Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone, Software | 
When you’re a famous phone maker like Sony Ericsson, it becomes a little tough to keep your newest products under wraps. The new kid on the block is the F305 motion gaming phone, which features a built-in accelerometer for motion sensing games.
Other notable features include a 176 x 220 resolution, a Memory Stick Micro slot, and a specially designed directional pad and two face buttons specially located for gaming purposes. While we’re pretty sure that its not going to be the rumoured Playstation Portable Phone, it certainly can’t fare any worse than the Nokia N-gage can it? The button layout certainly lends itself to ergonomic gaming, and we could be looking at some NES/Gameboy Color emulators in the very near future. After all, who could say no to some portable Contra on the go?
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Windows Vista is the new wave of the future. Or so says Microsoft. For those who have made the leap from XP to Vista, some teething compatibility problems between software, hardware and the new Windows Operating System mean that early adopters are often left out in the cold.
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Not a big deal was made of it, but just announced by Sony at their Leipzeg press conference is the PSP-3000. We’ll cut to the chase here, how exactly is the redesigned PSP-3000 better than its bigger brothers? Well, the answer is not very much.
The PSP-3000 will have no external redesign whatsoever and will look exactly like the PSP-2000. Whats changed under the hood is the presence of a screen that works better outdoors and apparently is able to resist glare, as well as a built-in microphone, something that will excite Skype users who will now be able to use their PSP as a Internet phone without any cumbersome addons.
If you asked me though, these added features are pretty underwhelming, what with all the hype of an internal hard disk, more ram, and a second analogue stick, that PSP fans had been speculating about before the official announcement.
What Sony is more likely to be after is the release of a PSP version with a more hacker-resistant motherboard, the last couple of versions were easily compromised by hackers and Sony will be looking to hold off the pirates with the newest release of the PSP-3000.
The PSP-3000 will be released in Europe on October 15th, and will be available in 8 different packages, each bundled with a different game.
So what do you think? Are these new features enough to make you buy a new PSP? Or is this minor redesign simply an attempt by Sony to make a quick buck?
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The newly released 3G Iphone is taking the world by storm, and we’re sure there’s a bunch of proud Iphone owners scouring the net looking for some applications to put on their shiny new Iphones. While you’re here, why not take a look at these 5 interesting applications we’ve found specially made for your 3G IPhone?
Ruler
Isn’t strictly an application, but still qualifies as something interesting. Use your Iphone’s screen to display a pre-rendered image of a ruler with accurate measurements. Handy when you need to find out the length of something but a real ruler isn’t available.
Shazam
Its every music aficionado’s dream: A portable music identification software. Hold your Iphone close to any music source for a few seconds, and watch in amazement as this little gizmo identifies the song for you, then directs you to an Itunes store to purchase the song if its available.
Flashlight
You’ve a $800 shiny gadget in your hand, yet what use is it when the power is out and it doesn’t give out enough light to illuminate your way? Flashlight cranks up the brightness of the Iphone as well as displays a series of optimized images to maximise the flashlight capability of your iphone.
Google Reader Iphone
We’ve covered Google Reader in the past. Its an awesome way to get your daily fix of news updates from blogs and news websites on the net. Now you can gain access to your RSS feeds on the go, simply by pointing your web browser to the Iphone-optimized version of the Google reader website. Never has staying updated on the go been so easy!
Datacase
Make the best use of your Iphone’s wifi capabilities by turning it into a wireless storage drive that is able to be accessed by any other device on your network. Easily transfer files from your computer into your Iphone to view them on the go, or simply use your Iphone as a more convenient thumbdrive. Another great creative use of the 3G Iphone’s many functionalities.
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For apple users, you will be delighted to know that there are indeed alternatives to the inertia and bloated iTunes. Today, I will be sharing two iTunes alternatives for managing your Apple devices equally if not better than the like of iTunes.
First we have iPhone PC Suite. If you are a proud owner of an iPhone, this sleak and powerful software is designed especially to blow you mind. With the promise of diligently sorting out you images, music, contacts to managing your camera, bookmarks, themes, all these via a specially crafted iPhone interface.
Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
The number of people using their mobile phones to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo and keep in constant touch with their friends has rocketed this year, according to new research reported by Guardian.
Almost all the handset manufacturers like Nokia, Blackberry, Apple releasing new handsets and smart phones that are capable of high speed internet access and comfortable screen sizes for internet browsing. The combination of cheap or unlimited internet access tariffs and handsets which make it simple for people to log onto their favorite sites has created a boom in social networking, the study by Orange found.
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According to The Korea Herald, Three of Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile phones made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
i) The Ultra Edition 5.9, which is only 5.9 millimeters thick, or less than 0.2 inches, has been named the world’s thinnest phone.
ii) The Ultra Edition 8.4 was included in the book in as the world’s thinnest 3G phone.
iii) Samsung’s 10-megapixel camera phone has been picked by The Guinness Book as the world’s highest megapixel mobile phone.
With the three new entries, Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, holds four Guinness Book world records in the mobile phone sector. The company’s TV phone made its entry to the Guinness World Records in 2001.
A life-sized photo of the Ultra Edition 5.9 will be included in the 2008 edition of the Guinness Book to emphasize the thinness of the record-setting phone, the company said.
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The Eye-Fi is an Wireless SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera that supports SD memory card. It can automatically upload pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.
The Eye-Fi is like any other SD card, except that there is some setup to do first. Once that is all done, the point of the Eye-Fi is to upload your photos while your camera is on and connected your wireless network to one of the many supported photo sharing services and/or your computer. It appears as though Eye-Fi is aiming to make repetitive card readings and fiddling with a USB cable things of the past.
Setting up the Eye-Fi is fairly simple but involves installing local software on your Mac/PC (no Linux support) which receives settings from an Eye.fi account you must create. The first step is plugging the Eye-Fi with its included SD card reader into your computer. From there, you find the appropriate installer for your OS then install and run it.