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If you are rather bored with the glossy cover of your Palm Pre smartphone, and feel like tarting it up a bit, than this might be just the idea for you.
Philip Lam over at prethinking has his glossy Palm Pre cover sitting in his draw until he received a tweet from @spckeishou saying he could have the Palm Pre back cover engraved for zilch at the Sprint Studio he works at.
Lam sent off his Palm Pre glossy cover and the result of which is show in the video which you can view below.
According to the Google blog, Google has now launched 3 new SMS services, Search, Tips, and Trade, all geared towards the African market.
The reason being, Africans? SMS need a touch of tweaking, while Tips, which can be accessed via texting 6001, whereby you can enter freeform text queries and Google will restructure the queries into identifiable keywords and come back with relevant answers.
Trader is an SMS based marketplace app that helps purchasers and sellers locate each other, and the user can locate sell or buy on any type of service or product.
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Apple, Research In Motion, Samsung, Motorola and others have agreed to back a Europe wide standard mobile phone charger the European Commission has announced according to a report on Yahoo.tech.
This agreement means mobile handsets compatible with standard charging devices will become available as of next year in Europe.
The European Commission has said this agreement will create an EU norm and new generation mobile phones will use a standard microUSB socket to enable compatibility and said chargers will be usable for data enabled mobile phones only.
Image via engadget mobile
The Samsung Saga has now received an official update, and the new built features Windows Mobile 6.1 AKU which is 1.5.1 and Samsung recommends the update be installed according to an article on Samsung.com.
The update features the capability to send MMS over GPRS when you?re out roaming, and more importantly unlocks GPS to enable 3rd party applications.
This new update to the Samsung Saga now makes the handset one of the better QWERTY Windows Mobile handsets currently on the mobile market and is a much welcomes update that Verizon has been pursuing this year.
There have been several reports about additional problems after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 or even the iPhone 3GS and Cnet has come up with a few procedures which will hopefully solve a few of the problems.
Reset your iPhone by holding down the Sleep and Home buttons until the Apple logo appears?and to restore your iPhone?In iTunes, click the Restore button under the Summary tab. Restoring the phone will erase contacts, calendars, photos, and other data on the phone, but will restore automatically backed-up information including text messages, notes, call history, contact favourites, sound settings, widget settings, etc.
However additional problems have still persisted namely sound issues such as distortion and an audible whine when recording videos on the iPhone 3GS, and there doesn?t seem to be a fix for that yet. Another problem is wrong or changing icons, and the only fix found is to reinstall the affected application and cross your fingers.
INTERVIEW: Telecom carriers are beginning to deploy IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) technology in their networks instead of buying VoIP equipment.
VoIP.biz-news spoke to Mavenir Systems, a provider of converged voice and messaging solutions, about the opportunities and challenges faced in delivering next generation communications.
Continue reading Service Transparency Vital Between Legacy Networks and LTE
Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 30/06/2009
Google Android 1.5 on the T-Mobile G1, HTC Dream or HTC Magic lacks quite a big feature and that is visual voicemail, however, that doesn?t mean the G1, Dream, and Magic has to go without.
The guys over at engadget mobile have done a bit of digging around and have apparently come up with a cool way of adding visual voicemail into a device without having to leave the Google ecosystem.
It is totally free although you will require a Google Voice account, and if you don?t have said account you can pick one up at voice.google.com and request an invite. For the full article just follow the link.
According to an article over on engadget mobile, it appears that the Samsung Strut will be heading for Verizon Wireless although there is no word on if or when it will become available.
Their information comes via a tipster who apparently has seen accessories coming in that mention Samsung Strut compatibility, although said accessories aren?t Samsung Strut exclusive so could be for some other mobile phone.
Also the Strut firmware in the Verizon system happens to be about a year old which pushes the boundaries that it may get released, and the Samsung Strut could possible be canned in the not to distant future but there is a possibility it yet me see release.
The Samsung Jet S8000 is supposed to be a very good phone, the question is ?Can it better the iPhone 3GS?? some say yes and some say no.
The latest from Samsung is the Samsung Jet S8000 and TechRadar has given it an impressive review where they cover: Interface, Calling and contacts, Messaging, Internet, Camera, Media, Applications, Battery life and organiser, Connectivity and PC software, Hands on gallery.
The General Manager for the UK has said that this Samsung Jet S8000 could compete with the Apple iPhone 3GS, but we like TechRadar would love to know if this non-smartphone can compete. Is this all new phone better than any other smartphone on the market, we say time will tell.
The Samsung Jet S8000 does have some pretty impressive features such as proprietary feature-phone UI, TouchWiz 2.0 OS, 800MHz processor, 1-inch AMOLED screen, it is pretty small handset at 108.9 x 53.5 x 11.9mm, 110g in weight, 3.5mm headphone jack, full QWERTY keyboard, 30fps VGA video camera, 2GB of internal storage, and so much more.
The Motorola Clutch i465 first went to Sprint subsidiary Boost Mobile and now the Motorola Clutch i465 is on its way to Sprint and their Direct Connect iDEN network in the summer.
Sprint has now posted a Motorola Clutch i465 signup page whereby potential owners can signup for notification as to when the Sprint branded Motorola Clutch i465 will be available.
The Sprint Motorola Clutch i465 should cost $39.99 after a $70 rebate and on signing up for a 2 year Sprint agreement, although there is now concrete date of release as yet.