News tagged "Misc"

The fusion of Moblin and Maemo is complete - the source code repositories are open to the public and there are three MeeGo test images ready for downloading - one for the Nokia N900, one for Atom-based netbooks and one for Moorestown Atom handsets...

There are very few free GPS navigation apps for the iPhone and none that pack voice guidance. Today MapQuest 4 Mobile became the first to combine the best of both worlds, bringing joy to the iPhone users in the US. The MapQuest 4 Mobile is...

Time for another survey - this one is app store centered. It reveals some unsurprising things (the Apple App Store is on top) and surprising ones - carrier app stores are still going strong, despite everyone and their mother having a device-specific...

The new crop of microSD cards are getting ridiculous storage capacities for something this small - step back 16GB microSD cards, the 32GB cards are coming to town. SanDisk just might be the first to release microSD cards of this capacity. By the...

They say you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch, but according to a market survey Android has laid a lot of eggs in North America. The total number of smartphone shipments will rise by 38% compared to last year for a total of 65.1...

Today HTC released a dedicated press release to voice out their disagreement with Apple's legal actions against them. Now, we don't know if anyone ever felt happy about being sued but the Taiwanese company obviously felt the need to underline their...

Google Maps for Android version 4.1 has hit the Market and brings several improvements, a Google Latitude widget and a brand new live wallpaper. This update comes just over a month after v4.0 came out. The search result page has been redesigned -...

The Sony Ericsson Satio and the recently released Vivaz both lack a nice modern convenience - a music equalizer. A team of SE developers have come up with a fix today - and it's a rather strange fix. The equalizer controls have been released as...

Google's Gesture Search for Android has been available for a limited number of devices for testing purposes for a while now, but it has just been released worldwide (it was US only so far) and to a lot more phones - Gestures Search is available for...

The final versions of both Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 have just been released. One after the other diverse versions of the free web browser have been showing up so that now there are dedicated versions for almost all platforms and most of the...

Opera Mini continues to evolve and now speaks Android. A native beta version is already available for all Androids out there introducing them to the world of compressed browsing. This release comes hot on the heels of the native Windows Mobile...

Gresso unveiled their new limited mobile phone lineup with red alligator skin. Gresso phones have always been able to make a bold statement. In the case of Grand Monaco Red, the statement simply doesn't get any louder than that. The Grand...

The SatNav business has been turned on its head a couple times in the last year, but none of the competitors are giving up. A new challenger, the Sygic AURA, is hitting just about every smartphone platform around. The Sygic AURA puts an emphasis...

Opera Mini now speaks Windows Mobile-ish! In other words, the platform now enjoys a native version of the Opera Mini 5 web browser. Up until now, WinMo users needed Java support, but that's no more. After Skype ditched support and development for...

Android users are mostly males and iPod Touch owners are primarily teenagers. How do we know? We stumbled on a very interesting survey courtesy of AdMob, that's how. For example, did you know that iPhone users and Android users download the same...

Technology researchers from Gartner have come up with their annual report on mobile phone sales, 2009 edition. And it's an interesting read. In short, 2009 phones sales have remained flat despite the economic imbalances but there are some pretty...

If you thought Windows Mobile 6 was finally put to rest, guess again. It turns out there's a little something called Windows Phone 6 Starter Edition, which is headed to new and emerging markets and can be used for rugged field computing and so...

GSMA announced the winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2010. HTC Hero was crowned device of the year, while the technology breakthrough award goes to Orange for the HD voice technology. Yesterday on a special ceremony at the MWC 2010 GSMA...

Some mobile phones can do Wi-Fi tethering, others need to connect to the PC Suite for Internet sharing and some just can't do it, period. But what if the SIM card in the phone could do it all by itself? Sagem Orga and Telefonica have come up with...

We've prepared a set of our very own ringtones (four, to be precise) to share with you. There's no particular reason behind the making of those, we did it for the fun of it. We humbly hope that you like them. You may have noticed that our latest...