AmAze’s free navigation and local search service is the winner of smartphone-biz.news’ Product of the Year 2008 award.
With 41 per cent of the nominations, the turn-by-turn GPS program was the clear winner in a field that included Fring, mobile messaging service Nimbuzz and cellular fixed mobile convergence solution OnRelay MBX.
From the monthly archives:
February 2009
If you still love all that retro technology, but want to keep up with the current stuff. Well, you probably shouldn’t buy these then. It’s pretty much almost outdated technology featuring a design that makes it look like super outdated technology. However, if you are still using CDs every so often (which I do on occasion myself), these would be fun to own. Although, you’d probably start over thinking what you put on the CDs. You can’t just place anything on cool retro CDs such as these.
You can’t just put pictures on these just before you pass them off to a family member who gets fussy over the concept of emailing pictures. You have to put great tunes on these CDs and then put them on display, shown off to every guest that comes into your home or car. Each recordable CD comes with a sleeve designed to look like a 7? record sleeve. Each CD has 700MB of storage on it, with that amount of storage, it’s a wonder why we ever switched to flash drives. You can pick up a set of four for £7.99 or about $11.50 on Thumbs Up UK. Well, that is you could if they weren’t out of stock right now.
Source: Geeky-Gadgets
It appears Google doesn?t like the Dev Phone 1, but it does bring many things that the stock T-Mobile G1 lacks. But one thing the Dev Phone 1 cannot do is enjoy paid applications from the Android Market.
Why? Well because Google has slapped a halt on the Dev Phone 1 from accessing any paid applications on the Google Android Market, which is probably due to the discovery by users that rooted handsets have access to hidden folders that store the applications.
This could mean apps could be pirated with ease so Google has disabled access for the Dev Phone 1. Although as these same developers probably have their own apps in the Android Market, maybe Google has acted wrongly in disabling paid apps for owners of the Dev Phone 1?we shall see.
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One hugely popular mobile handset is the Samsung Omnia 1900 smartphone, and now Samsung has upgraded the Omnia i8910 HD capable model.
The Samsung Onia i8910 HD features 720p playback and capture along with wireless connectivity to certain Televisions, and while at Mobile World Congress 2009 the Samsung Omnia i8910 HD was captured on video.
The LG Versa mobile phone is headed for Verizon Wireless and should be available as of the 1st of March for $249.99 on contract and with a $50.00 mail in rebate.
The neat trick with the LG Versa mobile handset is that you can use the device as a normal smartphone with it?s touchscreen, but when it comes to power texting and emailing or even note taking you simply snap on the LG Versa?s included cover to give a full QWERTY keyboard at your disposal.
When the case is close, no problem as the case incorporates its own OLED display. The LG Versa also features EV-DO Rev.A with tethering, face detection, 2 megapixel camera, video recording, GPS and microSD expansion.
When a Sony Ericsson new mobile phone hits the news you can be sure Sony Ericsson will quickly follow up with a video demonstration clip of said mobile handset.
Well following Sony Ericsson?s official announcement of the Sony Ericsson W995 Hikaru, they have now released a video of their new flagship Walkman phone.
The HTC P3400i mobile phone made an appearance at Mobile World Congress 2009, a pad form mobile handset which features GPSR/GSM connectivity and Windows Mobile 5.0 OS.
The HTC P3400i incorporates a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen, a 2.8 megapixel camera, 64MB of RAM, Direct Push Mail, IE Mobile, Windows Media Player, Office Mobile and Pocket MSN.
The quad band P3400i also includes Bluetooth, and a built in voice commander, which allows the user to search, and dial a contact more easily along with controlling your music and sending SMS via voice command.
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Research In Motion has gone a long way with the BlackBerry Storm and its click-able SurePress touchscreen, but it can still be improved by software update.
And the BlackBerry Storm can be improved with this little update which allows the selecting of text a tad easier and better finger movements for copy and paste. There is obviously still some ways to go to get a wider audience used to the BlackBerry Storm?s touchscreen, but it?s moving in the right direction.
LG has introduced two new mobile phone to the Indian market, the LG GB110 mobile handset and the LG GB106, both equipped with Intenna FM radio.
Both the LG GB110 and LG GB106 have 1.5 inch displays, and battery life of up to ten hours of talk time. The LG GB110 also packs a VGA camera, MP3 player, microSD expandable memory up to 2GB, Intenna FM radio and comes in black and grey.
The LG GB106 features an anti-theft mobile tracker, and Intenna FM radio. Available as of now in India, the LG GB110 costs Rs 3100 and LG GB106 costs RS 2100.
The Research In Motion BlackBerry 8350i Curve on Telus Mike has been given a full on review by the guys over at Engadget Mobile and included an abundance of clear images.
The BlackBerry 8350i Curve is a huge step in mobile phone technology for Canadian Telus as their only other BlackBerry in their portfolio is the BlackBerry 7100i.