Archive for November, 2009

New mobile phone friendly Twitter interface

Twitter, the popular microblogging website, has unveiled a new interface that makes it more user-friendly for people who view the website on their mobile phones.
The portable version of Twitter can be accessed on mobile phones by pointing their web browser to mobile.twitter.com (previously m.twitter.com). This can only be viewed on a mobile phone, trying to [...]

Amazon Kindle 2 – No more books?

The Amazon Kindle 2, for those who aren’t aware, is a flat handheld tablet device that can be used as an electronic book reader (eBooks). Despite being mainly a book reading device, the Kindle 2 also features a web browser that lets you read blogs and other suchlike things.
There is an International version of the [...]

Women better with gadgets than men

According to a survey undertaken by electronics retailer, Comet, women are now more confident with technology than males. This flips over the age-old stereotype that men are better with gadgetry than women.
The study showed that 48 per cent of women felt comfortable when it came to using new technology and gadgets, whereas only 47 per [...]

Fancy being a wizard? Try the Kymera Magic Wand Remote

This could possibly turn out to be one those must-have quirky gadgets for Christmas. The Kymera Magic Wand Remote let’s you become your favourite wizard, be it Harry Potter or Merlin.
Using this ingeniously simple device, you can control almost any infra-red device by just flicking the wand, magician-style. You can program 13 different gestures to [...]

Phones 4U and Carphone Warehouse cease selling SE Satio

Mobile phone marketing chains, Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U, have both stopped selling the Sony Ericsson Satio mobile phone amidst concerns over the stability of the Symbian-based software on them.
It is unsure whether it is a hardware of software fault, but apparently the phone simply switches itself off or restarts itself when suers try to [...]

Dell to launch smartphone in China and Brazil

Dell are intending on releasing their first mobile phone to the computer market, with their Dell Mini 3 Smart Phone.
 
The Dell Mini 3 is only going to launch in China initially, but will then soon be moving to Brazil as well. The smart phone uses Google’s Android mobile phone operating system.
 
China and Brazil are thought [...]

Boxee Box – The Internet PVR set-top box!

Boxee, the “open, connected, social media center for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux” (their words not ours), announced at the start of 2009 that they might be looking at bringing a hardware product to the market that allows you to use Boxee services on your television.
They have now revealed that a Boxee Box is [...]

The LG Watch Phone (LG GD910)

LG have developed a modern, James Bond-style mobile phone/watch combo for gadget lovers. The wobile (watch/mobile geddit?) has been out on the high streets for a couple of months now, so let’s take a look at what this thing can actually do.
The LG watch phone (or GD910) comes with most of the features that are [...]

Sony Ericsson Aino features PlayStation 3 Remote Play

Sony Ericsson recently unleashed their feature-packed Aino mobile phone, which is the first device, other than the PlayStation Portable, that allows users to connect to their PlayStation 3 console using Remote Play.
Remote Play allows the user to boot up and control the PS3 console from anywhere with an internet connection. Once connected, the PS3’s display [...]