Tag: mobile
Farmville headed to the iPad and to Android handsets?
Farmville is thought to be heading to a whole load of mobile platforms, after a string of telling web domains were recently bought up. Domain names farmvilleandroid.com, farmvilleipad.com, farmvilleiphone.com and farmvillesms.com have been discovered by website Superannuation. The domains seem…
Research shows a whopping 68 million unused mobile phones in the UK
New research from SellMyMobile.com has revealed that Britain is sitting on a mountain of as many as 68 million unused or unwanted mobile phones. A sample study of 1,332 past and present mobile owners showed that two thirds (65%) of…
Nokia website countdown to reveal the N8 launch?
There are some interesting goings-on over at Nokia's Everyone Connect page. Fire up the URL and you'll be presented with a countdown timer which ends at 9am GMT tomorrow. Could Nokia be about to officially unveil the N8? The flagship…
BlackBerry Pearl 9100 budget smartphone leaks online
BlackBerry's Pearl range of budget smartphones is set to get a new addition in the shape of the 9100 model. The BlackBerry Pearl 9100 features a trackpad rather than a trackball for navigation and a suretype keyboard where two letters…
Mobile apps to be bigger than CDs by 2012
Could mobile phone apps be set to outsell CDs? That's the prediction GetJar are making, believing that applications will generate $17.5 billion worth of revenues in 2012, compared to CD's $13.83 billion as predicted by the IFPI. The prediction comes…
Windows Phone 7 Series handsets wont have Copy and Paste functions
Silly, silly Microsoft; you wow us all at Mobile World Congress with your super-smart looking Windows Phone 7 Series handsets, and now you've gone and dumbed them right down again by not adding copy, paste and clipboard functions. It's the…
Get £37 worth of ebooks for free on your mobile from Vodafone today
Today is another round of Free Fridays from network operator Vodafone. If you're a customer on their network, for one day only you're entitled to £37 worth of free ebooks, downloadable straight to your mobile. Among the books on offer…
Gadget Helpline: The perfect gift for technophobic mums this Mother's Day
Are you the technological whizz-kid of your household? Know your component cable from your HDMI, or have reached a zen-like level of interconnectivity between all of your social networks so that half the world knows what you're doing at any…
Monocle brings a silky e-reader experience to your browser or smartphone for free
Inventive Labs have just announced the launch of Monocle, a free browser-based e-reader that's just as impressive on a mobile browser as it is a desktop PC. Open-sourced under the MIT licence, anyone with some basic HTML knowledge and access…
Nokia looking to patent self-recharging phone batteries
Nokia are looking to file a patent for a mechanism that would allow phone batteries to recharge themselves when out and about by collecting the kinetic energy generated by movement. It'd work like this: the heavier components within a phone…
