The guys over at Phonescoop have grabbed a look at the Nokia N97 and posted a video so we can all enjoy it. This new Nokia handset looks pretty nice and the specs also seem reasonably good too, take a look at the video after the break and see it in action, this may be a phone a lot of people will want to get their hands on.
HTC have released a bug fix for the Touch HD, apparently sometimes the screen stops responding for about 3 to 5 seconds when running an application that needs to use the stylus to click the screen repeatedly within a short time. For example, the windows built-in software like SMS, email, solitaire, etc. If you are experiencing this problem you should install the hotfix but only if your Rom version is less than 1.19. You can find all the information here.
Moneysupermarket.com have asked over 2000 UK citizens about their mobile internet experiences and got a resounding thumbs down. Nearly three quarters of users have internet capabilities on their phones, less than a quarter actually use it. Cost and speed were big issues, with 70 percent saying they had no idea how much it would cost and 24 per cent reporting that mobile surfing was too slow. One in eight actually called mobile internet ‘pointless’.
There is no application as yet to allow you to watch any content from the BBC’s iPlayer website it is not a problem. If you actually visit the website within the iPhones Safari browser you can actually watch all the content without a problem. The videos on the iPlayer site, when selected, open up and play through the iPhones inbuilt Quicktime video player. It works really well and the quality is great too. You have to be in the UK though to enjoy it due to licensing. Video of it in action after the break.
As you are no doubt aware the iPhone cannot be used in landscape mode to compose emails which is another strange quirk that we are waiting for Apple to address. Until that time we have seen various applications that can help. One such application is Wide Email which gives you this functionality but more importantly also gives you short cuts for well used phrases or words. For example I can program the letters mta and the keyboard will automatically type Mobile Tech Addicts. Take a look at the video after the break to see how well this application works.
Q3 2008 saw Apple’s only current smartphone, the iPhone 3G, outsell the numerous devices based on the Windows Mobile platform not only in the USA but on a worldwide scale. Despite the global financial crisis the smartphone market share is still growing (though at a slower pace than last year) and territories are being remapped. The third quarter of 2008 saw some really interesting changes in position.
The days of trekking across fields and rummaging in the bushes for your lost dog are over. Retrieva is working with Orange to launch the unique Retrieva Tracking and Anti-theft collar. According to the Missing Pets Bureau, nearly 2,500 dogs were lost or stolen every week in 2007. The Retrieva collar will help combat this through its instant tracking and alert system linked directly to your mobile phone.
The Kogan Agora Pro has popped up in Australia as the latest Android handset and is available for international pre-order. The phone has a 2.5-inch resistive touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3G and GPS with a processor running at 624 mhz. Shame it only has a QVGA screen but great to see an Android handset with a front facing QWERTY. Full specs and pictures after the break.
There is now a translated review of the Meizu M8. It is extremely thorough and if you are not totally put off by the pigeon English translation then its worth a read. Not only does it look like the iPhone but the UI seems to be rather similar but is apparently Windows CE 6.0n albeit heavily redesigned. If this is ever released outside Asia I would imagine that there would be a great deal of confusion. That said, the device is given top marks!
If you have been holding off taking the plunge on the T-Mobile G1 phone, now could be a good time to get one. T-mobile have just sent us an email letting us now that it is now free on the lowest £30.00 per month contract. They will also throw in an 8 Gig memory card too. Full details after the break.
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