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Boingo Wireless launches mobile-enabled location detection

Shortly after we reported that Boingo lies about availability of Boingo Mobile service, Boingo has updated their WiFi hotspot directory in a way that resolves this problem:

Update for HTC HD2 – Digital Picture Enhancement

There has been quite a bit of internet noise with regard to camera problems and pink splodges on the recently released HTC HD2, well looks like HTC have been listening and have just released a patch to improve the cameras quality. Details below:-

This update for HTC HD2 delivers clear digital picture quality like never before. Living up to the name of “HD” this phone and its twin LED flash will take beautiful pictures for you to cherish your memories. Displayed in brilliant vibrant colors on its 4.3 inch screen, HTC HD2 camera will delight you.

Get the patch directly from HTC

iPhone 3GS arriving at Tescos on December 14th

Collect Double Clubcard points when you buy an iPhone & Triple points for every £1 you spend on top-up or your monthly bill

• 12 Months free Web & Wi-Fi on Pay as you go iPhone
• Up to 24 months Web & Wi-Fi on Pay monthly (depending on length of contract)
• Save £20 when you spend £40 in store (PAYG only)

So there you go, again nothing much to get excited about apart from the the double club card points!!

Via Tesco

Apple tablet landed in Germany + upstream UStream approved

What is the difference between daily tabloid newspapers in Germany and UK? Well, the main difference lies in the fact that German tabloids publish naked ladies on the front page and British ones on 3rd page. There is one more difference though: German tabloids are available on Apple tablet too:

Boingo lies about Boingo Mobile

Update: Boingo has improved reporting.

Previously we have published review of Boingo WiFi app for iPhone but now we have gathered more information and we can reveal something that only few know…

Dragon for iPhone now available

If you have ever used any voice to text applications on your PC then I am sure you have heard of Dragon. Well today the Dragon Application has hit the App Store (US only at the moment) and it is totally free.

This little program allows you to talk to your iPhone and have it transcribed to text, you can then paste it into Email, SMS or any other iPhone App and I have tested it and it works pretty well.

Gear Diary have done a video of the application in action and here is the iTunes link for the App.

HTC 2010 Roadmap

HTC always have a few interesting devices up their sleeves and here we can visualise what we can expect. Putting names to faces is always great, especially when we have reports of names ripped out of Android roms.

Engadget have all the details of what to be expecting in 2010, obviously this isn’t going to be every device HTC will output but it is a good starting point. Read on for the details:

MSmobiles.com 9 part HTC HD2 review complete

Edward has finally completed his full examination of the HTC HD2. In this great review we are taken through all major aspects of the HD2.

• HTC HD2 review – part 1: first impressions
• HTC HD2 review – part 2: camera
• HTC HD2 review – part 3: software – too much lipstick on that pig made by Microsoft
• HTC HD2 review – part 4: video recording
• HTC HD2 review – part 5: usability of user interface
• HTC HD2 review – part 6: apps and mobile broadband speed test
• HTC HD2 review – part 7: more about photo taking and video recording
• HTC HD2 review – part 8: size comparison of HTC HD2 with iPhone and other cellphones
• HTC HD2 review – Part 9 – Conclusions

WebOS 1.3.5 to finally kill off app storage limit?

There’s no debating it: having 8GB of onboard storage on your phone is great. What’s even better, though, is if you can actually use it — and currently, owners of Palm Pres and Pixis are stuck with an arbitrary limit for curious technical reasons that caps app installations after a couple hundred megabytes and change. Back in the day when the App Catalog had a few dozen submissions, that was fine and dandy — but these days, owners are staring down the barrel of a selection more than 500 apps deep, so the time’s definitely come to put this annoyance to bed. PreCentral is reporting that webOS 1.3.5 will finally kill this one by moving app storage to another partition on the device’s memory — the media partition — which has about 7GB free on a completely virgin phone. Coincidentally, this is the same partition that gets used when you hook up mass storage mode on a PC, so to prevent unencumbered copying of apps off the device, Palm will allegedly be employing some sort of on-the-fly encryption that keeps apps secure while connected. Next step, Palm: microSD expansion so we can install each and every one of those 500-plus apps. What do you say?

[Source Engadget]