A lot of people have been asking me to demonstrate exactly what the problem is with Vodafone 360’s photo sharing facilities. Or, to be frank, LACK of photo sharing facilities.
I created a screencast for you to demonstrate. You can watch it here.
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Screencast demo: Vodafone 360 photo sharing limitations
Monday, November 30th, 2009$100 Samsung Android device rumoured next year
Friday, August 7th, 2009This whole Android marketplace is getting more and more exciting. Whilst I’ve been telling people to expect sub-$100 Android handsets from the Far Eastern bloc of original equipment manufacturers (e.g. the likes of Haier), news that Samsung might have a $100 Android device to market by next year… that’s potentially big. Very big.
Will this be $100 for the actual device? Or $100 plus a 2-year contract? That much is unclear. But I’ll be sitting hoping that I can soon walk into Walgreens in San Francisco and buy a $89 Samsung Android handset PAYG. That’ll be very interesting for the market dynamics.
The Reclaim’s configuration is not going to last, however. Casey Ryan, the product manager for the Reclaim at Samsung, said that by next year, touch-screen phones, with full Web browsers running the Android operating system will be available for well under $100.
via What’s Green, Made of Corn and Has Buttons? – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
Orange launches Welsh language Samsung handset
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009“Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick, you’ll be washing spit off your face for a fortnight.”
That’s Edmund Blackadder’s advice for navigating the country of Wales. Me, I’m much closer to my celtic — or semi-celtic — brotherhood.
I don’t speak any Welsh at all, though.
But if you’re Welsh and you’ve been longing for a mobile handset that actually uses that language, stand-up and be counted — thanks to Orange. They’ve launched a Welsh language handset from Samsung.
# Orange and Samsung join forces to put Welsh language on a mobile phone for the first time
# The innovative phone includes never-before-available features including menus and predictive text in Welsh
# The phone and service will be available exclusively through Orange from September
# Wales’ Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones and S4C Presenter, Alex Jones joined Orange and Samsung to unveil the phone at The National Eisteddfod of Wales
via Orange newsroom.
o2 offering Samsung i7500 Android handset from August
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Wow, two Android scoops in one day!
After playing with, and being impressed by, the HTC Hero earlier today I decided to head to the shops after work on the off chance of finding out some news about the ‘missing in action’ Samsung i7500.
Today is the first Friday of the month you see – it’s when the new mobile catalogues hit the high street and when most stores find out what new handsets they’ll be getting to sell.
Like a lot of Android fans I’ve been waiting to see when the i7500 would hit the UK, so I was pretty excited to find this on page 6 of O2’s July catalogue. Talking to the guys in the store they confirmed they’re expecting it to be on sale in August.
So O2 will soon have the Android i7500, the iPhone, and if rumours are to be believed, the Palm Pre on offer. Quite an impressive device line up.
Android cometh: Sony Ericsson confirms Android 2.0 handsets
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Goodness me it’s getting interesting in the mobile industry.
For years I’ve been screaming with utter annoyance at the absolute rubbish Sony Ericsson has been vomiting into the marketplace. Their devices are amongst the nicest engineered on the planet. They’re well built, stylish, reliable and the cameras are simply amazing.
But the dumb operating system (or, more accurately, the stupidly limited UI) is — literally — from the 1990s.
I positively loved their K800i handset — a class leading device in it’s time — and I’ve continued to admire the workmanship of their more recent models — but actually using a Sony Ericsson is akin to jumping in an Ashes to Ashes style timewarp back to 1990.
It’s pretty accurate to refer to a Sony Ericsson user as a Mobile Caveman. Just like a human caveman, a Mobile Caveman (”MobCav, anyone?”) is able to manage life’s various transactions (fire, food, sex) but when it comes to anything more enlightened or connected, no dice.
Your Sony handset will browse the ‘mobile web’. Cool. It will — with quite a bit of persuasion — synchronise your address book. You can play music on it. You can even play game(s) on it.
But put a top of the range Sony handset next to other class leaders (iPhone, G1/G2, Palm Pre, Nokia N-Series) and it’s immediately clear it’s not in the same league.
Don’t get me started on developing for a Sony Ericsson.
Besides from a degree in Nuclear Physics (with hons and some fannying about with the Dean’s List), you’ll need a massive budget and the patience of a demigod to develop for the current range of Sony Ericssons.
The Xperia device is … well, let’s put it this way, have you seen anyone with an Xperia recently? Hobbled by a ridiculous, ridiculous Microsoft bollocks operating system, the Xperia was never, ever going anywhere.
“Why won’t they go Android?” I used to scream, “Can you imagine how brilliant a Sony Ericsson would be with Android?”
Well… it’s happening.
Finally.
It had to happen. It was inevitable. Just like Apple bringing out an iPhone (they had to make the move or surrender the mobile music market to the likes of Nokia).
