Things that aren’t static
Released with Palm’s now typical – and utterly baffling – lack of PR fanfare is a native Facebook client for their Palm Centro, Treo 755p and Treo 680 smartphones.
Encouraged by very healthy sales of its cut-price Palm Centro handset (sales are expected to hit two million for 2008), the Facebook client should prove a very good fit for the Centro’s consumer-orientated market.
As unexpected as the sun rising in the morning, new research figures reveal that Google continues to be the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese and the head honcho in the world of mobile search.
Leaving its competitors floundering about like a wet fish in a tub o’lard, the search engine kings surged miles ahead of its competitors in the first quarter of 2008, according to Nielsen Mobile.
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Box fresh and ready to spread the big megapixel love is Sony Ericsson’s new C905 Cyber-shot cameraphone stuffing in a whopping 8.1MP of picture power and a ton of photography- focussed gizmos.
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Rumbling off Nokia’s great production mills are two additions to its E series range, the QWERTY E71 and E66 slider phones.
Both have emerged from lard free diets, sporting trim bodies just 10mm thick for the E71 (pictured above) and 13.6mm for the E66, with a novel ‘quick switch’ letting users change from business to personal use. This tie-loosening types switch home screens, email accounts and calendar to their personal choices as soon as they’ve got the hell out of the office.
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Keen to exploit the product shifting possibilities of the famous Glastonbury Festival, mobile operator, Orange have announced the launch of a freestanding wind powered mobile phone charging station. (more…)
New quarterly notebook PC shipment figures by research bods DisplaySearch have revealed that 31 million units were shipped in the first quarter of 2008, with the notebook PC market shrinking 6% over the last quarter, but increasing 35% compared to the same period last year.
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Back in the day, kids used to customise their trainers courtesy of a marker pen and a bit of imagination, but Nike intends to go one better by offering a service that lets people create footware-based fun using colour schemes based on their camera phone snaps.
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Details of Sony Ericssons new range of phones have been leaking all over the Web, with the most interesting being the gaming- orientated F305.
Although it’s low on the usual hi-tech features we’ve grown to love – there’s no Wi-Fi or GPS for starters – the silvery thing packs a built-in accelerometer for Wii-style motion controlled games, and a set of PlayStation-like gaming keys next to the display, with a shortcut key to games.
To the surprised gasps of, well no-one, Captain Stevie Jobs set fanboy gussets a-moistening one more time with the announcement of the new 3G iPhone.
Now sporting Thinner edges and a full black plastic back, the upgraded handset runs iPhone 2.0 firmware, with Apple claiming that it will load webpages quicker than the N95 and Treo 750 (quote why they’re boasting about it being faster than the 18 month old Treo is anyone’s guess mind.)
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If the dimensions of the super-slimline mobile sitting in your pocket are still causing you consternation, then the ridiculously small Neon7 may be what you’re looking for.
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