Fring starts serving ads slowly
I don’t mean to be a pain in the consumer’s arse, but I think it’s about fringing time. It’s about time, I mean, for fring to get back something in return for the awesome VoIP capabilities they’ve been giving our phones for all these years.
So starting now, if you’re one of the “millions of fringsters” [...]
AT&T Quickfire Review
Text and IM addicts on AT&T rejoice! Smack dab in the middle of a large holiday-season overhaul of its phone lineup, AT&T this week released the Quickfire, its version of the Sidekick (or the “Sidekick killer”, if you will). The AT&T Quickfire is sure to be of interest to the younger generation as it features a slide-out [...]
Symbian S60 App Review: MCleaner - SMS and Caller Blacklist
Was there ever a time when you had to endure receiving tons of text SPAM on your phone, with the occassional bogus “You won the lottery!” kind of calls? Hmm. I’ve had my fair share of such. And I must say, I didn’t enjoy it one bit.
So I scoured the whole universe to its very [...]
T-Mobile to give free minutes for today’s Customer Delight Day
Being a carrier subscriber has its perks, believe it or not, and for tomorrow’s today’s Customer Delight Day, T-Mobile plans to give all its subs free minutes. That is, absolutely cost-free minutes to any and all who qualify.
Depending on what a subscriber is willing to do in exchange, he or she may get either 100 [...]
iPhone App Review: EasyWriter
Sometimes the more basic an iPhone app is, the better it is. There are plenty of things missing on the iPhone that have consumers up in arms, and luckily as time goes by we find more and more apps to help fill those voids.
One such example is EasyWriter. This particular application enables users to type [...]
3 UK to roll out 14.4Mb/s HSDPA in 2010
Social networking isn’t the only aspect of mobile that UK telco 3 is setting its eyes on. Also on top of its list of “things to give back” is 14.4Mb/s HSDPA network speeds in London by 2010. More to the point, HSDPA and HSUPA 3G speeds that are faster than what’s currently available is what [...]
Google to introduce “Searching by Voice” feature for iPhone
Not content on having what is quite possibly the best (or is it because it’s the only?) mobile web search application for the iPhone, Google is said to be working on a new feature that will be added to the Google Mobile app for iPhone as early as Friday.
According to a report from the New [...]
Facebook-centric INQ¹ phone coming soon from 3 UK
A new social networking phone will be coming out in the UK soon, but it won’t be running Android or be made by Motorola. Rather, it will be launched and released by UK telecom operator 3, featuring great integration with social netwoking services including Facebook, Skype, Windows Live Messenger and Last.fm.
Called the INQ¹ (pronounced “ink [...]
Microsoft Office Web apps coming to iPhone in 2009
Microsoft is going to launch a web-based version of their Office suite some time next year, including full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Users will be able to access it from anywhere with web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Apple’s Safari web browser for Macs.
However, a lot of questions about the [...]
MySpace gets special space in BlackBerry smartphones
If you’re a BlackBerry user who thinks it would be a good idea to check on your MySpace while waiting for your e-mail to download, then you would be glad about the latest feature announced by RIM.
A so-called premium mobile MySpace experience has been specifically designed for BlackBerry smartphones, enabling users to share events [...]