Phones

April 30th – Palm Pre?

Various websites are reporting that Beta testers have been told April 30th is the release date for the most anticipated Palm Pre. Check out the two news blogs that follow.

Wolfenstein 3d for iPhone review

I bought this game a few days ago and was planning on writing a review but the guys over at Digmo have posted up their review and it covers everything I was going to say. Wolfenstein 3D Classic contains all six original episodes and all of your favourite memorable enemies such as Hans Grosse and MechaHitler, and comes with two new clever control systems designed for the iPhone by technical visionary and id Software founder, John Carmack.

Pop over to Digmo for the full review of my current favourite iPhone game.

HTC Touch 3G now available on Orange

Orange seem to be really on the HTC team, after the exclusive deal with the Touch HD Orange now are the first UK network to offer the Touch 3G too. We reviewed the Touch 3G a while back and found it to be an excellent phone only let down by the QVGA screen.

It is available free on many different Orange plans and you can find all the details over at the Orange site here.

HTC Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 hardware tours

Here are a couple of videos we have spotted over at pda.pl site. The guys have managed to get hold of an HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 and given us a look around the hardware of each phone.

We believe that the HTC Diamond2 will be released sometime in April and the Touch Pro2 will follow in June and as always keep it here as we will have both devices in for a full review as soon as they are released. Until then you can see the videos after the break.

Windows Mobile 7 rumours, nothing new

                       We have seen a few alleged screenshots appear this week of Windows Mobile 7. Cast your mind back just over a year ago and we have already seen leaks of the layout of Windows Mobile 7 and not much has changed with the exception of a Marketplace application and a shot of the supposed Zune application.

The pictures after the break were posted over at Mobility Today in January 2008

Sling Player submitted to the App Store

Sling Media have just confirmed that they have submitted the first release of their Sling Player application to the iPhone App Store.

As ever we don’t know if it will be accepted yet or how long it will be before it appears in the App Store but this is still fantastic news.

In case you don’t know, Sling Player lets you watch and control your home TV on your mobile device when connected to a Slingbox so it is a great solution to take your viewing with you and it should look and work well with the iPhone.  More information on the Sling system can be found here.

Credit : msmobiles

Skype rumoured to be iPhone bound

Is there no stopping the iPhone dominance. Just after the announcement of the 3.0 software which mostly stifled the Windows Mobile fans arguments that the iPhone is not a true smartphone, one of the only arguments left was the fact that Win Mo had a proper native Skype Application, Well if the rumours are true it looks like the iPhone will be ticking that box off very very soon.

According to Gigaom Skype is almost ready to launch that iPhone version, perhaps as soon as next week. CTIA Wireless, a large mobile industry trade event, kicks off in Las Vegas next Wednesday, so perhaps the announcement will be made there.

via Gigaom

Vodafone UK gets free twitter sms notifications and updates

Vodafone UK has signed an agreement with Twitter allowing customers to send and receive SMS updates at no additional cost. Sending tweets from your mobile will be part of your normal text messaging bundle with Vodafone—there will be no extra fees. In fact, for the first few weeks, sending tweets won’t even effect your bundle. Receiving tweets via SMS on your mobile is totally free. Vodafone loves Twitter!
The shortcode for UK Vodafone customers is 86444 and you can activate your mobile in your Twitter settings.

And remember you can follow all the Mobile Tech Addicts updates by following @mtaddicts

Flash coming to the G1

After Andy Rubin demonstrated Flash working on the T-Mobile G1 last November, the assumption has been that the technology would arrive on Android sooner rather than later. Five months on, and there’s still no sign from Adobe; however, embedded devices company Bsquare are claiming to be working with “a global, tier-one carrier” to bring Flash technology to the Android platform.

Palringo – All IM clients in one now on Android

Palringo has been a popular Instant Messaging client on S60 for years and is also available for Windows Mobile and iPhone.  As of this week Palringo is available for Android.  Palringo is more than the average run of the mill IM application.  In addition to support for the typical IM services (AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live), Palringo also supports Apple’s iChat and Facebook chat.  With support for so many instant messaging services Palringo is one of the most versatile IM clients available–rivalling many desktop clients.