Gmail users can soon make phone calls from within their accounts for free to the U.S. and Canada and for pretty cheap to several other countries. The service will be rolling out to Gmail users in the U.S. immediately, with international availability coming at an unspecified later date.
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Make calls to a regular phone from your Gmail account
Yes, it’s true, Garmin has a recall on for some units from the following model numbers: 200W, 250W, 260W and the 7XX series (where the XX are two numbers). The recall stems form a battery issue from one of their suppliers where the battery can overheat. The recall will include up to 1.3 million units. Garmin has a special recall page set up to check if your model is in the batch of units that are being recalled by looking up the serial number. If your Nuvi is one that has the problem battery, you can print out a shipping label, ship it back to Garmin where they will insert a new battery, and return the unit to you.
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Garmin Nuvi Recall Information – Some 200W, 250W, 260W and 7XX Units
Apparently it’s already over. Google won and everyone else, including the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, can pack up and go home. That seems to be the general feeling around the internet right now. Last year Android was an interesting geek phone OS, this year it has become all things to everyone, or so we are told
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Paranoid About Android
Cobra has been doing their homework and rolled a long list of features into their new GPS for Truckers, the Cobra 7750 Platinum GPS. Not only does it include classic consumer capabilities like junction views, lane assist, and multi-point routing, but it also includes a long list of truck specific capabilities
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Cobra 7750 Platinum – Tricked out GPS For Truckers
Facebook revealed that its iPhone app has 102.2 million monthly active users, with another 57.5 million using Facebook for BlackBerry, 11.9 million using its Android app, and 2.6 million using its Palm webOS app. That’s already 174.2 million monthly active users, and this figure doesn’t include the 986,000 people still using Facebook for Sidekick, the 120,000 people on INQ handsets
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At least 200 million accessing Facebook on their mobile
Here is an extract from Golden Gekko’s view of the mobile platform landscape today with an insight into likely losers and gainers going forwards: The mobile ecosystem keeps on evolving faster than ever and it’s often difficult to see the macro trends with all the day to day announcements and comments about winners and losers.
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Mobile OS Platforms-Which horse should you bet on?
As the name suggests, the main functions of the iPhone 4 is to make the call. Is a big mistake if we think that the iPhone 4 can only be used for calling. There are many uses iPhone 4, one of which is to take pictures. As one of the types of smartphones, the iPhone 4 has more than one function. iPhone latest generation is equipped camera with up to 5 megapixel
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iPhone 4 Not Just for Calling
Apple took nearly half of the available profits in the $6 billion mobile phone market in Q2 despite generating only 3% of sales. Apple’s Q2 share was more than double that of closest competitor Nokia, even though Nokia captured 34% of total sales. The disparity is partly down to Apple’s emphasis on profitability over sales, as well as the increasing importance of the smartphone market. Apple and RIM, both exclusive smartphone vendors, have gone from a combined 7% profit share to 65% in the last three years.
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Apple captures half of all handset profits though only capture 3% of global sales market revenue
Creating Games for Windows Phone 7 isn’t as hard as you think using XNA GameStudio 4.0 . Over at the XNA Creators Club there are some great tutorials and an introduction to get your started. There is even a great beginner guide here . Get introduced to Windows Phone 7, and phone game development with XNA Game Studio.This set of educational content is for all skill levels and phases of development, with a focus on introducing basic game techniques – such as input, graphics, and sound –to developers interested in making games on Windows Phone 7 using XNA Game Studio 4.0. Phase One – Platform: Available Now! Catapult Wars Lab Orientation Sample Sound and Music Sample 2D Graphics Sample Particles Sample 2D Asset Types Article Intro to C# From Objective-C and Java Article Gestures Article Phase Two – Performance: Coming in September 2010 3D Accelerometer-Based Game Lab Dynamic Audio Sample 3D Asset Types Article Intro to Render Loop Article Phase Three – Polish: Coming in October to November 2010 Social Game Lab Best Practices Game State Management Location and Photo Integration Bonus: Augmented Reality Sample To get started creating games head over to the XNA Creators Club now! Note: to run this samples require XNA Game Studio 4.0 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools to run
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Create Games for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft announced that the final build of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools will ship on September 16th and that the current tools have already been downloaded over 300,000 times (CTP and Beta versions). Developers have been waiting patiently for the final release of these tools especially controls like Pivot,Panorama,List,Bing Maps, etc (Developers have had to build their own controls or use open-source versions available on the web to replicate the final build,look, and feel of Wndows Phone 7 apps). Over at the WindowsTeam blog the following has been mentioned: While our developer community has been busy stretching the capabilities of the application platform and developer tools, we have been working very closely with some amazing application and game developers to ensure that Windows Phone 7 customers have the applications they expect, across a wide swath of the categories they value
