Phandroid are reporting that Orange are apparently bloking access to some paid apps on the android marketplace. This doesn’t seem to be affecting usages, rather you are unable to find them when searching the marketplace for them thanks to a recent update. Read on for more info and a quote from HTC:
Slashgear have unboxed and photographed the HTC Legend. There is a whole host of images and videos so see. Android looks to be running nicely and the screen seems nice. Of course the build quality is looked at since this would be the main attraction of this device.
Swype is pleased to offer an Android Beta!
You signed up to be emailed when this happened, and probably gave up on us. Well, we are (finally) pleased to announce the limited availability of the Swype Beta for Android. Thanks for being patient over the past year as we’ve been focused on improving the product and preparing for our launch with multiple phone manufacturers and carriers.
Here are the details:
How will this work?
You register with an email address you can access via your mobile and we send you a link to download Swype.
That’s it!
Android is definitely going from strength to strength finding its way on to ever more mobile phones from different manufacturers and other products such as the Archos 5 portable media player. Now, with the release of the Aspire One D250 we’re starting to see Android on netbooks too!
We’ve been reviewing quite a few laptops and netbooks lately and you may have seen the title of this post and thought I’m sure that tracyandmatt have reviewed the Aspire One already!?
However the model we are looking at here is one of the newer ones, released at the end of last year.
There are so many of these small form factor laptops/netbooks available now one is pretty much spoilt for choice and it’s often a difficult decision to make. Manufacturers are having to come up with new ways to make their own models stand out from the crowd so perhaps Acer have achieved this by making the Aspire One D250 run Android as well as Windows?!
Our Aspire One D250 review is underway but for now take a look at the unboxing and quick demo video below for a taster.
The International Pass gives excellent call rates to over 50 popular countries, with up to 75% off calls to mobiles, up to 50% cheaper calls to landlines and 25%lower text rates than before. T-Mobile is unbeaten for voice calls (pence per minute) against rival mobile network operators to their Top 10 countries*. The International Pass will be available to all new and existing customers on pay as you go, and will benefit from similar rates to pay monthly customers on International options. Customers already on the Pass will automatically get the new rates from 8 March. Any other customers wanting to take advantage of these special rates should text INT to 441 free of charge..
Yes, you read it correctly. Devicewire.com are offering the HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini free of charge with a Vodafone contract!
Earlier in the week we mentioned that devicewire were taking pre-orders for the devices sim free. Now if you cant or wont buy the unlocked version you can get the devices for as little as £25.00 per month on a 24 month Vodafone contract. With 300 minutes, unlimited sms and email whether you like a two year contract or not it looks like a real bargain if you ask me.
I certainly could handle this sort of deal. With more and more of us making less phone calls and relying more on email and instant messaging this package looks rather attractive.
Pop on over to devicewire and take a butchers!
Posted by: James
Do you believe in ghosts? We do, but some people are making fun of this serious stuff and are making apps like this:
… and some other people are making photos with this app and sending them to press and, amazingly, some press believes that these photos are real…
If you were interested in seeing the photos of the BlackBerry slider we published yesterday then here is another. This time its sitting beside the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and you can see the similarities. Initially i asked could this new slider be the next BlackBerry Storm? Looking at the photo I would say its more likely to be in the ‘Bold’ range judging by the keys on the keyboard but we will have to wait and see.
Remember this has not been confirmed by RIM so nothing is for sure. Once thing I have spotted on the device that is different to the current BlackBerry smart phones is that the four buttons under the screen (send, end, BB and back) are all one piece of plastic. On the other devices each button is separate. Could these be touch sensitive?
Anyway, we will let you know if we find any other news on this BlackBerry as I have a feeling it will be big when and if it hits the market.
Posted by: James
You may well have seen this morning that Skype and Nokia have announced Skype for Symbian, which allows over 200 million Nokia smartphone users access to the service. Users can now use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G) and it’s downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia’s one-stop shop for mobile content.
Lee Williams, the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, has just offered further comment on this announcement:
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