CoPilot Live HD for iPad 3G models has gone live. It’s only available in America and it’s designed *specifically* for the iPad 3G model (as you’ll want to get data live from the CoPilot servers as you navigate). All street maps are stored on the device though. The HD version makes proper, PROPER use of [...]
Archive | April, 2010
GetJar’s Top 20 downloaded apps in March revealed
Patrick over at GetJar just published their recent “GetChart” for March, listing the top 20 most popular downloads by their United States visitors. Facebook is predictably still right at the top. That’s done something well in advance of 50m downloads on GetJar to date. It’s good to see Nimbuzz in there at number 7, followed [...]
Deploying Steve Jobs to assert Apple’s position against Adobe: Panic in Cupertino?
You know the Adobe/Apple issue has escalated into outright business war when Steve Jobs pens a 22 paragraph statement picking apart the Adobe position and reminding the Apple iFaithful precisely why they love the marketeer, the man, the genius that is Jobs. The fact that Jobs has decided to post a public ‘blog’ (“Thoughts on [...]
HP puts Palm out of its misery for $1.2bn
Well it’s finally happened, praise the mobile gods. HP has agreed to buy the ultimate could-have-been Palm for a just a little more than a billion dollars (so reports Fierce Wireless. The deal gives a much needed exit for the Palm team and gives HP’s rather confused mobile team something semi-useful to actually play with. [...]
The low-cost Android dream takes shape with the Vodafone 845
Despite the burgeoning fragmentation of the platform, the low-cost Android dream (i.e. a smartphone at a very, very accessible price) is continuing apace. Today, Vodafone UK announce the forthcoming introduction of their Vodafone 845 device, the first Voda-branded Android handset. It’s low cost (no pricing news as yet), it runs on the latest version of [...]
How good is the N8′s 12 megapixel camera? Very good
Nokia’s Conversations blog has just published the first untouched pictures taken on a Nokia N8 device. The quality of the device’s camera looks absolutely phenomenal.
Chen Kotecha of Scancom on their end-to-end BlackBerry service
If you’re looking to deploy BlackBerry in your organisation, whether it’s for 2 people or 2,000, chances are you’d be far better speaking to a specialist like Scancom than popping down to your local Vodafone store. I bumped into Chen Kotecha of Scancom UK yesterday and asked if he could give me an overview of [...]
Video: BlackBerry OS 6.0 sneak peak
I have to say that the all new BlackBerry OS 6.0 is looking rather nice. I’m looking forward to seeing how it actually works in the real world. Meantime, here’s a sneak peak video from today’s WES2010 event:
Video: Control office security with Lenel Mobile Monitoring
Here’s Joshua Phillips, Director of Marketing for Lenel, talking about Lenel Mobile Monitoring for BlackBerry. Quite apart from the obvious security benefits, there’s something really cool about being able to lock/unlock doors in an office thousands of miles away, just by clicking a few buttons on your BlackBerry. Here’s the video: Download M4V Video | [...]
Video: Gayle Guildford of Baltimore Police on deploying PocketCop for BlackBerry
Here’s the video that I promised featuring Gayle Guildford of the Baltimore Police Department discussing the deployment of InterAct’s PocketCop for BlackBerry. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video Also: check out Tomi Ahonen’s opinion on the deployment of PocketCop.
Irish Police authority: Police should pay for their own mobiles
After my post yesterday about the Baltimore Police force’s introduction of 2,080 networked BlackBerries all running InterAct’s PocketCop application, quite a few readers including David Doherty contacted me to tell me about this simply ridiculous story in the Irish Examiner: Garda body issues legal threat over phone bill. Here’s the background: A police officer (or [...]
Nokia’s N8 announced with 12 megapixel camera
It seems like we’ve been waiting decades for Nokia to release their next N-Series device. Long rumoured, the N8 has finally arrived. Well, it’s finally been announced. It actually arrives in Q3 this year, so it’s a good 4-6 months away still. But it’s a looker and it boasts a specifications page about 8 screens [...]
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