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Monthly Archives: July 2009
MySMS for s60 5th
MySMS for s60 5th seems to do something with SMS messages under Symbian S60 5th Edition, but it’s not easy to know what exactly from the description below. Anyone?
“MySMS enables to schedule sms in chat conversation, so you can view, send, delete in very easy way compare to former thread.
MySMS is a rocketing built in app from MyPhone App for Symbian. Tips and Info for MySMS:
* If you have many many sms inbox, eg over 500 threads, MySMS will meet random reading overcome flash lite error 4 bug;
* In the real sending model, and you can enjoy sent and received sms in chat threads, if you quit the thread, your sent sms can not be display inside MySMS again due to Flash lite platform limitation;
* In MySMS to type character to search contacts, eg after type the character ‘a’, you have to hit below blank area to confirm, so MySMS will start to search, and it will take a little bit time, if you have many contacts
* MySMS is based on FL platform, so in each time launching this app it will hint to allow sessions, and you have to agree.”
New accessories for Palm Pre, HTC Magic and Nokia N97
PDair has released a selection of new accessories for the Palm Pre, HTC Magic and Nokia N97. First up is an aluminium metal case for the Pre in silver or black. Here are the specs-
Thin, Lightweight and strong.
Removable 360 degrees belt clip included.
Anodized aircraft-grade aluminum prevents from scratches. Neoprene inner lining for extra protection and shock absorber.
Easy access to all buttons and features.
High tensil strength aluminum.
Cutouts give easy access to all handheld features.
Easy to install.
Next we have a USB Cradle for the HTC Magic Android G2 smartphone. Specs- Data HotSync and battery charging on your desk with a cradle. Blue LED indicator.
Finally, a new USB cradle has been released for the Nokia N97 with the same specs as the Magic one above.
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Brainwave Tuner for BlackBerry
Brainwave Tuner for BlackBerry could be brilliant, or it could be nonsense. I don’t know enough about the subject to make a true judgement…
Want to relax? Meditate? Learn faster? Focus attention? Increase your awareness? Try self-hypnosis?
Just put on the earphones and let BrainWave Tuner turn you on.
BrainWave Tuner is a brain wave stimulation application that generates tones with binaural beats, which can change your brain frequency towards the desired state, be it relaxation or enhanced attention.
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Windows Mobile Marketplace off to a bad start?
wmpoweruser has posted an article, Windows Mobile Marketplace off to a bad start?, of which the most telling part follows-
The biggest issue appears to be the certification fee associated with each application (after the 5th) with applications which were rejected the first time being counted as a new submission when the developer tries again.
Says one developer: “Blackberry does testing for free, Apple does testing for free too, as do Nokia and Android. All of these companies have fewer staff than Microsoft and are able to cope. Microsoft, a giant with 90,000 employees, cannot do the testing in house and needs an outside company to do it for them? Why is this?”
News round-up: 29th July 2009
The T-Mobile G2 Touch has launched in the UK. You can get it for free on an 18 month £35 contract, but if that contract is a bit steep for your needs it is good value SIM-free from the likes of Clove.
EA is bringing Fifa 10 and Madden NFL 10 to the iPhone which is not a surprise, but a welcome development. Expected release dates are to tie-in with the console releases in August and October.
A beta of BlackBerry Swiss Army Knife is now available to test. BB SAK was built as a JL Cmdr replacement tool with a more friendly GUI.
Palm is opening two “Palm Pre Experience Centers” at two upscale shopping malls in Los Angeles. It appears that they will be outdoor areas under umbrellars? More at pre central.
Microsoft has released a new test tool for Windows Mobile 6.5 called Hopper. From Hegenderfer- “Hopper is a software test tool that simulates random user input on mobile devices providing a sometimes meaningful mean time to failure (MTTF) number.” The developers among you will be interested in this…
Symbian is after UI suggestions in an effort to compete with the fancier UIs found on competitign devices. More at Symbian Guru.
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QOTD: One artist and one TV series?
A strange question today. If you were only allowed to have one music artist and one TV series or film on your smartphone, what would they be? Easy one for me- Queen and The West Wing.
What does upgrading actually achieve?
Some of you have no doubt upgraded your smartphones many times and I would be interested to hear what your experience of these upgrades has been. I tend to upgrade at a minimum twice a year and sell the previous device to fund the new one, and so the cycle continues.
The thing is that upgrading offers so little extra functionality that any sensible human being would only benefit from upgrading once every three years. I don’t upgrade my PC every six months because a new one is released, but I still do it with smartphones. Of course I can kid myself that I need to know the latest devices because of the website and freelance writing, but that is not exactly true- I have just wanted the latest smartphones and rarely had a genuine reason to buy them.
Of course there are benefits to the latest devices, but rarely enough to justify continual upgrading and no wholesale changes have been made that have made people jump up and upgrade.
Platform jumping is another issue altogether and some of us have experimented with BlackBerry, iPhone and Symbian over the past year. Data can get lost in these transitions and the main reason to switch to a new platform is normally the hardware and not the platform itself.
People also upgrade their mobile phones when their contracts are up and often just to have a new phone for no specific reason. Why does the humble phone cause us to buy a new one when the current one if working perfectly well? The industry has done a sterling job in making mobile phones such a desirable object that we simply must have the latest one.
Top of the League now available for Symbian devices / 50% discount through 247!
The superb Top of the League is now available for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices. I used to play this ‘a lot’ on my Palm smartphones and its good to see the development continuing.
