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Rediff.com has now launched the uberfamous Diamond Comics classics on mobile phones so that all the Mobile Phone users will be able to enjoy their favorite comics on their cell phone no matter where they are. Continue reading “Read the Superfamous Diamond Comics on the Go”
Earlier, we had published information and provided a leaked picture of the Sony Ericsson Kurara. Well now once again, we have some more leaked pictures of the Kurara. These are the live pictures posted by folks over at the SEMC Blog. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Kurara Live Pictures!”
Finally, after a long 2 year wait, Apple has officially announced the Apple iPhone with Unicom as its official network provider. But, as it always is with Apple, the Chinese versions of the iPhone will be shipping without what may be it’s most important feature, WiFi.
Yes, apple have released a WiFi-less iPhone, something that I consider very important since the iPhone’s software is kinda designed to always work best on WiFi networks. But if you Chinese guys(and ladies) can live without WiFi then you can always pick them up at 4,999 yuan($730) and 6,999 yuan($1,025). This pricing is quite strange since a regular iPhone 3GS(with wifi) can easily be bought for $835 in the black.
But this WiFi-less version of the iPhone may soon disapear considering that this initial batch was built when the Chinese government had it’s WiFi ban in force and since this was recently lifted I guess it won’t be soon before we see WiFi coming to these chinese iPhones. Maybe this is why the folks over at 163.com are reporting that there aren’t many people rushing to buy the iPhones.
Sources:
http://mashable.com/2009/10/30/china-iphone-wifi/
Nokia has just released a new firmware 31.0.101 for Nokia 5800. However there are no major changes in the the phone after the firmware upgrade and the much touted kinetic scrolling is still missing in the phone. Continue reading “Nokia 5800 firmware version v31.0.101 Out”
Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 6788 which is the first Nokia device with TD-SCDMA. It is made especially for China’s high-speed 3G standards.
The Nokia 6788 runs on Symbian S60 and has the following features:
Mobbler, one of the most popular Last.fm radio player and scrobbler for S60 phones just got updated to a new version 0.07(6187). Continue reading “Mobbler gets Updated. Now Supports Nokia 5800/Nokia N97 Scrobbling”
The much anticipated Nokia Booklet 3G will be available on AT & T from October 22, which is a few days from now. The device will be available at a introductory price of $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation at $60/month. Nokia Booklet 3G will be sold at all Best Buy locations in US and as well as at 50+ Best Buy Mobile standalone stores across USA.
Continue reading “Nokia Booklet 3G to be on sale from October 22 for $299”
It looks like the cat and mouse game between Apple and the iPhone Dev team has started again.
According to an article on iClarified, Apple is now shipping a new BootROM called iBoot-359.3.2 with all the new iPhone 3GS’s that completely blocks the “24kpwn” exploit, which is being currently used by the iPhone Dev Team and others to jailbreak the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Continue reading “Apple starts shipping un-jailbreakable iPhone 3GS’s”
With Diwali just around the corner, Fly Mobiles has announced 6 New Dual SIM handsets namely the DS100, DS150, DS 200, V170, V180, and MC 160.
Continue reading “Fly launches a series of Dual SIM handsets for Diwali”
The Samsung SCH-W880 is the Korean variant of the Samsung M8920 about which we posted yesterday.
The Samsung SCH-W880 has been announced in Korea today. It is the world’s first 12MP camera-phone with Optical Zoom. It can be said as a camera that adds phone functionality. Continue reading “Samsung SCH-W880 12MP Phone Announced in Korea!”
Tata Docomo has recently launched its blackberry service offering both the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones to its customers in India.
Tata Docomo currently offers two different plans for the BlackBerry data service — the “Do 299” plan and the “Do 899” plan.
The “Do 299” plan offers unlimited data usage for e-mail and instant messaging, whereas the “Do 899” plan offers unlimited data usage for Internet, e-mail and instant messaging.
However, the Voice plans have to be subscribed separately by the user.
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This innovative concept introduced at Nokia World ’09 allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.
With Mixed Reality, we would no longer face the ambiguity of having to choose between either the physical world or the virtual world at a single point of time. We could enjoy a virtual chat or to exchange any file with your friends/family when we are outside. Also, we could catch up with the latest updates/tweets/messages from our friends if we are travelling anywhere and still reply to them.
This might also help in building physical connections as well. If a virtual friend/acquaintance is physically close to us, his picture would pop up and start following him as he moves around.
Since its based upon eye movement, Mixed Reality would also make our presence on the internet a much more intuitive experience. When your eyelids are closed and doesn’t reopen for a period of time, the system detects it and goes either offline or into sleep mode automatically and hence would not disturb you while sleeping. It would later retrieve your offline messages when you are awake again, irrespective of the time period.
What do you think about this new concept? Do you think it will revolutionize the way we live and interact now? Do Pass on your comments.
You can read more about “Mixed Reality” at Nokia Research Website.
After the mega launch of Nokia N900 at the Nokia World ‘09, Nokia has come up with an interesting contest for all the developers, hackers and modders called “PUSH N900“.
Nokia describes Push N900 as “An unique design, hacking & modding project from Nokia. We want to give designers, hackers, modders, creatives and artists the chance to get their hands on, and heads inside, the new Nokia N900 & the Maemo platform – the most powerful pairing we’ve ever created”
Event brief
You will have to tell Nokia how you would hack and mod the N900 & Maemo to connect the N900 to something you love. An expert judging panel will be selecting winning submissions and the groups behind the winning entries will receive N900 devices, funding and support to develop their PUSH idea. And once they’re complete, we’ll share them with the rest of the world with a series of installations in Nokia Flagship Stores across the globe.
Already a lot of buzz is present around Nokia N900 and this event is just going increase the buzz by many folds. Just imagine the quality of apps which will be created with a lot of hackers, modders and artist getting together to create apps for the Maemo OS.
Few companies like Hyper and Tinker.it have already got together and started working on a sample project for the PUSH N900 launch event. A project which dealt with a mashup of a Speak ‘n’ Spell, a Rolodex, 80’s radio tagger/Last.fm integration and 3D ViewMaster camera.
A Speak and Spell was used to text a message to a member of the audience, a Rolodex then identified a contact’s details after being manually spun and automatically pulled it up on the phone, an FM radio hack then identified any ‘80’s musician texted to the phone and connected to Last.fm to pull up the relevant cover art as you tuned the radio to a station playing the selected artist’s music, and finally a View-Master which used Nokia N900 to create custom 3D photos.
Interested to create a similar mashup or create another unique application for Nokia N900? Then rush with your ideas/proposals here.
Submissions for Nokia PUSH N900 are accepted until October 5th 2009. The proposals can be either a video proposal, or a written proposal or even visual proposal. The winning submissions and the winners will be announced on October 25th 2009.
One of the most popular mobile browser, Opera Mini is out with a new beta version, Opera Mini 5 Beta.
Bing recently launched a new feature called Visual Search through which you could search for any gadget/movie/books etc visually, whose names you finding it difficult to remember.
So you might ask, how is this relevant in a Mobile blog? Well, Bing’s Visual Search has a specific section for iPhone apps as well wherein you can find applications for your iPhone or iPod Touch without opening up the iTunes App Store.
Continue reading “Bing Visual Search: An Awesome Search Engine for iPhone Apps”
