We loved the Touchstone wireless charger for our Palm Pre, and expected to see similar solutions breaking out for other handsets, but it seems manufacturers are still struggling to come up with anything as discrete and as elegant.
So far, all of the ‘wireless charging solutions’ we’ve seen require users to strap on ugly backs to their phones, adding unnecessary bulk and weight.
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March 9th, 2010 12:27pm
mike s
If you’re less than chuffed with the distinctly average sound of the bundled iPhone headphones, or you’re fed up being a mugger-attracting, walking advert for Apple products with those ‘iconic’ white headphones, then a headphone upgrade is always a good call.
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There’s all sorts of snazzy docks available for iPod/iPhones, but music-mad users looking to squeeze the last drops of sonic goodness out of their MP3 collections should perhaps take a peek at Arcam’s irDock.
Replacing their earlier rDock, Arcam’s shiny new high-end audiophile dock sports a die-cast aluminium anti-vibration enclosure with a damped rubber base offering RF shielding, and comes with a bundled remote for full loafing-on-the-sofa control.
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March 5th, 2010 11:10am
mike s
If – like us – you can’t be arsed with poncey protective cases, rubbery skins, plastic covers, Invisi-Shields, OtterBoxes or nobby leather wallets to safeguard your iPhone, it may be looking a little worse for wear right now.
After all, months of making an iPhone rough it in your pockets with your keys, cash, Allen keys, small torches and other assembled bits of mobile man-junk can soon leave Apple’s finest looking a little battle-scarred, so thank ‘eavens for a certain Shenaniganz08.
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Although Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild.
Called Buzie, the app lets users check out Buzz conversations in their local area without logging into the service.
Once signed in, they can then start conversations, or join in with their followers, or just indulge in a good ol’ bout of stalking.
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Vast legions of iPhone fart app developers may be be quaking in their parping shoes today at the news that Apple has just turned down an app because it only offered, “minimal user functionality.”
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We’re not getting any emails pushed through to our iPhone at the moment (we’re in the UK on the o2 network) and a quick look on Twitter shows that other people seem to be suffering the same problem.
We’ve been getting delays in mails arriving all day – at the moment our GMail account has at least 15 emails dating back three hours that are yet to turn up on the iPhone.
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February 25th, 2010 12:10pm
Lee J.
App store analytics firm Distimo has been rummaging through every major app store in town, producing an interesting set of comparison figures.
Want to know which store has the highest percentage of freebies? Read on…
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February 25th, 2010 9:30am
Lee J.
There’s no shortage of bloggers and tech websites knocking out endless news reports claiming to know something about what the next gen Apple iPhone is going to look like.
There’s been rumours, claimed leaks, shady insider statements and fuzzy photos supposedly snapped at a top secret factory somewhere or another. But we know the inside story…
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February 23rd, 2010 7:45pm
mike s
As we reported on Sunday, developers have been venting at Apple after the company suddenly removed thousands of adult themed apps from the App Store.
Developers were particularly annoyed at what looks like some serious double standards, with Apple allowing some apps from more well known companies to remain – like a saucy Playboy app which promises “sexy preview clips” and hours of titillation.
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February 23rd, 2010 3:41pm
Lee J.
Accompanied by a flurry of flapping flipcharts and clicking ballpoint pens, tech stat fiends Gartner have just unleashed their annual figures for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users.
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When we were young, we used to look up at the Moon and imagine we were heroically piloting a lander, ready for some top notch lunar exploration before heading back to the module for lashings of gingerpop and cake.
Sadly, the call from the Command Centre never arrived, but at least NASA is giving us the opportunity to virtually control our own Lunar rover with its first ever iPhone game: the Lunar Electric Rover Simulator.
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It seems that the prudish types at Apple are keen to apply their moral values to the App Store, first kicking off the (admittedly rather tawdry) boob-jiggling app Wobble, and then setting off on a crusade to cleanse the store of flesh.
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February 18th, 2010 9:30am
mike s
For years on end, SplashID has been our password manager of choice, offering a simple, secure way of managing hundreds of passwords and personal details, both on our handheld and desktop.
As well as being a handy way of keeping track of log-ins, bank details and the like, the program has proved a great travelling companion, with its advanced Blowfish encryption and password protection giving us peace of mind even if some ne’er do well nabbed our laptop or smartphone.
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Plucky Opera have decided to take on Apple’s iron-like grip on its AppStore by announcing a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone.
Due to be unveiled at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Opera are confident that iPhone users will soon be able to use their popular browser, cheekily commenting:
“We have not submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App store. However, we hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in web browsing experience.”
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