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Verizon’s Wireless Extender femtocell coming next week

Gareth | January 19, 2009 |

Like many people I would really like to drop my landline phone, but I have terrible reception in my home. If I could get a reliable signal in my living room I would  cut the cord in a hot second. Starting January 25th Verizon has a solution for people like me. Verizon’s wireless extender is […]

Can Nokia make it in America?

Gareth | January 18, 2009 |

Nokia is the world’s largest mobile phone maker, the world’s largest smartphone maker, and according to one accounting, the world’s largest computer maker, but there is one locale that Nokia can’t seem to gain a foothold. World wide Nokia has nearly 40% market share, but in the good ole’ USA they barely crack 7%. What […]

Nokia N97 coming to the UK in March?

Gareth | January 18, 2009 |

UK online retailer Play.com has the Nokia N97 up for pre-order with an availability  date of March 31. Nokia’s new flagship phone includes a high quality camera, touchscreen input (though it is disappointingly a resistive touchscreen), and a sliding qwerty keyboard. This release is for the European variant, a North American version is promised to […]

Palm Pre to be Vodafone UK exclusive?

Gareth | January 18, 2009 |

Vodafone could be Palm’s official carrier partner for the Palm Pre in the UK, according to the latest rumors.  While unconfirmed by either the carrier or Palm themselves, a member of Vodafone’s customer service team has revealed that they are “in early negotiation” regarding the Pre, although “nothing is solid”.  The device in question could […]

We are back

Gareth | January 18, 2009 |

Well what a weekend, a failed wordpress 2.7 update and backup caused us no end of problems but thanks to the amazing skills of J Doss the site is now back online. Still needs some work on the theme but everything has been recovered. Apologies for the inconvenience. We should be back to normal very […]

Win an XBOX 360!!

Matt | January 18, 2009 |

Remember I mentioned that we had some really cool competitions coming up in January? Well here’s the first one! A little OT background: I recently did some work for a company called Click On Plastics. The company specialises in industrial grade plastics (Like PTFE, PEEK and Nylon products) and they needed some help setting up […]

Lastolite Studio Cubelite review video

Matt | January 17, 2009 |

I frequently get asked about the photos that we use in the reviews here in tracyandmatt, seems that some of you are curious about the equipment and method that we use to take the shots of the review devices. I thought the easiest way to show you would be to record a video of my […]

Hotfix for the HTC Touch HD

Gareth | January 16, 2009 |

Well we don’t know if this is good or bad, yet another hotfix for the HTC Touch HD after last weeks double fix. A positive look and we say well done HTC for getting these out fast and frequently, on a negative, why has this device got so many problems. Anyway this hotfix addresses a […]

HTC Touch Diamond ROM update

Gareth | January 16, 2009 |

HTC have released a firmware update today for the HTC Diamond. It’s for the GSM version only, not any of the CDMA versions available in the US. It fixes quite a few issues with the camera, video playback, audio playback and a few other things, full list after the break with update instructions.

Ustream on your iPhone 3G

Gareth | January 16, 2009 |

Ustream has developed an application for the iphone 3G that allows you to watch Ustream anywhere. Regardless of where you are at and what you are doing, you can choose to be in the moment with others in a shared live experience around a live event. If you are out-on-the-town and know that a guest […]