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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]

HTC lining up 15 new Android devices

HTC have stated they are going to down the number of phones produced and concentrate on promoting those devices. Fewer devices and better level ingenuity in each. So, HTC have announces no less that 15 Android devices, So of the name include – Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Espresso, Halo, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire, Supersonic, Dream, HeroCT, HeroC and Hero. Some models are already known, and others are new.

So in actual fact they have downed the number of Windows Mobile devices in favour of Android. I would imagine that a number of these are variants of the same model.

Shoddy phones on the market

In light of the recent Sony Ericcson mess The Inquirer have typed up an article that I’m sure any mobile phone user can identify with, buying a new phone that just isn’t up to scratch. Be it a hardware problem, undeveloped software or just plain broken right out of the box, The Inquirer has outlined feelings on both sides of the board.

T-Mobile Pulse under £100

Built by Huawei and is a rather splendid Android handset which is getting positive vibes across the web.
Inside you’ll find a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5" 320 x 480 screen, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, compass and more. Now it’s even cheaper than ever before – just £91.34 on Pay As You Go! Mental! That’s a real bargain, and I’m seriously considering buying this as a Christmas present.

Link – T-Mobile Pulse

Source Coolsmartphone

IKEA for iPhone released

If you own or work at company that is selling something, then forget having a fancy website! Now it’s all about having an iPhone app: if your company has one, you can count on sales…

HTC Tattoo is growing?

Doing a little Youtube watching tonight I found this video of the HTC Tattoo and I think HTC have decided to market the device as being a great deal larger than it actually is. I have one sitting here and unless this is the child’s finger there is no way the HTC Tattoo is this size. Are they embarrassed about how it ended up? the screen is super small and something quite off putting, especially with “stumpy” fingers as a comment once declared on one of my video. See the video and my comparison after the break:

Resco Photo Manager 7.00 Released

 Resco, a supplier of Windows Phone applications and one of the a leading mobile software developers officially announced the release of Resco Photo Manager 7.00, follower of a popular image viewing application with brand new graphic solutions, overall concept and handling options.

Resco Photo Manager is a favorite photo viewing program with features far beyond standards of the classic built-in viewer. Users gain functions of complete image management in a modern looking and easy to handle application. Intuitive way of work, outrageous effects and many slideshow and edit features move other image viewing programs to the second line.

“With Photo Manager 7, Resco made a fantastic and completely new user experience for showing and managing photos on a Windows Phone. The developers focus on easy finger-friendly controls and iPhone-like interface will fit all needs on the go to provide best user experience.” said David Kaiser from Pocketland.de. “If you want to have photos on the Windows Phone you will need to install Resco Photo Manager.”