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Quick review: Samsung sports phone

By on July 11, 2008 in Devices

Has anyone else used the Samsung sport’s phone yet? It’s called the F110 (or Adidas) and I’ve been testing it to see if it holds its own against the iPod Nike+, Nokia N82 and a Polar heart rate monitor when using it for sports training. Similar to the Nike+ iPod, the device promises to play [...]

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Femtocells due for next year

By on July 11, 2008 in News

I’ve been at Bristol’s Wireless 2.0 event this morning. Much of the morning session of the show concentrated on Femtocell technology which is looking set to seriously reduce the cost of data for operators and theoretically at least, the users too. Speakers from organisations including the FemtoForum, PicoChip and Ubiquisis were present and discussed some [...]

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AskMoby makes weather more mobile

By on July 10, 2008 in News

The dulcit tones of an Irish voice can calm even the most stressful of days. If you could bottle it you’d make millions – oh yes, they did and did – and West Life and Boyzone. Maybe it’s not so good afterall. I’ve just spent the past 20 minutes on the phone with Dr Mark [...]

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OpenMoku finally launch opensource FreeRunner

By on July 10, 2008 in News

I’ve been accused of being a true geek since I was young. A lot of the time I try to ignore it but it’s the open source devices that really force me to examine myself and realise it’s true. This time it’s the OpenMoku’s Linux based FreeRunner smartphone, launched last Friday. Since January developers have [...]

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Dashwire syncing comes out of beta – not yet there for Symbian

By on July 10, 2008 in News

I first saw an application called Dashwire launch in beta status back in April. If you use windows mobile this the application can be downloaded to sync your mobile over the air to a free account on dashwire.com. As it doesn’t do Nokia yet I’ve sadly been able to do very little other than take [...]

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Mobile Digg sites begin rivalry

By on July 10, 2008 in News

Earlier this year Ricky posted a piece on CellphoneNews2.com, a Digg-esque site for mobile, where users can ‘create a free account and digg up or bury news stories, thereby affecting what shows up on the main page.’ According to the web ranking site Quantcast the site has begun to take off recently but it may [...]

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Is MMS killing the postcard industry?

By on July 10, 2008 in News

Is it just me or is the postal service having a rough time of it of late. First of all their main market dwindled massively when email began. Then, to top it off, Fox has just reported that MMS is killing the postcard industry. According to the digital measurement firm comScore photo messaging climbed 60 [...]

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