I am forever missing calls and texts due to my phone being at the bottom of a bag or a pocket and my ears being full of MP3s. Remind Me looks like it could save me a considerable amount of grief - perhaps it will do so for you.
The app runs on S60 3rd Edition phones and reminds you (do you see what they did there?) about a missed text message, email or calls by playing an alert every couple of minutes until you deal with it. You can configure both the alert tone and volume as well as the period between reminders.
Reminders are tied in to your phone’s Profile settings so you can elect to receive (e.g.) only call reminders while in ‘General’ or SMS & Email reminders while in ‘Outdoor’ mode.
Remind Me is available from MobiFun on a 10-day trial - the full version costs 10 Euros.
It must be great being a top magician. You get to mingle with celebs, build a menagerie of white tigers, and marry supermodels left, right and centre. Well, you do if you’re in the US, anyway. In the UK, you’ll have to be content with a starring role in Countdown or Wizbit. Anyway, Jonathan Krackehl is lucky enough to live on the other side of the Atlantic, and he’s just launched a slick iPhone site.
It’s called Real Magic TV. Based on an existing website, it offers a mixture of magic and music in video form. So on the one hand, you get a bunch of tricks from Krackehl, but on the other, you get appearances from the likes of Maroon 5, Evanescence, Linkin Park and the All-American Rejects. And hopefully some good bands too.
The site lets you check out some of Real Magic TV’s most popular episodes, and there’s also some interactivity too, with you able to submit questions and enter competitions to win a phone call from participating celebs. You need to register with the site first, which is a bit of an arse, but the content at least makes it worthwhile.
Real Magic TV link
So much for all the speculation then. At last night’s Macworld Expo keynote, Apple boss Steve Jobs DIDN’T announce any new iPhones. Nope, not even a memory-boosted 16GB model, let alone a 3G iPhone. Although disappointing if you were hanging on to buy one, at least it’s good news if you’re an iPhone early adopter, fearful that your first-gen model would be trumped less than a couple of months after you bought it.
However, iPhone did feature in Jobs’ keynote in other ways. For starters, he announced that Apple has now sold more than four million of the handsets, and reckons it’s secured 19.5% of the US smartphone market - behind only Research In Motion’s BlackBerry range. More importantly, iPhone is getting a firmware update today with some new features. v1.1.3 is available today - including in the UK, since I’m downloading it via iTunes now.
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Just in time to miss Christmas, Orange has released a dirt-cheap Alcatel OT-E227 handset on prepay, costing a mere £9.99 (Plus £10 top-up).
As fits the price, the clamshell handset is pretty functional with a 1.5-inch 65k colour screen, and pretty much no bells and whistles. What it does have is a whopping 325 hours’ standby time and 10 hours’ talktime, and it weighs only 70g.
To attract custom, the handset is nattily decked out with Fuschia (Apparently THE colour this season), glossy black and metallic rose.
Alcatel describes the phone as a “great basic handset for first time mobile users”. They’re not wrong!
Mobile payments provider Bango has claimed that Vodafone UK is the biggest operator for off-portal content sales, which must be making it a pretty penny.
Bango measured all its content providers using its service and saw mobile internet traffic grow fastest on the networks themselves, after they all started embracing off-portal browsing.
Bango claimed that Vodafone benefited from being one of the first operators to offer an easy billing interface to help consumers buy content with their phones.
Other drivers for rising revenues from mobile web use include putting a search box on operator portals for off-portal content, introducing flat rate data charges and higher payout rates for content providers, to encourage them to post stuff on the mobile web.
So what does this mean? Us consumers are set for even better value mobile internet rates in coming years as the operators fight amongst themselves to rival Vodafone’s apparent dominance. And that can only be a good thing!!
We all love browsing the web on our mobiles but unless you have a decent data tariff a couple of prolonged ‘net sessions can leave you with a nasty surprise when you get your bill at the end of the month.
