So, we finally got the measurements, and case makers have already got busy and there are at least two ranges out already that I’ve heard of. The iPad poses an interesting dilemma for the casemakers – smartphones get tight-fitting skins,…
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iPad cases: let the skinning begin…
iPhone and iPod touch apps will work on the iPad without needing to be rebuilt for the new format, Steve Jobs told us yesterday. You will be able to sync your iPad directly with your iPhone or Pod and get…
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Ten iPhone apps that will work really well on iPad
Yesterday for 45 minutes the internet went silent while “everyone” watched Steve Jobs present the iPad. I must say I was awed by it but then I didn’t spend months mulling over what Apple will be coming up with and setting my expectations higher and higher with each rumor. I did know what I don’t like about current products such as netbooks, the Kindle, the Nook and the also soon to be released HP Slate. A few highlights of the iPad: iPhone apps work on it
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Give Apple and the iPad a break.
I kept thinking about how to approach this post. Anyone who reads the blog for more than a few days knows of my love for Apple. So perhaps expectations were too high to possibly make today’s Apple iPad announcement worth the wait. That said, I do have some reservations about the iPad, and here they are: Multi-tasking – iPad wants to bridge the gap between your phone and your laptop. For some users, they would love the iPad to replace the laptop all together.
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iPad: The Giant iPhone
A company called InvenSense unveiled the world’s first motion processing unit for smartphones today. The device is called the MPU-3000 and will bring a 3-axis gyroscope and more to smartphones.
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InvenSense MPU-3000 for smartphone, ZAGGsparq charger unveiled, Nokia Q4 profits up
The Apple iPad was announced yesterday so it was a given that James, Kevin, and I would spend MobileTechRoundup show #195 focusing on a single topic. We talked about what it does and doesn’t replace, who needs one and who doesn’t, Apple’s chip business, and more. At then end of the show we took our own poll to see who plans to buy one and I don’t think there are any surprises there
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MobileTechRoundup show #195; What do we think of the Apple iPad?
When we changed formats over a year ago and stopped doing daily news in favor of this weekly feature, I fancied it like a network news program. We’d run down all the things relevant to our local niche. One of my favorite parts about network news — well, my only favorite part, since I don’t watch the actual programs — is the teaser they play in the hours before. “Is your breakfast cereal making your children dumber? Story at 11.” This week we can see such a teaser: “Will the BlackBerry be banned in America
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BlackBerry News From The Wire for the Week of 1/25/2009
The Nokia 5230 features a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with support for handwriting recognition and an accelerometer to rotate the screen. The 5230 runs on the Symbian operating system meaning you can download new apps from the Ovi store, customise the home screen with shortcuts and add your favourite contacts to the scrolling contact bar, even adding a photo. The Nokia 5230 features HSDPA technology for high speed downloads and web browsing, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth and A-GPS with Nokia Maps software pre-installed.
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Black Nokia 5230
Not long after we’ve heard that the Motorola Shadow might become the Google Nexus Two , Motorola’s CEO Sanjay Jha has now confirmed they’re working on a Google phone – which should be part of those 20 to 30 Android handsets that the company will reportedly launch this year. According to The Street , the Motorola Google phone “will be sold directly to consumers”, just like the Nexus One, so there are considerable chances for it to be the Nexus Two. Sanjay Jha doesn’t give us further details, so we don’t know when the Moto Google phone will be announced, or if it’s the Motorola Shadow (seen below) or a different device. Motorola has also announced its Q4 2009 results, posting a net earning of $142 million. The company shipped 12 million mobile phones in the quarter – 2 million of them were Android smartphones (the Droid / Milestone and the Cliq / Dext).
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The new LG GW620 has now been launched by Virgin Mobile on their full range of pay monthly tariffs, also known as the LG InTouch Max the new GW620 is the first Android phone from the manufacturer and finds its place in the market as easily the cheapest Android phone to date. Initially released on T-Mobile
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LG GW620 Virgin Deals – LG InTouch Max Deals
China Unicom officially launched Apple’s iPhone in October 2009 , but without Wi-Fi, as some government regulations don’t allow this feature to be included into the handset. A solution would be for the iPhone to have WAPI (China’s own Wi-Fi technology), and it looks like WAPI-capable iPhones are currently being developed by Foxconn – which manufactures many products for Apple (probably the new iPad , too). According to PCPOP , the WAPI iPhone is codenamed N90, and there’s another new codename – N88 – for Apple’s fourth generation iPhone that should be released around the world later this year. Reportedly, China Unicom sold about 200,000 iPhones until now.
