Ever wished you could record phone calls on your mobile for posterity? Call Recorder Pro Series 60.3, from Rock Your Mobile!, can record phone conversations and store them on your phone.
The software will either automatically start recording conversations, or ask the use beforehand. Both incoming and outgoing calls on your mobile can be recorded. The calls can then be accessed later and are listed by Call Recorder.
Features for the user include recording options (volume), initiating calls with saved contacts, send conversations by infrared, Bluetooth, email or MMS, and see the properties of each conversation such as length, file size and so on.
Call Recorder Pro works with Symbian Series 60 (S60) Nokia handsets is available to download for around £6.
[Rock Your Mobile! Website]
Struggling with the new public smoking ban or simply fed up with being addicted to the evil weed? QuitmateME is a Java application which records each cigarette the user smokes and then calculates a quitting regime for them to follow.
The smoker is then encouraged to beat targets set by the software to gradually reduce their daily intake. For instance a 20-a-day smoker could easily reduce their intake to 10 a day in just 10 days.
Monthly, Daily, Hourly and AM/PM reports are provided help understand smoking patterns and motivate users to cut down on their smoking levels.
The QuitmateME Preferences screen also enables users to enter the price (in pence or cents) of a packet of cigarettes, which can then be used to calculate how much is spent/saved while using the application.
The QuitmateME software’s available to download for £5, although there is the option for a seven-day trial costing £1.
QuitmateME website
Google has bought mobile networking site Zingku with the aim, it claims, of helping people more easily access Google on their mobile devices.
According to Cellular News, Google has bought ‘certain assets and technology’ of Zingku for an undisclosed amount. Currently Zingku is closed to new user accounts, according to its website.
Zingku is currently in private beta mode in the US and makes money by letting companies create ‘mobile flyers’ and send something called a ‘zing-code’ to their customers. These customers can then decide to pull the ‘flyer’ to their mobile, which can then be sent onto their friends.
In a statement, Google said it wants the Zingku acquisition to, “provide people worldwide with direct access to Google applications, and ultimately the information they want and need, right from their mobile devices.”
Quite how Zingku will help Google do this isn’t entirely clear at the moment, but presumably Google knows what it’s doing.
[Google website]
[Zingku website]
As revealed earlier in the month by the Boy Genius Report, Samsung’s Beat has popped up in the company’s US press RSS feed… But the story links off to a ‘page not found’.
The Beat (or SGH-T539 to use its full ID code), will initially be released for T-Mobile in the States. The only line of text in the PR feed is that you should ‘Enjoy listening to your favorite tunes, surfing the web or messaging with the Samsung Beat. Easy to use it packs the necessary features to make your day a little more enjoyable.’
We’ve no more specs than that right now — other than the BGR’s claim that the Beat will have a 1.3MP camera. But with a name like ‘Beat’ we’re guessing there’ll be a microSD slot and a focus on music playback — or someone in Samsung’s US marketing department should be fired.
Update: hit the jump for the official list of specs now the Beat’s been announced.
Continue reading ‘Samsung’s Beat slips out’
Nokia’s luxury brand Vertu has done it again with another over-priced handset for people with more money than sense.
The Ascent Ferrari 60 has been released to commemorate Ferrari’s 60th anniversary. Only 60 of the phones have been produced.
According to IT World, it’s so exclusive Vertu has been selling it for several months already in its London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore stores and has only now gone public after photos were leaked onto the internet.
It features stainless steel and titanium components and authentic leather from Ferrari’s suppliers. On the battery casing is a layout of a Ferrari gearshift.
Apparently Vertu’s been selling the Ascent Ferrari 60 for several months alongside another Ferrari-inspired phone called the Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition.
[From IT World]
Disney has quietly pulled the plug on its mobile virtual network Disney Mobile, and will stop the service at the end of the year.
The Walt Disney company said the reason was the difficulty it faced getting its offering into retail stores despite parents’ enthusiasm for the service which let them track the location of the child’s phone.
