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T-Mobile today announces the launch of the MDA Compact V (aka Touch Diamond2), an advanced touchscreen smartphone designed exclusively for T-Mobile which combines elegant styling with an impressive feature list, including access to the latest mobile internet and entertainment services.
Building on the success of last year’s T-Mobile MDA Compact IV, the Compact V is the latest in T-Mobile’s exclusive MDA portfolio, a collection of high-end smartphones designed for those who won’t compromise on either sophisticated style or outstanding functionality.
The T-Mobile MDA Compact V is the first T-Mobile device to showcase internet on your phone with widgets, which allows users to select their favourite websites, including eBay, BBC News and Twitter, and receive updates as soon as information comes in, keeping them in-the-know on the latest news and views. Searching the web is effortless too with fast internet on the move with Mobile Broadband.
UK online retailer Clove have just confirmed the price and availability of the highly anticipated HTC Touch Pro2. The price for the device unlocked and SIM free will be £504.85 including VAT which equates to €574.28 or $665.66.
First stock of the Touch Pro2 will be available in mid June and as usual we will be getting one to put together a thorough review.
You can register for the latest updates on availability over at Cloves site.
O2 today announced that the ground-breaking O2 Joggler is now available to buy from O2 stores. Designed to help family life run more smoothly, the O2 Joggler is the digital evolution of the traditional family wall calendar. It is priced at £149.99 or free if taken instead of a handset at upgrade*.
O2 also announced today that its “Your Family Bolt-on” will cost £7.50 per month and be available to all O2 customers from May 12th. The O2 Your Family Bolt-on will not only save families money, but also ensure that they are always connected to each other. One family member pays £7.50 per month and nominates four other O2 people to join their calling circle. All calls, text and picture messages within this calling circle are at no extra cost in the UK. Parents with children on Pay & Go O2 mobiles can have reassurance that their children can always reach them, regardless of how much credit is left; while children can save their credit for speaking to their friends.
Our latest podcast is now available to download, in episode 34 we have a special interview with Loke Uei from the Windows Mobile development team and we talk about Windows Mobile 6.5, the Marketplace and the future of Windows Mobile. We also discuss some of the latest iPhone and Palm Pre news.You can subscribe via iTunes, RSS or download the mp3 file here. Full show notes after the break.
Spb Software today announces the amendment of Spb TV channels catalogue with over 40 new mobile TV channels. The majority of the newly added channels were suggested by Spb TV users. Today, approximately one hundred of international mobile TV channels are available via Spb TV.
Spb TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. A downloadable software client, Spb TV makes a wide range of international live TV channels available for viewing directly on Windows Mobile phones.
FileMaker Inc. is owned by Apple. It makes 2 database programs: FileMaker and Bento. And now Bento has been released for iPhone! Isn’t it amazing? No more your iPhone can be ridiculed as fart machine. Now it is a business tool! If you like database software, you will be chuffed about this superb app.
SlingPlayer for iPhone still is not approved, so release of Bento for iPhone might as well be the biggest, most important, new app release in May 2009!
Here is how this app looks like:
As a regular user of Log Me In for my home PC’s this announcement caught my eye. Get fast, simple access to your remote Internet-connected LogMeIn computers whenever you want, wherever you are and soon with your Blackberry Storm. If you haven’t used this before you install a small application on your client PC and then you can access it and take full control from a remote source through the Log Me In web interface, it works really well and has saved me lots of times before. You can register now for information on the Blackberry Storm version right here.
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple’s iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday. RIM, which already dominates the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling consumer smartphones in the period, with the Storm at No. 3 and the Pearl at No. 4, NPD said. T-Mobile’s G1 ranked No. 5.
The iPhone was the top-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in both the third and fourth quarters of 2008. The Curve was second and the Palm Inc’s Centro was third.
Some countries are more prude than others. Obviously USA is more prude than UK, but UK is more prude than Germany, where topless ladies can be found on front page of newspapers (compared to page number 3 in UK).
Apple corporation is located in USA, that is very prude, so no wonder that they are forbidding adult content in apps. Apple has rejected an app, because an Apple employee has noticed the following pictures (screenshots from the rejection letter – noticed and made by Apple!):
Think of it as "Twitpic for sounds instead of pictures". Brilliant idea! … but we are not certain about execution.
Here is how this app looks like:
T-Mobile today announces the launch of the MDA Compact V (aka Touch Diamond2), an advanced touchscreen smartphone designed exclusively for T-Mobile which combines elegant styling with an impressive feature list, including access to the latest mobile internet and entertainment services. 
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