Stuff for mobile devices
HTC Touch Cruise GPS Phone vs Nokia 6110 Navigator. Just been playing around with an HTC Cruise GPS handset over the past few days, and here’s some quick impressions for you in comparison with the Nokia 6110 Navigator. They’re both GPS of course, and have fairly similar specifications although the HTC comes with a 3 megapixel camera (vs 2 mp on the Nokia) and a 2.8 inch screen instead of the 2.2 of the Navigator. Oh and of course the…
XLink Cellular Bluetooth Gateway. Connect up to three Bluetooth enabled mobile phones with your home or small office landline system. When one phone rings, they’ll all ring, and you can make and receive calls from any handset. Not only that but you get Caller ID from any handset – cell or land – on any other handset. Cool. One other neat thing is the fact that you can dock your mobile phone in the place where you get best reception…
ReQall. Use your phone, web panel or instant messenger to keep track of things you need to remember. Shopping lists, to-dos, capturing ideas, whatever you need to store and recall. Just ask the system to remember, and set it up to remind you or forward the data via email, SMS text message or RSS and iCalendar. Just start your message with the right keyword (e.g. ‘buy’ to have the item automatically added to the shopping list) and tell it what…
Just sent back my loan iPhone after a few weeks use, and to be honest I was happy to see it go. I found it a bit underwhelming actually (in fact it stayed in the box towards the end of the period). Why? You need to charge it every day? Wow, how quaint. Very unimpressed with the feature set. I use my Nokia 6110 a lot on my travels, and often have the GPS running alongside the MP3 player and Fring for…
Securephone Encrypted GSM Cell Phone. Military grade secure conversations built into a conventional form factor mobile phone handset. We’re talking triple layer, 256 bit encryption based on AES, Twofish and Serpent ciphers. Got that, soldier? Good. You’ll need two of them to make like private, but £1051.63 x 2 shouldn’t deter the truly paranoid punters. The Securephone hosts a unique assymetric key generation engine, which is hardware optimised for extremely fast key generation. Private and public keys are generated for…
The Doro HandleEasy Mobile Phone comes with nice big friendly buttons, four instant access buttons for favourite stored numbers and an easy read backlit screen. Sounds appealing doesn’t it, especially when compared with some of the button fiddling, frogspawn designed cell phone alternatives on the market at the moment. Around £99.00. Doro HandleEasy 326gsm is an easy to use mobile phone when you simply want to make and receive calls. Direct memory buttons and a large keypad and display make…
Popstar is a free Java mobile phone game which lets you live out your fantasies of being Michael Jackson. Or maybe not. Anyway, the idea is that you raise your little star to the heights of fame and success by touring, rehearsing and snorting white…sorry where were we? Oh yes. And buying better equipment. It’s an ad supported game, and needs Internet access on your handset, so you’d better have a flat rate data plan, chum. The overall idea is…
BluAlert Vibrating Bluetooth Wristband. Those cell phones just don’t ring loud enough, and here’s proof – a Bluetooth wristband that vibrates when a call comes in. Actually there’s a bit more to it than that, since it also vibrates if your wrist wanders more than 5 metres away from your phone, which is a pretty useful security device. Bit ugly though, isn’t it? £34.95/$62.91. The BluAlert Vibrating Bluetooth Wristband uses Bluetooth technology to buzz discretely on your wrist when your phone rings. Even…
The Nokia N78 is an interesting piece of kit with some very cool features. One of the overlooked ones seems to be the inbuilt FM transmitter so you can beam your music from the handset to the nearest radio tuner. This makes it one hugely featured phone, what with a 3.2 megapixel camera (plus a second camera), HSDPA, WiFi, FM radio, MP3 player, video recording, FM transmitter and A-GPS. And it was actually the A-GPS that got me thinking as to…
The Mobiado Stealth phone is a tri-band Symbian Series 40 cell phone with Bluetooth, microSD slot, 2 megapixel camera, FM radio and MP3 player handset which also just happens to be ‘machined from one piece of solid aluminium with an inlay of one piece of sapphire crystal.’ Yes folks, you’ve guessed it, it’s expensive. They say they’re only making 1200 of them, as opposed to the 1.2 zillion other Series 40 Nokia phones out there, so you’ll have to stump…
JabpLite is a freeware Java based personal finance manager for mobile phones. You get accounts, currencies, investments and expenses et al, and the Java bit means that it should run on just about every mobile handset out there. Nice little resource, methinks. A sophisticated free personal finance manager. Includes accounts, categories, standing orders, investments, currencies and much more…Other features in JabpLite: Future Balance prediction, Net Worth calculation, Regular transactions, Quick Start mode. Tags: jabplite, personal+finance+program, mobile+phone, java
Audiko. Creating a cell phone ringtone doesn’t get any easier than with this free service. Just upload an MP3 track (or point to an MP3 url), choose the fragment you want to use and download the result to your hard disk. Erm…that’s it. “audiko” word exists in no language all over the world. audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song! Tags: audiko, ringtone+maker, mobile+phone
Ladies and gentlemen, in the blue corner the world famous iPhone, iconic symbol of democracy and the new millennium. And in the red corner, China. Yep, 1.3 billion souls beavering away in factories to destroy civilisation as we know it and trash our treasured way of life. OK, enough already. So I thought it would be interesting to check out a sample of five iPhone clones to see whether they are worth your time, money and pocket space. The results were unsurprising in…
Unyverse. Billed as a mobile wiki platform. What this means is you can export and manage all sorts of data using your mobile phone and the clever downloadable Java software. I haven’t yet quite worked out if the wiki bit is really relevant or if it’s just a trendy label to differentiate the service from all the other community type mobile data portals. Lots of cut and paste, lots of handset compatibility. One to watch, maybe. Unyverse was founded in…
More information about the new Readius e-book mobile phone is emerging, and it looks like this could be a really serious competitor for the Kindle and beyond. The video shows the great roll-up screen in action, and the interface looks to be great as well. And you can fit it in your pocket? Awesome. Readius is looking more and more like the Kindle killer. A lucky few get to paw this HSDPA and Bluetooth-enabled e-Book reader at the Mobile World…
