our part to help with this — if you have old, unwanted electronic devices, make sure that they are properly recycled by your local council, not just thrown in the bin. Some retailers now have phone recycling programs, so see whether they can take your old handsets back when you upgrade. Oxfam also has a program to recycle old phones, which you can read more about by clicking here.
Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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Here we go…
Gizmodo has discovered that the first guy in line to buy an iPhone from the Apple store on 5th Avenue is actually a professional line-sitter, and has been first in line for various things in the past. NSFW warning… he’s also a bit sweaty.
On a different note, California’s Visto has announced it will be bringing a secure web-based corporate email solution for iPhone, running as one of those Web 2.0 applications that Steve Jobs was talking about at his keynote. Interested suits can sign-up here for the trial that’s beginning in the autumn.
Meanwhile, Jobs himself has moved to allay fears that the iPhone won’t work with corporate email servers — although we’re sure lots of company IT directors are harumphing at that one until they see proof (via AppleInsider).
US iPhone buyers will need to have a new release of iTunes, version 7.3, in order to activate their new iPhone online. However, at time of writing Apple hasn’t released the new iTunes for download. Those download servers are going to be damned busy later today.
Continue reading ‘Hello 29th June. All the iPhone news of the day in one digestible/ ignorable post’
Published by Caspar Field on June 29, 2007
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The day has arrived. The moon doth block the light of the sun. Time passes in a thousand circles of night and day. And the four horsemen ride down the valley under the silent stare of wolves and death. For the iPhone doth go on sale in America later today.
And so in honour of the occasion, we’ve gone back and updated our ‘massive iPhone image gallery’ to make it even more, erm, massivelier. Now added are some fresh images of the interface, including detail showing the wallpaper options, using YouTube, the sound options and ringtones, plus browsing multiple pages in Safari and more.
To check out the updated page, simply click right here.
One of those ‘only in Japan’ mobile technologies is barcodes, where you can point your cameraphone at posters or other objects with a special logo on them, take a photo, and your phone will do something relevant (for example, take you to a mobile internet site for the product that’s being advertised). It’s a neat spin on advertising that’s a bit more user-friendly than texting a shortcode.
Anyway, Nokia has decided it wants into the barcode game, with a new technology it’s calling Point&Find. Due to launch in 2008, it’ll act as an advertising service, and will work theoretically on any Symbian phone (including non-Nokia handsets).
You have to wonder why Nokia has developed its own version of barcode technology rather than partnered with a company that’s doing it already, but hey, they’re Nokia. They can probably afford to. Is it too much to hope that the advertising industry here will adopt just one mobile barcode format, rather than end up with one logo for you to snap if you have a Symbian phone, another for a regular Nokia phone, another for phones from other manufacturers…
(via MocoNews)
Published by Nick Renshaw on June 28, 2007
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EQO (pronounced echo) Mobile has now realised that seven million BlackBerry users are fair game for its cheap international calls. After supporting the likes of Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, EQO is now offering its mobile app to CrackBerry owners. EQO Mobile is basically a free downloadable app that, through presence-enabled VoIP technology, lets you make cheap international calls, text and instant messaging. The software sits on your phone and imports your existing contacts while EQO reckons you save up to 95% on international calls and 70% on international texts. Better still if you talk or text a fellow EQO user it’s free. Instant messaging clients like Yahoo! Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, AIM and Jabber are also integrated for easy start-up. You can download the free app here.
Yes, it probably isn’t a patch on 1999, Purple Rain or Gett Off, but hey - it’s Prince, and he’s about to play a whopping 21-night run at the new The O2 venue in London, so it’s topical. Yes, O2 is celebrating its upcoming Princefest by giving away the little fella’s new single ‘Guitar’ to its customers, as a download that can be played on mobile phones and PCs. Interestingly, you’ll still have to pay £1.50 for the ringtone though. Get all the info via the link below.
(O2 Prince website)
We’ve written about Wattpad before - it’s a ’story sharing community’ that lets you download textual content to your phone created by other people. It could be stories, or jokes, or song lyrics, or random insane burblings about why the voices inside your head tell you to kill James Blunt. Although 76% of the population suffer from those, so they’re hardly original.
Anyway, the company has announced that it has now served more than 10 million pages of content to mobile users, with more than 60,000 pieces of content now available to its community (which by our reckoning, means each one has been downloaded an average of 167 times).
(Wattpad website)
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