Tag: mobile phone
SpinVox enables voice-driven posts to Facebook, Jaiku, Twitter
SpinVox has announced that its Voice-to-Screen technology is now available to users of the social network site Facebook, and "micro-blogging" services Twitter and Jaiku. Now, simply by calling and speaking text via a mobile phone, these three services can be…
Samsung G800 mobile: "world's first" with 5 megapixel camera, 3x optical zoom
Samsung has today announced its G800 mobile phone, boasting a five megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom function, claiming it to be a world first. Boldly claiming it to be the "perfect digital camera and the perfect multimedia mobile combined…
Nokia N81 8GB music phone ships… for £300
Nokia has announced that its Nokia N81 8GB mobile is now shipping, alongside the slightly runtier N81 (and really, if you’re going to buy a top-spec music phone, you want the 8GB version…).
The N81 8GB has an unsubsidised price of 430 Euros (about £300). Normally, I’d ignore that, given that operators generally slash a huge chunk of that price for contract users. However, the N81 has been controversially missed out of some operators’ Christmas handset lineups, meaning that for some networks, you’ll have to pay the unsubsidised price to get one.
Tech Digest says no on the Little Britain mobile game
An official Little Britain mobile game? Champagne! Champagne for everyone, as Bubbles would say.
Glu Mobile will be developing the game for handsets, which will consist of four mini-games, using the voices of Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Tom Baker for all the characters from the show. It’ll come bundled…
Broadcom planning 12 megapixel, 720p playback – for mobile phones
Broadcom’s new technology will kick mobile camera and video abilities through the roof, providing it isn’t lying about the technology packed into its next-gen BCM2727 mobile media chip.
We have no reason to think a company like Broadcom would lie.
The company’s new multimedia sensor features the VideoCore III technology…
Pub Mania brings your local Nag's Head to your mobile phone
Here’s one mobile game that’s after my own heart, Pub Mania, which is set in, whaddya know, a pub! Luckily it doesn’t come with the lairy lads, stale stench of sweat and beer and pork scratchings wrappers littering the floor. That’ll be in Cocktail Mania, heh.
Created by Gameloft, the game revolves around the idea that you’re a landlord (finally, a chance to play The Baddie in an all-too-familiar scene!), who has to show customers to their tables, take orders and serve up the gin and tonics. Watch out for the hot coffee mod which includes having to shoo junkies away from your beer garden, and break up bar fights between football fans…
After AT&T iPhone billing fiasco: Nonsense mobile bills lead to confusion and avoidance
After the farcically large iPhone bills sent to US consumers, detailing every last bit of web surfing, texting, and calling, a leading adviser on telecoms, IT and media says that European mobile operators need to simplify their mobile phone bills….
IMOBILE shows off C1000 3G touchscreen phone watch
The days of strapping ridiculously large blocks of technology to your wrist aren't over, it seems, with the introduction of the IMOBILE C1000 wristwatch 3G mobile. Ignoring the fact that it's yet another accessory beginning with the letter "I",…
SAGEM launches my150x: thin and stylish mobile phone
SAGEM has launched its latest mobile phone, the 10mm thin slimline budget handset featuring "modern design with a retro feel". It features a 1.8-inch screen with NeoNTM technology that lights up the display in blue-tinted light, with information displayed in…
Mobile operators dilemma: getting "digital native" youth to pay for services
According to a recent European research report, the biggest challenge facing mobile networks is going to be engaging, retaining, and squeezing money out of the younger generation.
Though the current crop of 15-24 year-olds is incredibly tech-savvy, it appears that over one-third (37%) aren’t keen on paying for any services other than voice and SMS.
JupiterResearch found that nearly one-quarter of European 15-24s are “mobile entertainment aficionados” who use more than two new multimedia services such as live TV, music or games on their mobile phones.
