Author: Shinychris
Navigon announces free features for iPhone users
Navigon has launched as set of free features for iPhone 3G and 3G S including Text-to-Speech, iPod Control, Location Sharing and automatic switching between day and night mode.
Orange to launch LG Touchscreen Watchphone
Orange has announced the LG Touchscreen Watchphone (LG-GD910)
will go on sale in the UK in its Bond Street Station shop on Thursday, 27th August.
Available for a limited time only, consumers will be able to purchase one of the 'must have gadgets of the year for a whopping £500.
Mio announces two new sat nav ranges
Following the launch earlier this year of Mio's flagship Navman Spirit range, Mio today announces new mid-range and entry level sat navs with prices ranging from £69.99 to £119.99
Canon PowerShot SX120 IS Digital Camera
New from Canon is this £229 mid-range digital compact camera. While it won't win any beauty competitions, it seems to have a fair share of decent features including 10 x optical zoom lens, 10 Megapixel sensor and a whole raft of options for reducing camera shake and image blur.
Orange launches Social Life for Facebook, MySpace and Bebo
Orange has announced a service that enables its mobile phone customers to access social networks on the move. Called Social Life it lets users view and post updates, upload photos etc. from one single log in.
Accessible from Orange World, Orange's mobile internet portal, Social Life allows customers to view and post updates on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Other social networks and 'Web 2.0 sites' will be added later in 2009.
Pay what you want for Championship Manager 2010
Following in the footsteps of Radiohead's launch of In Rainbows, Eidos is offering a downloadable PC version of Championship Manager 2010 for just 1p (plus £2.50 admin charge) from now until Midnight September 10th.
Mobile phones – Better than sex and chocolate?
A survey carried out on behalf of unified communications provider Lumison (no I've never heard of them either – which perhaps explains why they've done this survey) claims that Brits would rather give up chocolate, alcohol or sex than surrender their mobile phone handset.
Kids spend 10 hours in front of screens – you don't say
npower survey shows that Britain's youngsters spend 10 hours a day in front of TVs, computers, phones and videogames
Sennheiser HD238 – open headphones for your iPod
Following the success of the 200 series which launched last month, Sennheiser is pleased to announce a new open back design. Costing £70, the HD238s fold flat for portability and come with a carrying pouch for storage and protection.
Friday review: Justbought.it
Here’s a site that has great potential. Justbought.it combines everything that’s regarded as cool on the web at the moment: Google Maps, social shopping and Twitter/Twitpics. Or according to the blurb, “it’s a location based social shopping that allows you to share photos/tweets.” On paper it sounds like a winning combination, a vertitable internet supergroup especially if you trust other people’s recommendations when it comes to buying stuff (I don’t). Just one problem. It’s very difficult to get excited about it – yet.
