Tag: mobile
Shiny Video Review: Skypephone S2
This is the Skypephone S2, which we covered more extensively here. I thought you’d appreciate my thoughts after using it for a month or so as a secondary phone. Its dongle functionality sustained us through an Apple press conference with no WiFi and two weeks of no internet, having just moved into a new flat.
Shiny Video Review: Nokia 6210 Navigator
If you drive a lot, you’ll know the value of a sat nav. That constant nagging voice urging to you bear left. Bit of a problem in pedestrianised areas, though – or when you leave the safety of the car. Nokia have spotted that gap, and this is their Navigator phone, which comes with a big button to activate the GPS…
People who know people say T-Mobile's revealing its Android phone plans on September 23
The sort of “insiders” who can’t be named or they’ll get sacked reckon that Google and T-Mobile are very, very near to announcing official facts regarding the retail arrival of a Google Android mobile.
The two companies are planning a revelation for this month, with the same undercover sources hinting that a September 23 launch date announcement is definitely possible. September 23 is, at the time of writing, 12.5 days away…
3 offering push email on all handsets for all email addresses
This is a much bigger story than I thought it was when it pinged into my inbox. I originally thought it was just “email on your phone” which is, obviously, nothing new, but then I saw that magic “push” word, and tingled a little inside…
Swype – the next generation of text input
Swype is a ridiculously futuristic-looking technology for inputting text to touchscreens. It’s also unfortunately named. It sounds like it’s been swiped from Skype. Ah well, no matter. You basically swipe/swype your finger over the keyboard, taking in all the letters that are in the word, and it works out which ones you’ve gone over and which words could be made from that combination of letters…
EU helping reduce your Vodafone direct debit – proposes capping roaming SMS and data fees
The EU is once again aiming its twin bureaucracy cannons at the mobile industry, this time planning a crackdown on roaming fees charged when users TXT THER M8s from holiday.
The EU, lead by a rampaging Viviane Reding, has already signalled its intentions to attack rip-off roaming fees, but now we have facts – a cap of 11 euro cents (8p) per roaming text is proposed, a 62% reduction on the current average roaming fee of 29 cents…
PopCap Games come to mobile phone, economists downgrade productivity
PopCap Games, the company behind addictive flash games like Bejewelled and Zuma has launched a mobile site to sell games for download directly to mobile phones. Already responsible for many lost hours I’ve spent playing Bejewelled on MSN Messenger, the company is hoping that people will pay a fiver a time to get the games on their phones too…
Microsoft to launch "Skymarket" for Windows Mobile 7
Based on a couple of job postings on their website, it looks like Microsoft will be launching an applications store very soon to coincide with the launch of Windows Mobile 7 (note: not Windows 7)…
Nokia officially announces N85 and N79
If you’re in the UK, then did you have a lovely bank holiday weekend? I did, but it got even lovlier this morning when the news came through that Nokia have officially announced the N85 (which we’ve previously reported on) and N79…
Vodafone to offer free access to BBC Olympic content
Vodafone is going for gold in the race to provide the best mobile Olympic service, and I’ve just died a little inside after using such a horribly clichéd figure of speech.
Vodafone has joined up with the BBC and is offering free access to the latter’s Olympic coverage, which is no doubt music to the ears to those stuck on stone-age mobile phone data tariffs (so pretty much everyone in Britain, then)…
