Archive for February, 2010

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New BBC iPlayer, news and sport apps coming

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The Beeb is coming to your blower — the BBC has announced three mobile phone apps, to be launched this year. Like Sky, the BBC will offer separate news and sport apps. It will also serve up a dedicated iPlayer app.

The apps will be available on assorted mobile platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Palm’s webOS were all mentioned. More apps will follow the initial three, perhaps offering access to niche BBC content such as its education services, or Bargain Hunt. We reckon big-name brands such as  EastEnders or Doctor Who could even have their own apps.

It’s not yet clear whether these will be paid apps or whether the BBC’s licence fee-funded nature will make them free, or what the international licensing issues will be for overseas users.

Eric Huggers, Auntie’s director of future media and technology, delivered the news in a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress. He shared the stage with Spotify boss Daniel Ek, although there was no comparable announcement from the music-streaming service.

The apps serve up BBC content with thumbnails that are scrolled sideways, rather than the vertical scrolling favoured by most iPhone apps — as in our mockup image above. The first BBC app will be the news, arriving in the iPhone App Store in April. Further apps and versions for other phones won’t be far behind.

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HTC & O2 announce the HTC Smart

02_HTC_Smart It’s a device we’ve known about for a while but that we’ve struggle to find out much about, however, at a joint press conference at MWC this morning HTC and O2 have announced that the HTC Smart will be coming to Europe.

The headlines from the announcement then:

  • HTC Smart – bringing Smartphone features to more people.
  • HTC Smart to be half the cost of a ‘smartphone’
  • HTC Smart will be in UK, Ireland and Germany in April.
  • HTC want more and more people to be using social networking apps. Then they can buy a HTC Smart!
  • O2 will be adding 1500 cell masts in the UK this year to help cope with the increase in data users.

Full press release and some nice images follow after the break.

 

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HTC & O2 press conference at MWC

o2-logo HTC and O2 are holding a press conference at MWC at midday today. James will be in the room tweeting the news and I’ll be covering from here in the UK. I would imagine that there will be some official press releases to go along with whatever is announced.

What do we think? HTC Legend and Desire on O2 maybe or something totally different? Stay tuned and we’ll find out shortly after 12 noon.

EDIT: They announced the HTC Smart. You can see the full story now on site.

 

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HTC Desire specification

HTC_Desire_Size The HTC Desire, as you probably know, was announced yesterday by HTC at MWC in Barcelona and seems to have gone down a storm. It’s one of the most popular posts here on tracyandmatt over the past 24 hours.

Unsurprisingly many are asking how the HTC Desire differs from the Google Nexus One. In essence they are virtually the same device in terms of hardware, just a few things to distinguish them. The Desire has an optical trackpad and a couple of hardware buttons where the Nexus just has a hardware trackball. The Desire also has an FM Radio and is ‘missing’ the dual noise-cancelling microphones that the Nexus has.

Where the difference will be more obvious is in the user interface. Although both handsets run Android 2.1 the Desire has HTC’s new version of the excellent Sense UI and a number of HTC-specific applications and enhancements.

Obviously we hope to get our hands on one pretty soon but until then thought you might like to see the full specification listed below.

 

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HTC Legend specification

HTC_Legend_Size I was in a bit of a hurry to post the HTC Legend information yesterday so didn’t get a chance to include the full specification. I spent a little time this morning going through the HTC site putting the spec together in list form which you shall find below.

So far the HTC Legend seems to have been quite well received so I expect it to be a rather popular handset when it goes on sale next month.

I haven’t seen any carrier announcements regarding the HTC Legend as yet (have I missed any?) so looks like it’s just SIM-free sales at the moment here in the UK.

 

 

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Sony Ericsson Vivaz & Vivaz Pro video

vivazpro If you’ve been following things you’ll know that Sony Ericsson held their press conference just before the start of MWC on Sunday and announced the Vivaz and Vivaz Pro. While we’d seen and heard about the Vivaz before the Pro version, with its sliding QWERTY keyboard came as something of a surprise to many.

Both of the Vivaz products look really nice in the flesh, one thing that truly amazed me about the Vivaz is just how light it feels. When someone hands it to you it really is a surprise, the first time I played it it today I wondered if I had been handed a dummy model until I turned it on. They also feel nice to hold. I know much was made of the ‘human curve’ in the presentation on Sunday and I didn’t really buy in to this human element of design thing but it’s true. Pick one up to see what I mean!

So this evening I managed to arrange a meeting with a couple of nice people from Sony Ericsson that both agreed to be filmed talking briefly about the Vivaz and the Vivaz pro.

Find the demo video and some nice images of the devices after the break.

 

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By February 16, 2010 Read More →

HTC Legend, Desire and HD mini – availability and pricing

DevicewireAlthough these devices were only announced earlier today Devicewire.com dropped me a line a little while ago to let me know that the HTC Legend, HTC Desire and HTC HD mini are already live on their site and can be pre ordered from today. They have also just updated the pricing and availability which you’ll find listed for you below. Obviously we hope to get our hands on review models sooner than this but we’ll let you know when we do!

 

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By February 16, 2010 Read More →

New from Sony Ericsson

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Sony Ericcson have pulled out a few devices from their back pockets. Lets take a look at them:

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Toshiba K01 and TG02

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Finally a phone with a slide out Qwerty keyboard that does not contain the word Pro in the title. Appearing beside the TG02 The K01 has the same 4.1” Capacitive screen and runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3, however more importantly the K01 has a OLED screen and the difference in the screen clarity is notable. They also had the TG01 on display and it was nice to see the linage of Toshiba’s recent models altogether.  Couple of pictures after the break:

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HTC shows 3 new phones

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Shown off by HTC at an invite only press conference HTC announced three new phones that will hit stores in April. The HTC Legend and HTC Desire both running Android and HTC HD Mini running Windows Mobile. CEO Peter Chou mentioned they are currently working closely with Microsoft creating some Windows Phone Series 7 … um phones. However lets have a look at what they unveiled. I will be posting a video from the conference on my return to Blighty.

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