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Seasoned tech blogger. Host of the Tech Addicts podcast.
If you have been frustrated by the closed private beta of the Skyfire web browser the good news is it is now open to everyone, well officially they say US, Canada, and UK, although you might be able to use Skyfire outside the US, Canada and UK, their focus is providing the best user experience for their active countries. Using Skyfire outside these countries is at your own discretion. Currently Skyfire runs on two phone platforms. Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 (3rd edition). Skyfire is a great browser that supports flash so viewing Youtube videos and other flash sites in your browser is now a reality. You can get it here and we will be doing a review video in the next few days.
Since the launch of the Blackberry Storm there has been a lot stories floating around about a laggy OS amongst other things. Some reports suggest that the firmware was downgraded at the last minute to overcome these problems, seems strange that these problems are only mentioned on the US Verizon version not the Vodafone UK version. Mobility Today think very highly of the device and have produced a video showing the OS in action where you can make your own mind up if it is laggy or not, personally after watching it, it doesn’t seem too bad. See for yourself after the break.
Tracy and Matt report “Not sure if this is gonna infringe on any copyright laws or how legit the Android inside this device is but Chinese phone manufacturer Sciphone will be releasing their “Dream G2” loaded with a modified version of Android on Nov.28th
Share your mobile internet connection with Mobile Broadband Share Dock, the Mobile Broadband device that lets people share their mobile internet, hits shops this week, giving people great value mobile broadband they can take and share. Available free on an 18 month contract, the Share Dock lets people share their high speed Mobile Broadband. Acting like a fixed line wireless router with any WiFi-enabled laptop, the Share Dock allows two or three users to use the same Mobile Broadband stick simultaneously, and adopts the same easy to use plug-in-and-play approach as the rest of T-Mobile’s Mobile Broadband products.
Our latest podcast is now available to download, in episode 13 we discuss the HTC Touch 3G hands on, HTC S740 hands on, the Asus 565 800mhz phone, some iPhone apps, listener email and lots more. You can subscribe via iTunes, RSS or download the mp3 file here. Full show notes after the break.
iPhone 2.2 Software Update has just hit so you can update your iPhone now. It contains enhancements to Google Maps, Mail bug fixes and Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes. Still no copy and paste, MMS etc so still waiting for these simple things. Full details after the break.
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have reported “Steve Ballmer, at the recently held developers conference at Sydney, Australia, said that Microsoft is working on a App-store like software distribution. Apple’s iPhone and App-store have really stirred the Windows Mobile Market. Though there are many ‘app-store like’ distributions, for example – Handango, they are not something that is offered directly from Microsoft. But at the same time Ballmer also mentioned there are no plans to mimic iPhone’s App-store.”
It appears that T-Mobile have been having some major network issues in London today. One of our forum members Dave Hush told us he had not had a signal on T-mobile since about 9am this morning, he had spoken to T-mobile customer services and apparently the network was down this morning for a few hours. First time we have heard of such a major outage, anybody else been affected by this.
Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone group by revenue, is struggling to meet demand for the new Blackberry Storm phone, its chief executive said on Thursday. Vittorio Colao told a small group of journalists after a speech at an Ofcom event that the phone was selling very well. “We might end up having a problem with giving enough Storms to as many customers who want it,” he said. “It’s going very well, we might be short of them, to be honest.”
OrbLive 2.0 will change the way you enjoy your media.OrbLive gives you immediate, anytime access to ALL your media. No sync-ing or uploading favorites. In fact, you can forget about your iTunes library. OrbLive uses the network to beam media from your home PC. Orb has optimized the transmission so it’s great over 3G, WIFI, or Edge.Imagine all your music, videos, photos – even live TV if you have a tuner card – in the palm of your hand. Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into an on-demand media center. Get OrbLive today for £5.99 in the App Store. Or try OrbLive Free on your iPhone or iPod touch before you buy, all you need for live TV is the tuner card – no other boxes or services to buy. This is how media was meant to be enjoyed.
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If you have been frustrated by the closed private beta of the Skyfire web browser the good news is it is now open to everyone, well officially they say US, Canada, and UK, although you might be able to use Skyfire outside the US, Canada and UK, their focus is providing the best user experience for their active countries. Using Skyfire outside these countries is at your own discretion. Currently Skyfire runs on two phone platforms. Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 (3rd edition). Skyfire is a great browser that supports flash so viewing Youtube videos and other flash sites in your browser is now a reality. You can get it here and we will be doing a review video in the next few days.
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