Samsung officially announces the Soul handset, but do we still care, two months later?

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We may’ve first heard about this phone in early February, however it’s taken Samsung until today to officially announce it for their European market.

Hopefully you can remember the specs, but admittedly there has been an awful lot of releases since then, so here’s a quick round-down. The HSDPA GPRS/EDGE Tri-Band handset features a 5.0-megapixel camera with LED flash…

Make some phat drum 'n bass mixes with the BeatEd app for Nokia S60 phones

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Those Nokia handsets that run on the S60 OS can do anything, I’m now convinced.

The latest addition to the ‘but wait, there’s more!’ list is the rock’n’roll drum machine freeware application BeatEd, which was created by a musician so as he could play his guitar with a backing track on his mobile.

The app has 16 different drum tracks, plus 16-channel….

Perfect present for your boozy mother, the LG 'Wine' phone

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Over in Korea, LG has shown off their ‘Wine’ phone, which unfortunately doesn’t bar you from dialing your ex’s number, offer a drunk-to-sober SMS translation service, nor cure you of your Merlot-induced hangovers the next day.

No doubt named in homage to the red wine-coloured model, it features a 2.4″ external display and 1.8″ internal one according to AVING, however by the looks of the photo above, I’d say it’s actually in reverse. Aimed at 30-40 year olds supposedly, the phone is near-on featureless, with ‘enhanced voice calling’, ‘SMS sending and receiving functionality’ listed….

Actual images of Guitar Hero Mobile – and it's out now

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Guitar Hero’s everywhere. On everyone’s consoles. On the DS. On the news. In blenders. And now it’s actually available in miniature format, should you have a decent enough mobile phone to handle it.

And it looks like that. That picture there. No, the one to the left. The one of the phone? See that thing on the screen? Yes? Good! That’s what GH III looks like running on a mobile phone. That’s also the frame rate it’ll run at on my ancient Nokia, too…

Today on Tech Digest: BBC iPlayer on PS3, touchscreen LG T80, Coffee Republic's free Wi-Fi and more…

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THE BIG THREE
iPlayer now working on PS3; just don’t tell the Beeb
LG T80 – touchscreen and digital TV on the go
Coffee Republic offers “free” Wi-Fi, so long as you remain caffeinated

THE FEATURE AND THE VIDEO REVIEW
Cocaine users bragging about it on Facebook – what else is lurking on FB?
Shiny Video Review: Samsung F490 mobile phone

Mobile phone music "too complicated" for most users

mum who can’t be bothered working out how to buy, organise and listen to digital music on her mobile phone – 66% of people simply have no interest in using their phones for buying music.

With most saying it’s too expensive and too awkward to put tunes on their phones, only a rather pathetic 14% of the 1800 people surveyed by Jupiter said they gave a rat’s arse about buying full tracks via their mobiles…