Good news Nokia users: Spotify has finally launched its service on Symbian-powered phones, which includes most modern Nokia devices, plus some Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones. Like the iPhone and Android versions that launched earlier this year, the app lets Spotify Premium subscribers stream as much ad-free music as they like. Plus you can sync …
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There’s never been a higher-rated Windows Mobile phone on CNET UK. It’s the first Windows Mobile phone to have a capacitive touchscreen. It’s the HTC HD2 and today it launched on O2. Normally this kind of story gets filed under ‘slow news day’, cross-referenced with ‘bending over for public relations staff’, but we have some advice to give you. Although …
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If it escaped your attention that Channel 4 is broadcasting a series of programmes in 3D throughout this week, feel free to catch up. For the rest of you, we thought you might enjoy a three-dimensional excursion down memory lane. Terrestrial broadcasts of 3D television have been taking place for years, usually as special episodes of popular programmes. As most …
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“The Xperia X10 could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship for Sony Ericsson and the little green robot,” said our main — and, to be fair, only — girl, Flora, when she checked out Sony Ericsson’s Android-powered Xperia X10 phone earlier this month. And now, it seems we have a release schedule. According to Sony Ericsson’s official online store …
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According to figures released by research firm Gartner last week, Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and Google’s Android OS have been sharing a feast. The main course? Windows Mobile. Gartner claims Microsoft’s mobile platform lost 28 per cent of its global smart phone market share between Q3 2008 and Q3 2009, dropping from accounting for 11 per cent of the world’s …
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Curiouser and curiouser. If the rumours are to be believed, Apple is developing an FM radio app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Y’know, because they have FM radio chips — Apple just hasn’t switched them on for you yet. Apple rumour blog 9to5Mac, which has a reliable track record for publishing leaks, was tipped with the news. The tipster …
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Family Guy‘s Stewie Griffin has always wanted to control the world. On 8 November on US TV, he’s going to get his first real life chance — Microsoft and Fox have teamed up to exploit the show’s popularity to promote Windows 7. A special edition of Family Guy, along with various other live-action performances from the show’s creator Seth MacFarlane …
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More storylines involving the Internet should appear in UK soaps, in an effort to get offline Brits online, says Martha Lane Fox — the woman put in charge of dragging British hermits to use the Web by Lord Carter. In an interview with the BBC, Fox explained people on lower incomes see the value of buying a computer when they …
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As the Earth’s population gets more and more obsessed with making friends with trees, being nicer to clouds and refraining from weeing in rivers, the consumer electronics industry has been making some shrub-friendly innovations. So many in fact, our good friends at SmartPlanet have built an entire Web site dedicated to talking about such objects of dreadlockian desire. One of …
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It’s one of the most pirated TV shows on the planet, and now it’s being shot in HD. Yes, Top Gear — the BBC’s version of CNET UK’s Car Tech (arf!) — will be broadcast on BBC HD from November this year. The Beeb’s Danielle Nagler confirmed that after receiving “several hundred emails” the show is now being captured on …
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