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With all the talk in the last few days surrounding the flaws in the design of the iPhone 4 antenna, it is easy to begin to overlook the positive impact that the iPhone in all its guises has had on the mobile industry as a whole. The iPhone is mainly responsible for kick-starting the whole mobile application industry, delivering bright, colourful applications that were easy to browse, purchase and install. Apple do receive criticism for the way they control the whole App Store experience, but the quality control is something that helps deliver a consistently high level user experience across all applications. Apps come in many forms, from games to useful utilities, and businesses are starting to see the benefit of giving access to their content on the move, and recently British Airways updated their iPhone app, and have also made it accessible to users of Android devices and RIM BlackBerry handsets, too.

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British Airways Updates Mobile App

Around a month to go for the rumoured Nokia N8 August 25th release. You’ve waited ever so patiently (since end of Not June, Not May, but APRIL!) Here’s yet another Nokia N8 video, but this time “testing” out the N8′s loudspeaker – which is possibly louder even than the very loud 5800. (Would be nice to have some comparisons to better gauge the speakers against something else) You’ll want to hit 720p for better audio quality, although we are limited by the camera’s recording of the sound and your speakers/headphones’ reproduction of that sound. via uptodateksa2 Something I noticed in another Nokia N8 hands on (was up minutes ago but now removed) When scrolling (e.g.

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Video: Nokia N8 Speaker Test

The V HD box is fast, stylish and offers outstanding picture quality. It doesn’t have any recording capability but it can access Virgin’s on-demand services, and this kind of functionality is where the future really lies. Whether you’re using it as your main receiver or a secondary device, the V HD box gets the thumbs up

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Virgin Media V HD

We have seen previews of Rock Band 3 and also some of the new controllers , now we have an official launch date and some pricing information. Rock Band 3 will be available from the 26th of October 2010. Rock Band 3 will be available on the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 from the 26th of October this year. Price wise, the Nintendo DS version of Rock Band 3 will retail for $29.99, whilst the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will be available for $59.99. A number of online retailers will be offering pre-orders of Rock Band 3, and some will be offering special deals, you can see details below of what will be available.

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Rock Band 3 Coming October 26th

Symbian has been tarred in the past for the complexity of app development. The issue in the past was the difficulty in making Symbian apps in comparison to iPhone OS. Although native Symbian is powerful and allows you to create deeply integrated apps, it’s difficult to use at the beginning. Solution

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Creating Qt Apps using the Nokia Qt SDK for Symbian (demoed on a Nokia N8) and Maemo from desktop app to mobile app.

Here’s an excellent interview conducted by Joshua Topolsky, editor in chief of Engadget, of Joe Belfiore, one of the brains behind Windows Phone 7. I also encourage you read the “in-depth blowout of Windows Phone 7″ by Engadget

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Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky interviews Joe Belfiore, corporate VP of Windows Phone.

Have you been reading books on your iPhone using iBooks ? You’ll be happy to know that an update has been released in the App Store. iBooks 1.1.1 comes with features and bug fixes. Take a look at what’s new below: What’s New In Version 1.1.1 • Double-tap an image within a book to view it in greater detail

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iBooks 1.1.1 Update Released in App Store

Bluelounge makes a variety of products that are sophisticated as much they are simple. Most of their items offer unique and interesting ways to organize the home or office. Just recently announced, their CableBox Mini, which is a successor to their popular CableBox, allows for multiple grounded electronic devices to be grouped together into a single power source. Power strips are a dime a dozen and most home offices have at least one. While the generic power strip functions well it looks awful.

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CableBox Mini – Doesn’t Sacrifice Form for Function

Anyone who is a parent knows the struggle of keeping your wonderful kiddos on top of their chores.  As the father of two young and arguably crazy boys, it seems that we could spend the entire day cleaning up their messes.  There are many strategies to getting the younglings to take care of their chores and I think I have tried them all.  The problem in my house is not getting the kids to help out but more of them cleaning up then dragging out a different room full of toys five minutes later.  They seem to not mind helping out most of the time but keeping them focused on the big picture is difficult at best.  Today’s kids are growing up in a different age than most of us did.  Technology is something they know as the norm in the world.  They use it as the only thing they know.  When I found MyJobChart, it seemed to be the perfect solution to get my kids actively engaged in their daily chores. MyJobChart allows for parents to set up a web site with a list of jobs for their kids with assignable point values.  As the kids earn points, they have their own rewards store where they trade points for items chosen by the parents.  The screen shot above shows the login screen.  Each member of the family has their own password and avatars are used so it is easy to tell the accounts apart.  My kids are obviously too young to log in themselves, but we sit down each evening and add the points for the day.  The parent accounts are different from the kids and this is where the jobs are assigned and points and rewards are chosen. Setting up each child’s account is quick and easy.  Click on the child’s name and assign their jobs.  The dashboard will allow you to easily manage any part of the website from users to jobs to rewards

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MyJobChart Web Site Review: A Fun Way To Track Kids’ Chores

Normally we reserve videos like this for News From The Wire , but when they come this early in the week I like to get them up on the site tout de suite . These come courtesy of Salomondrin, who continually posts excellent videos of upcoming BlackBerry developments. Today we see three videos involving OS 6. These include an overview , a look at media functions , and finally a WebKit browser comparison

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A few looks at OS 6

[Update 7/21: Pulse 1.0.2 was recently released and addressed some of the issues I had with the app, particularly the loading times and scrolling speed.] What Pulse seems to specialize in (and these are my words, not developer Alphonso Studios’) is a more fluid web reading experience, and, at its best, the app feels more like a good e-magazine with customized content than a list of feeds that you trail your finger down.