You can get the game for 50% of the normal asking price ($5) until 28th August by visiting this exclusive link for PDA-247 readers.
Top of the League is now available for Symbian S60 3rd & 5th Edition and UIQ3 phones – lots of phones including the Nokia 5800, N95, N96, N97 and E71
Top of the League is an acclaimed soccer management game based on the English league. Guide a team through the divisions to top flight, league title and cup glory!
* Full eight round League Cup competition
* 4 divisions including the Premier
* League tables and fixture lists
* Transfer market – buy, sell, free transfers & contracts
* Promotions and relegations
* Save game facility
* Autopick team (New)
* Extensive player details, including age, career record and even how he is feeling
* Money & club financies
* Stadium expansion decisions by the board of directors
* Board of directors financial and transfer interventions
* Full Team selections plus opponent abilities
* Match commentary, scorers, injury time & penalty shoot-outs
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MessageSchedule for BlackBerry
All smartphones should have the ability to send timed messages, but sadly they don’t. MessageSchedule for BlackBerry brings a solution to BB owners and it looks quite useful- “MessageSchedule™ is a unique application which allows BlackBerry users to prepare SMS and E-mail messages in advance and schedule them for automatic delivery at any date & time.”
- Create, view, edit and deleted scheduled SMS and E-mail messages.
- Send an SMS or E-mail at a specified time.
- Record the sizes and number of SMS and E-mail messages sent.
- Keep track of the total cost of all SMS and E-mail messages which have been sent with MessageSchedule™.
- Schedule a reply or forward easily from the BlackBerry SMS and E-mail application.
- Create message templates for quick scheduling of previously scheduled messages.
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Voxofon targets the Palm Pre
Voxofon is making its service compatible with the Palm Pre. At the sime of writing it is showing on the website as ‘coming soon’, but we believe that to be as vague as later this year. Still, it is the first VOIP solution that we know of on the Pre so far, or have I got that completely wrong?
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The Race to Market
The Windows Marketplace has opened up its doors to developers in 29 countries. With an estimated 30 million WM devices out there, a change to the pricing structures could work very well for some developers-
Registered developers and ISVs can now upload their application, game or widget to the Windows Marketplace platform and we’ll begin certifying those apps according to the process, policies and guidelines we’ve published. We certify apps on a First In, First Out (FIFO) basis. Certification should normally take about 10 business days initially and you can always check on your application during the process through our Developer Dashboard. To better market your app, you can provide us with all the product information and promotional materials you’d like us to use to describe and showcase your application for the more than 30 million Windows Mobile devices out there.
If we go through the certification process and your application doesn’t pass one or more of the tests or checks, we’ll give you a detailed report explaining which test and why. All of the tests and checks we run align with the tools and criteria we’ve shared, so there shouldn’t be too many surprises. The steps we take to help ensure that an application meets reasonable expectations for quality, usability and localization creates a high standard for the marketplace, a consistent experience for shoppers and ultimately increased exposure and repeat business for all involved.
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Q*bert lives again
The legendary Q*bert has received a new lease of life via the iPhone. It is well priced at £1.19 / $1.99 and will bring back all of your memories from the original. The game play area could be larger, but other than that it is nearly perfect.
“Oh, he’s back, baby! The Q*bert that we all know and love… or at least love to hate. This game is challenging! It’s hard to put down once you get going. Ah, the addictive joy of a simple to learn, hard to master game.
A bit more down to business now…
Q*bert fans, this is your blog. Really. It’s for you. And the new iPhone/iPod Touch Q*bert game, that’s for you too. So help us help you. Tell us what you think by commenting or posting as a guest. We have only just begun and plan to release many updates for improvements/enhancements. We want to make an awesome game and your input could put us over that edge.
Here’s what we have so far:
Arcade Mode: We really want to honor the original Q*bert game, so there’s an Arcade mode that is super authentic. The graphics are true to the retro style. The code is based on the original code so Q*bert and the other characters all move the same way they did in the real deal back in the 80s. Even the help text is from the…”
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British government tells civil servants to tweet
If Twitter is not exciting enough for you, things are about to change because the British Government wants Civil Servants to start tweeting. I can see it now- “We have just received our new filing cabinet- it is the AB001THY model that we really wanted. Here’s a picture of it ‘twitpic…’”
From cellular-news- “The government published guidelines Tuesday for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter.
Yet in contrast to Twitter’s limit of 140 characters per message, the document runs 20 pages, or more than 5,000 words.
Neil Williams of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who produced the guidelines, acknowledged that 20 pages was “a bit over the top,” but said he had been surprised by “just how much there is to say.”"
Psychology of Technology: 5 Smartphone Rules to Live By
Psychology of Technology: 5 Smartphone Rules to Live By over at Mobility Digest takes an interesting view of the way we use smartphones. A little patronising and not really on the money in my view. What do you think?
“The smartphone has become a ubiquitous status symbol of and tool for businesspeople doing business. In offices, on the streets, and in airports, what self-respecting businessperson doesn’t have their smartphone, whether a Blackberry, Windows Mobile device, Palm, or iPhone, at the ready to make the deal, provide support, change the plan, or just stay up to date on their company’s latest developments at a moment’s notice. The smartphone’s ability to provide businesspeople with instant access to others through email, text messaging, and phone has, in theory, saved time and made the business world run more smoothly by keeping everyone in a company connected all day every day. It can truly be a tool for increased communication, efficiency, and productivity…”