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WAPI-capable iPhone in the making for China Unicom
A new touchscreen phone will soon be launched by Vodafone under its own brand – the Vodafone 547. Manufactured by ZTE (which is one of Vodafone’s main ODM partners), the Vodafone 547 is a GSM/EDGE handset with a simple design. The phone features an accelerometer and Mobile TV (there’s a shortcut for that on the homescreen), and it’s presented as being “ideal for enjoying multimedia entertainment”
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ZTE-made Vodafone 547 touchscreen phone coming soon
Could this be device that breaks Apple into the business market? Will the suits and office workers of the next five years be pulling iPads out of their briefcases? Yes argues blogger Matt McHugh brought to our attention in a…
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The iPad as a business device: the potential and the problems
The first phone from Samsung’s new Diva range has today been released on T-Mobile deals, the new Samsung S7070 Diva is a sassy new touch screen phone with a very unique and classy ‘quilted’ design pattern on the rear of the handset, soon to be joined by a flip version of the Samsung Diva called
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Samsung Diva Joins T-Mobile – Samsung S7070 Deals
Yesterday, in discussing the Reload Software: 552 error , I pleaded with readers to backup their devices. I myself fell victim when I got an application error, left with a dead BlackBerry and no backup. In the comments, DavidB left a suggestion: backup your device wirelessly.
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Backup your BlackBerry over the air with Aurkon
T-Mobile USA is getting ready to launch at least three new Samsung phones this year: Samsung T669, Samsung T359 and Samsung T139. According to the Bluetooth SIG , Samsung T669 is a GSM phone (no 3G?) with a QWERTY keypad, QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.1, T-Mobile’s MyFaves, Instant Messaging and other basic features. The Samsung T359 is also a basic phone with MyFaves, Bluetooth and Instant Messaging, but without a QWERTY keyboard
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Samsung T669, T359 and T139 coming to T-Mobile USA
Nielsen recently published some interesting statistics on the growth of different social media sites across the globe.You can see the main chart above. They show the unstoppable rise and rise of Facebook, to over 100m monthly visitors, though Twitter’s rate of growth is now higher than Facebook’s. Twitter saw growth of 579% year-on-year, from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to 18.1 million in December 2009.MySpace’s decline also continues unabated. Interestingly, the time per person dedicated to visiting social media sites shows the US, UK and Australia leading the way (Canada is not included in the data, but presumably would be amongst the leading group too)
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Social Media Global Trends -Impact of Time Spent on Social Media Campaigns
The term Mobile broadband is used to describe different types of wireless high speed internet access through PC data cards, USB modems, USB sticks etc. In mobile broadband, several network standards like GPRS, 3G, WiMAX, LTE UMTS/HSPA are used to access the internet. To realise the potential of Mobile broadband just imagine a simple case that you are at some place in between your home and office and there is no Hotspot to make use of Wi-Fi feature of your PC. Then what you would do to surf the web
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Broadband Web Access Anywhere
I don’t know whether the name endears it to women or just makes them think that they didn’t get asked to the marketing team’s focus groups, but it has certainly made it get some female attention, outside the crowd of…
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Why the iPad will be a good women’s gadget: 5 reasons
Nokia has just announced it financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009. The Finnish company reports net sales of €12 billion for Q4 2009, and net sales of €40.9 billion for full 2009. The operating profit for Q4 was €1.14 billion, while the operating profit for full 2009 was of €1.19 billion (the Q4 2009 and full 2009 values are almost the same because Nokia actually lost money in the previous quarters). Nokia sold 126.9 million phones in the fourth quarter of 2009 (17% more than in the third quarter of the year ) and raised its market share to 39% (from 37.3% in the previous quarter).
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Nokia reports Q4 2009 results: 126.9 million phones sold, 39% market share
DACport has a niche USB sound system that promises to bring increased music fidelity to your computer as well as more volume. Digital recordings that are compressed to popular formats like MP3 and OGG do suffer some of the side effects of being shrunk down; those with an ear for audio miss the fine details removed from their originals. The DACport from CEntrance packs a 24-bit DAC that can improve and restore quality back to your down-sampled compressed digital recordings. Their AdaptiWave technology requires no drivers or software all the work is done inside the hot-dog sized adapter
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DACport – A High-fidelity USB Headphone Amplifier