Without pausing for breath following Nokia’s announcement last week that they are integrating Google into Nokia Search, Google have released a native S60 client that could see them getting a crucial one-click headstart on their rivals.
The app sits on the standby screen activated by the ‘Pencil’ key on most Nokia mobiles, and will pop up a search bar that will send your search terms to Google via the phone’s web browser.
Browser esults are opened in the newly-revamped mobile versionof Google’s search engine that should be clearer to read on small screens than the main site.
It looks like Samsung isn’t the only company releasing a device called the G810; perhaps nobody told Toshiba. At any rate Toshiba’s Portégé G810 is quite a different beast with the spec sheet suggesting more of a focus on business use as opposed to high-end mobile photography.
So it’s no surprise that the Portégé is a Windows Mobile based handset with full Microsoft Office Mobile support. The device is packing HSDPA connectivity as well as connectivity to GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 3G and both GPS and A-GPS too. Amazingly the connectivity of the Portégé doesn’t end there with support for Bluetooth and wifi thrown in too.
Continue reading ‘Toshiba unveils the Portégé, otherwise known as the other G810′
Another new Nokia handset that slipped through our news net last week was the 6220 Classic. Despite its namesake, the handset is bang up to date when it comes to features with the obvious stand out inclusion being its 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash.
The handset is also packing the increasingly standard among new Nokia handsets A-GPS for use with Nokia’s Nokia Maps 2.0 application which is being pushed aggressively at the moment. This will apparently allow for images taken with the phone’s camera to be ‘geotagged’ meaning they will have the location they were snapped in automatically tagged on to them for reference later when sharing the photos via MSMS or on a blog.
Continue reading ‘Freshly unveiled Nokia 6220 Classic sounds surprisingly modern’
In all the hustle and bustle of last week’s various Barcelona based comings and goings we somehow managed to overlook some announcements in the Nokia camp. As part of a refreshing of the Nseries line up the N78 has been rolled out and is being touted, somewhat exaggeratedly, as a multimedia computer.
Even so, the device is unsurprisingly feature packed, including support for the Nokia Music Store, Nokia Maps, and Share on Ovi. Backing up the robust software packed into the handset is A-GPS, WLAN, HSDPA 3G connectivity, a 3.2 megapixel camera and support for microSD memory cards.
Continue reading ‘Nokia’s new N78 struts its Nseries stuff’
pyBudzik is another Python applet written using Nokia’s port of the popular Open Source programming language.
The app is intended as a replacement for your phone’s built-in alarm. It’s USP? Whereas the standard alarm allows you to play a music file instead of an annoying beep, pyBudzik will stream audio from a variety of apps, including Smartmovie, LCG Jukebox and Visual Radio.
pyBudzik requires a Python install but is available as freeware here.
Continuing Nokia’s recent obsession with widgets, Nokia Beta Labs has released Nokia Text Messenger - an SMS display widget for Windows Vista desktop PCs.
As well as Microsoft’s most up to date OS, NTM requires Nokia PC Suite 6.85 or later in order to make the connection twixt phone and PC.
The widget sits as a window on your desktop or (in a smaller version) in your Sidebar and PC Suite acts as a conduit to pipe it full of fresh incoming SMS goodness.
Messages can be displayed five at a time in the flowting desktop windows with the compact Sidebar version showing three at at time.
As ever, with Beta Labs productions, the clue is in the website name and you should expect the odd bug, but this is a reasonably polished, if limited in funtion, piece of work.
Fring is a service that we have ceased to explain each time we write about it, we have come to expect that what it is, is a given to our readers. Perhaps that is a slightly lazy/premature attitude to take towards a technology that is barely a household name (mobile VoIP) but either way it doesn’t matter now as Fring has won itself enough recognition to justify a Wikipedia entry, surely a yard stick of success in anyone’s book.
Indeed the company recently revealed to Pocket Picks that it is gaining 100,000 new members every month. Not the sort of figures one sniffs at we think you will agree. In any case if you are not one of Fring’s new, existing or soon to be customers and have no idea what we are talking about, you can find out about the call cost saving application in our archives or of course by giving good old Wikipedia a poke.
Ok time for the gPhone rumour du jour. According to yet another tipster, Samsung is going to build two Android based devices both of which will bear the Google brand as opposed to its own.
Apparently there will be a higher end model released first this autumn followed by a lower spec device which it is claimed will cost less than $100. The source also claims that the device won’t look dissimilar to the Blackberry Pearl but will have a flip out screen.
Sounds like a bit of a design contradiction to us and considering the frequency of similar claims that have been made over the last year, it is hard to take these supposedly leaked facts seriously. What you can bet on is that Google will look to an experienced third party to craft a branded handset at some stage, whether or not that third party will be Samsung remains to be seen.
(Via engadget mobile)
If any of you are getting plain sick of this ever more crowded, ever more polluted dumping site of a globe but worry about the lack of mobile reception on neighboring planets (to be fair there probably aren’t many of you facing this conundrum), then you’re in luck.
NASA and the British National Space Centre are planning to build a satellite system/phone network that will provide full four-bar signal coverage for colonists that will end up living in the base NASA wants to build at the south pole of the moon.
Don’t go packing your bags, mobile and charger quite yet however as the base won’t be in operation until after the year 2020. Gives you time to prepare though, we imagine the shortlist is a tad on the competitive side.
(Via textually)
PhatWare has released a new version of its test-based organiser software PhatNotes.
PhatNotes 5.2, like its predecessors, allows you to create and link text documents on your WIndows Mobile phone. These notes are fully searchable and can contain pretty much anything you like.
Its a sort of cross between a wiki and a searchable database, with a little bit of mind-mapping thrown in for good measure.
v5.2 adds a new ‘Context Analyzer’ which adds the ability to dial numbers, open URLs and create emails from quickly jotted-down addresses. It runs on Windows Mobile 5, 6, 2003 and Pocket PC and costs $39.95 with a 30-day trial.
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