We are going to change the way the news is reported on 247 from now on. Instead of a daily upload at 7am (UK time) every morning we will post the news and commentary as and when we write it. This will mean that some days 3 articles may appear and that on others 20 may appear.

This should not only mean more variety for you, but some more time for us to write full articles for the site. We have also increased the default number of items on the front page from 10 to 15, and this may increase further. If lots of articles are posted on one day, use the calendar on the left. Your thoughts on this change are of course welcome via the comments link.

Do you think of your smartphone as a PDA with a phone attached or a phone with a PDA attached? Is phone or PDA functionality the most important when deciding what to buy?

Having used the Asus EEE 701 for almost a year now, I discovered that Curry's were offering the Acer Aspire One for a bank holiday special price of £199 (512MB / 8GB Flash / Linux version) - that's £50 off- and, after spending a few minutes in the shop tinkering with it, I decided that the increased screen size made it a desirable upgrade to the EEE. My only particular qualm was the battery life, which has been reported in most reviews as being very poor indeed- around the two hour mark, and so I made sure to check the power requirements before purchase, and, I was pleased to discover that my Proporta Portable Laptop Battery, which I've had sitting in my drawer gathering dust for a long time now would power the device.

Why mention it? Well, the battery is expensive - at £100, it may almost be worth buying a UMPC with a longer battery life, such as the EEE900, if you wanted that particular unit. However, Proporta has a bank holiday sale of 15%, which makes a substantial saving on this item. Similarly, the battery is about the hardest thing to find on their site (I had to resort to Google to find it, even though I knew it existed, so ineffective was Proporta's search engine!), so, a link for those interested probably wouldn't go amiss: here.

Having had concerns in the past about power retention with the battery (after a charge, how quickly does it all die away, requiring a recharge), I was very pleased (okay - absolutely amazed) to discover that, after what must have been at least a year in the drawer, it had retained pretty much 100% charge! I plugged it it (using the Aspire's charger, of course) just to be sure, and, in less than 10 minutes, it was showing full capacity. I haven't completed a full discharge cycle yet to see if there is any degredation, but, I will be testing it thoroughly next weekend, with an eight + hour flight...

Major iPhone Bug is new at Palm Addict and well worth reading just in case you have the same issues- "This is a big one, folks. Here are the known symptoms:
- your iPhone reports that there is no music available
- every 3rd-party application crashes immediately after showing the splash screen
- the iPhone and iTunes both show that all the space is still being used
This has happened to my phone too. I've gone through a full restore of my phone several times, eating up hours of my time each time. "Extremely annoying" is an understatement. In my case, the only thing I'd uploaded onto my phone that I still had access to for an entire weekend was my single custom ringtone.

My own complaint to Apple's support has as of yet not been answered. There are reports that Steve jobs himself sent out an email that this issue will be fixed in the next upgrade in September.

According to multiple threads on Apple's discussion boards..."

A new touch-screen phone from a mystery company has been detected on the internet by tech magazine, T3. The O1, as it is apparently called claims to be launching towards the end of next month and is reported to come with a 5 megapixel camera, 3G connection and a huge 32GB of internal memory.

There isn't any specifications on the website though, so it was not immediately clear where T3 got the technical specifications from - or at least it was initially. Checking who owns the domain name via a whois look-up, found that the technical contact for the website is an email address registered with Future Publishing - which just happens to be the publisher for the T3 magazine.

The use of the T3 website as a screenshot for the handset was also a bit of a giveaway that at the very least, there is some linkage between the two firms.

One of the most interesting aspects of the handset though - based on the image on the website - is the projection keyboard. The projection keyboard projects the image of a computer keyboard onto practically any flat surface. An infrared system senses the letters and numbers typed by the user. More at cellular-news.