Phones

MC Hammer has his own iPhone app

A new release in the iPhone App Store this week brings one of the 80’s biggest stars to the iPhone, and sadly it isn’t from Mr. T, it’s from MC Hammer. Hammer  who has had a bit of a comeback recently thanks to his adoption of web 2.0 technologies (such as twitter and Myspace).

The app seems very similar to President Obama’s election app.The five sections of the Hammer Time app include a news section, a calendar of Mr. Hammer’s upcoming appearances, a link to his Twitter feed, but the best part is the Media section. That section includes 8 Youtube videos featuring the hip hop superstar’s greatest hits like, Pray, Too Legit To Quit, and of course You Can’t Touch This. The app is available now for free from the App Store.

Source: Gizmodo

Review SPB Weather 2.0

Don’t forget your heavy coat, it’s going to be a cold one.

How did I know that? Because I have SPB Weather. A great weather utility from the people who brought us Mobile Shell and Time, Weather integrates fully into your Today screen or (appropriately enough) Mobile Shell, Pocket Plus, and Diary. Read on for the full review.

Top 5 Alternatives to the iPhone

Before any of you iPhone fans flame me let me start by saying that I’m not an iPhone hater, in fact I have iPhone as a second phone. However, the iPhone isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and even if you do want an iPhone you may not want to make the jump to the O2 network in order to get it.

So we’ve been asked frequently in the past what’s the best alternative to iPhone. One of the best features of the iPhone is its excellent and generously sized display. With that in mind we’ve got 5 iPhone hopefuls for you.

LG KC910 Renoir 

• 3 inch hardened glass touch screen
• 8 mega pixel camera with a Xenon Flash
• LG interface

Samsung M8800 Pixon

• 3.2 inch touch screen
• 8 mega pixel camera with a dual LED Flash 
• Samsung interface

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

• 3.2 in touch screen
• 3.2 mega pixel camera with a dual LED Flash
• Symbian 9.4 Series 60 5th Edition

HTC Touch HD 

• 3.8 inch touch sensitive VGA screen
• 5 mega pixel camera
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Samsung i900 Omnia, 8gb and 16gb

• 3.2 inch touch screen
• 5 mega pixel camera with a LED flash
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional 

Posted by: Matt (courtesy of eXpansys)

Mozilla Fennec Alpha on video

Brandon over at Pocketnow has put together a video of Mozilla’s upcoming mobile browser currently known as Fennec. As this will be the mobile version of Firefox its pretty exciting to see what they have in store after the huge success of the desktop version. In the video, they give you a tour of Mozilla Fennec Alpha running on an HTC Touch Pro. Although the program is totally unstable and difficult to use, you get some glimpses of what Mozilla has in store for its upcoming mobile browser, which brings several elements of Firefox 3 to handheld devices.

New Palm Pre video

The guys over at Mobile Divide have posted a video of the Palm Pre and it is by far the best video of the phone that we have seen to date. Its over four minutes of pure Pre goodness and now after things had calmed down in my mind its all of a frenzy again with desire and want for this amazing looking phone. Check out the video after the break, its well worth a look.

Microsoft files patent application, combines smartphone and desktop

Microsoft has new invention idea and filed a patent application for a device that bridges the gap between your desktop computer and your mobile phone. The device is essentially a small  computer with its own CPU and OS, but when docked with a compatible mobile phone it can create a powerful computing platform, that can interface with a number of peripherals, including keyboard, mouse, monitor and others. The Patent Application titled “SMART INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES” sounds like a beefed up version of the Redfly desktop Smartphone Terminal that Celio was showing off at CES a couple of weeks ago.

This seems like a natural progression for computing as our mobile phones become more and more powerful. Just as laptops started out as lumbering expensive supplements to desktop computers, but now a laptop can replace a desktop in terms of cost, and speed. It’s easy to foresee a time when smartphones can also bridge that gap. Maybe this device will help herald in a new era of computing, one which a lot of us in the tech community have been waiting for for a long time.

Source: Unwired View

3D phone coming to Japan

Japanese operator KDDI has unveiled a phone with a 3D display. The recently announced Ketai H001 has a 3.1in hinged screen – made by Hitachi, and named after its HD TV brand, Wooo – that’s able to display games, pictures and video content in 3D. A 3D button on the phone takes the user through to a dedicated channel which streams 3D content to the phone over an integrated 1Seg receiver. The rest of the phone’s features are pretty high spec too. It has a 5Mp camera with autofocus. Images are stored on Micro SD cards. E-Wallet support lets the owner pay for things using the H001, and the clamshell’s top surface is a display in its own right. The 51 x 111 x 18.6mm device is available in “Flame Red”, “Solid Silver” and “Neon Purple” body colours. A UK launch date or price, no chance this will be a Japanese only release, Boooo!!!!

via The Register and Akihabaranews

More Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots

The guys over at XDA-Developers have posted up a few more screenshots of the soon to be announced Windows Mobile 6.5. The pictures on the left are the new Internet Explorer 6 and you can see the new zoom bar and the other pictures are of the new home screen and launcher honeycomb layout. Not sure if this is just a today screen enhancement / overlay or something deeper like a new programs menu, guess time will tell.

via Xda-Developers and WMExperts

iBluetooth for iPhone – Bluetooth file transfer video

As you can see in the video after the break, iBluetooth will bring you just that, allowing the iPhone to transfer files to any other device using Bluetooth. In this case, the application developed by MeDevil is working with an iMac and a Sony Ericsson handset but, once it is finished and available through Cydia, it will work with any device supporting the Bluetooth file transfer protocol.

Dream G200i Phone Runs Real Google Android

Is this the first Android phone in the market. The Dream G200i is a 2.8-inch phone with Smart Touch display, Bluetooth, 4 MP camera, support for video and music files and runs an OS dubbed Google Androidoperation system. It doesn’t look like a straight clone of the T-Mobile G1, so we’ll have to file this one under MotoROKR E7 knock-off. No WiFi, 3G connectivity or GPS. The Dream G200i, however, is a full-pledged business phone with support for  “Google Mobile functions of Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google SMS, Blogger, Google Calendar, Picasa Web Albums, Google Notebook, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google News & iGoogle!” It also supports MS Office and a host of IM software’s. Discounted price tag is $235 here.

[PMPtoday via chinagrabber]