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Are you an untalented idiot when it comes to music? No problem. There is an app for that: it is called TuneMaker and it has been just released. With this app you can create great music. Click here (MP3) to listen to our music composition, called “Chopin mash”, that we have created after 5 minutes of playing with this app. Clearly you can do better. Dont cha?
So how it works? Firstly you can pick one of many instruments:
There are many audio recorders for iPhone but this app, released merely 3 days ago, is very podcast-creation focused with waveform editing and easy uploading to podcast hosting services. Here is how it looks like:
Potential iPhone customers in the UK this morning are learning that Orange will offer Apple’s device on its network from November 10.
The Times informs that’s the day after O2’s exclusive contract with Apple to offer the phone in the UK comes to an end. Over 200,000 UK customers are thought to have signed-up for information on the device when it reaches the network.
Orange has still not revealed prices or tariffs on the device, with analysts split as to whether new competitiveness in the UK market will see a price war on the product emerge.
Vodafone will also offer the iPhone in the UK starting next year, while the UK’s smallest operator, 3, has also said it hopes to begin selling iPhones by mid-2010.
It is interesting to reflect that during the Mac User Awards (a UK Mac publication) which were hosted on October 22 a series of nominations and awards were read out. While most nominations were met with friendly applause by the industry crowd gathered at the event, a nomination for O2 (as an ISP) was met with a very awkward silence. Perhaps the most picquant criticism of industry reaction to O2 iPhone network coverage yet.
[source 9to5mac]
Carphone sold large volumes of Nokia 5530 into grey market after miscalculating sales on August exclusive. Significant numbers traded back into UK, disrupting official Nokia distribution channels
Carphone Warehouse is being investigated by Nokia UK for facilitating the export of large volumes of its Nokia 5530 Xpress Music handset, intended for Carphone’s UK retail channels, into overseas markets. The Nokia 5530 originally went on sale in Carphone in the UK on August 11 on a six-week exclusive, and Carphone’s onward trade of the device is likely to have breached the terms of its exclusivity deal with Nokia UK. Carphone is understood to have purchased around 130,000 units from Nokia UK as part of the original deal. More than half were offered to the UK trade at rock-bottom prices, explicitly for export outside of Europe, Mobile News understands.
New era comes: free games sponsored by big corporations as a way of marketing through apps! iSprint is a nice game for your fingers that is free thanks to Reebook – a company that makes sport shoes.
So, ready, steady:
Forget the Pre and the iPhone, here is what everyone it buying!!
Carphone Warehouse’s Alcatel OT-203 was its fastest selling prepay handset ever, the retailer reported this week. The £9.50 Alcatel promotion, with £10 free credit, was sold in partnership with The Sun newspaper. It went on sale on 14 October and was available to customers who had collected four tokens from The Sun.
Carphone said it sold 14,000 handsets in the opening two hours of trading, with queues forming outside stores in Liverpool and Glasgow. In total, 47,000 phones were sold over the three day promotion, making the Alcatel OT-203 the fastest selling prepay handset in the company’s history. Carphone added that it expects the phone will be the top selling prepay device across the industry for the week.
Carphone CEO Andrew Harrison said: ‘The speed at which this handset flew out of our stores was simply staggering.
‘We saw an extra 100,000 customers over the three days the promotion ran, which just goes to prove that customers still love brilliant value handsets.
‘We shouldn’t forget that for every customer who wants an iPhone, there is another customer looking for the best value on the high street.’
[source Mobile Magazine]
Spring Design today announced Alex™, the first e-book based on Google Android featuring full browser capabilities and patented dual screen interaction technology, the Duet Navigator™. The Alex livens up text with multimedia links, adding a new dimension to the reading experience and potentially creating a whole new industry for secondary publications that supplement and enhance original text. Alex’s dual-screen display design brings together the efficiency of reading on a monochrome EPD (electronic paper display) screen while dynamic hyperlinked multimedia information and third party input on its secondary color LCD screen, actually an integrated Android mobile device, opens a rich world of Internet content to support the text on the main screen.
Reel Director allows for sophisticated movie editing inside of an iPhone:
As anticipated there has been a slow start for the Palm Pre uptake in the UK and this should hardly shock anyone. I know of a few people who picked one up and generally I’d say it’s been roughly as exciting as any other phone. O2 need to step it up as I’m sure Palm will be thinking they shouldn’t have bothered with exclusivity. Perhaps many customers are waiting for the multi-network iPhone or even the exclusivity to end on the Pre, much like myself. After the break is a pretty interesting article from Mobile Today.
As release day draws near, maybe you haven’t had a chance to see how the N900 ticks, check out this highlights video from Matt Miller showing off all the best bits of this mobile powerhouse.
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