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What would you do if you lost your iPhone and the battery died? Don’t worry – Lookout has you covered with Signal Flare!

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Lookout launched Signal Flare for Lookout on Android a few weeks ago, and millions of people are already are using it. Lookout’s research showed that 30% of people say they could not recover their lost or stolen phone because of a dead battery. To put an end to the problem, it created Signal Flare.

Signal Flare is the simple and easy way to help find your iPhone with a dead battery. If you lose your phone as your battery is about to die, Signal Flare flags your location at www.lookout.com so you can see where your phone was last, giving you a fighting chance of getting it back.

This update also includes iOS 6 and screen optimisations for new iPhone 5.

If you have an iPhone you NEED this app! You can download here for both OS’s and the best news is that the app is free. What are you waiting for? Go, Go, Go!

 

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By October 30, 2012 Read More →

HTC One X+ in stock at Expansys

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Although we were not expecting it until tomorrow Expansys have just told us the device is now in stock for those that have been waiting. The HTC One X+ Will set you back £494.99 for the 64GB model so get your orders in quick.

The full specs can be found below and I must say, they do look rather impressive. In particular (although not really that exciting) I’m loving the battery size.

  • SIZE: 134.36 x 69.9 x 8.9mm
  • WEIGHT: 135 grams with battery
  • DISPLAY: 4.7 inch super LCD 2 touch screen, HD 720p resolution, with Gorilla® Glass 2 for greater durability. Optical lamination for superior sharpness, clarity and reduced light reflection
  • CPU SPEED – NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 AP37, 1.7 GHz quad-core
  • Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with HTC SenseTM 4+
  • MEMORY – Total storage: 32GB & 64GB, available capacity vary, RAM: 1GB
  • NETWORK – HSPA/WCDMA: 850/900/1900/2100 MHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

 

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By October 30, 2012 Read More →

Skype for Windows Phone 8–Video

 

Skype for WP8

 

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By October 30, 2012 Read More →

The Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 – Video

 

Google Nexus

 

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By October 29, 2012 Read More →

Three Nexus devices to devour

Nexus_v16_web_flatDue to the unexpected weather front currently sweeping the east coast of North America, Google has cancelled it’s planned event to announce some new devices. Instead we are being treated to a less exciting press release. Google have, however, put together a tidy and exciting combination of goodies to launch, conveniently just before Christmas and just after Apple’s iPad announcement.

Nexus 4 with Google Now and Photo Sphere
Nexus 4 is our latest smartphone, developed together with LG. It has a quad-core processor which means it’s super fast, a crisp 4.7" (320 ppi) display that’s perfect for looking at photos and watching YouTube, and with wireless charging you just set the phone down on a charging surface to power it up, no wires needed. While Nexus 4 is incredibly powerful under the hood, it also features the latest version of Jelly Bean, Android 4.2-the simplest and smartest version of Android yet. Starting with the camera, we’ve reinvented the photo experience with Photo Sphere, which lets you capture images that are literally larger than life. Snap shots up, down and in every direction to create stunning 360-degree immersive experiences that you can share on Google+ with friends and family-or you can add your Photo Sphere to Google Maps for the world to see.
Android 4.2 brings other great goodies like Gesture Typing, which lets you glide your finger over the letters you want to type on the keyboard-it makes typing fast, fun and a whole lot simpler. Android 4.2 also adds support for wireless display so you can wirelessly watch movies, YouTube videos and play games right on your Miracast-compatible HDTV.
Learn more about all of the new features of Android 4.2, Jelly Bean, here.

Google Now-even more useful
We designed Google Now to make life simpler by giving you the right information at just the right time in easy to read cards, before you even ask. And the feedback has been awesome. So today we’re adding more cards that we hope you’ll find useful. Flight information, restaurant reservations, hotel confirmations and shipping details-how often have you found yourself wading through your email to get this information at the last moment? So next time you book a table for dinner, you’ll get a reminder with all the details without ever having to lift a finger. You’ll also get cards for nearby attractions, interesting photo spots, movies times at nearby theaters or concerts by your favorite artists.

