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MSmobiles.com Podcast 304

msmobiles.com Podcast 304
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In this episode Edward from msmobiles.com is chatting with: Alli fromJustAnotherGeekSite.com, Surur from WMpowerUser.com, Gareth from Mobile Tech Addicts.

Bionic Ear for iPhone released – now you can hear everything!

Every day we are traversing the latest (released merely few hours ago) iPhone apps like a rat that is sifting through trash bin. Naturally we find a lot of junk apps, and only few of them offer “more quality, more depth” as certain befriended Dutch iPhone developer says about his apps.

Today we have found Bionic Ear:

WebOS web market share growing rapidly, leaves Windows Mobile in the dust

 Prethinking has an excellent article utilising several graphics to illustrate the uptake of WebOS and how certain other OS’ are failing. Deep down we all know these results are true but it’s quite hard to believe it’s happening. Of course it probably doesn’t help that the like of the HTC HD2 are not hitting Stateside and the current phones in the Windows Mobile line are a little out of date when compared to Android and WebOS.

Palm Stock Scary…

Well, life was good at Palm with webOS, the Pre and upcoming Pixi garnering mindshare. Then came T-Mobile’s myTouch followed by the Verizon/Motorola "DroidDoes" campaign, the BlackBerry spots during the World Series, not to mention HTC jumping into the fray with their own branding campaign, and suddenly, Palm’s future, according to investors, isn’t so bright.
Barron’s Eric Savitz did a post in Tech Trader Daily talking about the scary happenings.
> Definitely, Apple’s disabling of iTunes again on the Pre must have hurt.
> And Sprint’s earnings call showed a noted shift in focus to devices from HTC and Motorola.
> A post by Motley Fool’s Eric "Candy Thief" Bleeker was especially harsh.
> Earlier in the week, "the ChangeWave report on smartphone market share wasn’t stellar for Palm (held flat month-to-month)
Maybe a sugar (Halloween candy) and sports overload this weekend will make investors forget the week that was — where Palm fell from $15 to $11.59.
One can only hope.

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Phonearena video review of Blackberry Storm 2

Phonearena have review the Blackberry Storm 2. A fairly interesting phone that follows up a phone that was somewhat flawed on it’s initial release. From the looks of things many of the problems have been worked out and the device has been refined to am more competant device. Check after the break for the video:

FREE British to American Slang Dictionary for iPhone – released

Americans like to drop by to UK whenever they visit Europe, because after alll it is a country where English language that they use – has been invented.

TomTom car kit for iPhone is now available

Ok form an orderly queue, TomTom have just informed us that they have the car kit for the iPhone available and ready for shipping.

It does look like a nice holder for the iPhone and a few nice additional features such as enhanced GPS, hands free calling (I bet its unusable over 30mph like other Bluetooth in car speakers) but come on, a price of £99.99 just for the holder, now add on the cost of the software £59.99 and the total cost is £159.98 a little bit steep for a less than perfect GPS system.

I currently use Co-Pilot sure, there is no denying that the inbuilt GPS on the iPhone is not the greatest for holding a fix, but as a casual user it ticks all the right boxes and has not let me down yet, cost for Co-Pilot  £25.99, I think this is may be a little overpriced.

If your interested all the information is over at TomTom

Are O2 prioritising certain types of data traffic for the iPhone?

Here is an interesting article from Intomobile. Something I believe would entirely plausible and have seen posts in the past concerning certain networks favouring platforms with preferential treatment when it comes to data.

Piracy rate of iPhone apps is 95% – shame on you jailbreakers!

iPhone users who are jailbreaking their iPhones think that they are doing nothing innocent – just achieving “freedom”. Nonsense.

In fact, due to jailbreaking piracy rate among iPhone developers is huge and now it has been proven:

TwitterPeek Mobile Tweeting Device

While the rest of the world is heading down the convergence route, here we have a device totally dedicated to Twitter, TwitterPeek is a slim, lightweight mobile gadget that enables you to use Twitter on-the-go from anywhere in the US. It is the world’s first Twitter device from the makers of Twitter and Peek. Because it is designed exclusively to Twitter.

Now here’s a thought, this is the same company that brought us the Peek Email device, never seen one of those in use either so maybe this is a vain attempt at rebranding an unwanted gadget into something else unwanted.

If you are interested check it out at Amazon, its US only though.