A short piece this one simply because we don’t have any more information.
According to Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, Sony Ericsson has joined the touchscreen bandwagon.
The pic is a snapshot of a presentation from some Sony Ericsson bods, purporting to be of its new full touchscreen-based user interface.
We know, Sony Ericsson has already done touchscreen on its P900-range smartphones, but coming so soon after the iPhone’s launch, it points to a completely touchscreen-based phone range being developed. It’s rumoured the UI will be called Maria – and no, we haven’t a clue why.
A new version of MobileArchiver has been released, letting you organise your SMS and call details on your Pocket PC Smartphone.
To be honest, that description doesn’t do justice to this handy little application. With MobileArchiver you can connect your Pocket PC smartphone to your PC or laptop and it will automatically synchronise your text messages (Sent and received) and your call details to your Outlook accounts (on both your smartphone and your PC).
Still not convinced? Okay, then how about linking your Google or Windows desktop searches to MobileArchiver, then getting automatic searches of your text activity and emails on your desktop.
Nope? How about forwarding text messages to your email contacts or printing text messages from your PC?
Honestly, if you aren’t convinced by it then you won’t want to go here to get hold of it then.
Mobile commerce – as in paying for goods like food, clothes, CDs and DVDs on your mobile phone – will explode over the next four years. At least that’s what Juniper Research is claiming.
The research company’s latest market report forecasts that by 2011 around 52 million consumers will adopt new technologies like NFC (Near Field Communication) and other mobile payment methods for everyday purchases. It reckons the market will be worth $11.5bn by this point, which isn’t exactly small change.
Other findings from the report claim that mobile payment applications and services already get favourable user feedback in trials and commercial roll-outs, and that retailers and handset manufacturers in the Far East (surprise, surprise) and the US are already receptive to using NFC and other technologies.
Mobile commerce has been slow to take off so far, with people like Amazon available via operator mobile internet portals, but it seems that just like other mobile technologies, it could only be a matter of time before our phones replace our wallets.
[Juniper Research]
If you’re a female fan of Desperate Housewives on TV, or you’re one of those men who claims he only watches it ‘because the girlfriend makes me’, then you’ll be interested to hear of a mobile promotion for the latest DVD release.
With the new Desperate Housewives ‘The Dirty Laundry Edition’ DVD coming out in times for Christmas, Lime Communications has appointed Tanla Mobile to manage a text promotion on 3.4 million packs of Vanish and Woolite.
Tanla will run a text-to-win competition for copies of the DVD, in which people who buy Vanish or Woolite, can enter their name and postcode to a shortcode printed on the packaging.
Other prizes are a Mazda MX5, trips to LA and washing machines. One winner will be picked at random each day.
And if you must know, Desperate Housewives, ‘The Dirty Laundry Edition’ DVD goes on sale in the UK on November 5, while the text promotion runs until February 28 next year 2008.
LG’s latest phone, the KU830, has been unveiled, and it’s being taken by Orange, and TIM in Italy.
It’s a pretty basic slider 3G handset, coming with a small colour screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 60MB of memory (plus a microSD card slot), Bluetooth and a MP3 player.
So why buy the phone? Well, apparently it’s got a UMTS radio connectivity, which could mean digitial radio services other than the bog-standard FM connection found on most current handsets.
[Via Unwired View]
Excitement is building in the US that Google will soon unveil its plans to bring its very own mobile phone to market.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google will, at some point in the next two weeks, finally tell us what it’s planning for the handset, one of the industry’s worst-kept secret. It’s also expected to announce the phones will be available by the middle of next year.
Apparently, Google’s approached a number of handset makers and wireless operators about partnering in its effort. Presumably such talks would involve how Google’s own applications and services would be featured on such handsets.
The phones would feature a customized open-source operating system, which could allow developers to build a range of compatible new applications. Compare this to Apple’s initial reluctance to let third-party developers loose on its precious iPhone.
Naturally it goes without saying that we’ll bring you more on this interesting development as soon as we hear anything.
[Via Market Watch]
How cool is this? Seen on the N95 Blog is a video showing a new application that lets you rotate your N95 just like you can do on your iPhone.
The application, RotateMe v2.0, enables an automatic rotation on N95, so that when you turn your device, the screen automatically rotates with it.
The application will be available from the end of November, and a new version for other Nokias – the N73, N80 and E65 will also be made available.
It’s simplicity itself but also so, so attractive. You can view the video here.
If you’ve argued with your mates down the pub about who scored the winner in the 1972 FA Cup Final*, then radio network talkSPORT, will be able to help you.
Its new text-based Q&A service ‘Ask Terry’ (in partnership with ROK Entertainment Group) apparently features ‘a bloke in a dressing gown with a load of encyclopedias’, according to talkSPORT.
The service works like the daddy of text-based answer services AQA (Any Questions Answered), which gives answers to any question no matter how silly – and you better believe we’ve tried to get it confused or insulted and always got a sensible (sometimes hilarious) answer.
Ask Terry lets listeners text ‘Terry’, with any question, not just sports-related ones, to 81089 (at £1 a time). They’ll then receive a personalised ‘human’ answer from ROK’s panel of experts via SMS, apparently within 10 minutes.
From our experience, text-based Q&A services do indeed reply quickly – but never in the evenings. The reason? We heard that people who organised pub quizzes complained that people were cheating with AQA soon after it launched.
* Oh, and Terry’s answer is, “Allan Clarke of Leeds scored the only goal in the 1972 Cup Final, against Arsenal, with a powerful header from 15 yards out in the 53rd minute. Allan Clarke was known as “Sniffer”, for some reason.â€
T-Mobile has announced exactly what the iPhone will cost in Germany and it isn’t too cheap considering what you get for your monthly payment. Considering the native competition in terms of data plans however, the deal will not doubt feel like a breath of fresh air to early adopters of the German iPhone.
All three iPhone plans which are dubbed “iPhone Complete†are set to include unlimited data, Visual Voicemail and access to T-Mobile’s 8,000 plus wi-fi hotspots in Germany. Although in the UK unlimited data plans for your mobile are getting reasonably cheap the equivalent services in Germany have remained super expensive with both T-Mobile and Vodafone previously offering unlimited data plans starting at about 70 Euros per month, separate from any contract fees (ouch!).
Essentially this means that the iPhone’s lowest 49 Euros a month tariff in the country, inclusive of unlimited data, presents pretty decent value for money and may well force other carriers in the country to slash their prices in order to compete.
Even so, for the money, the deal seems a little skimpy in other departments when compared to what O2 is offering in the UK.
Hit the jump for a price comparison between the UK tariffs and that which our Teutonic cousins will be getting.
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Just a quick note to mention that Nokia has let loose version 4.0 of its search application for selected S60 3rd Edition FPI handsets.
For those of you unfamiliar with previous versions of the application Search is essentially a tool for hunting down any content stored away in your device quickly. It can leaf through the 1000s of messages (is you are popular like us), contacts, music and other files on your mobile device. It can also track down internet content via online search engines and local directory services and deliver the data to your mobile desktop.
Apparently in order to install it properly you will need to go into the Application Manager and delete your entire Search history. The update is free and available for download now.
(Via Tommi’s S60 applications blog)
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