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The latest beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung mobile phones running on Symbian and S60 OS is now available for download. This latest version of the popular mobile web browser offers sleeker design similar to the previously released Opera Mini 5 beta for Java phones. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 3, 2009 @ 4:08 am
With several mobile phones running Google’s Android platform already out in the market or are about to be released by current popular mobile phone makers, who woud have thought that Motorola might actually come up with possibly the best Android phone of them all?
I mean, Motorola has been struggling to join the likes of Apple, Samsung, Â HTC and even LG into the “smartest” phone niche but never seemed to get it right. Until now, as the Motorola DROID was finally launched. This early, Motorola DROID is gaining some accolades from industry analysts. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 5, 2009 @ 11:04 am
What’s this? Even Sony Ericsson couldn’t wait until November 3 and decided to slip in a short  video  of its first Android phone dubbed Xperia X3/X10.  The video doesn’t say much about what goodies Sony Ericsson is about to bring with this new smartphone except for a a USB connector with cover, 3.5mm headphone jack and some buttons for camera, power and volume controls. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 1, 2009 @ 7:07 am
The road to application approval hasn’t always been smooth, with apps approved and then pulled, or outright banned on rather shaky grounds, but that hasn’t stopped Apple powering to 100,000 approved apps in the iTunes App Store.
The web site Appshopper.com has counted 102,485 approved applications and 93,659 available.
That’s a mind-boggling number, and unfortunately says nothing about the quality of those applications. Bear in mind that there are many variations on the same theme, and some (a lot) of them are complete and utter rubbish. [Read more…]
Originally posted on October 30, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Google wants to be your satellite navigation partner, as it announces the power of Google Maps together with some nifty features are coming soon to Android 2.0-powered cellphones.
It believes the feature set it has built in to the turn-by-turn system beat other sat-navs hands down.
These include voice recognition, the ability to enter a whole range of voice or text destinations — including street names, places of interest, and even queries such as “the museum that houses this particular exhibition” — and satellite and street and traffic view while navigating. [Read more…]
Originally posted on October 28, 2009 @ 11:20 am