Nexus 7: Thin, light and now even more portable
Nexus 7 brings you the best of Google-YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, Maps-and all the great content from Google Play in a slim, portable package that fits perfectly in your hand. To give you more room for all that great content you can now get Nexus 7 with 16GB ($199) or 32GB ($249) of storage. But we also wanted to make this highly portable tablet even more mobile. So we added HSPA+ mobile data. Nexus 7 is now also available with 32GB and HSPA+ mobile ($299), which can operate on more than 200 GSM providers worldwide, including AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S.

Nexus 10: Powerful and shareable
Nexus 10 is the ultimate tablet for watching movies or reading magazines. We wanted to build a premium entertainment device, so we partnered with Samsung to do just that. Nexus 10 is the highest resolution tablet on the planet with a 10.055" display at 2560-by-1600 (300ppi), that’s over 4 million pixels right in your hands. It comes with a powerful battery that will get you up to nine hours of video playback and more than 500 hours of standby time. With a set of front-facing stereo speakers, you can watch movies right from your Nexus 10 and they simply sound awesome. But what makes Nexus 10 unique is that it’s the first truly shareable tablet. With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch between them instantly right from the lockscreen. We believe that everyone should have quick and easy access to their own stuff — email, apps, bookmarks, and more. That way, everyone can have their own home screens, their own music, and even their own high scores.

Google Play: More entertainment, more countries
We’ve recently added a ton of great new entertainment to Google Play, such as movies and TV shows from Twentieth Century Fox. Earlier this year we expanded our service beyond movie rentals and now you can purchase movies and build a library of your favorites in Google Play. Today we’re bringing movie purchasing to more countries – Canada, the U.K., France, Spain and Australia.
We’re also excited to announce two new partnerships. We’re now working with Time, Inc. to bring you even more magazines like InStyle, PEOPLE, TIME and others. And we’ve partnered with Warner Music Group who will be adding their full music catalog with new songs coming each day. We’re now working with all of the major record labels globally, and all the major U.S. magazine publishers, as well as many independent labels, artists and publishers.
On November 13, we’re bringing music on Google Play to Europe.  Those of you in the U.K, France, Germany, Italy and Spain will be able to purchase music from the Google Play store and add up to 20,000 songs-for free-from your existing collection to the cloud for streaming to your Android devices or web browser. We’re also launching our new matching feature to streamline the process of uploading your personal music to Google Play. We’ll scan your music collection and any song we match against the Google Play catalog will be automatically added to your online library without needing to upload it, saving you time. This will be available in Europe at launch on November 13 and is coming to the U.S. soon after. This will all be for free-free storage of your music, free matching, free syncing across your devices and free listening.

Great value
We’ve always focused on building great devices at great value.  And we think today’s devices offer the very best that money can buy. Here are more details on when and where you can pick up your next Nexus device:

  • Nexus 4: 8GB for $299; 16GB for $349; available unlocked and without a contract on 11/13 on the Google Play store in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Canada. The 16GB version will also be available through T-Mobile for $199, with a 2-year contract (check here for more details).
  • Nexus 7: 16GB for $199 and 32GB for $249; available in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and Japan, and also through our retail partners Gamestop, Office Depot, Office Max, Staples and Walmart.
  • Nexus 10: 16GB for $399; 32GB for $499; available on 11/13 in the Google Play Store in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and Japan.

A Nexus device is much more than simply a phone or tablet. It’s your connection to the best of Google – all of your stuff and entertainment, everywhere you go with no hassle.  Now you have three new Nexus devices, a new improved version of Jelly Bean and more entertainment than ever before-all available on Google Play. The playground is open.

