Phones

Acer F900 just £169 + VAT

 

On top of the price reduction for the Acer M900 Clove are now dropping the price of the Acer F900 to £169+VAT

Overview of Acer F900

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.

LG GW620 Android Smart Phone Announced

First Android Device Signals LG’s Two-tier Smartphone Strategy

Seoul, September 14, 2009 – LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, reinforced its aggressive strategy in smartphones by announcing the first Android mobile device which will give LG a broader and more dominant position in this expanding market.

The announcement of LG’s first Android-powered smartphones comes only a week after the world’s third largest mobile phone company announced that it would be introducing three new Windows Mobile smartphones in the next few weeks. These developments underscore LG’s commitment to offering greater consumer choice in the expanding smartphone category.

Android 2.0 coming later than expected

We just received new information that suggest the launch of Android 2.0 might be coming later than we were expecting. I have been reporting that the Motorola Sholes would be the first phone to feature Android 2.0 and that it was widely expected to launch in late October. New documents I have seen now list early December as the launch date for the Motorola Sholes and Android 2.0.

There has been no official release date given for either launch, so I’m not sure if it is fair to call this a delay. I have often wondered how Google could deliver Android 2.0 in its final form by the end of October. I believe the hardware is on track and that the software is the main reason for this new launch window. Google has no public roadmap or deadlines for Android 2.0 and I suspect this was done on purpose to avoid criticism of a delay.

iTunes Extras – review

First there was DVD and additional content being offered on DVD like deleted scenes and additional information about movies. Then came the battle of Japanese monsters Godzilla and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, or in other words: Toshiba (HD DVD) and Sony (BlueRay), that was won by Sony. Now comes new development in the area of home entertainment: iTunes Extras – something like additional content offered in DVD and BlueRay but without the disk, everything is over the Internet.

Touch Physics 2 for iPhone released

New version of this extremely popular version comes as separate app with number “2” in it. Of course the developer could release it as upgrade, but then he wouldn’t earn so much money.

Anyway Touch Physics is one of the most popular games in the app store and since you can advance to next levels by drawing totally arbitrary objects, it is providing more freedom for creativity than most other games.

Acer M900 from £329 + VAT to just £169+ VAT

Clove have slashed the price of the Acer M900 to £169 (£194 inc VAT.)

Nothing funny…brand new, sealed UK spec models at a ridiculous price. 

Price is valid until remaining stock sells!

That’s great value for a good, reliable Windows Mobile phone. Specs after the break:

Vandals strike Orange network

Orange says vandals partly to blame for network outage today, which has since been resolved

Orange said its network outage today was partly caused by vandal damage in the Heathrow area.

A network spokesperson said: "We are aware that some BlackBerry customers experienced difficulty accessing emails earlier today. We can confirm the issue was a result of vandalism to cabling infrastructure, supplied to us by a third party provider in the Heathrow area of London.

"As soon as it was identified, engineers worked as a matter of priority to fix the issue, and full service has now been resumed.

"In a separate incident, some of our broadband customers may have encountered issues accessing the internet earlier today. We can confirm this matter was fixed shortly after being identified and full service was also resumed.

"We would once again like to apologise to those affected for any inconvenience this matter has caused them."

[source Mobile News]

CoPilot Live iPhone Sat Nav App gets a free update

It’s nice to see software developers talking about “continuous improvement plan” (known in Japanese as ?? – Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement). Probably Apple’s approach to release regularly upgrades to iPhone OS rubs off on app developers too…

Why Apple loves iPhone games right now

Here’s an excellent article by Stuart Dredge over at Pocketgamer.com. Not much came out of shaking the old Apple tree but Stuart has certainly picked the right piece of the pie here. Have a read an see what you think.

Resco Photo Viewer 7.00 Beta Released!

Bratislava, Slovakia (September 8, 2009), Resco, a supplier of Windows phone applications, releases today Beta version of Resco Photo Viewer 7.00, follower of a popular image viewing application with brand new graphic solutions, overall concept and handling options.

Resco Photo Viewer is a favorite photo viewing program with features far beyond standards of the classic built-in viewer. Users gain functions of complete image management in a modern looking and easy to handle application. Intuitive way of work, outrageous effects and many slideshow and edit features move other image viewing programs to the second line.