Slashphone reports that at a recent showcase in Taiwan, Peter Ang, the Sony Ericsson VP of Marketing, confirmed Android is now a key operating system for the company. Along with Symbian and Windows. Gah.
Sony’s Android handset(s) are due to arrive with Android 2.0 — and there’s speculation (from Chris Davies over at Android Community.com) that the devices will sport a proprietary UI along the lines of the Xperia UI.
The upshot?
Upgrade Android in your estimations. With the consumer giants such as Sony Ericsson (and Samsung) jumping in, it won’t be long before high-end (and shortly after, mid-tier and low-end) normal mobile users (”normobs”) will be shopping for their Apps via the Android Marketplace.
Exciting news.
Originally published on Mobile Developer TV and automatically republished here on Mobile Industry Review. View the original post.
Got 60 friends? Spell out a message with Google Latitude
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009I came across this rather nifty proof-of-concept video from the Google Latitude team.
Latitude, if you’re not familiar with it, is an add-on to Google Maps that (amongst other features) overlays an avatar of your friends on Google Maps. So if you’re out-and-about you can see their location. Or if you’re on your desktop you can see a large Google Map of your friends.
Typically innovative, Google decided to take things to the next level. Wouldn’t it be neat that, if you had sufficient friends each with a T-Mobile G1 (for example), you could position them on the map to spell out a message.
Granted, you’d need to have quite a bit of spare time. But it’s doable, right?
Right.
The Google Latitude team stuck their money where their mouth is and had a bit of fun, thus:
That there is a screenshot of a Google Maps screen spelling out ‘Hi Mom’ across central San Francisco. Each little square you see is an avatar representing a physical Google team member with a phone standing in the corresponding physical location in San Francisco.
The enterprising chaps also made a video documenting the process of setting this up:
There is, I suspect, limited value in spelling out messages using your friends on Google Maps / Latitude. But it’s a super proof-of-concept for the technology.
And a reminder to get on Latitude.
Latitude, of course, isn’t yet available for the iPhone so that’s most of San Francisco ruled out. But for everyone back in Europe sporting your common-or-garden N-Series Nokia device, perhaps it’s time you and your friends spent this Saturday spelling out ‘Hello Your Majesty’ across a map of London.
(You’ll need about 10-12 friends per character.)
Originally published on Ewan.net and automatically republished here on Mobile Industry Review. View the original post.
Ambassador, with this Samsung Omnia HD, you are spoiling us
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Would you like to be a Samsung Omnia HD Ambassador?
Well you’re in with a chance.
Would you like to get your hands on an Omnia HD before anyone else?
Just fill in the application form to be in with a chance of getting the Omnia HD before its launch. You will then become an official ambassador for the Omnia HD. Ambassadors will be at the forefront of introducing the phone to the world, blogging, filming, playing, chatting, and demonstrating its unrivalled capabilities.
OOOOOOH.
How do you become an ambassador?
Download the application form and provide details of your films or blogs. The 50 most interesting applicants will be selected to become an ambassador and will receive the Omnia HD before everyone else! Not only will you receive the phone but you will also be invited to Samsung for a secret mission…
To qualify, you just have to fill in a form. It’s only a one-page PDF. Questions like name, age, gender, 1st language, other languages (errr…. English… and pigeon French/German/Spanish/Italian). You have to give your current cell phone, and outline your talents vis a vis your blog address and video blogs addresses.
ANNNND there’s a mission too. It’s not just fillin’ in forms:
Please make a brief review on your mobile phone or a short video about yourself! And attach the file.
The details are here: http://infotainment.samsungmobile.com/competition.jsp
And you’ve got until the 27th of March to get your form in.
So kudos to Samsung for going out to the masses and delivering some kind of outreach programme a la Nokia. Let’s see how the Ambassador Programme gets on. I’ve no doubt we’ll be bumping into a few in the coming months.
(Thanks to @russmacdonald for bringing this to our attention).
14-year-old girl arrested for texting in class
Saturday, February 21st, 2009I got this via The Smoking Gun. They posted it up a few days ago. Have a read:
A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. The teenager was busted last Wednesday at Wauwatosa East High School after she ignored a teacher’s demand that she cease texting. The girl, whose name we have redacted from the below Wauwatosa Police Department report, initially denied having a phone when confronted by a school security officer. However, the phone was located after the girl was frisked by a female cop. The Samsung Cricket, the police report noted, was recovered “from the buttocks area” of the teenager. The student was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct, which carried “a bail of $298,” and had her phone confiscated. The girl, who was barred from school property for a week, is scheduled for an April 20 court appearance on the misdemeanor rap
The Smoking Gun even has a photocopy/fax of the actual report (here).
Goodness me.
It appears the handset was a Samsung.
