Wireless connections
HTC’s new Touch Diamond smartphone, successor to the popular HTC Touch (reviewed in June 2007) has just been unveiled in London.
Powered by a 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, the Touch Diamond eschews the pebble-smooth rounded lines of its 3-million selling predecessor and breaks out the piano gloss finish all over its rectangular lines.
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Vodafone have just announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten countries around the world.
Those countries are Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.
When they will be available is currently unclear beyond, “later this year.”
The wording that Vodafone has used is interesting, saying they “will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” which leads us to suspect that these might not be exclusive deals in these countries, a departure from the Apple iPhone deals have happened to date.
More when we hear it.
While we were at the Archos launch in London last week we had a run through of the Archos Portation.
It’s a free plugin for owners of the Archos TV+ which lets you stream live TV from your TV+ to a laptop, Symbian phone or handheld Archo 605 or 705 with DVR station if they’re equipped with the £30 plugin.
Think of it as a free Slingbox with your Archos TV+.
OK, we were all very excited about the idea of a WiFi detectors when we first saw the pocket-sized version and a couple of the subsequent ones. Finally it would be possible to work out where to connect, without first having to get your laptop out to … work out where there was some wireless.
Then the joy went out of it as tons of the things arrived, with the occassional exception … or two.
Here’s another interesting one, a WiFi-detecting watch … that’ll be a watch … that’s a WiFi detector as well.
Finnish mobile phone kings Nokia have whisked away the covers on three shiny new handsets which they claim “merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks.”
We’re always up for a bit of merging and have to say all three look rather dandy in their high gloss, smoothed edge, understated way.
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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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.”
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
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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Following our story on the vulnerabilities of the BT Home Hub, the most widely used DSL wireless router in the UK, BT sent us this statement last week after we requested it.