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Review: Pulse News Mini for iPhone

I have an e-book reader I’m finding that I want to put everything that I have that is on paper into the device: books, magazine articles, users/owners manuals, cheat-sheets, blah, blah and blah.  But after spending several hours scanning an out-of-print book that was falling apart using my standard Epson desktop scanner a few weeks ago, my enthusiasm faded.  It just took too long per scanned page and I had to sit in front of or very near my desk for several hours.  Plus, it required booting up my PC, logging on, waiting for boot up, firing up the scanner software, yada, yada and yada.  And yes, I DO happen to be the laziest person on the planet. … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Desktop Computer Gear , Reviews , eBook Readers and Gear Tagged: Scanner VuPoint Magic Wand Scanner Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 19, 2010 at 12:19 pm.

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VuPoint Magic Wand Scanner Review

Photoforge ($2.99 – review ), which does a better job of mimicking Photoshop functionality than Photoshop.com Mobile ,  is now multi-tasking enabled. There isn’t any actual background task completion for saving large images, but you can simply leave the app and come back to it to finish saving a file. This newest update also boasts an optimized image processing engine, but it’s honestly been a while since I’ve used Photoforge for me to tell the difference. I’ve recently been using a mix of  Camera+ , TiltShiftGen , and Pixelmator on the Mac for my image manipulation needs. © Ragart for Just Another iPhone Blog , 2010.

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Photoforge 1.93 for iPhone: iOS 4 multitasking, optimized image processing

Last week, after sitting in Madison Square Garden for three hours while watching Iron Maiden and Dream Theater, I got a call from a good friend. I had just seen him that past weekend, which made the call seem odd. Did he forget to tell me something? Were we in some kind of trouble

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Auto lock your BlackBerry for convenience and battery life

The Telecom equipment vendor, Nokia Siemens is a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG. Today NSN announced that they will be acquiring certain wireless network infrastructure assets from Motorola for a sum of 1.2 BILLION US Dollars. CASH. Last year, Nokia tried to build a position in North America with the acquisition of Nortel, but was outbid and bought by Ericsson for 1.13 Billion USD (another Nortel asset bought by Cienna for 769 Million) Deal expected to complete end of 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks expects to gain incumbent relationships with more than 50 operators and to strengthen its position with China Mobile, Clearwire, KDDI, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Transaction expected to significantly strengthen Nokia Siemens Networks’ presence globally, particularly in the United States and Japan

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For 1.2 Billion USD Cash – Nokia Siemens Networks to acquire Motorola wireless network infrastructure assets.

Following on from the Apple press conference on Friday, it seems that Apple have ruffled the feathers of rival manufacturers, by trying to implement them in the issue of reception problems. You may recall, that during the conference, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs came out to defend the iPhone 4 , amongst growing criticism of the iPhone Death Grip, where holding the iPhone 4 in a particular way can lead to signal going from full bars to no bars in a matter of seconds. One response from Apple to this problem is to admit to a flaw in the software algorithm that calculates signal strength, which has been dealt with by a software update that was rolled out via iTunes last week. Despite going on to say that less than 1% of all calls to Apple Care regarding the iPhone 4 related to signal problems, Apple acknowledge that where problems exist, encasing the handset in a case, or Bumper can help, so promise to be giving out free cases and Bumpers for the iPhone 4 up until 30th September. What happens then remains to be seen.

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Apple AntennaGate Fallout

I think this may be for Austrian residents only but there’s a competition with Snickers where you could apparently win one of 20 Nokia N8. I think if you register, you’re entered into the draw to win a Nokia N8. click here With the Snickers No Limit sport Competition there’s also 17,000 EURO up for grabs, with 10K for first the best team.

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Competition: 20 Nokia N8s to be won with Snickers Austria

The new Echo Smartpen improves on the previous generation of Livescribe products with a sleek ergonomic design that features a rubberized grip and anti-roll surface, it’s also available with the biggest capacity ever – 8GB! Livescribe has also made charging the device more convenient, with a micro-USB connector, and the Echo now has a 3.5mm audio jack so that users can use whatever headphones they’d like with it. But I’ll be honest, I had my doubts about a pen that needs to be charged. But, Wow.

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Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review

Nokia has released the first screenshots of the upcoming Symbian^4 platform, and we’ll admit, it does look a lot more up-to-date compared with the Symbian OS that’s currently used on the most of the Finnish company’s touchscreen phone offerings. Actually, it sort of reminds us of Android with its use of a large clock on its homescreen, but hey, that’s just our opinion. This new and improved version of Symbian also features pop-up menus, widget support, and what many are wishing for, a generally more touch-friendly user interface. This is still continuously being tweaked and developed so don’t surprised if there will be some more changes prior to its final version

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First Symbian^4 screenshots hits the web

Now before you say anything about the uneven base, you’ve got to know there’s some function behind it. (Thanks for the heads up Keith!) As described in the blurb, “The Nokia Kinetic is a magical mobile phone that makes receiving a call, text, or email more playful by converting digital information into kinetic movement” Basically, for incoming notification, the phone will spontaneously stand up.

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Concept Nokias: The Nokia Kinetic

Here’s a little GEM of an application that’s free on Ovi Store for your Nokia N900. This is by far the most promising user interface for a music player I’ve ever come across on a Nokia handset. It’s called “instinctiv”, download it from the Ovi Store on your N900. The player supports wma, flac, ogg, aac, mp3 and can be synced with the instinctiv desktop player (I think Mac only at the moment) CLICK HERE FOR THE CONCLUSION The first thing to note is that it’s entirely designed for portrait, which IMO is great on a music player. I’m often on the move when I’m listening to music and such only have one hand available to browse the music player.

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Gallery & Video: Portait Music Player “Instinctiv” free on the Ovi Store – What Nokia Music player should be