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Boy Genius has posted a long and rather thorough look at the iPhone and the Blackberry Bold. Which one is better? One cannot say, a consumer phone vs. a business phone. They both perform differently and I guess it really is a pointless exercise but still worth a look if you have the hots for both phones.
Just received delivery of the HTC Advantage X7510 for review from (www.superetrader.co.uk) and thought I would post some first impressions before I start doing the review. Well it is big but we already knew that but I have to say it looks great. From the packaging right through to the device it looks solid and well made. I showed it to my wife and she instantly loved the form factor and design as a UMPC like device not a phone and thought she could use it easily. This is interesting, it is on charge right now before I put it through it’s paces over the next few days. Any questions leave a comment and I will try to cover them in the review.
Michael over at the the T4 Show has just posted another of his great video overviews of iPhone apps. This time he is taking a look at the two main social networking apps namely Facebook and Myspace. Both apps are available free from the iTunes store. You can see the video after the break.
A Vodafone customer from Norwich has pitched his claim for the largest ever single-person phone bill after getting a demand from Vodafone for £588,198, and fifteen pence. James Abdale, who posted the details on the Vodafone forum, was initially quite jovial about what was so obviously a clerical error, though after two hours trying to get Vodafone to fix the problem his patience started to wear thin.
Hiptop3.com have an interesting article regarding T-Mobile’s personalisation plans for the Gekko’s casing. It’s a nice idea with a lot of potential. It would be nice for other phones to appear with this form of customisation. The dozens of black N95’s I see daily for example.
SlideIT is a speedy and intuitive way to write text on touch screen enabled devices. Instead of the current method of tapping each letter on the screen, the user points to the first letter of a word and slides the stylus to the subsequent letters. Video demo after the break, all looks a bit messy to us and 40$ to buy the full version although there is a trial.
A Silverlight based Portal for Windows Mobile applications has just been launched. The initial focus of this site is on business applications for Windows Mobile according to Jason Langridge. You can check out the site here but you will need to have Silverlight installed first.
For many people the battery life of the iPhone 3G is causing great concern when used with 3G, locate me services, wifi and bluetooth all switched on, sure we can manage the power manually by switching them off when we don’t need them but that can be a pain. I have just been given some information on a company working on a back up battery for the iPhone 3G that some might find interesting. It is touted for availability at the start of August and I am hoping to get one of these in for a detailed review. Full details after the break.
The iPhone Dev Team has just posted a video of what it claims is “the world’s first jailbroken iPhone 3G running our own software.” While true that there have already been jailbreaks for the iPhone 2.0 firmware, this latest “pwnage” represents a big step forward toward a complete solution for users wanting to use the latest iPhone without being required to join with a particular carrier, and run non-Apple-sanctioned applications on the device. Video after the break.
Tracy and Matt have just published a great review of the Samsung F480 Tocco. We have seen a lot of this Samsung phone recently on billboards and TV but it is nice to finally see a detailed review of the device. It runs on its own proprietary OS, no Windows Mobile or Symbian here and has a great touch screen interface and a 5 Mpx camera. Full specs after the break.
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