Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 is a well accepted and appreciated OS in the Smart phone and PDA segment. The company is facing competition from Blackberry and Apple iPhone especially in the US smart phone market.
Microsoft is now developing Windows Mobile 7.
Category: Software
Pimp up you phone with the latest mobile apps and games
YouTube Optimized N95 8Gb
Recently after narrating my thoughts about someone coming out with a YouTube and Ebay optimized mobile handset, I came across the post, which talked about LG Viewty being launched in India. The one thing I like about it was, Viewty allows you to record videos optimized for YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube Optimized N95 8Gb”
Home Automation: Control it through your mobile
We have been hearing and reading of “intelligent” homes where you can control everything with the click of a button. Turn on the geyser at the stipulated hour and turn it off too; a system that ensures your coffee brews by itself and the curtains in your bedroom draw automatically at dusk; lights turn on when you walk into the bathroom and the flush is activated when you get off the seat.
Unimaginable? Unbelievable? But wait…there is more!
All these systems can be controlled through the internet; so whether you are at work or out of town, you can log into your home and check if the LPG valve in your kitchen is turned off; or activate your intrusion alarm system to keep burglars away. Continue reading “Home Automation: Control it through your mobile”
Nokia N95 8GB gets v15 firmware
All About Symbian is reporting that theres a major upgrade to the Nokia N95 8GB firmware available for download. You can see the screenshot below which shows the possibility to upgrade from version 11 to version 15.
Highlights of the new firmware v15.
Faster Search
Increase in access speed of the internal 8GB memory.
Support for 3rd party themes
Flash Lite 3 and Flash Video suppor t. This is the most interesting feature addition to the phone.
Adobe launched FlashLite 3 with Video some time back in October last year.
Nokia Audiobooks Application
This is a good news for all you book worms out their with Nokia phones.Nokia beta-labs has come up with the Nokia Audiobooks application. I hope what do you mean by Audiobooks, you can listen them i.e. somebody will read it for you so that you just relax and listen to that Audiobook. Nokia Audiobooks application will allow you to listen to your favorite Audiobooks while you are on the move. This application includes a highly efficient audio compression technology optimized for voice (AMR-WB), a player application for S60 (Nokia Audiobook Player), and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager). This application is made for Audiobooks; it will help you in listening them with clarity and also browse chapters. Cool. Continue reading “Nokia Audiobooks Application”
Vote for the best mobile startup
The 2007 Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
The nominees include
AdMob
AdMob is the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace. Founded in 2006.
Fring
Fring is a free mobile VOIP application that lets you make free voice calls via Google Talk , Skype using your phone.It works over Wifi and GPRS. It also support instant messaging networks such as MSN,Google Talk.I have tried Fring and it seems impressive.The initial version used to kill my battery but the latest version seems to have solved the problem.
Loopt
Loopt is a mobile social mapping application that works only in the USA as of now. It display the location of users on a mp using GPS and other data.Users can interact with each other, exchange info etc.
Shozu
Shozu is a great mobile photo and multimedia application.I personally use it to upload photos from my phone to my flickr account. We had already covered Shozu as a part of the Killer Mobile Apps
Twitter is similar to Jaiku and is one of the Micro Blogging platforms. It lets users post short status messages which can be read by other users who are following. The entries are archived and can be viewed in the future. Continue reading “Vote for the best mobile startup”
Youtube on your S60 3rd Edition phone with emTube
Are you a Youtube addict ? There is a m.youtube.com which is a mobile version of the most popular video site on the web.
But sadly not all videos are not available on the mobile website of Youtube.
Now the good news – If you own a S60 phone which is built on the S60 3rd Edition platform then you might be able to view full length videos on your mobile phone and even download your favorite phones to your phone or memory card.
emTube ( M Tube ) lets you do all of this for free.
It works even behind a firewall and works over wifi/gprs /edge
It worked smoothly on my E61i. Heres the screenshot Continue reading “Youtube on your S60 3rd Edition phone with emTube”
SPICE up your messages in your mother tongue
After Hinglish messages in T9 was launched, Spice Telecom has now launched a new service called the ‘Spice Local Lingo’.
With ‘Spice Local Lingo’ one can send SMS in twelve Indian languages that include Hindi, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Bengali and Urdu, in their script.
Continue reading “SPICE up your messages in your mother tongue”
T9 goes local
Send messages in Hinglish as T9 will now be available in Hinglish.
Supplied by Nuance Communications, the software offers advanced alphabetic input prediction in Hinglish. Mobile phone and PDA users will now be able to write SMS text messages, mobile instant messages, and wireless emails in a language that is a popular mode of communication in India.