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By October 27, 2012 Read More →

East Midland Trains to get Vodafone signal boost

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It would appear that Vodafone are teaming up with East Midlands Trains in a bid to give commuters on the rail network the best mobile connection possible. Travelers to London are set to get a signal boost which is to be installed into 27 trains by early next year.

The operator hopes to complete the project, which will see equipment designed to boost mobile signal installed on 27 trains, by early 2013.

East Midlands Trains managing director David Horne said: “Our engineers have worked in partnership with Vodafone to install these boosters, which strengthen mobile phone signals, ensuring a stronger and more constant reception.

“Already, all of our trains to London have on-board Wi-Fi and by improving mobile phone signals this helps to enhance the customer experience and allow travellers to work even more efficiently or stay in touch with family, friends or colleagues whilst on the move.”

Vodafone UK enterprise commercial marketing director Peter Boucher said: “Our customers have told us that coverage on trains ranks very high on their list. Now they can keep up to date on what’s most important to them – friends, family and their online lives even on the daily commute or trip into town.

“Equally, business customers are finding better ways of working as they can stay connected so they have the flexibility to work from wherever they need to be. This activity is part of our on-going commitment to providing Britain with the best network.”

Let’s just hope this proves to be more successful than the current trains that offer Wi-Fi, as that normally is extremely hit and miss from my experience.

 

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By October 26, 2012 Read More →

HTC launch ‘Best Deals’ for customers

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It looks like owning a HTC smartphone could save you some pennies with their new ‘Smart ‘Deals’  money saving initiative which is announced today.

HTC has built partnerships with 12 leading deal providers including Living Social and Trip Advisor, allowing you to take advantage of a host of deals in your local area. These can range from Michelin-starred dining and luxury spa breaks to supercar racing days and hot air balloon rides.

Best Deals will be available on Windows Phone 8X and 8S handsets which launch in November, and HTC One X+. It will also be available on HTC One X and HTC One S through an upcoming software update.

You can read the full press release below:

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By October 25, 2012 Read More →

Got a BlackBerry smartphone or PlayBook? Why not download the free tracyandmatt app!

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If you visit our site regularly from your BlackBerry or PlayBook we now have a much nicer experience for you – the tracyandmatt BlackBerry application. Free to download from BlackBerry App world our daily news articles are neatly presented in a clean, crisp format and the posts are loaded in a way that means unlike the mobile web version you won’t need to be zooming in and out or scrolling from left to right. Once in an article you can easily just use the arrow tabs at the base of the page to move on to the next news story if you so desire.

If you are wondering why we chose BlackBerry to launch our first app I have a simple answer – It was easy. I did it myself with no previous developer experience. And as well as me being a BlackBerry user we also have 9 million BlackBerry subscribers here in the UK so it seemed a pretty good idea.

This is version one of the app and I will make some tweaks at some point but in the meantime it looks pretty good and works beautifully. And a big thanks to RIM for making the process totally pain and hassle free.

You can download the tracyandmatt app free from your BlackBerry here.

 

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By October 24, 2012 Read More →

LinkedIn for BlackBerry updated and now it actually works!

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If you use a BlackBerry and have been frustrated that the LinkedIn app does not download to your device then good news for you today. Version 2.0 is now available to download from BlackBerry App World and where as prior to the update the app would not download or work on many devices it seems all is good now.

I installed it on my BlackBerry Bold 9900 today and its UI is quite beautiful. If you don’t use LinkedIn maybe now is the time to start as it is integrated into BlackBerry 10 which is the only reason I have bothered to set up a profile recently.

You can grab the app direct from your BlackBerry here.

Source: CrackBerry

 

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By October 23, 2012 Read More →

All about the Apple iPad mini

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Following on from the earlier iPad mini announcement we posted, I was going to follow up with another post detailing all the specs and some pretty photos – but do you know what? Apple have done such a great job with their own website that I am just going to send you over there.

So click here for everything you need to know about Apples new tablet that will pretty much (I’m sure) dominate the smaller tablet market pretty quickly.

 

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