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Windows Phone Developer Tools Final will be Available Sept.16th,2010
In the midst of new phones launching every day, new mobile technologies coming up every hour, Nokia, which shares approximately 60% of the Indian mobile phone market, has launched a cousin of its X3 model. Nokia X3-02, along with it’s queer name, has been launched in various countries from Africa and Asia Pacific. However, its launch date in India is yet unknown. With Nokia X3-02 model, Nokia
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Nokia X3-02
Whilst there is still no Official app from Foursquare themselves for Symbian there are now at least three different apps which use the Foursquare API to enable check-ins on Symbian handsets. Socially and Gravity are two of those three and more recently Sym4Square , which looks a lot like the Official versions for the iPhone, Android and WebOS. Sym4Square allows to do all the basic things
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Sym4Square – Another Option To Check In With
One of the non-negligible and important venues and media to have a successful online presence such as internet marketing is Youtube video hosting site wherein you can post your video for free. In this regard, it is crucial to churn out a relevant and professional videos aimed at your prospective clients who in return will patronize your products whether it’s a physical or digital product. But don’t forget my amigos that flaunting your sophisticated video on youtube doesn’t equate to successful internet marketing on account of you need tons of eyeballs so that your video will be given sufficient attention
If you see the error in the title on your device or PC, then, most likely, you have a ghost entry in your calendar. Don’t waste your time looking for the appointments, you’ll find them nowhere.
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Tips: The following appointment failed to synchronize on the device. Support code 1
Forerunner to the Black berry is a pager. Maybe we do not think that the Blackberry sophisticated as we know it originated from a simple pager. But that’s the actual reality. Blackberry reached the top of triumph when the President of the United States, Barrack Obama use the Blackberry as part of his lifestyle. Obama using a Blackberry and facebook for social networking in the presidential election campaign in 2008.
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A Glimpse of Blackberry
The Samsung Galaxy 5 or Samsung I5503 is one of company’s affordable Android phones and now, it is being launched in India. Feature wise the 5(I5503) will come packed with a standard 2.8 inch QVGA touch sensitive display, a 2MP camera, Samsung’s unique Touch Wiz UI 3.0, 3G connectivity , Wi-Fi, GPS, a 600MHz CPU , a standard 3.5mm audio output jack, and an expandable MicroSD card support. In India, the Samsung Galaxy 5 will cost about 10,200 INR which is about $220USD.
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Samsung Galaxy 5 (I5503)
Samsung Galaxy U – another Android based phone from Samsung is now official. Well, if you are wondering what the ‘U’ in its name symbolizes, then Samsung relates it to the ‘ U ‘nique grip design, an ‘ U ‘ltimate display, its ‘ U ’tilitarian apps, and its ‘ U ‘biquitous features
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Samsung Galaxy U
Samsung S3370 is one of those phone which have been launched recently in different countries in very different names. In Italy its called the Samsung Pocket 3G, in Russia Samsung Corby 3G and in Belgium Samsung Acton with a free football. However, thankfully in UK it will come out in its original name – Samsung S3370. This entry level phone will feature a 2.8-inch touchscreen with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, a 1.3 MP camera, Social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter, Bluetooth, stereo FM radio , a full HTML browser, and also a microSD card slot. Another feature if this S3370 is that 3’s subscribers can get a unlimited free Skype-to-Skype calls.
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Samsung S3370
China is the current favorite among mobile phone manufacturers and it seems no different as in the case of Motorola. With their new XT502, Motorola is launching another Android-running phone in China. The Motorola XT502 features a touch sensitive display, Bluetooth SIG, quadra-band GSM, tri-band UMTS with frequencies of 850,1900,2100MHz, Wi-Fi, Assist-GPS, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack. Camera will also be included in the package
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Motorola XT502
Smartphone is nothing without its apps. The main function of a smartphone can be maximized and used effectively when you have installed all important apps into it. Since there are hundreds or even thousands of BlackBerry apps developed out there in the market, you should be careful in selecting what apps you really need
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How to Choose BlackBerry Apps
I personally admit that there are things that I’m really in the dark about like the questions and information about “How do I enter a password to access my wireless connection?” By good fortune, I accidentally unearth a very newsy and enlightening site that have a crack at this kind of problem and I’m pointing out the AnswerBuddhadotcom. So, if you have a million dollar question in mind don’t hesitate to ask at AnswerBuddhadotcom and your doubts and brainteaser will be puzzled out within seconds
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AnswerBuddhadotcom brings out the best