Archives for the ‘Mobiles’ Category

Opera Mini tops the App Store

Here is an amazing chart… Opera mini tops all country charts in the app store Click here to see it for yourself!

Tethering Apple iPhone 3.0 + with Ubuntu

If you’re like me you have an iPhone and a portable computer running Ubuntu and you would like to have mobile internet without paying for an extra data plan from your carrier. Thanks to a few devoted individuals tethering the iPhone to Ubuntu is simple. The only prerequisite is that you must have an iPhone [...]

iPhone Nano…how cool will that be?

Although the atmosphere surrounding this year’s MacWorld has been rather downbeat from Apple’s standpoint and one of why Apple decided to exit a major marketing event like MacWorld. Macworlds are not going to be the same as they once were without Steve. However, stealing the rumors for this year’s MacWorld are reports of the launch [...]

Nokia getting down to brass tacks on its Internet business

Nokia has removed one of the key obstacles for takeup of its new Internet offering, combining sign-ins for its overall services site, Ovi.com, and for its media sharing device. Ovi.com is something like Apple’s MobileMe. You can sync your contacts, maps, music and documents from your PC to your online account in Ovi.com and access [...]

Apple disappointed by French ruling on iPhone

On Wednesday, the French courts ordered Apple to come away from the monopoly of supplying iphones only to Orange. At the time we published that article, Apple hadn’t yet responded tothe news. However, in an e-mail, company spokesman Alan Hely said thatApple is deeply disappointed by the council’s decision. The iPhone, hesaid, has created “vigorous [...]

Samsung Innov 8 is here

The whopping 8 mega-pixel camera mobile phone with a touchscreen is here. These things get powerful by the day. Here’s a press release from Samsung.

Wikipedia now on mobile

Wikipedia has officially launched a mobile phone optimized version of their encyclopedia at mobile.wikipedia.org.

GPS Tracking with Iphone

The Trails application for iPhone makes GPX tracking and mapping super-easy and at a very very low cost.This full-featured GPS application by German programmer Felix Lamouroux does many things that turnkey GPS hardware will do but at a super-bargain price of $1.99.

Sony Ericsson, HTC say new Android-powered handsets due next year

According to two reports, Sony Ericsson and HTC are both semi-confirming Android handsets for 2009. An SE spokesman by the name of Garfield Brusewitz was quoted as saying that the company would introduce higher-end models of the Google-powered devices to start with, then supplement those handsets with cheaper versions aimed at a broader market. In [...]

Nokia N97 Hands-on Demo

Following on from the earlier post about N97, here is a hands-on demo of the Nokia N97 scheduled to be released by mid 2009.