Four essential Blackberry apps
If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand …
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Google Goggles image recognition mobile search: video demo
Google’s futuristic mobile image recognition feature — Google Goggles — has been demoed on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10. Although the Xperia is yet to be released, you can see …
Google Goggles image recognition mobile search: video demo Read MoreDropped your phone down the loo? Don’t panic!
A report a while back reckoned that getting on for a million mobile phones are sent crashing down UK toilets every year, at a cost of £324 million. With the …
Dropped your phone down the loo? Don’t panic! Read MoreCarphone Warehouse offers free flights for Palm Pre buyers, we shake our heads
Rumoured to be in response to poor sales, the Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January. …
Carphone Warehouse offers free flights for Palm Pre buyers, we shake our heads Read MoreText this: Happy Christmas! Record SMS/MMS numbers predicted over the festive period
First off, we’d like to wish a Happy Christmas to our readers! Thanks for sticking with us. We’re well chuffed with the speed that the site is growing and we …
Text this: Happy Christmas! Record SMS/MMS numbers predicted over the festive period Read MoreOver 4 billion text messages sent every day in the US
Americans were a bit slow on the uptake of texing, but they’ve certainly made up for lost time, with new figures showing that around 4.1 billion SMS messages are sent …
Over 4 billion text messages sent every day in the US Read MoreO2 UK: “watching a YouTube video on a mobile = 500,000 text messages”
If their recent patchy network coverage is anything to go by, there must be an awful lot of O2 customers watching YouTube videos on their smartphones at the moment. Talking …
O2 UK: “watching a YouTube video on a mobile = 500,000 text messages” Read MorePalm discuss App Store spam – we like their response
We’ve long been unimpressed with Apple’s power-mad policies which leaves the company in sole control of what can and can not be admitted into their hallowed app store, but even …
Palm discuss App Store spam – we like their response Read MoreVodafone UK set iPhone release date for Jan 14
UK consumers still desperate to join the iBorg and get themselves an iPhone, will be able to snap one up onVodafone’s network in the new year. Available from January 14th, …
Vodafone UK set iPhone release date for Jan 14 Read MoreiPhone versus Symbian – app slapdown!
On our sister forum, urban75, a spat broke out between posters, with one insisting that, “If you want any apps, the iPhone is the best bet.” While we’ll be the …
iPhone versus Symbian – app slapdown! Read MoreEvernote Android app released
It’s been available on the iPhone and BlackBerry for some time, but a fully fledged version of the note taking app Evernote is landing in the Android Marketplace today. Evernote …
Evernote Android app released Read MoreSony Ericsson unveils ‘Greenheart’ Elm and Hazel handsets. They’re not lookers.
Falling off the ugly tree and hitting just about every branch, twig and nut on the way down before landing in a juicy, wet cowpat is Sony Ericsson’s new Elm …
Sony Ericsson unveils ‘Greenheart’ Elm and Hazel handsets. They’re not lookers. Read MoreAndroid Market hits the 20,000 app milestone
The Android Marketplace has jogged up and high-fived an impressive milestone, notching up no less than 20,000 apps which are now available for downloading. Well, we say 20,000 but it …
Android Market hits the 20,000 app milestone Read MoreGuardian newspaper charges for iPhone app
The UK’s most popular lefty(ish) newspaper, The Guardian, has created an iPhone app and made the unusual decision of charging users a one-off fee of £2.39 fee to download it. …
Guardian newspaper charges for iPhone app Read MoreThe Google Phone is coming and it’s called the Nexus One. Probably.
Tech twitterers went totally ape over the weekend as details of what is said to an interesting new handset from Google leaked out. Followed up by the usual blurry photo …
The Google Phone is coming and it’s called the Nexus One. Probably. Read More