BlackBerry 9650 spotted in the wild again, ‘Bold’ branding confirmed
BlackBerry 9650 spotted in the wild again, ‘Bold’ branding confirmed The Tour branding never made a lot of sense — RIM’s most recently-released high-end portrait QWERTY device for CDMA networks occupies the same market position as the Bold over on GSM networks, so the name difference is kind of arbitrary and more than just a little bit confusing. It’s all good, though, because CrackBerry has confirmation here that the Tour’s replacement — the 9650 — is going to be wearing a Bold badge loud and proud around back by the 3.2 megapixel camera. It’s not clear exactly when Sprint and Verizon are going to launch this sucker, but it’s patently obvious that they both will — it’s just a matter of time — so you may as well start prepping your eulogy for that infernal trackball now.
Vertu Signature Pure Black Vertu has introduced its latest handset, the Signature Pure Black which is specially handcrafted thanks to the PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) technique that is currently being used in watches. This will require vaporizing a block of Titanium Carbide at extremely high temperatures using a plasma beam in a vacuum chamber, where the resulting PVD coating makes sure you are the recipient of an extremely rugged surface which is nigh impossible to scratch unless Wolverine comes along.
MDO Avatar G580 Android-powered handset The MDO Avatar G580 is yet another smartphone which is powered by the Android operating system, where it does resemble the HTC Hero although it is missing out on a chin. Measuring a mere 10.7mm thin, you will find a relatively slow 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor running within accompanied by a 3.2′ 320 x 480 resolution HVGA display, 256MB RAM, 256MB ROM, Wi-Fi connectivity and a microSD memory card slot. There is no trackball with this handset, so you will have to make do with the typical direction button instead. No idea on its availability since MDO has kept mum on the issue, although it is going for 1,900 Yuan in China.
And there you have it, a 800MHz clocking Nokia n900 – that’s a 33% overclock over the stock 600MHz and it’s all thanks to Letho’s kernel. Titans kernel was also available but i felt an inclination towards this one. It’s also a ultra low voltage kernel, which means that in this case the processor is running at (an assumed) 1.14v which is lower than the stock by a couple of milli volts. And that’s
After hacks that made overclocked the n900 were made available by Lehto and Titan the question on everyone’s lips had been why Nokia didn’t do this itself in the first place. Possible answers include:Greater Stability at lower clock speeds. Lower power loss due to heat which also accounts for longer lifespan. Increased battery longevity.
The International Visitors Center of Chicago hosted Matthew Klimow, Director of the Office of Language Services, & his associate Julien, who flew in from Washington, D.C. Department of State to present Privilege of a Lifetime; Serving at the State Department. Their focus was mainly on opportunities for those who speak multiple languages & speak/write them
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This is a video showing you some 3d applications that you can download from android market place The applications that were shown are below: Raging Tunder 2 lite whac ‘em speed forge 3d demo gba emulator iron sight wave blazer for free.
Free domestic Wi-Fi VoIP calling with Vonage Mobile for Android (and cheap international calls, too!)
Vonage Mobile, now available for T-Mobile and AT&T Android smartphones, offers users cheap international calling rates as well as free U.S. domestic calling over Wi-Fi. That can free up a lot of otherwise used calling plan minutes. We check it out to see how it performs
HD Radio Based Traffic – Clear Channel Total Traffic Network Plus
Clear Channel is getting ready to launch an upgraded traffic solution dubbed Total Traffic Network Plus for 63 metro areas that will be delivered through HD radio tuners in mobile devices like a GPS/PND. They have been working on a solution like this for a while; as they tested it back in 2007 . The problem with the existing RDS system is that it is delivered over the FM airwaves and is restricted in its bandwidth, tus limiting the granularity of the traffic data, the descriptions of the incidents and generally lacks the coverage that is available today through higher bandwidth solutions (think smart phones here – Inrix Traffic App, TomTom with optional Traffic and Navigon with optional Traffic come to mind).
Apple CEO and avid turtle neck wearer Steve Jobs revealed the latest iteration of the iPhone OS – 4.0 – which brings some interesting new features to iPhone users. Whilst fanboys from each side will carry on debating what this means to them one way or another, there is one clear fact, fragmentation has come to the Apple-sphere
HTC Desire Android smartphone review – a Nexus One with HTC Sense
We’ve got an in-depth review of the new HTC Desire Android smartphone, a device that is basically a Google Nexus One with HTC’s Sense UI enhancements. Read on to find out if the Desire’s AMOLED display and 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inspire lust or loathing. Read the full story here.
