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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Swivel Neck Mount and Apple iPhone 3GS specific holder bundle + free adaptor
We reviewed the PDA Hut Swivel Mount for the iPhone 3G/3GS a while back and it proved to be an exceptional accessory, both in terms of quality and price. PDA Hut is now offering a free car charger if you buy one of these which makes it even better value. I have heard nothing but good feedback about this accessory so far.
Simple, small and sturdy, this new Hearbert Richter’s Swivel neck mount bundled with Apple iPhone 3GS specific holder. . Mount utilises Herbert Richter’s 4 prong ratcheting system to instantly attach to custom made sleeves for Apple iPhone 3GS.
Ratcheting plate rotates 360 degrees for either landscape or portrait view.
Swivel can be tightened with rear side tightening ring.
Horizontally and vertically adjustable by 60 degrees.
Virtual vibration free.
Superb suction cup made of plastic material free of DEHP
140mm x 70mm x 88mm
German Made.
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QOTD: Are you content?
Are you content with your current smartphone or does the lure of other devices still tempt you? I think I am content at the moment with the Curve and iPhone, but I should never say never…
Why GPS will never be perfect
Last week I had to attend a meeting in a town which happened to have two roads with the same name. I was given a postcode by my company and proceeded to drive to the meeting using Co-Pilot on my iPhone. I ended up in a residential area and promptly started to curse Co-Pilot for letting me down. This was the first time it had happened and so I was not duly concerned.
As a last resort I tried Vodafone Sat Nav on my BlackBerry Curve 8900 and was promptly taken to the correct building. I inputted the same postcode information and all worked OK this time, but that is far from the end of the story. When I arrived, it turned out that many others had also been taken to the same place I had originally because they had also used the same postcode. We all managed to get lost at one stage and eventually were told that we had been given the wrong postcode.
The irony is that all of the sat navs which did the right thing ended up getting us lost and seemingly Vodafone Sat Nav mixed up its postcodes and took me to the place I wanted to go? So, sometimes it is worth a double check before you leave to ensure that everything goes smoothly. A sat nav is only as good as the person, or people, providing the information for it to navigate with, and in this case we all got it wrong.
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Ace Email Viewer for BlackBerry down by 80%. Today only!
Ace Email Viewer for BlackBerry is on a discount until the end of today. It is normally priced at $49.95, but is going for $9.95 at the moment so you need to be quick!
You will never look at emails the same way again!
Ace Email Viewer is an add-on for the native (built-in) email client (Messages) application.
Normally your Blackberry phone shows you emails in plain text format, which many times includes long website links, images links and email addresses etc. Smileys also appear as plain text like :- )
With Ace Email Viewer in your Blackberry phone, emails appear much better than in native email (Messages) application. It displays the images that were sent in emails, smileys, colorful text, customizable background patterns, font style, size etc. It offers several options that you can customize as per your needs.
Pictures are worth thousand words … so check all the screenshots to get an idea of how emails appear in Regular view and in Ace Email Viewer.
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Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Two Billion
Here’s a press release to end all press releases. The figures are astonishing, and even if three quarters of the apps are tripe, it still leave thousands of good ones. Thanks to Trevor.
CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple® today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone™ and iPod touch® customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. With the recently introduced iTunes® 9, it’s now easier than ever to organize and sync your apps right in iTunes and they will automatically appear on your iPhone or iPod touch with the same layout.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
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PreCentral Homebrew Gallery passes 2 million downloads
PreCentral has announced that over 2 million downloads have been made from its Homebrew Gallery. It may not match the figures above from Apple, but it is a start.
“With nearly 250 total apps – more than a dozen of which have graduated to Palm’s App Catalog – the PreCentral Homebrew App Gallery has logged more than two million downloads since August 19th. It was just September 4th that we hit one million downloads, so we’ve been running along at a clip of over 43,000 downloads a day over the past three weeks. In reality, we’re well over two million downloads by now, as the Homebrew Gallery actually opened for business on August 5th, but we didn’t manage to start keeping track until two weeks later when we saw just how many homebrew apps you were all sucking down through the pipes.
So to our developers and users, congratulations! Also, big thanks to Palm – we’re more than pleased to see homebrew developers graduating to the official App Catalog and honored to say that we were a part of it all.”
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Mobi Dog for symbian
Mobi Dog is new for Symbian and looks functional once you work out what it actually does- “MobiDog is easy-to-use and efficient PIM protection software runs on symbian mobile phones. It provides such functions as alarm automatically when an unidentified SIM card is working on your mobile phone, concealing contacts and short messages automatically, back up or restore contacts and short messages, remote control to retake data and so forth.”
- Monitor SIM card automatically, send an alarm when an unidentified SIM card is working on your mobile phone.
- Conceal contacts and short messages automatically when an unidentified SIM card is working on your mobile phone. The data will be restored automatically when the identified SIM card is working on your mobile phone.
- Remote control to delete contacts, short messages and call record in your mobile phone.
- Remote control to send contacts and short messages to the appointed mailbox.
- Remote control to send contacts and short messages to the appointed mobile phone.
- Support to backup contacts and short messages to the appointed mailbox, and to restore them on your mobile phone by E-mail.
- Support to backup contacts and short messages to the server, and to be on-line real-time recovery.
