Tag: mobile
Play with the T-Mobile G1's interface before release
If you’re dying to have a play with the G1, but you’re not as lucky as Susi to have had a go just yet, then this might sate your compulsion, just a little. It’s an emulator for the G1…
Carbon Hero – track your carbon footprint on your phone, no guitars in sight
Carbon footprints are difficult. They’ve received a lot of attention in the press, and they’re firmly stamped (no pun intended) on the public psyche, but they’re not actually very accurate. Given the complexity of power generation in modern life, it’s something that’s incredibly difficult to calculate, and very easy to underestimate.
This device, the Carbon Hero, was designed by an art graduate named Andreas Zachariah. It tracks your phone signal, and if you’re moving at train-ish speed, on a train track, then it assumes you’re on a train, works out the distance you travel, and gives you a number for your carbon footprint. Simple, right? Well, there’s about a billion things wrong with the idea…
Shiny Video Preview: LG Renoir KC910
Here’s another 8 megapixel cameraphone in this (rather pink) video from Zara. We covered it in its KC910 incarnation here. The Renoir can record video at 120fps, which is rather mighty, considering it’s a phone. It’s a touchscreen, and comes with GPS. Very nice, indeed.
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Sixteen technology giants rally behind LTE
LTE, or “The Long Term Evolution of 3G” is a technology that transmits data over cellular networks, and competes with Wi-Fi and WiMax for the future of wireless data transfer. LTE, however, has been given a big boost today, as 16 huge technology companies have all agreed to embed the technology in future devices…
Ubuntu Mobile: Canonical create Ubuntu mini-me
A pre-release version of another flavour of Ubuntu has been released by the developers, and the first screenshots have begun to appear online. Ubuntu Mobile is more or less what it sounds like – Ubuntu customised for use on so-called “Ultra-mobile PCs”, UMPCs for slightly-shorter…
Jailbreak into your car with the first car-key/mobile phone hybrid device
We’ve seen the phone/oyster card hybrid, and the barcode scanner/phone hybrid, and we’ve long had mp3 cameras and cameras built into our phones. Enough? Not for Japan. Their attitude is “let’s see what else we can cram in there!”. They’ve put your car key into your mobile. At the moment it only works with Nissan vehicles, but it can remotely lock or unlock your car, as well as starting or stopping the engine. It’s not on the market yet, but they’ll be demonstrating it at the CEATAC conference in Tokyo on Sept 30th.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic "Tube" to be announced on October 2nd?
A Czech website, Mobil.cz, has managed to get its hands on what appears to be the first official press shot of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a.k.a. the “Tube”. The handset, which is Nokia’s first touchscreen device, is looking like it’ll be announced on October 2nd at the launch of Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service…
CONFIRMED: T-Mobile launching the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 in the UK this November
Google, HTC and T-Mobile have all just pulled the covers off the T-Mobile G1 – the official name of the long-awaited “Google Phone.”
The handset features the “Android Market” – its equivalent to Apple’s App Store – and it does indeed use the Amazon MP3 shopping service as rumoured this very morning. As for release dates – the US gets it on October 22, the UK gets it in “early November,” while the rest of Europe must wait until early 2009…
RUMOUR: Amazon MP3 on the gPhone
There’s a rumour floating around the interweb that Amazon’s MP3 store will be available on Google’s forthcoming mobile phone, which there’ll be an announcement on later today. If it’s true, it would be a powerful boot in the face to Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, all of whom have either launched, or are preparing, mobile music stores.
Samsung M75500 "Night Effect"
Normally designer phones are flashy but underspecced. They look good, but have very little inside – much like many human models, I suppose. These new models from Samsung with Emporio Armani branding, announced on Sunday, don’t buck the trend, I’m afraid to say…
