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There are so many iPhone apps to choose from and it can be really tough to know which ones are good and which ones are just a waste of time.  Recently, PC Magazine listed their 40 favorite free apps and I think they’ve compiled a great list.  I have chosen a few that I think are great. AP Mobile 3.1 is excellent because you can stay up-to-date with breaking news, photos and videos from the Associated Press.  You can personalize it so that you only get the content that you want and you can enable push notifications so that you can know about the latest news as it happens.  I have never bought anything from eBay but my husband likes to bid on gold and silver coins but one thing that makes it tough is that, if you leave the house, you can get outbid while you’re away from your computer.  The eBay Mobile 1.4.1 app allows you to keep track of auction and power sellers and frequent bidders will find this tool invaluable. Are you a foodie?  I am so the Epicurious 1.1.0 app is awesome because you can look up your favorite recipes while you’re at the grocery store picking up essentials.  After making a shopping list, you will be able to check things off as you pick them up. The next one is a no-brainer.  So many people keep in touch through Facebook so it’s no surprise that the Facebook 3.03 app made the list.  You can communicate with friends and family, check out new pictures, get information about events and groups and look up phone numbers. Have you ever been out and about somewhere and decided that, instead of going home, you’d rather take in a movie?  Almost everyone has done that but it can be really frustrating to try to figure out what movies are playing at which theaters.  The Fandango 2.0 allows you to find movie times, check out trailers, read reviews and purchase tickets

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One type of BlackBerry application that seems to be increasing in popularity lately is the LBS (Location Based Service) app .  LBS apps are the ones the use GPS or cell tower triangulation to determine your approximate position and return local search results based on your location.  Some of the more advanced LBS apps, can, not only give you directions on how to get from where you are to where you want to be, but make suggestions, show you reviews of establishments from other users, and even notifiy you when you are near a friend. We’ve put  a list of 7 Free BlackBerry LBS applications together after the jump.  Take a look, tell us what you think, and let us know if there is anything we left off the list. Poynt — Use Poynt to find people, businesses, movie theatres, retailers and restaurants near you. Poynt uses GPS or cell-site locations to pinpoint you and quickly deliver the information you need whenever and wherever you need it.

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7 Free BlackBerry Apps To Help You Find Some Place To Shop, Some Place To Eat, Or Someone To Meet

Looks like the Pre hasn’t sold too well after all – while its US sales were somewhat ok, their UK launch partner is said to be sitting on piles of unsold handsets. In order to get rid of them, the folks at Carphone Warehouse have taken radical measures. The Guardian now reports the following: Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January as speculation increases that sales of the mobile phone, seen as the closest competitor to Apple’s iPhone have fallen far short of expectations.

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Carphone Warehouse: buy a Pre, get free flights

HTC Sense Landscape It looks like Touch Pro 2 users can get landscape on HTC Sense ( previously known as TouchFlo ) thanks to a new ROM by Ark_N. Rhodium_AF manila 2.5_R1 ROM features: ONLY GSM DEVICES * Updated drivers * HTC Sense 2.5 Landscape enabled * Updated Build * Updated icons * LEO Rom Check out HTCPEdia for more info and Screenshots © . Saijo for 1800PocketPC.com , 2009.

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HTC Sense 2.5 Landscape Mode

Whether you like it or not: China is a huge market for cell phones. Unfortunately, getting statistics on the market is somewhat difficult – which is why having China Mobile talk on 3G handset sales is especially interesting. Marbridge Daily claims the following distribution: … 8% of procured handsets run Windows Mobile, 16% use the Symbian mobile OS, and 4% use Apple’s iPhone OS, while the rest operate either BREW or the manufacturer’s self-owned OS. … So much for the death of Symbian and the dominance of iPhone / BlackBerry… Image: Wikimedia commons / Edzhgz

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China Unicom on Chinese handset platforms

ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH TO RUN THE BIG HOUSE? There’s no escaping under your watchful eye because you’re in charge of every detail of prison life. You will construct and run an efficient rehabilitation facility with nothing but money on your mind. Make sure the prisoners have just enough of what they need to keep them happy. Any trouble and the riot squad will be there to sort it out! Features: YOUR WALLS.

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Prison Tycoon Game for Omnia

Believe it or not, AT&T has stopped selling the iPhone online in the greater NYC Metropolitan are.  Fletcher Cook, an AT&T representative said that the the change is a routine one.  “ We periodically modify our promotions and distribution channels.” I believe that about as much as I believe that the next version of the iPhone will come equipped with a site to site transporter.  The general consensus, one shared by at least a few AT&T sales representatives, is that AT&T’s network is just no longer capable of supporting additional iPhones.  Many would argue, myself included, that AT&Ts network has not been capable of supporting devices in general for quite some time. I am sure that AT&T is doing everything they can to keep the iPhone exclusive on their network, however, I would think that no longer selling them in one of your largest markets is not helping much. I know that a lot of iPhone users read RIMarkable, so, I will toss this question out there?  How many of you would switch to Verizon or Sprint if the iPhone were offered in a CDMA variant? [ Source ] AT&T Halts iPhone Sales In NYC Area is a post from: RIMarkable

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AT&T Halts iPhone Sales In NYC Area

Andrew Zhilin brings us his concept of Mer User Interface for the N900. What is Mer? “Mer is an outgrowth of Nokia’s Maemo environment, designed to flesh out the tablet-centric operating system into a full-fledged Linux distribution suitable for embedded and desktop systems of all description.” via lwn.net see also Mer Works in landscape. “only” 3X4 grid of apps, plus note, a dock of customizable quick launch apps (15 TOTAL – extras views other window of apps). Works in portrait – note how it scales to portrait.

