Google Maps For Mobile Gets Street View And Public Transit Features

Google Maps For Mobile Gets Street View And Public Transit FeaturesWe’re been feeling big time love for Google’s freebie Mobile Maps application for some time, and the experience has just got a little bit better thanks to the efforts of their team of ever-industrious boffins.

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HTC Touch 3G And Touch HD Handsets Unveiled

HTC Touch 3G And Touch HD Handsets UnveiledSlipping out of HTC’s ever-industrious product factory in rather a half cocked manner is two new high-end HTC Touch handsets; the Touch 3G and Touch HD.

Both seemed to have suffered leaked releases, with product pages going up and down all over t’shop, but here’s what we’ve found out so far.

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Sony Ericsson G705 Smartphone Announced

Sony Ericsson G705 Smartphone AnnouncedWe’re liking the look of Sony Ericsson’s new G705 high end smartphone.

A sleek, slide out number, the G705 packs a 2.4-inch display with automatic screen rotation taken care of by an onboard accelerometer. There’s also WiFi, aGPS with Google Maps for Mobile, a built-in FM radio, an RSS reader for grabbing your news on the move, email client and a full HTML browser – all delivered at “turbo 3G speeds.”

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Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The Party

Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The PartyAfter casting envious looks at the hugely successful AppStore for the iPhone and hearing about Google’s proposed Android Market for the Android smartphone platform, Microsoft looks set to belatedly join the online mobile apps store party.

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HTC Touch Diamond Is EISA European Smart Phone 2008-9

HTC Touch Diamond Is EISA European Smart Phone 2008-9HTC are, we suspect, bouncing around with considerable joy today, after they were told that their HTC Touch Diamond has won the EISA European Smart Phone of the year 2008-9 award.

The handset runs on on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional overlaid with an updated version of HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface, which is designed to keep the itty-bitty stylus in its silo and make the operating system more finger friendly.

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Twitter Cuts UK SMS Service

Twitter Cuts UK SMS ServiceTwitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.

While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.

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