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Vodafone is to stimulate a new generation of mobile internet applications by providing internet service developers with a single point of access to Vodafone’s global customer base.
Developers will only need to create internet applications once in order to reach millions of Vodafone customers on any device and will be able to charge for it directly through Vodafone’s billing system. This will provide internet content partners, such as the media or game developers, with a cost-efficient and effective micro-payments system to reach all customers on mobile devices.
Vodafone will also provide partners and developers with customer controlled access to other network capabilities, such as location awareness, enabling them to create even more innovative mobile internet services and applications.
With use of the 21st century technology we are scanning Apple store every day for the newly released apps – so that you don’t have to. We will be picking some newly released apps and reporting about them. While we can’t report about all of them – it is literally several hundreds new apps a week – we can cherry-pick some that seem interesting.
Here we are presenting Speak2Me for iPhone that looks like that:
Google’s Android operating system is gaining support in the mobile industry, with 8 million Android phones to be sold in 2009, up 10-fold from a year ago, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Monday.
With the overall handset market shrinking as economies slow globally, the mobile industry is focussing investment on more advanced smartphones and their software.
Google’s Android was introduced in the United States in the second half of 2008, and now all top mobile phone vendors except Nokia have said they would use Android. "Android is now in a good position to become a top-tier player in smartphones over the next two to three years," said Neil Mawston, a director at Strategy Analytics.
Prethinking have an excellent Hands-on review of the Palm Pre. Covering most of the aspects this is an essential read for anyone interested in this device. Check after the break for the review.
Looks like the Android device promises are starting to appear at long last, here is a video hands on with the Samsung i7500 which has some really nice specs. This one will surely give HTC a run for their money as Samsung seem to understand the whole 3.5mm headset jack and camera flash requirements where other manufacturers do not.
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- Quad-Band GSM
- Tri-Band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHZ)
- 320×480 pixel 3.2? AMOLED Screen
- WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth
- 1,500mAh battery
- 8GB Internal Storage (expandable to 32GB via microSD)
- 3.5mm Headset Jack
Take a look at the video after the break.
Matt from Tracy and Matt managed to get his hands on a pre-release HTC Snap for 24 hours and has put together a video unboxing and preview of the device.
It looks very nice and a good upgrade from the previous HTC front facing QWERTY Smartphone known as the Dash or HTC S620. Just wish this one had a higher resolution screen, 320 x 240 seems so old now.
Anyway take a look for yourself, the videos after the break.
Clove have just let us know that the Acer F900 Windows Phone should be in stock later this month. This phone is another WVGA device and the price will be £435.00 including VAT. The Acer F900 was developed with a 3.8 inch WVGA touch screen and new easy-to-use on screen touch keyboard, to take data and web browsing to a new level. The Acer F900 is able to display more information on screen while offering an excellent mobile browsing experience. The new custom user interface makes the use of the Acer F900 very quick and simple, providing quick links to contacts, email messages, bookmarks, calendars, date and time, world weather and music.
The Acer F900 with its large screen, but slim design is for the style-conscious users who value good web browsing. It is preloaded with the full mobile office applications including Internet Explorer Mobile 6 with JavaScript and Flash support. Data connections are covered by HSDPA/HSUPA support and Wi-Fi.
FileMaker Inc. is owned by Apple and it makes 2 database management systems (DBMS): professional FileMaker and consumer-oriented Bento. Here we are reviewing Bento.
All in all Bento app is very simple although it is very polished:
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.
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.
Vodafone is to stimulate a new generation of mobile internet applications by providing internet service developers with a single point of access to Vodafone’s global customer base.
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