Author Archive: Gareth

Vodafone UK announces Christmas line-up

With 16 exclusive mobile phones including the new BlackBerry Storm for contract customers, Text Unlimited for all pay as you talk customers, and the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 ‘netbook’ with built-in mobile broadband, Vodafone UK will have something for everyone this Christmas. From the great value £30 pay as you talk Vodafone 527 Rainbow with its range of colours for the fashion conscious, to the latest Sony Ericsson C905 with its 8.1 mega pixel camera, all Vodafone’s Yuletide offerings will make the most of its fast and reliable network.

Asus announce the P565 with 800 MHz Processor

ASUS today introduced the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface Glide the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present, posting Vsbenchmark scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. This enables the P565 to glide through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and to handle heavy multitasking exceptionally well—making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools.

Nokia 5800 priced in Spain

I  know a grand total of one person who is excited about this phone. I’m sure there are others and I guess I wouldn’t sniff at it if it was stuck under my nose. Spain has listed the 5800 at a whopping £366. Read on for the article.

T4 Show look at the Blackberry Bold

Michael Manna over at the T4 Show has posted a video look at the Blackberry Bold, the video shows a brief look around the Blackberry OS and it’s all set to a brilliant soundtrack from Guns N’ Roses and get this, their new CD should be out next week after years of promises. If your interested in the Bold or just want to see what the latest Blackberry OS looks like check out the video after the break.

Review Trace for iPhone game

Trace is a casual platformer where you draw your own path through levels by using the touch screen to draw platforms to navigate past obstacles to reach the goal at the end of each level. Sounds simple and on first glance that is what this game is all about simple game play and simple graphics but this game is fantastic and free too. We have all seen great looking games with fantastic visual but not enough time spent on the actual game, will this one is the opposite.

Blackberry Pearl 8220 review

If your interested in the Blackberry Pearl 8220 flip then you should check out Mickey Papillon’s review from The Cellphone Junkie. The Pearl Flip comes with the latest 4.6 version of the Blackberry OS.  The new version is really fast to use and redesigned icons make more sense than 4.5 and earlier software.  Along with the standard applications comes Word To Go, Sheet To Go and Slideshow To Go from Documents To Go.  These applications allow you to open and view your Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. For the full review and lots of pictures check out Mickey’s blog.

HTC MAX 4G exclusive to Yota Russia

HTC are launching this WiMax enabled handset exclusively in Russia and we understand that Yota (the network that have commissioned the handset) are a new commercial venture and Wimax is currently being rolled out in Moscow and St Petersburg. At present it is only available within both city centres, but it is planned to available to all by the end of the year. 3G is not that good and HSDPA is no-existent in Russia. The handset itself is based on the HTC Touch HD with a few differences. Obviously no 3G, 3.2 MP camera, 8 Gig of built in storage and it is a much squarer device coming in 2mm thicker also. We have a video of it in action after the break.

Google voice search coming to the iPhone

According to the New Your Times, Google and Apple are about to release a new application to provide voice searching on the iPhone. Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine. The search results, which may be displayed in just seconds on a fast wireless network, will at times include local information, taking advantage of iPhone features that let it determine its location.

via New York Times

HTC TouchFlo for Palm

There is a new skin for Palm that replicates the look of Touchflo for that groovey Palm os. Mytreo.net has it and its pretty slick.  Free to download, registration required, however if you are Palm user you could do far worse than joining this community.