Phones

Useful Creativity releases Street Scene 09 – Feature Rich Event Guide

Useful Creativity today announced Street Scene 09, the first in a line of premium event apps. Street Scene 09 is an iPhone guide for Street Scene 2009 in San Diego, CA on August 28th and 29th, 2009. This new guide includes all the info on the event and artists, a schedule, an interactive event map, specialized parking tools, trolley maps, a custom Twitter client, community photo wall, and a push notification system that is used in a completely new way.

Blowfin releases Ninjahit 1.01 for iPhone – Interactive Social Gaming

Utah based Blowfin Inc. today is delighted to announce Ninjahit 1.01, an update to their popular social interactive mobile game for the iPhone platform. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone as a virtual weapon, Ninjahit is a ninja assassination game played with friends and co-workers. The concept behind Ninjahit is to be stealthy and sneaky like a Ninja. The object of the game is to get a sneaky snapshot of the opponent target with the iPhone’s camera feature.

Global Brands Launch Into iPhone & iPod Mobile Marketing With Notescasts

Leading global brands are recognizing the need to employ an all new set of marketing tools to reach out and effectively speak to their customers in their mobile lives. One of those tools is custom Notescast titles for the iPhone. With a custom Notescast title, companies can promote their products and services with up to 1,000 pages of in-depth content, all linked to related photos and video, which their customers can now review in the palm of their hand wherever they go and whenever they want. Businesses can also work with social media agencies like Social zinger to reach prospects and customers online.

Possible release date of Palm Pre in the UK

My contract is up and I’m looking ahead at the emerging phones. As I have announced many a time, I rather enthusiastic about the Palm Pre. It’s a long wait until the vague “in time for Christmas” launch date on 02. Having a little search I noticed this post on T3 that I had obviously missed. A rumoured date of October 30th? Here’s hoping.

Remember the official UK Palm Pre announcement? O2 went all cryptic on us, confirming it had the exclusive rights to the sought-after smartphone for the UK, but only offering ‘will be here in time to sit under Christmas trees all over the land’ as a launch date. Which left us with any date up to 24th December. Well, if rumours are to be believed (and we think they are), that shelf date will actually be October 30th. Which is a Friday, should you want fancy booking off a long weekend to play with your new toy.

Microsoft launches OneApp for feature phones in emerging markets

Today Microsoft announced the launch of a new application and service called OneApp. OneApp consists of a small application and a set of Microsoft "cloud services" that enable a feature phone to access web services like Twitter, Facebook, and Windows Live Messenger without needing the processing power of a smartphone. Microsoft’s servers handle the heavy lifting and send only the required bits of data to the user’s phone. This has the effect of reducing data use as well as speeding up the overall user experience.

Blackberry goes Webkit with Iris browser pick up

With Blackberry’s acquisition of Torch Mobile today (horrible website btw!), Webkit literally owns the mobile browser space.  This is important as the browser becomes the platform for a growing number of mobile web apps – which Torch Mobile alludes to in its press release:

Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform.

Nokia N97 Mini Preview

Eldar at Mobile-Review is at it again and this time he’s previewed the N97 Mini, a device no-one is quite sure why it exists given its not so big brother has only been on the market for 2 months. Never the less its one step closer to being released with the official announcement to made at Nokia World in September according to sources.

The mini is said to have some benefits over its brethren though, including improved camera and bumped hardware in the form of more ram and increased cpu speed, hopefully this will address the N97’s sluggish performance but unfortunately Nokia decided to stick with the less than popular keyboard design.

Head on over to Mobile-Review to get the full story and as usual, a shed load of pictures.

The Steam Punk Phone

Here’s a fun little phone I noticed at Englishrussia. The English on the blog isn’t the best, but the pictures are lovely and it’ looks like a head turner. Not quite an iPhone, but reminds me of some of the early Motorolas.

Russian steam punk phone from the Russian man famous for his daughter which started a court plea against Russian state for “having no alternative in current school education for the Darwin theory, putting it as the only right in the minds of schoolchildren”.

Nokia “Booklet 3G” Netbook coming in September?

Know what’s popular nowadays? Netbooks! Nokia is officially jumping on the netbook bullet train with the “Booklet 3G” — an Intel/Microsoft-based netbook that promises 12-hour battery life, a weight of 2.75 pounds, and apparently built-in GPS. The “3G” portion of the name indicates a wireless data connection as well.

icon keyboard for iPhone released – free emoji!

There is no need to buy commercial emoji app to get emoticons on your iPhone. Now that iPhone has copy&paste one can compose the text in external app like this: