The Mobiler

Windows Mobile 6.5 reviews are in: better, but not good

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:37:37 +0000

With Steve Ballmer’s recent admission that Microsoft had dropped the ball with Windows Mobile, and really should have released WinMo 7.0 by now, one should have realistically low expectations for the fresh-from-the-oven WinMo 6.5. Those who are still hoping for a miracle might prefer not to read the five quotes we’ve compiled from the first [...]

Recent mobile coverage at Gizmag

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:38:57 +0000

Flash 10.1 coming to Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian TXTBlocker lets parents and employers disable texting while driving Get mobile power with or without an outlet from the iGo Charge Anywhere Go live! Livestream Livepack puts a satellite truck in your backpack Stream TV from home to iPhone with Elgato’s EyeTV app Pong iPhone case cuts mobile [...]

HTC Dragon to put Android on the Snapdragon chipset?

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:42:06 +0000

The latest Android leak from HTC is the system dump of an unannounced device called the HTC Dragon, which an XDA developer called Reignzone has analyzed to determine the Dragon sports an 800 x 480 capacitive touch screen, and runs on Android 2.0 with the HTC Sense UI. The really exciting part is the possibility [...]

HP Mini 311 gets benchmarked

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:38:56 +0000

The folks at Laptop Mag recently got their hands on the HP Mini 311, which features the nVidia Ion LE chipset, and put it through some benchmarks of varying usefulness. It achieved a score of 1,917 on PCMark05 and 1,386 on 3DMark06 – both these figures unsurprisingly higher than the average scores of GPU-less netbooks. They [...]

App Store hits two billion downloads

Tim Hanlon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:52:03 +0000

It was just over five months ago that we brought news of Apple’s App Store reaching its billionth download after just nine months – and we’ve just received word that that figure has hit a staggering two billion downloads. In other news, there’s more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch devices in the wild. If [...]

AT&T launches MMS support for the iPhone 3G and 3GS

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:13:36 +0000

Got an iPhone 3G or 3GS on AT&T? AT&T has just launched their official MMS support – welcome to 2002! MMS charges are 30 cents per message (or $1.30 while roaming), $5/month for 200, $15/month for 1500, $20 for unlimited, or $30 for unlimited on a FamilyTalk plan. Original iPhone users will have to put [...]

The Vertu Constellation Ayxta: yours for just 4,900 Euros

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:10:27 +0000

Back in January 2002, Nokia launched Vertu as an independent subsidiary, aiming to “bring artistry and personal significance to an everyday object, elevating it to the level of the finest timepiece.” Since then, their phones have been seen in the hands of ultra-wealthy celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and David Beckham. The Constellation Ayxta [...]

BlackBerry Desktop Software for OS X coming very soon

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:36:37 +0000

While Apple’s share of the personal computer market continues to increase, many device manufacturers are still, for whatever reason, lagging behind in releasing OS X versions of their software tools. RIM are the latest company to play catchup – a recent post on Inside BlackBerry, the official BlackBerry blog, lets us know that the release [...]

NTT’s TOUCH WOOD concept phones

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:28:45 +0000

NTT DoCoMo, Sharp, Olympus and the reforestation project “more trees” have partnered to create these gorgeous TOUCH WOOD concept phones, which are encased in cypress wood. A reforestation project championing the use of wood in consumer electronics might seem a little odd, but the wood is generated by forest thinning operations that are intended to strengthen [...]

Intel’s Core i7 Mobile processors bring desktop performance to the road

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:00:25 +0000

Gamers and video editors who have tried to do their thing on the road will know all too well that there’s no substitute for a fully-specced desktop machine – although Intel’s Core i7 Mobile processors promise to change this. The quad-core processors feature two-channel DDR3 1333MHz memory support and 1 x16 or 2 x8 PCI Express [...]