T9 in Hinglish joins the T9 versions in Japanese, Chinese and Korean developed by Tegic Communications, which was taken over by Nuance in August this year.
The launch of Hinglish T9 is also momentous in more ways than one.
On December 3rd, SMS turned 15. It was 15 years ago that the first SMS was sent. It has been a long journey since then..with SMSs becoming the most popular tool for communication. Billions of SMSs are sent worldwide!
Will the Hinglish T9 feature make communication easier and fun for you?
Via: Techtree
MoDeMo – Where The Mobilists – Show & Tell
If you are a person who likes mobility and like meeting like minded people MoDeMo is the place to be.
MoDeMo – Mobile Demo
MoDeMo is a one day event aimed at being a place to show, share and discuss the most interesting and trendiest things in the wireless and mobile space in India. It hopes to gather early adopters, trendsetters, experts, developers and entreprenuers among others to summarize the happenings of 2007 and collectively provide glimpse into trends in 2008 in the burgeoning mobility space. Continue reading “MoDeMo – Where The Mobilists – Show & Tell”
Try Phones with TryPhone
Everyday new phones are launched and they fascinate all of us , Don’t they?
Whenever I see a phone being launched my mind gets cramped up with thoughts like how will it feel in my hands?,
what kind of functions will it have? how good is the image quality? what about sound quality and compatibility for different sound formats?…..unless and until I buy that phone or go to a shop (which has a working model) or any of my friend buy it, these questions will remain unanswered…but now don’t worry dude, TryPhone helps you in trying out a mobile handset as if you are trying them out at a shop. Some devices are not available at stores so in future you can try them out at TryPhone….this is a really cool website and innovative too!!
Find some screen shots below Continue reading “Try Phones with TryPhone”
Nokia N95 Updated or Upgraded
A new firmware upgrade is available for the Nokia N95
First we’ll have a taste of the Changes in the new firmware :
- New Welcome application.
- New camera software and tweaks from the 8GB model – FAR faster shot to shot time, with ‘Processing image message’ during any delays. I suspect the image processing algorithms have changed too, to remove some of the remaining artificial edge enhancement in the v12 firmware.
- Long press on camera button launches camera if shutter is open.
- New My Nokia SMS tips and mobile web portal system.
- Demand paging (for ROM applications) with 30 plus MB free RAM after booting.
- Search 4.0 integration on standby screen.
- Old multimedia menu still there, i.e. it’s not the new style.
- N-Gage game previews (FIFA, Asphalt) and portal/shortcut to upcoming N-Gage client, as in N81 and N95 8GB.
- Nokia Music Store client, although the store server hasn’t been updated to handle the N95 yet – maybe this’ll happen later today.
- Keypress bug gone.
- Music player has a new visualisation and also remembers where you got to in a podcast, so you can pick it up again later on.
- No auto-screen rotation, looks like I was wrong predicting this, so we need Samir’s RotateMe after all – someone please help him get this signed ASAP!
- Assorted other minor tweaks, along the same lines as the N95 8GB, with video ringtones and theme animations.
Nokia E61i, N81 and N95 8GB get new firmware
Some good news for Nokia E61i , Nokia N81 and Nokia N95 8GB users . Nokia has released the latest firmwares for thes phone which are available for download via Nokia software update.
I have to try upgrading my Nokia E61i to the latest firmware this weekend.
Heres a screenshot below from Aallaboutsymbian shows the latest firmware for the N95 8gb as v11.0.026
Nokia E61i gets predictive input accoring to e-series
I will try it and post my experience.
WARNING : Upgrading Firmware might break your phone and you will loose all data on the phone
So please upgrade only if you know what you are doing !!
Opera Mini 4 get the full web on your phone
Opera Mini 4 is out for download and has already crossed 1 million downloads. Its a great piece of software to browse the full web on even a low-end phone over a insanely slow GPRS connection.
For folks how have not heard about Opera – Most of you would have heard about Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox for the PC. There is also another widely used browser called Opera which is known very well for its mobile offerrings.
Continue reading “Opera Mini 4 get the full web on your phone”
Sony Ericsson P1i with BlackBerry Connect v4.0 in India soon
Sony Ericsson P1i, a 3G Touch screen phone will now come pre-loaded with the BlackBerry Connect software v4.0. This announcement was made on 22 November 2007.
The handset will be available in select countries in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
Continue reading “Sony Ericsson P1i with BlackBerry Connect v4.0 in India soon”