Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone, Software | 
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.
Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
QStarz has unveiled a new GPS data logger, BT-Q1000X, which is claimed to be the most powerful of its kind. The device is claimed to be able to store up to 200,000 GPS points.
The device shares almost the same form factor as its predecessors, but you will find lots of difference with the features that this new device carries. The BT-Q1000X GPS logger also has impressive battery life and comparatively much lower power consumption, which can last up to 42 hours of operation after every full charge.
Recording a GPS point is very easy using this device, just a push of a button to get it to save a location for you. The device has an auto on-off feature which shall switch off itself after certain idle times to maximize its battery life.
Using this device you can easily capture the GPS point of a location to mapped to Google Earth, or geotag it to your digital photos. There is no information about the availability of this device for the US. A closer look at the features is as follows:
- Adopts MTK II latest chipset with high sensitivity -165dBm and 66-Channel tracking
- Ultra lower power consumption up to 42hrs operation
- Less than 15-Sec. AGPS fix support: download almanac data to realize faster TTFF and positioning under warm start
- Update Rate 1~5Hz changeable by utility provided
- G-Mouse + Bluetooth in one: wired and wireless GPS receiver
- QZSS, DGPS(WAAS+EGNOS+MSAS) support
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Posted by friend on under Accessories |
Zumba is a voice recognition phone that claims to offer best voice recognition technology. This phone is kept pretty secretive, which could be due to it doesn’t wanna get unnecessarily cloned by others.
The Zumba phone was developed by I A technology, and it claims to be able to change how people communicate. Zumba could not be demonstrated to the public, as the maker wanna make it a secret at the moment. Despite that, BBC still managed to have a glimpse. It seems to come with an ear hook which attaches behind your ear and immediately connects to an online service where all your contacts are stored.
To send messages to those in your contact list, what you need is only to voice out, most likely just to say the name of the person you want the message to go to. The Zumba claims it is the most accurate voice recognition system for the mobile phones.
The Zumba stores all your contacts on a central repository, works as a could-based system. This has the advantage of being able to maintain the entire list of contacts for the user, even though the user has lost the phone. So, by getting another Zumba, the user will get back all the contacts that are stored on the online service. BBC has got a video to show the Zumba phone in action.