Nov
2007
Google have updated their Google Maps application for mobile devices to version 2.0. This is the biggest leap they’ve made with the software as it now offers cell-tower triangulation to find your location. While it is still in beta the updates are excellent, especially if you don’t have a GPS enabled mobile phone and need [...]
Nov
2007
Nokia are set to expand upon their luxury line up even more with the addition of the Nokia 8800 Arte and Sapphire Arte handsets. These are of course more extravagant versions of the current 8800 range, but in addition to some enhanced materials Nokia have also increased the functionality in an attempt to justify what [...]
Nov
2007
As they promised, Google have released the SDK for their mobile platform, Android. This has provided developers with the opportunity to see just what the bare bone operating system looks likes. Straight away we can see that the OS will support touch screen devices (no surprise there), it will have a webkit-based browser and an [...]
Nov
2007
John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, claims Google lack the experience required to succeed in the mobile phone arena. “Search and a mobile phone platform are completely different things……it’s costly, arduous and at times a deeply unsexy job of supporting customers day by day in launching phones. That’s something there’s very little experience [...]
Nov
2007
Over the past few months the internet has been littered with rumours of the Google mobile phone – the Gphone. Over the last couple of weeks it came to light that Google had no plans to release a handset as such, but were instead building an operating system that would run on a multitude of [...]
Nov
2007
O2 and RIM have launched the BlackBerry Pearl 8120. This second generation device which replaces the hugely successfully Pearl 8100 looks virtually identical, but carries some interesting new feature sets and enhancements. The built in camera has now been updated to 2 mega pixels and also, for the first time, supports video capture. Connectivity wise [...]
Nov
2007
According to a new report from Portio Research, over half of the world’s population will have a mobile phone by next year. Looking beyond the next twelve months, the prediction is that overall mobile phone use will extend to 75% by 2011. This large swell of new users (around 65%) is expected to come from [...]
