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Engadget interview Joe Belfiore

If you saw our post on Windows Phone 7 yesterday you would have been directed over to engadget where they have done some great hands on work with WP7. In additionI have just stumbled upon an interview they did with Joe Belfiore who if you are not familiar with is the VP for Windows Phones.

The interview is fairly informative and you can see Joe discussing WP7 features that will be both present and non present at the launch later in the year.

It sure sounds like Microsoft have been working their socks off with this project and they need to. This could be make or break for them in the mobile market. I suspect the success of Windows Phone 7 will not go the same way as the KIN devices have done recently.

Head on over to Engadget and check out the interview.

Posted by: James

Media on BlackBerry 6

Earlier today we showed you the forthcoming web kit browser from RIM courtesy of salomondrin.net and the goodness continues. In the below video he shows us the media features on the BlackBerry 9800 Slider.

As you will see the visual changes to the music player, photo gallery and video player are pretty amazing. As well as looking great the new OS seems to flow beautifully and is rather nippy. See how quickly the screen rotates.

I am so excited about this I need to go have a wee.

Enjoy the video.

Windows Phone 7 gets previewed

It seems a long time ago that we had the official announcement of Windows Phone 7. In fact it was only in February but for a lot of us thinking about the new platform it has been in the back of our minds as it is not due for release until the end of the year.

Microsoft have now released WP7 devices to developers so we can now get a proper look at the new platform and give it a real run for its money. As I am not clever enough to be a developer we are not one of these lucky few but the guys over at engadget have done a great piece including some rather impressive video.

Although I am eager to have a go of WP7 I must be honest and say that I am not really excited about it and I think that partly comes down to the user interface. It may be one of those things that grows on me and you never know, I could fall in love with it. Also, with the lack of certain features at launch, such as copy/paste and the lack of true multi tasking I cant wait to see if this will be a deciding factor on whether to purchase a WP7 device or not.

Anyway, head on over to engadget and have a look at the work they have done. You may want to make a coffee first. It is a big article!

Posted by: James

The new BlackBerry browser

We recently showed you some videos posted by salomondrin.net in which he had his hands on the BlackBerry 9800 slider.

The good news is he still has the device and has released a new bunch of videos. In this first one he demonstrates the new web kit browser and shows how much faster it is compared with the one we are currently using.

It looks real nice and I have a suspicion that once this is available my iPhone4 may be getting used a little less certain things.

Have a look below and we will bring you more later today.

Steve Jobs on ‘Antennagate’

There’s a press conference going on at Apple at the moment and as expected it’s all about the problems with iPhone 4. Well I say all about the problems but in the first part of the ‘show’ Apple state that the iPhone is the number one smartphone and that in 22 days over 3,000,000 (that’s three million) handsets have been sold!

So in what is now being referred to as Antennagate, Steve Jobs confirms that the issue with the signal and reception is not unique to the iPhone and that most, if not all phones, will suffer a similar fate depending in how and where you hold them. In fact the Blackberry 9700 was demo’d as being one of those handsets similarly affected.

Apparently less than one half of a percent of customers have complained about the problem.

Apple are going to offer a free case for every iPhone 4 customer. You’ll be able to register on the Apple site from next week and will receive YOUR CHOICE of case within the range they are offering. If you are not happy you can return your iPhone 4 for a full refund within 30 days of purchase, assuming the phone is undamaged.

As there have also been reported issues with the proximity sensor (I’m seeing this problem!) there will be an update to the OS to address the soon.

This conference is still on-going so we’ll bring you more as it comes in!

Posted by: Matt

Apple hold a press conference

Apple has announced a special press conference about its problematic iPhone 4 – prompting speculation of a recall.

The conference will be held today at 6PM UK time and will address the ‘death grip’ that so many people are having issues with.

Will we see a fix for the problem or maybe some compensation? Either way I am not having the problems that others are. I have not had a single dropped call. I must be holding it right!

We will endeavor to bring you the details from the press conference tonight.

Posted by: James

An interview with GiffGaff

As you may have seen us mention on the blog or on Twitter, last night Matt and I recorded our weekly mobiletechaddicts podcast and had a special guest, Mike Fairman, the boss of GiffGaff.

We put to him a selection of your questions and our own and the interview went extremely well with Mike confirming a few facts we were not sure of and also a few future ones.

To download head on over to mobiletechaddicts. It is well worth a listen.

Posted by: James

Bit Defender new beta

Those of you that watch our videos on unboxings.com will have seen that we recently introduced a sponsor in the form of bit defender. We all need computer security and I have just been told that they have just released bit defender 2011 beta.

They also currently have one or two special offers over on the site so please go and check it out. You have nothing to lose.

Posted by: James

New official BlackBerry 6 video

At last RIM have decided to give us an official glimpse of what will can expect from BlackBerry 6. As you will see, the video is very much orientated at a touch screen device and looks to work well. We know we will see BlackBerry 6 on the forthcoming 9800 Slider and more than likely on a Storm 3 if that is made but what about the majority of us that already have a non touch screen BlackBerry. Not only do we need to know for sure that ‘6’ will run on non touch screen devices but more importantly will it run on our current phones such as the Bold 9800 or the Curve 8520. Please tell us RIM? We need to know.

See what you think below and feed us your thoughts on the forum.

Free iPhone 4 cases

You may have seen that I recently did a quick post mentioning that mobilefun had a nice new range of iPhone 4 cases. To follow on from that and to tackle the ‘death grip’ problem, that many people are having with the iPhone 4, mobilefun are giving away free cases!

The cases are made from non conducting silicone gel which acts as an insulator to prevent your hand from causing signal drop issues. How jolly decent of them!

The offer is not actually live until Monday so this is just really a heads up but if you have an iPhone 4 be sure to click here on Monday for some free stuff.

Posted by: James