Category: mobile

  • iPhone and iPod Touch leading to huge increase in mobile web browsing

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    Two stories being reported today point to how Apple got it right with the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the first story, coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EE Times is reporting that: A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best…

  • Updating the firmware on a Nokia N95

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    According to Nokia, the latest version of firmware (the phone’s operating system) for the N95 is 20.0.015. This was released in November 2007. According to AllAboutSymbian, this was a significant update which included: demand paging (!), so 30MB plus free RAM after booting, faster operation, N-Gage game store previews and portal stub, new camera software,…

  • Nokia N810 Internet Tablet review

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    I received a present of a Nokia N810 recently from a client. This was in lieu of payment for some work I did for them. To say that I am underwhelmed with the device would be putting it mildly! The N810 is an internet tablet. It has a browser and a radio and GPS built-in.…

  • Flash competition

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    Fellow BlogTalk 2008 organiser Thomas Burg is running a pre-launch games contest over on his new Playoo site. The competition is to create flash lite games for mobile phones and there is a top prize of $10,000 and a total prize fund of $25,000! Mobile phone gaming is going to be a huge area and…

  • First Gphones shipping?

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    Rumour has it that the first 50,000 Gphones will ship from Taiwanese handset-maker HTC‘s manufacturing facility before the end of the year. While 50,000 may seem like a modest number, “These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin Schachter, one of the [UBS] analysts who worked on the report, said in a…

  • MaxRoam Launch today

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    MaxRoam was launched today by Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom. MaxRoam initially offers a sim card for your mobile phone which you use when roaming. The sim card costs €29.99. You can add multiple numbers to the sim card so that, if you live in Ireland, for instance but visit Spain frequently, you can have Irish…

  • iPhone EU launch limited to 3 countries

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    I spotted an article in the Financial Times last night which said Apple has succeeded in persuading 3 mobile operators to sell the iPhone in Europe using the same revenue share as AT&T in the US. The three mobile operators mentioned are T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK. According to…

  • Nokia BL-5C battery replacement page broken!

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    Nokia have issued a product recall for 46 million of its BL-5C batteries. Seemingly a short-circuit, while charging can “in rare cases” cause the battery to overheat and “dislodge”. The battery is used in the following Nokia phones: Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia…