Samsung G810 have announced details of their top of the range Samsung G810 slider phone.
Packed with kitchen sink-including functionality including geo-tagging and Wi-Fi, the handset looks ready and willing to square up against the hugely popular Nokia N95 smartphone.
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Nokia, the undisputed heavyweight mobile phone-shifters of the world have announced three more multimedia phone models at the mobile industry’s annual knees-up in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress 2008. (more…)
Palm have announced the European release of their Palm OS-based Centro smartphone, their smallest and lightest Palm smartphone to date.
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Wooargh! This one looks good! Sony Ericsson have just released details of their new XPERIA X1 ‘arc slider’ 3G HSDPA phone that comes with an intriguing new ‘panel interface’ running on top of Windows Mobile. (more…)
A long time favourite with the Digi-Lifestyle crew, ACDSee’s Windows photo manager has always impressed us with its ability to take a manly grip on large, unruly digital photo collections and slap them into nice ordered piles.
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Media analyst spods Screen Digest have released updated usage data and forecasts for the online TV market in the UK.
The company say that a “surge” in punters feeling the downloading love for the BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service has sent them scurrying back to their labs and adding some more 0s on the end of estimates for free-to-view (FTV) TV consumption in the UK.
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If anything’s likely to cause long term health issues, it would be worrying over the endless contradictory mobile phone health reports.
In the latest of a long line of reports, a Japanese study concludes that mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, so we can relax for a bit (until the next damning report comes out, natch).
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It won’t come as much of a surprise to many customers, but a study of 52 leading European financial services companies found that UK banks and building societies deliver poor levels of online customer service.
The survey, commissioned by IBM and Kana Software, was conducted via a “mystery shopping study” of financial services companies in the UK and Germany.
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Us Brits are still staying glued to the keypads of our mobiles, with new research showing that an astonishing total of 57 billion messages were sent last year.
Despite more phones being capable of receiving and sending email, the figures from the Mobile Data Association show SMS volumes continuing to soar, with volumes up 40% year on year.
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While the web is ablaze with talk of Microsoft’s possible buyout of Yahoo, the former search engine king is shunting its music subscription customers to Rhapsody as a cost-saving exercise.
American subscribers to Yahoo Music Unlimited can download an unlimited number of tracks, which only remain playable if the users keep up with their $6 per month payments.
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