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Facebook for your Windows Mobile 6 phone

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and:-

Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.

Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.

Send messages or call people in your Friends list.

Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

Keep up with the latest news and posts with Facebook on your phone. Now your status updates can be up-to-the moment accounts of what you’re doing. Photos and videos are about as close to live-action as you can get. Show your friends what you’re up to, while you’re out and about.
Connecting and sharing on Facebook just got a lot livelier!

You can get more information and download the free application from the Windows Mobile Page.

O2 iPhone exclusivity, is it coming to an end?

So far Apple has had exclusive agreements with normally one major Carrier in every country that it is available in, just recently we have heard numerous rumblings that the UK exclusive deal with O2 is coming to an end and now we are actually starting to see other UK networks starting to mention the iPhone in strange ways. Earlier this week we saw a webpage from Orange with internet settings for your iPhone, a little strange considering that the settings were UK internet settings and Orange does not offer the iPhone as it is an O2 exclusive. Now we have discovered a Vodafone portal designed for the iPhone. It is basically a portal that gives you access to news but the question is why would Vodafone go to these lengths if they weren’t about to get the iPhone, adding to the confusion is the following line from the page:-

“Available to all iPhone users including non-Vodafone customers.”

This is getting very suspicious and leads us to believe that we may very soon see the iPhone on more than O2 in the very near future and to be honest, it is a good thing as choice of Carrier is a very important choice to have.

T-Mobile MDA Compact V aka Diamond2 announced

T-Mobile today announces the launch of the MDA Compact V (aka Touch Diamond2), an advanced touchscreen smartphone designed exclusively for T-Mobile which combines elegant styling with an impressive feature list, including access to the latest mobile internet and entertainment services.

Building on the success of last year’s T-Mobile MDA Compact IV, the Compact V is the latest in T-Mobile’s exclusive MDA portfolio, a collection of high-end smartphones designed for those who won’t compromise on either sophisticated style or outstanding functionality.

The T-Mobile MDA Compact V is the first T-Mobile device to showcase internet on your phone with widgets, which allows users to select their favourite websites, including eBay, BBC News and Twitter, and receive updates as soon as information comes in, keeping them in-the-know on the latest news and views. Searching the web is effortless too with fast internet on the move with Mobile Broadband.

HTC Touch Pro2 price and availability confirmed

UK online retailer Clove have just confirmed the price and availability of the highly anticipated HTC Touch Pro2. The price for the device unlocked and SIM free will be £504.85 including VAT which equates to €574.28 or $665.66.

First stock of the Touch Pro2 will be available in mid June and as usual we will be getting one to put together a thorough review.

You can register for the latest updates on availability over at Cloves site.

O2 Joggler Goes on Sale

O2 today announced that the ground-breaking O2 Joggler is now available to buy from O2 stores. Designed to help family life run more smoothly, the O2 Joggler is the digital evolution of the traditional family wall calendar. It is priced at £149.99 or free if taken instead of a handset at upgrade*.

O2 also announced today that its “Your Family Bolt-on” will cost £7.50 per month and be available to all O2 customers from May 12th. The O2 Your Family Bolt-on will not only save families money, but also ensure that they are always connected to each other. One family member pays £7.50 per month and nominates four other O2 people to join their calling circle. All calls, text and picture messages within this calling circle are at no extra cost in the UK. Parents with children on Pay & Go O2 mobiles can have reassurance that their children can always reach them, regardless of how much credit is left; while children can save their credit for speaking to their friends.

Spb TV Adds Over 40 New Channels

Spb Software today announces the amendment of Spb TV channels catalogue with over 40 new mobile TV channels. The majority of the newly added channels were suggested by Spb TV users. Today, approximately one hundred of international mobile TV channels are available via Spb TV.

Spb TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. A downloadable software client, Spb TV makes a wide range of international live TV channels available for viewing directly on Windows Mobile phones.

Bento for iPhone released by FileMaker

FileMaker Inc. is owned by Apple. It makes 2 database programs: FileMaker and Bento. And now Bento has been released for iPhone! Isn’t it amazing? No more your iPhone can be ridiculed as fart machine. Now it is a business tool! If you like database software, you will be chuffed about this superb app.

SlingPlayer for iPhone still is not approved, so release of Bento for iPhone might as well be the biggest, most important, new app release in May 2009!

Here is how this app looks like:

LogMeIn Ignition coming for the Blackberry Storm

As a regular user of Log Me In for my home PC’s this announcement caught my eye. Get fast, simple access to your remote Internet-connected LogMeIn computers whenever you want, wherever you are and soon with your Blackberry Storm. If you haven’t used this before you install a small application on your client PC and then you can access it and take full control from a remote source through the Log Me In web interface, it works really well and has saved me lots of times before. You can register now for information on the Blackberry Storm version right here.

BlackBerry pip Apple in U.S. first quarter consumer smartphone sales

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple’s iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday. RIM, which already dominates the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling consumer smartphones in the period, with the Storm at No. 3 and the Pearl at No. 4, NPD said. T-Mobile’s G1 ranked No. 5.

The iPhone was the top-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in both the third and fourth quarters of 2008. The Curve was second and the Palm Inc’s Centro was third.