Archive : Mobile

Google Buzz – Google’s latest social networking tool is now available as an iPhone app called ‘Buzzie’. Buzzie is available for download from the Apple iTunes store. Since Google Buzz resides within Gmail and you can access it through a web browser as well, so an obvious question to ask is ‘Why do you need an iPhone app for Buzz’? Well, Buzzie answers that for you. It has a neat, stylish [...]

Yesterday, Orange and Intel announced their strategic partnership to develop Orange multimedia services for Intel’s MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel where both companies decided to develop a new hybrid mobile platform based on Nokia’s Maemo platform and Intel’s Mobilin platform. The announcement from Orange gives a great boost to the future prospects of Maemo [...]

There’s good news for all you ‘Fashionistas’ out there. Samsung has recently launched its trendy, stylish and very fashionable Diva S7070 phone in UK. As the name suggests, the Samsung Diva is a true fashion phone with ‘mesmerizing’ looks. The diamond shaped button on the front adds more charm to Diva’s gorgeous looks. Samsung realizes that there’s massive untapped potential [...]

Skype is no longer a beta app for Nokia Symbian OS. Yesterday, the free Skype service for Nokia Symbian phones was moved to the Nokia Ovi Store. It is also available for download through the Skype website. The timing of this announcement is very interesting to say the least. Yesterday, Skype had made a huge announcement to shelve its application for Windows and Java based mobile phones due to concerns [...]

Recent research conducted by Sky HD reveals that the British have wasted nearly £52 Billion on gadgets which they do not know how to use or fully operate. It is astonishing that nearly 50% of the poll audience did not know that in order to get HD video on your HDTV, you need a HD device such as a Blu-ray DVD player. What’s even more surprising is that many people in the UK buy these gadgets and [...]

If you own a Blackberry Storm 2 or a Blackberry Bold 2, you can now catch up on all the world news courtesy the new BBC iPlayer. To be honest, I’m surprised at what took RIM and BBC so long to release the iPlayer for Blackberry. To be fair, it’s now the case of ‘Better Late, than never’. The BBC iPlayer offers a fantastic option to Blackberry users to access streaming TV and radio shows [...]

O2 has recently announced its range of new budget-minded mobile and broadband tariff plans. The highlight of the O2 announcement is the new ‘Sim only’ plan for iPhone users which includes Visual Voicemail, unlimited text messages, data and Wi-Fi at just £15 per month for a year. If you are prepared to spend £20 per month, you can get this deal on a rolling monthly basis and there’s no obligation [...]

Palm has just announced that its smartphone sales for 2010 are likely to fall short of the projected targets. Palm has been under severe pressure since last year and has not been able to withstand the growing competition posed by Blackberry and iPhone. Similarly, webOS which was touted by Palm to be a game changing mobile operating system has rather fallen flat at its back when compared to iPhone [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Apple has announced the availability of an updated iPhone SDK 3.2 which would enable developers to write applications for the iPad. The latest update is the 3rd beta version of the SDK. The release of Beta 3 has been quite dramatic to say the least – First, Apple made the Beta 3 available, then shortly after the release, it decided to pull the release back. [...]

Novatal Wireless Intelligent Mobile Hotspot is a cool multi-purpose device – It allows up to 5 802.11bg appliances to share a single wireless 3G connection and it doubles up as a conventional 3G dongle via a USB interface which can be wired to your PC. With an in-built 2GB microSD card, it serves wonderfully well as a NAS drive as well. As far as looks and ease of use are concerned, the Novatel Wireless [...]