Telecoms giant Orange are reporting a substantial fall in the demand from customers for ringtones, as punters make use of more powerful multimedia handsets to download full length songs instead.
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Month: April 2008
Brando ‘Button Badge’ USB Pedometer
Folks keen to lose a bit of excess lard with a bit of pavement pounding, and keen walkers hungry for information about their perambulations might be interested in the latest curious USB gadget to be dreamt up by the hyperactive boffins in Brando’s ever-busy labs.
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N-Gage Now For Your N-Phone
As you may well remember, Nokia brought out the N-Gage games/phone back before 2003, following it up with the N-Gage 1.5, then the second generation N-Gage QD (June 2004). None of them really set the world alight.
After buying Sega’s mobile gaming unit (2003), they finally got around to launching the service that let N-Gage owners buy games online in 2006.
Astraware Platypus Shoot ‘Em Up For Palm, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphones: Review (81%)
Released last week, Astraware’s Platypus shoot’em up game has already proved a button-straining hit on our handheld.
The sideways scrolling, arcade-style shooter has a lovely retro feel to do it, with graphics created using claymation-style effects, giving the game a fun, sci-fi, Aardman-esque look.
LG Overtake Sony Ericsson In Handset Sales Q1 2008
At the Press conference in London today for the launch of the LG Secret, LG revealed that for the first time they have passed unit sales of Sony Ericsson.
For the first quarter 2008 LG have sold over 24.4m units against Sony Ericsson’s
22.3m units.
When asked if they were happy about it, Chang Ma replied that “It has no real meaning to us, we just want to develop better handsets.”
LG Secret Named And Launched: UPDATE 2
We’re at the Worldwide launch of the LG Secret. LG have spent plenty of money on this launch, the third handset in the Black Label range.
Following the launch of the Chocolate (18m units worldwide) and Shine today sees the latest … it’s called the Secret
Smallest Pong Games In The World?
After we wrote the story about PongOut — Pong and Breakout, both on the same screen, played at the same time — we got a connected about another version of Pong.
This time the smallest version of Pong known to mankind – smaller than a fingernail.
Archos Content Portal Expands: Paramount & Porn
Here in London today, Archos has announced an expansion of content that’s available through the Archos Content Portal and Media Club – alongside three other announcements today (more later, including podcasts).
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70% Of Mobile Voice Mail Not In Dictionary!
An amazing 70% of the language used by people leaving voice mails on mobile phones isn’t in the dictionary, reveals Spinvox, a company that changes mobile phone voice mails in to text.
Clearly this could make changing those voice messages into text quite a challenge. Not only does their system, called D2, have to deal with accents around a county — some of them pretty strong around the British Isles — but also learn about the slang that is used in those regions.
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PongOut: Breakout & Pong Combined: Argh, My Brain Hurts
If you feel like you need a break from work — and who doesn’t every now and again — and want to make your brain ache a little, let us introduce Pongout.
It’s a combination of two old video games, Breakout and Pong.
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