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Paragon Software have released version 2.0 of Handy Shell, a replacement stand-by screen for your S60 smartphones which provides huge levels of customisation and interaction over and above the regular active stand-by screen on your phone.
Based around four different views of your device, the app is called up with the menu key, and takes over the S60 interface for a much more customisable experience. A number of plug-in modules are available including a new “Photos” view for instant access to your media. This sits alongside the existing plug-ins including weather and contacts.
Also added in the new version is the “3D Cube” spinning system for fast access around the four views (each of them is one side of the cube); this is one of the improvements added for touch devices. Read more at Paragon/Epocware.
Nokia’s first capacitive touch screen phone, the Nokia X6 is now available on Orange through Phones4u. The media powerhouse comes with 32gb of storage and unlimited music downloads with the Comes With Music service from Nokia.
A long standing compliant about Nokia devices to date is that they use the less sensitive resistive screen technology, but now that has all changed with the X6. Read a full review at Techradar.
Expect to pay £35pm with a 2 year tie in or buy direct form Nokia for £449. As ever, shop around and you can pick it up for £400.
If you’ve been waiting for the N900 to hit the streets with a network subsidy, then mark January 7th in your diary as Vodafone has confirmed they will be the first to stock the device.
If you cant wait that long, then Carphone Warehouse are also offering the N900 with a Vodafone contract online from Boxing day. Expect to sign up for a 2 year agreement at £35pm to get the phone for free, or you can stump up £50 upfront and only pay £30pm.
If Vodafone isn’t your thing then the word is that Tmobile and O2 will be offering the device in March. Of course you can buy it direct from Nokia if your one those funny people that don’t like signing up for 2 years, shop around and you can pick it up for £449.
On O2? Don’t have a decent connection in your area? Then you are going to love to know that O2 is trialling 4G in Slough. The town most famous for …The Office will be not be able to use the network yet since there are no 4G phones on the market as yet. Have a read at the full story below:
You might still be struggling to get a 3G signal on your smartphone, but O2 and mobile modem maker Huawei have just successfully demonstrated a 4G connection — the first in the UK.
LTE stands for ‘Long Term Evolution’ and it’s an enhanced version of the current HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology that most 3G smartphones and USB 3G modems are currently based on.
Normally it costs only $0.99 but if you are a total cheap skate and you don’t want to spend any money, then free Lite version is now available with 5-files limit what might be more than enough for many people…
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SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the results of the sixth annual SPB Survey. This year the survey was held from November 17th till December 4th, and was meant to capture user preferences and build up a combined report that would identify the changing user profiles, mobile device expectations, brand loyalty and the handset use cases.
Some of the figures we’ve found and the trends we’ve discovered were of particular interest, with some of them being really curious. For instance, 45% of respondents their current smartphone is at least the sixth smart handheld they’ve ever owned. Another surprising thing for us is respondents’ age. Last year’s survey was mainly taken by people aged under 30 while this year the focus had somewhat shifted – 45% of the respondents were between 31 and 45. Much less surprising is the Top-10 of the most popular devices: it includes 6 HTC smartphones, 2 Apple devices and the popular Samsung Omnia.
Those folks who are annoyed that the HTC HD2 is not hitting Stateside, we feel your pain. It’s getting harder to get the HTC HD2 in the UK. Have a read at this:
Sources believe the operator is preparing to focus on the Apple iPhone
Microsoft have continued with their strategy of releasing applications for the iPhone, this time they have released a mobile version of the Bing search engine.
It looks pretty but when I was taking a few screenshots and playing with the application it crashed quite a few times, especially using the voice search, typical!
You can try it out for yourself as it is available now for free in the App Store via this link.
SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the release of SPB Weather 2.0 for Symbian, an important addition to its quickly expanding line-up of software for the world’s most popular smartphone platform – Symbian. SPB Weather is the most powerful Symbian weather forecast program. It combines the detailed everyday forecasts for more than 10,000 cities worldwide with the beauty and friendliness of up-to-date satellite images on a 3D Globe. With all these and many other attractive features, the Windows Mobile version of SPB Weather currently holds the status of WM’s best-selling weather app.
SPB Weather 2.0 has been mainly designed with the latest touchscreen-enabled S60 smartphones in mind as those are rapidly gaining customer attention. However, it is compatible with any non-touchscreen Symbian smartphone based on S60 3rd edition FP1 and later. To support the touchscreen trend, SPB Weather for Symbian offers users a striking finger-friendly interface, as well as a home screen widgets for Nokia Symbian-based smartphones.
HTC have just released another official update for their new flagship HD2 handset, this time addressing SMS related issues.
This update comes immediately on the back of a camera/imaging related update that was made available last week.
It has been reported elsewhere that this messaging update addresses some issues (complaints?) from customers saying that they could not hear or see when they received an incoming text message. However, we wonder if this update may also have something to do with some SMS issues that were reported just after the launch of the HD2 where many complained that text messages sent from their new HD2’s were being delayed and and some cases not being delivered until 24 hours later despite the handset reporting a successful send.
We’d love to hear from any of you that actually apply this update!
So you can grab a download of this messaging update from the HTC site.
This update for HTC HD2 messaging lets you reach out to your friends and family with instant notifications. Keeping in touch has always been very important, and this update delivers just that: fast and reliable SMS messaging.
Installation Instructions:Note: This update is only applicable to ROM version is equal to 1.49.XX.X, or lower.
Now this update looks to be a pretty straightforward hot-fix but may be worth backing up your important files before applying!
Posted by: Matt
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