Author Archive: Gareth

Sirius XM app for iPhone – review

The bottom line is: this app sucks. Do not buy it!

Creative Labs lays an Android EGG

ZiiLABS announced Tuesday they were launching Plaszma, their new open standards development platform.  At the heart of the news was the Zii EGG StemCell Computer, a new device capable of running Android.  The press release was filled with marketing fluff and hard to follow, but I have attempted to break down the top points and what this means for Android.

Archos 9 PC Tablet Specs

It’s still a few months to go before we see the Archos 9 tablet on store shelves (October 22) but we would like to catch the complete specifications this early before handing our $500 to a retail store. You can’t find the Archos 9 specs list on the Archos site but some people in Europe managed to dig it up.

• 8.9-inch 1024 × 600 touchscreen
• Atom Z515 1.2 Ghz with 1GB of RAM
• 1024 MB RAM
• Wifi 802.11 b/g+BT
• Bluetooth
• Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
• 2 USBs, line-in, VGA out
• 1.3 MP camera
• Windows 7 Starter OS
• 60GB, 80GB, 120GB options

[via pmptoday, archoslounge]

HTC Hero unlocked and Sim free instock now at Clove

The guys from Clove have just let me know that the HTC Hero has arrived into stock and is available from today for overnight shipping. The model they have is the white one and can be used officially on any GSM network in the UK.

You can order it now from Clove and hopefully we will be getting a review device very soon.

Twitter Over SMS with O2 in the UK

Full, two-way interaction with Twitter over SMS is now available for everyone who uses O2, the largest mobile operator in the UK. There are no extra fees associated with Twittering over SMS on the 02 network—standard or in bundle rates apply for updating your account and receiving tweets over SMS is free so Tweet your heart out!
To Twitter over SMS with your iPhone or any other mobile, head over to your account settings and activate your device. The Twitter shortcode in the UK is 86444 if you want to save it in your address book. Twitter started with a strong focus on texting and continue to provide SMS access around the world.

Via Twitter Blog

T-Mobile G2 Touch available to buy online from tomorrow and in stores over the next few days

That’s the latest news from T-Mobile UK’s twitter account. Just in case you don’t know, the G2 Touch is the T-Mobile version of the HTC Hero which is already available on Orange and Sim Free from next week.

Android Donut released to developers

Google have released elements of Android OS 2.0 Donut to the developer community, and the change list is already prompting excitement.  Among the differences already noted are multitouch and gesture support, together with CDMA compatibility opening up the possibility of Android devices on US networks like Verizon and Sprint.

There’s also improved universal search, automated backups and what developers are already calling a huge amount of performance tweaking that should hopefully see the platform running more smoothly even on existing hardware.  More technical issues have been tweaked, too, with WPA Enterprise encryption support together with VPN functionality.

All the details can be found over at Android Community

Review Qstik EVOQ Bluetooth DSP Headset

We don’t review many accessories at Mobile Tech Addicts so when Mobile Fun got in touch with us to ask if we wanted to take a look at a Bluetooth headset we jumped at the chance.

They sent us a rather interesting headset, the Qstik EVOQ which is quite large by today’s standards but there are reasons for this, read on for the full review.

Window Mobile losing ground to Android

AdMob released their mobile metrics report for June and Android usage continues to grow.  Request from the Android operating system grew 25% month over month.  This now gives Android a 5%  worldwide OS share and marks the first time they have pulled ahead of Windows Mobile.

iFrenchKiss for iPhone released – real kissing test

We know that iPhone owners do love their devices and with this app they will even have an excuse to kiss it!

Software vendor even claims that this app features kissing analysis engine: