Things that aren’t static
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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ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase.
They’ve bought a Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum.
Nokia knock out two new phones. We try to get excited.
Nokia 5320
The Nokia 5320 comes in a classic candy-bar form factor and serves up the rather gimmicky Say and Play feature. This lets punters bellow a song or name of an artist into their phone, and the software will dutifully serve it up.
There’s certainly no shortage of more useful features on board though, with the 3G phone offering a ‘full Internet browser for Web 2.0 access,’ dedicated XpressMusic keys, an audio chip for advanced sound quality, a handy 3.5mm audio jack, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with flash, HS-USB and microSD card support for up to 8GB.
Bus journeys could be set to get even more annoying with the launch of the BeatEd, a simple drum sequencer/ machine for Symbian S60 smartphones.
The application offers an easy to use beat editor and the ability to change tempo and volume while playing, so you could really wind up granny on the Number 43 bus.
When it comes to a slimmed down feature set, you won’t get much more Spartan than the Eur13 disposable cell-phone, a $20 (£10) GSM phone which, as its name suggests, is designed as a throwaway handset.
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Taiwanese technology types E-TEN have whipped away the white sheet covering their new Windows Mobile powered Glofiish M750 and M810 smartphones and are waiting for the gasps of “must have” admiration from the market.
The two phones are near-identical, although the Glofiish M750 smartphone loses the 3G UMTS/HSDPA support of its bigger bro,’ offering GPRS/EDGE data connectivity instead.
It appears that the success of mobile data has flourished since both the price of modem devices and the costs of using it have plummeted – quelle suprise.
3G network provider, Three, is reporting that there’s a seven fold increase in the amount of data that is being passed through their network since the introduction of the Skypephone.
After being told for years that making a mobile call on a plane was likely to send the aircraft plummeting to the ground in flames, EU’s regulators have cleared the way for passengers to enjoy loud earfuls of, “HELLO? I’M ON THE PLANE!”
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Currently being buffed and brought up to a nice sheen deep in the bowels of LG’s mobile phone factory is the Black Label handset.
Thankfully, it looks like LG have elected not to name their new phone after a load of numbers, but have continued their trend for snappy monikers, with the new phone’s code name of ‘Black Label’ expected to be given a user-friendly name following on from their earlier Chocolate and Shine handsets.
Thanks to PapaSnuff for sending through the video of Quake 3 running on an iPod itouch and it looks pretty cool.