If you use a BlackBerry, and I know thousands of you do, you may want to join us over in our new BlackBerry Messenger group!
If you have not used the group feature in BBM then to cut a long story short its a place where anyone can jump into an ongoing chat. You don’t have to talk about BlackBerry. Anything goes but please keep it clean!
To join the group just open BBM on your BlackBerry and select ‘Scan a group barcode’ and point your camera at the barcode on this page. Simple Pimple!
Matt has even taken the plunge and is this week carrying a BlackBerry Bold 9700 as well as his iPhone! Will he keep it? He is warming to the idea!
See you over in the group if you fancy it. Otherwise you can add Matt by his PIN, 21619458, and he’ll throw you a group invitation.
Posted by: James
So, you are buying some electrical appliances for yourself or toys for your kids and you would like to be sure that they are not dangerous? Every Friday EU is releasing list of dangerous products. With this app you can search the whole database of products or just the recently added products by country of sale. If you live in EU, you might find this app useful.
One example: an iPhone clone from China that is causing electrical shock and fire:
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So as the dust settles on the Windows Phone 7 Series details announced at Mix 2010 I thought it was about time that I chimed in with my thoughts on this new platform.
First off, after it was announced at Mobile World Congress I was genuinely excited, the first time in a long long time that a Windows Phone product has got my juices flowing, unfortunately after MWC I was left with lots more questions than answers but following Mix those questions are now getting answers but are they the right answers.
In my opinion Windows Mobile has taken a long hard look at the competition, it’s history and it’s future and has chosen to chase the dollar, what do I mean by this, well Windows Mobile was the power users platform of choice, the OS that the geeks of this world were proud to use, an OS that you could do anything with, no limits, no restrictions and a huge underground community to assist with those whims.
That has now been blown apart with Windows Phone 7 Series, this OS is following the Apple model, locked down to the hilt, synching only with desktop Zune software, apps only via Marketplace, very restricted multi- tasking, no memory card slots oh and I nearly forgot, no customisation of home screens and wait for it……. No copy and paste, you can hear the screams and gnashing of teeth from the die hard Windows Mobile fans who have stuck up for the aging OS for years, Microsoft have said thanks but get lost, it’s not the choice for the geek anymore that is for sure, Android has just received a huge sales boost , you can read the comments on many popular Windows Phone forums, it’s the end of an era.
As far as I am concerned it’s the start of something fresh, new and usable, it’s a UI designed for finger navigation, structured and easy to use, app development is structured also and will have standards to be followed so apps will function and operate in similar ways like the iPhone., so it’s not all bad but Windows Phone 7 Series has just done the biggest U turn in OS history, geeks need not apply, Microsoft is targeting a whole new Market!
Let’s hope it has enough good features to attract this new market and also stand alongside what Apple has to offer with their new hardware and software in the summer, I fear for the future of Windows Phone 7 Series, I really do, if you copy a winning formula you have to have something special to compete with the original, I just don’t see what they have here, apart from less features, sure Xbox integration is nice but how deep will that go really.
What do you think?
No, I am not joking. Yesterday at MIX 10 in a Q&A session Microsoft said that clipboard operations would not be supported in ‘7’.
Further to that, the guys at Engadget confirmed this with Microsoft and they said that copy & paste would definitely not be present.
There is a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that will recognize phone numbers and addresses, but Microsoft says most users, including Office users, don’t really need clipboard functionality.
I have never heard anything so stupid in all my life. I have used Windows Mobile for years, and now a BlackBerry, and I use copy/paste every single day. Not having this feature will affect a lot of professional people in my opinion. I know the iPhone didn’t have this originally but it also was one of the main things that iPhone customers wanted on there phones.
What’s next? A Smartphone that doesn’t make phone calls?!
Posted by: James
When it comes to strategy games it seems there is no shortage of tower defense games out there. Here, we will look at on of the more popular entries.
We’ve spoken quite a bit about the Palm Pre here on the site. In general terms we love the operating system on the device, WebOS, but felt is was rather let down by lack-lustre hardware.
In the US Palm have had the Pre Plus on sale for quite some time along with the Pre’s little brother, the Pixi Plus.
Another anonymous tip was sent to me last night through our contact page on site, the sender says that O2 will be getting the Pre and Pixi Plus in the UK very soon. It’ll be interesting to see if the Pre Plus addresses any of our concerns over the quality of the original Pre’s hardware!
I’ve included the full message from our tipster below.
I think I have probably mentioned that I have been selected by Sony Ericsson to take part in their Xperia X10 research programme. As such I should be getting my hands on the X10 over the next few weeks, something that I am looking forward to playing with for sure!
Last night I has an email from a friend over at Orange letting me know that the Xperia X10 was now one of their ‘coming soon’ handsets and can now be seen on the Orange website. Furthermore the X10 will be available in both black and white versions on Orange.
More details after the jump.
It wasn’t long ago that I posted saying that the HTC Tattoo would be eligible for an Android update.
Well, I am sorry to say it’s not going to happen!
When we originally heard the news I presumed I must have emailed HTC to confirm what we had seen on other sites and I have just had a response and it said what I didn’t want to hear.
“Currently there are no plans to update the HTC Tattoo with éclair.”
So there you go. Whether we will see them change there minds in the future nobody knows. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: James
It’s not only mobile stuff that Microsoft have been talking about at MIX 10.
Today saw Microsoft release an early “platform preview” version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) which I’m sure all of you will use at some point, baring in mind if you are reading this I’m pretty sure you have a computer, even if you are on your mobile right now.
New devices are something that we all are interested to see when it comes to Windows Phone 7 Series.
We have seen so far a prototype, an LG Slider and now a new shiny Samsung slate. While doing a ‘7’ demo at MIX Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore produced the Samsung, which has not been seen before. Although the specs has not been announced just yet it will have to meet the minimum specs so will have at least a 256MB of RAM and 8GB of flash and those all important three keys. I would imagine we will hear more about this device over the coming days. It sure looks sweet though with its Super AMOLED screen and shiny chrome outer edge.
Microsoft also confirmed that the HTC HD2 would not be eligible for an upgrade to Windows Phone 7 Series. We already knew this from our two interviews with Microsoft, but once again they have said it is due to the HD2 not having those special three buttons. I feel for you guys that bought the HTC HD2 thinking it would be eligible but its not going to happen. It will be interesting to see exactly how the new ‘7’ devices compare spec wise. Maybe the HD2 isn’t up to the job?
Posted by: James
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