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Nexus One Rises from the Ashes… As a Dev Phone

Gareth | August 5, 2010 |

After Google killed the Nexus One commercially last month, there was great mourning amongst the geek community. But now Google has pumped life back into the Nexus One, by selling it as the official Google developer phone, which succeeds the previous developer phone, the Google Ion. Apparently it is unchanged from the dead consumer model, […]

Vonage – call your facebook friends for free

James Richardson | August 5, 2010 |

Vonage have announced their mobile app for facebook which will allow users to make free calls to their facebook friends who also have the application installed over Wi-Fi or 3G . And the calls are free! The application currently supports iPhone and Android but I am sure other platforms are being worked on. I have […]

BlackBerry Torch 9800 keyboards – video

James Richardson | August 5, 2010 |

In the following video I give you a very quick demo of the keyboard options on the BlackBerry Torch 9800. As you will see, as well as the hardware QWERTY keyboard you have on screen options as well. What I don’t show though is that if you prefer you can have the onscreen keyboard set […]

Improved Media on the BlackBerry Torch 9800 – video

James Richardson | August 5, 2010 |

Media has always been one of the things that has let down BlackBerry in the past and this has now been addressed with BlackBerry 6 on the Torch 9800. As you will see I had a quick play with the media features on the device at the press event and things have most definitely taken […]

Apple to Patch Mobile Safari Bug

Gareth | August 5, 2010 |

Apple has just told CNET that they have fixed the bug in mobile safari which allowed the jailbreakme.com jailbreak by the iPhone Dev Team. The bug that allowed the jailbreak was a security vulnerability in the way it loads PDF files from the Web. An Apple spokesperson said that “We’re aware of this reported issue, […]

Mobile Tech Addicts podcast number 82

James Richardson | August 4, 2010 |

With Gareth away on his hols, last night Matt, Andy and myself recorded the weekly podcast and although we were a man down we picked up a lady instead, Tracy. On this weeks show we discuss the iPhone 4 jailbreak, The BlackBerry Torch 9800 (that I played with yesterday!), Froyo on the HTC Desire, and […]

Apple Sneaks in Music Streaming from iDisk on the iPhone

Gareth | August 4, 2010 |

One of the most requested features of the iPhone is music streaming, and it seams that Apple has giving it  to us. Well, that is you have MobileMe, as Apple has just updated iDisk for the ability to play music files from the your computer in the background. This basically means that you can stream […]

O2 Allowing New Customers to Get the iPhone 4… Finally

Gareth | August 4, 2010 |

After over a month of O2 not allowing new customers to get the iPhone 4 on their network, O2 have finally given in and letting new customers to get the iPhone 4 with a contract or on pay as you go. The iPhone 4 is also available to purchase online through O2’s website, rather than […]

BlackBerry Torch 9800 coming to Orange

Matt | August 4, 2010 |

RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800 yesterday at a joint press event in London and New York. Our man James was there and during the Q&A session asked the question: “Will there be any kind of network exclusivity on the Torch when it’s released here in the UK?”  RIM said that they were unable to […]

Web browsing on the BlackBerry Torch 9800

James Richardson | August 4, 2010 |

We have been waiting for a new web browser on BlackBerry for a long time and praise the lord it is here at last. At the BlackBerry press event I had the chance to have a play and as you can see things have improved immensely. Whether you use the onscreen keyboard or the hardware […]