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Nokia takes on Apple in online software war

Gareth | March 9, 2009 |

Nokia is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple Inc’s App Store. The Apple store has proved the market for software supermarkets in the mobile world, with more than 500 million applications […]

Orange and Barclaycard join forces

Gareth | March 9, 2009 |

Orange and Barclaycard today announced a long term strategic partnership to develop a range of mobile, financial and payment services that will change the way we pay. Orange and Barclaycard will launch new co-branded products and services to make the buying process more convenient, simpler and faster. With a history of innovation and a combined […]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 review

Iain Miller | March 9, 2009 |

The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is another in the current flood of ‘NetBooks’ that we have seen since the first Asus EeePC, so how does it fair in the current marketplace. The Dell Inspiron Mini 9   What’s in the box? Inspiron Mini 9 Charger Recovery CD’s Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Specification: Processors Intel®  AtomTM  […]

Windows Marketplace for Mobile appears

Gareth | March 8, 2009 |

Pocketnow have spotted a coming soon page from Microsoft that appears at first glance could be the new Windows Mobile Marketplace which was mentioned in passing at Mobile World Congress last month. The URL reveals a mobile formatted website which implies that the Marketplace may just be a website of applications and not a fully […]

Interview with Eric Lin from HTC

Gareth | March 8, 2009 |

The latest msmobiles podcast is now available and it is a great listen as we spent over an hour talking with Eric Lin from HTC. We talked about a lot of topics including the 3.5mm headset omissions, universal charging, the Touch Diamond range, the new Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 and his views on Windows Mobile […]

HTC at CeBIT 2009

Gareth | March 8, 2009 |

Msmobiles spent the day yesterday taking a look around the CeBIT exhibition in Germany and have shared a video look around the HTC booth. Some observations, various models of HTC phones were presented, including HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Diamond2, HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Pro, S740 as well as accessories for them and two phones […]

BlackBerry Storm 9500 unboxed

Matt | March 8, 2009 |

Continuing on with our Blackberry testing this week we have the Blackberry Storm 9500. Here in the UK the Storm is a Vodafone exclusive although if you hunt around enough you’ll find a few retailers offering it SIM-Free. At the moment you can barely walk past a billboard without seeing a Vodafone advert presenting the […]

QSTARZ BT-Q1000X GPS data logger review

Matt | March 7, 2009 |

The other week I mentioned that I was looking for a way to geo-tag my photos and came across the QSTARZ BT-1000X gps data logger. Now that I’ve got my hands on this little GPS unit does it live up to my expectations and deliver a simple geo-tagging solution? The QSTARZ BT-1000X data logger   […]

Cydia to offer App Store competition

Gareth | March 7, 2009 |

So the news in the iPhone world this week has been dominated with the Cydia installer, you know the installer that you get when you Jailbreak your iPhone, they will be offering an alternative to paid applications in the App Store. So what does this all mean for iPhone users and to Apple. Well personally […]

Removable memory is pretty much all alike, isn’t it?

Gareth | March 6, 2009 |

       According to the Kinoma blog, there can be big differences in quality and speed between one storage card and another. For quality, all you can really do is buy a brand you trust. But for speed, the good news is that there’s now a standard way of classifying the throughput of SD and SDHC […]