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Orange & Vodafone Touch Pro2 ROM updates arrive
Two new HTC Touch Pro2 updates have appeared at the HTC support site. There are for Vodafone and Orange handsets, but there is little detail as to what has changed.
Eff Google, Screw Android: The Backlash Begins
Eff Google, Screw Android: The Backlash Begins is a fascinating article over at phandroid which discusses a tweet by Jean-Baptiste Queru. Is the Android bandwagon starting to hit a rocky road? Probably not, but it may be better for all of this to happen now rather than later. Thanks to Gavin.
“This is bad. Really bad. So bad that one of the lead Android developers themselves are insinuating this is worth walking away from the platform. Jean-Baptiste Queru has just tweeted, “To my Apple, Microsoft and Palm buddies: are you hiring to work on mobile stuff?” OUCH.”
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O2 loses iPhone exclusivity in the UK
Something interesting has appeared on the Orange UK site- “Orange UK and Apple have reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year. Orange globally now offers iPhone in 28 countries and territories.
Orange, which has the largest 3G network covering more people in the UK than any other operator, will sell iPhone in all Orange direct channels including Orange shops, the Orange webshop and Orange telesales channels, as well as selected high street partners. A pre-registration site for customers to log their interest has been launched at www.Orange.co.uk/iPhone
More information on pricing, tariffs and availability dates will be released in due course.”
Get Mastersoft Chess for the iPhone for free!
Mastersoft Chess is now available for the iPhone and it brings all of the goodness from the original Windows Mobile version to the ‘perfect for gaming’ iPhone platform.
There are many features included such as over 23,000 opening moves, a hint feature and various boards to suit your mood. It is suitable for beginners and experts and is well worth the asking price of less than a dollar.
Mastersoft has kindly given PDA-247 10 iTunes codes for Mastersoft Chess to give away! This will entitle you to download the game for free provided you have a US iTunes account.
The first 10 people to contact me will get a code by reply within 24 hours. Either email me at shaun (at) mailstm.co.uk or send a BlackBerry PIN to 2104EBA8.
Good luck and enjoy the game, whether you win or not.
QOTD: Can you ‘sense’ your phone?
Can you hear the alert on your phone even when you are in noisy environments i.e. have you become tuned in to the noise your phone makes when a new email or communication arrives? I can hear my BlackBerry even when in very loud places and am fairly sure that I am tuned into the noise no matter where I am.
You want to buy eBooks for a fair price? Only if you are American…
The continuing saga of geographic restrictions on eBooks rumbles on and seems to be getting worse (for me) as the days pass. The arrival of an email from eReader pointing to three titles which are available for only $1.99 and a selection of many other titles looked good. However, I am not allowed to buy any of them…
I have just finished reading my latest book and decided to have a search for my next read. Every single titles I have tried to buy is geographically restricted and thus I would have to look at something I would not normally buy to read. I read somewhere that only 10% of eBooks are restricted and if true, I presume that to be a very large percentage of the best sellers because that figure does not relate to what I am finding.
Gavin came up with a solution for reading eBooks if you are based outside the US which is here, but it involved him paying a lot more for a book that he should have to. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol is now $15.75 at Powell’s books which is quite good compared to the $20 eReader want (not that I can buy it from them), but that is still expensive compared to the initial $9.99 the book was offered at through eReader. You can also buy the same book for a whopping £14.99 in the App Store which is of course crazy, but it seems to be doing brisk business with people who know no better.
My main issue is that eReader, fictionwise and others have done nothing to reduce the frustration non-US residents feel over this. We still receive emails promoting books we cannot buy and the sites are set up in a way which gives you no option to filter the books. When I log in, why does eReader not only show me books I can buy? They have my details and could do this fairly easily, but instead we have to browse countless titles which we cannot buy. Also, why can I but The Lost Symbol in iTunes, but not at eReader? Maybe they need to look at the publishers they are using.
I know I keep banging on about this, but have written this article to find out if any of you have come up with a better solution to this problem. My solution is to not buy eBooks at all at the moment.
Routes Compared – CoPilot vs Navigon vs iGO vs Sygic vs TomTom
Robin posted on 247 about an article he had written comparing routes on the major iPhone apps available. It fits quite well with my article above and shows that there are advantages and disadvantages to every solution.
“Someone called Pakman, commented on the CoPilot vs TomTom review, that CoPilot Live is making questionable routing decisions. I requested live examples so I can do something with it.
Because I did not receive any, I decided to compare several routes with all the GPS apps on the EU market, namely Sygic, CoPilot Live, iGO My way, TomTom and Navigon.
Many articles have been written about this subject already for conventional GPS PNDs but not many about the iPhone apps.
Also I will try to visualize the logic of TomTom IQ routes.
One thing to keep in mind is that TomTom and Sygic uses the Map Technology of TeleAtlas, while the others use NAVTEQ.
I created 4 test routes.
1. A route from within the city to an outside city
2. A route from the east side of the city to the west side
3. A route from the east side of the country to the west side
4. A route from one country to another country”
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Puzzle World for BlackBerry
Puzzle World is new for BlackBerry and looks like one of the better games available for this platform. “Enter the world of puzzles now and enjoy the fun & pleasure every puzzle brings to you. Up to 50 puzzles including graphic reasoning, language reasoning, mathematics, imagination are waiting for you to conquer! Are you the smartest and fastest puzzle solver?”
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