Foursquare vs Gowalla -the battle of the check-in at SXSW ( a video comparison)
AUSTIN- SXSW has come and gone, but it has left an important mark on the social networking scene by making location-aware apps core to the participants’ experience of the event. It also raised the profile of the location ‘check-in’ feature, as popular Location Based Social Networks like Gowalla and Foursquare competed for the hearts and minds of those present at SXSW.Google’s VP of Geo Products, John Hanke, said: “the check-in had energized the conference.” Who was the winner of the ‘ mobile check-in’ at SXSW, then? Apparently, there wasn’t one, though this video produced by SimpleGeo gives you a good feel of how the different services were used (thanks to Troy for bringing this to my attention).
We’re back with another big line-up for April! Where City Hotel (Upstairs) - Corner of Kent & King Streets, Sydney When 12th April – from 6:30, presentations start at 7pm (and feel free to meet up with people in the bar downstairs beforehand!) Presentation 1 – Mobile Coupons Claudia Sagripanti (Venture One) Claudia Sagripanti was most recently Director of Mobile Communications for media agency investment network GroupM responsible for developing mobile solutions for brands. She is now focusing on the mobile retail/payments sector as as principal of digital consulting and training business, VentureOne. She will discuss the opportunities for mobile coupons in Australia. Presentation 2 – PayPal Embedded Mobile Payment Solutions PayPal will present on recent developments in m-commerce, highlighting current consumer applications and providing case studies for embedded mobile payment solutions. Tasha Miels (Head of Product & Innovation) will deliver the presentation
Free Music downloads coming to China courtesy of Nokia Comes with Music service
Nokia has taken its unlimited download Comes With Music service to the world’s largest mobile market in the Finnish vendor’s latest effort to counter industry perception that the service is floundering. To be known locally as ‘Yue Sui Xiang,’ the DRM-free music offering will be available to consumers across China via eight devices, including the Nokia X6, 5230, 5330, 5800w, 6700s, E52 and E72i.
Engadget has been trying out the new iPhone 4.0 and these are their observations:It’s pretty stable, especially compared to other developer editions of the iPhone OS we’ve messed around with. We haven’t had any crashes so far, and things seem mostly to be working
Apple’s Announcement of the iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has unveiled its new iPhone OS 4 with a ton of new features including a ‘smart’ multitasking, iBooks and an ad networks – that’s only the highlights. Multitasking To limit battery draining by apps running in the background, like it is happening with Android phones, Apple has limited the number of operating system (OS) services that apps can access in the background to seven: Audio, VoIP, Location, Push Notifications, Local Notifications, Task Completion, Fast App Switching.
SWAP Nova Keychain Phone While most folks out there are scrambling to get the latest high-tech phone, some folks just want a small phone that’s easy to carry around, and that phone could just be the SWAP Nova Keychain Phone . Said phone is a 2G phone, smaller than a box of matches.
iPhone TIPS: How To MultiTask With iPhone OS 4 [video]
I found this video on youtube you might interested in. Probably a developer, shows the iPhone OS 4 Beta software , released 3 hours ago, demonstrating the Multitasking feature on a iPhone 3GS. With this new feature you finally can run more than one app at a single time
75 Most Fabulous Space Desktop Wallpapers For Your Desktop
75 Amazing HD and Widescreen Space, Planet and Galaxy Desktop Wallpapers. This is a collection of the best available Space desktop wallpapers for your desktop. For the people who love to have some extraordinary wallpapers in their collection, this one can be a awesome collection. Most of the Wallpapers have widescreen resolutions with other screen sizes
Samsung Moment 2 with Sprint branding and TouchWiz 3.0 peeks out
Samsung Moment 2 with Sprint branding and TouchWiz 3.0 peeks out The Samsung Moment is due to get Android 2.1 sometime in the near future , but it looks like it’s also going to get a bit of a refresh — check out this pic of a Sprint-branded Moment 2 that’s said to have TouchWiz 3.0 on top of Android 2.1. Unfortunately, the same source says this thing doesn’t have Sammy’s new Super AMOLED screen , so we’d assume it doesn’t have that new faster processor from the Galaxy S either — all of which means the HTC EVO 4G is still really the Sprint device to wait for. But hey, maybe you love TouchWiz? Is that a thing