News tagged "Misc"

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...

A teaser site is up for the PUMA PHONE - yes, the company better known for its sports equipment is going to join the mobile phone race next week. It has a solar panel and its features are geared towards a sporty crowd. The teaser site doesn't...

The high-tech industry analyzers from Canalys have published a very interesting report about the touchscreen and smartphone markets in 2009. Apparently last year was the first time when more than half of all smartphones sold globally featured...

If you've been wondering how a mobile phone is manufactured, you might want to pay attention now. We have a couple of short films showing how the Google Nexus One is being produced and what tests it goes through before it's ready to take off for the...

Not long ago we told you that the Snapdragon-powered HTC HD2 is getting an extended battery which, along with the almost doubled capacity, brings quite welcome inbuilt kickstand. The battery status is still set to preorder but at least there are...

It was around 8 years ago when the Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO launched world's first 3G network. Believe it or not, yesterday the number of 3G network customers around the globe reached 500 million. To help you put this into perspective...

It's been a while since we first heard that an Android-compatible Firefox version is in the works. Word on the street is that the waiting is almost over: we can expect the first beta version of the Fennec to show up this February. Reportedly,...

VoIP on the iPhone has quite a turbulent past, but they eventually reached a compromise - VoIP apps are allowed but only through Wi-Fi. But that was quite limiting - VoIP apps usually offer free calls between two users running the app, but the...

As the popularity of full-touch devices continues to grow rapidly, manufacturers are working as hard as they can on delivering better user experience. This latest innovation in the area concerns the screen itself and the way its reacts to out...

3 Scandinavia, together with Ericsson, are about to launch world's fastest 3G network. This will allow data transfer speeds over HSPA to jump from the current 21Mbps to 84Mbps. This news comes only a month after TeliaSonera's introduction of the...

Today GSMA announced the nominees for the Global Mobile Awards 2010 that will be finalized at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2010 this February. The nominees bring nothing surprising - starting with the best mobile game and closing with the best...

The ITG xpPhone saga continues. We've covered the news extensively, with two major bits of information missing - pricing and release date. Well, now the pricing is known and it's just the release date that's left to be announced. The ITG xpPhone...

ACCESS have just came up with a new version of their multi-platform NetFront web-browser. The latest NetFront Browser v4.0 is said to be the most advanced, versatile and powerful full Internet browser for mobile devices. More specifically...

Google is not all about web-based applications, occasionally they also produce an application that is useful locally. Like the updated Google Mobile App for BlackBerry - it searches contacts and emails on your device and you can even search by...

It was about time! Vodafone is the last one of the UK majors to hop on the iPhone bandwagon. Vodafone UK customers wait is over: as of today they can get an iPhone with varied prices and plans. As we told you nearly a month ago, January 14 was...

The GSMA is having a tough time keeping encrypted things encrypted. Just over a couple of weeks ago the GSM encryption was broken, now the 3G encryption it seems is no longer secure. The transition to 3G networks and their more secure encryption...

Samsung have stuffed more memory in a tiny package than seemed possible a few years ago and announced their 32GB microSD cards. For integrated memory, they are readying chips with double that capacity - 64GB. The previous best achievement in...

Android is an open platform and that makes it easier for new manufacturers to produce an Android-powered handset. Take General Mobile for instance and their Cosmos phone. They even made their own Android market, dubbed Storeoid. In fact, General...

Happy 3 billion downloads to the Apple App Store. Yep, the 100,000 plus applications in the App Store have been downloaded over 3 billion times in just a year and a half. Steve Jobs says it's like nothing they've seen before - well, Mr. Jobs, it's...

As it seems the devs over at Nokia Beta Labs know no rest. They just released an early beta of the Nokia Image Exchange application that adds a new touch-optimized image browsing on compatible smartphones. It's been a long time since the...