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N900 Mer UI – Portrait, New task switcher and dock.

Disk Golf Disc Golf Scoreboard 1.0 is a windows mobile freeware app to keep track of your score while playing golf. Download this Application © . Saijo for 1800PocketPC.com , 2009. | No comment | Add to del.icio.us See more Freewares from : Sports

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Disc Golf Scoreboard 1.0 – a windows mobile app to keep track of your score while playing golf

Twaddle Twaddle 0.2.1 is a windows mobile freeware twitter app. The app has gone through some UI changes since our last visit. Change Log : Added tracking of @replies / mentions Added full support for Direct Messages (Send, Receive, Delete, Notifications) Improved touch-friendly interface Support for multi-byte UTF8 characters Much faster layout engine Autocompletion of friends names when posting an update Follow / unfollow a user from any view Updates to a user’s avatar are handled Finer grained control over when Twaddle automatically synchronises with Twitter Many other bug fixes Download this Application © . Saijo for 1800PocketPC.com , 2009.

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Twaddle 0.2.1 – twitter app for windows mobile

Searches and indexing in Outlook can present a number of issues for end users. Administrators need to know how to correct problems as they emerge. One of the problems that can occur is if a user performs a search for text that they know exists but the search returns no results. One instance where this can happen is if after upgrading your Windows XP operating system to Windows Vista, you then upgraded your Office suite software to the 2007 version

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Problems with Searches and Indexing

Ever wonder how much time you spend sending messages on your BlackBerry? How about the amount of time you play Word Mole? A handful of applications will provide you with a rough breakdown, but none I’ve seen are quite as elegant as SmrtMonitor. It’s from the makers of SmrtGuard , a wireless backup and remote tracking service for BIS users. The application tracks how much time you spend on each BlackBerry application and then presents it in a number of formats.

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Keep track of your BlackBerry usage with SmrtMonitor

Usually, Palm raises a little ruckus whenever a webOS update hits the road – their openness has surprised me more than once in the last few months. This time, the boys in Orange seem to be back to their usual selfs – an update to the Pre’s webOS has just been shipped. According to Sprint , the following changes have been made: This update includes enhancements to the following: – Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas

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Sprint: webOS 1.3.5 for Pre imminent

When we brought you the Holiday Guide, I promised a top five of all work and all play. This is the All Play suggestions. I’m going to give you my fave five of free and paid apps that serve as my entertainment or personal creative use. All work and no play makes us boring, or so says the saying. So for that reason I am going to start with the play or personal apps

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Top Five Apps For Personal Use On Your BlackBerry

Financial Times reports that according to a survey by Mobile Youth consultancy, in a sample size of [only] 1000 : Nokia was the most popular with 30% Sony Ericsson second with 27% RIM is at 2% with their BlackBerry- however growth has apparently been impressive. The article actually isn’t about Nokia but about how students are powering the growth of BlackBerry. Perception on BlackBerry is that now, they’re not just for corporate consumers. With the aide of some great marketing (love BB ads) and celeb association, it’s cool to be seen with a BlackBerry.

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Nokia most popular phone brand amongst university students

Something I forgot to post over the long holiday weekend, it seems that Bell decided to launch the new BlackBerry Curve 8530 on Boxing Day. The new Curve 8530 joins Bell’s slowly aging CDMA lineup, and replacing the Curve 8330. Bell currently offers the 8530 in both black or the exclusive royal purple color for $49.95 with three year term, or $399.95 without.

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BlackBerry Curve 8530 comes to Bell for $50 w/ 3 Year Term

The N900 is a great phone, but it is (as Nokia themselves have more or less said) a work in progress. I’ll say it again, it’s step 4 of 5 to Maemo glory. Software evolution to one side ( see firmware update wishlist for N900 ),  understandably, this early adopter product isn’t physically “perfect” for mass market. I.E.

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15 hardware changes that would have made N900 physically irresistible – [15 essential hardware features for its successor]

As the web gets more and more interactive (AJAX, anyone?), having a fast JavaScript engine is one of the key elements in delivering a good web experience. On the desktop, browser makers work hard on optimizing their JavaScript engines due to public scrutiny – in mobile, this effect has not taken place so far. Our friends at NS Basic Corp’s have performed a little benchmark of the various browsers, and ended up with the results outlined below – faster means higher score: Anybody of you surprised by any of the results?

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JavaScript speed of mobile browsers

Found under: Motorola , Droid , Tethering , , The Motorola Droid is by far the coolest Android phone available out there and it looks like a simple hack will let users tether the Droid. Does that sound exciting already USB tethering has already been available for a while on the Droid but thats not good enough for most people. What we want is WiFi connectivity and naturally WiFi tethering.

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Motorola Droid Hack Enables WiFi Tethering

Well what do we have here?….It’s another pair of In-Ear Headphones from Monster called Jamz and Lil’ Jamz and there is no Dr. Dre or Beats in the title. A bit similar looking to the Turbines design, both pairs of In-Ear Headphones feature Single-Billet Metal Housing, a hard chrome finish, and 24K gold contacts.

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Monster Releases Jamz and Lil’ Jamz In-Ear Headphones

Found under: BlackBerry , Tour2 , 9650 , , The original BlackBerry Tour was launched earlier this summer by both Sprint and Verizon. Only RIM could say who won the Tour battle as both Sprint and Verizon tried to be the first carrier to sell the phone in the USA and thus gain as many new subscribers as possible. But not everyone was delighted by the Tour so RIM decided to offer them a new version of the phone.

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BlackBerry Tour2 9650 Already in the Wild?