At last! So you want to show how cool some iPhone app is, including screenshots, to your friends who have no iPhone and no iTunes installed on their PCs? No problem anymore. Just send them a link and then instead of trying to open iTunes, a webpage with given app appears, like this:
Yup, we’ve done it. There is now a handy tool for downloading, streaming and enjoying the Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast on the iPhone. Over the next two weeks we will be implementing big changes to the podcast to make it all so much for interesting for you. Hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing from you.
You can download it from iTunes directly here.
We’ve noticed that general industry news seems to be slowing over the past week or so and we started to wonder why. However, the reason could be that Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 starts in a little over a week and there’s a good chance that many of the hardware and software vendors are hanging on to their news to announce later at the event in Barcelona.
Some of the manufacturers are having pre-MWC events, the first of which we shall attend next week, while others are having post-MWC parties that we’ll also be at the week after.
James will be in Barcelona for the main event and has already been booked up by some of our big name friends for meetings and press conferences, to say that he’s excited may be an understatement!
So if there’s something that you would like our roving reporter to go and find out about at MWC, if you are at the event or of you are an exhibitor at the event then drop us a line and we’ll do our best to sort something out.
As for me, I’ll still be stuck here in not-so-sunny London picking up the news and press releases and posting from a dark room while James lives it up in Spain!
Posted by: Matt
I know the Nokia N86 isn’t among the newest of Nokia handsets but I was going through our review list the other day and realised that it was one of the more popular of the Nokia range that we hadn’t already reviewed. A call to our friends Nokia and 24 hours later the review was underway.
The Nokia N86 is a decent looking handset with sliding keypad mechanism that reveals a 12 key numeric pad. The 2.6″ QVGA screen is a fabulous AMOLED display which offers excellent rich colours and amazing brightness, useful is you want to crank up the brightness when you want to use the handset outside. It also has some cool features that you would normally only expect from the higher end smartphones such as accelerometer for screen rotation, 8GB built in memory and built in GPS with Nokia Maps preinstalled. Don’t forget the decent 8 megapixel camera on the back and the Dual-LED flash.
We’ll have the review of the Nokia N86 online for you shortly. Have a look at my quick unboxing video and brief tour of the handset below.
Nokia N86 specification:
Posted by: Matt
News just in this morning that Vodafone have just announced that they will definitely have the eagerly anticipated Sony Ericsson X10. I got the press release just a few minutes ago (see below) which confirms that it’s coming soon – Actually April!
SONY ERICSSON X10 COMING SOON TO VODAFONE UK
The Sony Ericsson X10 is coming soon to Vodafone UK. The Android-powered device is easy to sync with your Google account – and with Picasa, Google’s popular photo sharing site.
It’s a looker too, with a huge four inch touchscreen that’ll blow you away. Switch fast to widescreen by turning the X10 on its side. Then enjoy movies and the web in stunning definition – as well as photos taken with its 8.1 megapixel camera.
Want great apps for your X10? Choose from hundreds at the online Android market. Get everything from the latest sports, news or weather updates to favourites like Last.fm and Facebook.
The incredible Sony Ericsson X10 is powered by AndroidT. So it’s easy to sync with your Google&trade account – and with Picasa&trade, Google’s popular photo sharing site.
It’s a looker too, with a huge four inch touchscreen that’ll blow you away. Switch fast to widescreen by turning the X10 on its side. Then enjoy movies and the web in stunning definition – as well as photos taken with its 8.1 megapixel camera.
Want great apps for your X10? Choose from hundreds at the online Android market. Get everything from the latest sports, news or weather updates to favourites like Last.fm and Facebook.Experience Android
Powered by Android – a clever system that makes Sony Ericsson’s X10 an amazing experience
Three home screens
Slide your finger across the screen to move between three home screens that let you set things up just the way you like them.Feels like a PC
Drag and drop apps like you do on a computer. And search Google by typing straight into a handy bar right there on your home screen.Works brilliantly with Google
Got Google Mail&trade? Get it sent straight to your phone. Use Picasa to share photos? You can upload them without a computer.Pinpoint places and people
Google Latitude&trade works with the X10’s built in GPS to show where friends are. And Google Maps&trade gives you directions to find them.
Posted by: Matt
Last week a few pictures of a new Gigabyte GSmart handset surfaced, claiming to be GSmart’s first Android powered smartphone offering. I was pretty pleased to see these images as they seemed to support my prediction that we’d see an Android handset sometime this year and this was earlier than I would have expected. We reported the news of the new GSmart handset as did a lot of other sites at the time.
However, yesterday I had a long conversation with my good friend over at GSmart. She is the GSmart PR guru based over in Taiwan. We spoke for a while about upcoming handsets etc. and she confirmed to me that the images and specs we all reported last week are fakes, they aren’t anything to do with GSmart.
She went on to say that the next few handsets to be released by GSmart will run Windows Mobile and although there will be an Android OS handset from them at some point it would not be until later in 2010 at the earliest and the prototypes they are working on at the moment look nothing like the fake images in circulation. GSmart have promised to keep me informed and will let me know when they are able to confirm specs of both the new Windows Mobile handsets and the Android one.
Perhaps a bit of a shame that we’ll have to wait a while to see what GSmart can do with Android but I’m not disappointed to learn the the images we have are fakes and I thought the handset looked pretty naff and dated!
Posted by: Matt
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