Archive : Mobile

Nokia announced C6 and C7  running Symbian3 handsets at Nokia World event at London.  The Nokia C6-01 features an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology  touted to deliver better outdoor visibility.  The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body. Both handsets can record pixel-heavy 720p [...]

Over 70% of Android based Mobile phones are now running Android Eclair 2.1 or Froyo 2.2 according to a  latest report on fragmentation of its Android platform released by Google. There has recently been a surge in the number of devices running Android 2.2, it’s now running on 28.7% of handsets. The swift leap can be attributed to the wide number of handsets that have been updated to 2.2 Froyo [...]

After Apple has announced yesterday that it will be relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code, developers were greatly relieved, as it meant that they could again start using third party development tools to create iOS apps. Adobe was glad at this development and has termed  Apple’s decision “great news [...]

Erica Sadun at TUAW has discovered that the new iPod Nano has video playback capabilities lying deep in the code  (the internal settings property list, to be specific).  It may not be anything more than a bit of excess or leftover code, but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Bad news for all the iPhone 3G owners who were looking forward to  Game Center, Apple’s social and gaming networking application, which is  included with iOS 4.1. Apple has confirmed that Game Center will work on the second-generation iPod touch, but not on the iPhone 3G. The first-generation iPhone and iPod touch models are the only other iOS based devices that cannot access Game Center. [...]

Nokia N8 will be on sale at the Nokia’s U.K. Online Shop for £429 SIM free or on contract from £35 per month from Friday 1st October. The Nokia N8 will also be available from Carphone Warehouse, O2, Orange, Phones4u, T-Mobile, Tesco Phone Shops, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone. Mark Loughran, General Manager, Nokia UK, says, “The Nokia N8 is a great multitasker, packed with [...]

According to reports Nokia will introduce its new E7 smartphone at its Nokia World event in London next week, and  the device may pack both a “large” touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. Nokia will also unveil  its new N8 model, which is the first phone to use the new Symbian 3 software, along with other new smartphones. “As the N8 starts shipping and other devices are [...]

Twitter will be enabling Push Notifications service soon for iPhone and iPad. Twitter’s official iPad app, which launched a couple of days ago to and was embraced positively. Twitter’a app  for iPhone,  formerly known as Tweetie,  has been around for the past  few  months, it has the crown for for  the most-used Twitter interfaces with  8% of all users of Twitter accessing the app [...]

Twitter’s mobile usage of the service  has gone up 62% in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups according to Twitter’s CEO Ev Williams. “Our Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry clients are now two of the most popular ways to use Twitter. This may not be surprising. What may be more surprising [...]

Android app users could now check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-check in feature integrated by Vlingo and this absolutely is a time saver. With the new app, Android users can speak a simple “check in to < place name>” command from the home screen . The command will make Vlingo to automatically pull up the location in question, and other nearby venues, on Foursquare, [...]