Disney subscribers bought special handsets with links to services offering branded content like ringtones, videos and more, and each was equipped to show its location on an online map, and for parents to limit how the phone was used.
Disney has stopped sales with immediate effect but will continue supporting its handsets until the end of this year. Disney has said it will reimburse parents for handsets and accessories bought from it.
Disney is currently talking to US operators about offering its popular services like the handset tracking service.
This isn’t the first time Disney has failed to set the mobile world alight. Last year it dropped its ESPN-branded mobile service, again because it wasn’t profitable. Like the plans for the Disney-branded service, the content and services from the ESPN one were offered to operators as a content offering.
[Disney Mobile website]
[From Cellular News]
3 is launching its own version of T-Mobile’s Flext tariffs on 1 October, called Mix&Match.
Mobile Today has claimed that Mix&Match, dubbed a ‘Flext killer’, will offer much better value to customers who opt for cheaper handsets, compared to those taking the latest hi-end models.
Flext offers bundles that can be divided between minutes and texts by customers. It has proved a massive success for T-Mobile since its launch last year.
The Mix&Match tariffs will come with 100, 300, 500, 700, 900 and 1,100 bundles and like Flext will allow customers to decide how to use their allocation of minutes and texts (One text will equal one minute). For instance, someone on Mix&Match 500 will have 500 minutes to divide between calling minutes and texts as they wish. Customers will also get 300 free on-net (i.e. 3-to-3) minutes a month and free voicemail.
The bundles will range between £15-£27 a month, although this will differ depending on the handset chosen. Mobile Today cited a Sony Ericsson K610i on Mix&Match 500 would raise the cost to £18 a month, while a Nokia N95 on the same tariff would cost £30 a month.
3 website
O2 has announced details and pricing for its new UK standard data plan, O2 Web Bolt On.While the £7.50 monthly fee is in-line with offerings from 3 and T-Mobile, its idea of ‘unlimited’ is not. Whereas both 3 and T-Mobile set their ‘unlimited’ plans’ ‘fair use’ limits at 1GB per month, O2 is launching its at just 20% of that, at 200MB. On an iPhone with 2.5G internet browsing (if you can actually get a signal from the 30% coverage at launch), that’s not such a big deal, but with 3G and HSDPA it’s a significant issue.
We’re pretty unimpressed by this — which is a reversal of our initial reaction when O2 announced it was going to offer new data plans to all its customers. O2’s approach to mobile data has previously been fairly unexciting, and this 200MB limit perpetuates the image of a company that’s out of step with the mobile internet revolution. If you’re into mobile web use, better options lie elsewhere.
For laptop users, there’s a new O2 Web Max package which, for £30 a month, offers up to 3GB of use via a phone adapter or 3G data card. And for BlackBerry owners, there’s a new £10 tariff that again offers 200MB of data per month. O2, sorry, but you’ve buggered this up…
Yeah, its pretty small (107 x 53.5 x 18.5mm), and yeah, the 320 x 320 pixel touch-screen is good for such a pint-sized phone, but aside from that and its EvDO networking (3G in the US), Palm’s latest addition to its US range, the Centro, offers little to get excited about. Such as?
Try a 1.3MP camera, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth 1.3, 64MB of memory… And that’s your lot. The Centro does run Palm OS 5.4.9, which is more appealing than the Windows Mobile that Europe is getting in the Treo 500v. But there’s no sign of even a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is frankly backward.
Check out the Centro on Palm’s US site, and hit the jump for more pics from us.
Continue reading ‘Palm’s new baby, the Centro, unveiled’
You kind of have to ask why this wasn’t included in the first place, seeing as how Windows Mobile 6 hasn’t been around all that long. But still, it’s good to hear that Microsoft is supporting its own file formats, with the addition of .docx to Office Mobile.
The Unwired is reporting that this 6.1 update to Office Mobile is due imminently, but we’ve not seen sight of it on any of Microsoft’s pages. Keep your eyes and ears open because it’s bound to drop sooner rather than later.
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