Sony Ericsson’s super-slim Xperia Arc floated our boats at CES this year, and now it’s available to pre-order in the UK from online retailer Play.com. The news isn’t so good though on its SIM-free price and release date. According to Play’s listing (spotted by Xperia Blog), the Android phone is due for release on 1 …
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Schtop, schtop. This handset is not ready yet… Dutch mobile retailer ThePhoneHouse appears to have blown the gaff on a new smart phone from LG: the Optimus 3D. The site published a holding page for the phone, which was spotted by local site AllAboutPhones before it was hastily pulled down. Alas, little information or specs were leaked, other than a …
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When the Black Eyed Peas shoved a Daft Punk-esque rocket up Dirty Dancing‘s theme tune for their single The Time, it was deeply horrifying. The silver lining is it’s now spawned one of the more nifty music apps for iPhone and iPad. The app is called BEP 360, and it’s just gone live on Apple’s App Store. At its core …
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Developer Samuel Blanchard has coded a Game Boy emulator in Silverlight that runs on Windows Phone 7 smart phones. The question is whether you’ll ever be able to use it. One of Windows Phone 7‘s strengths is gaming, thanks to Microsoft throwing its Xbox Live weight behind its new smart-phone operating system. What it’s missing, though, is Game Boy games. …
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Given Apple’s well-known preference for keeping things close to its chest, you might not think Twitter’s an ideal fit, but that hasn’t stopped it setting up an official Twitter account for the App Store. Sadly, it hasn’t turned it into a hilarious character like the spoof iTunes 10 icon from last year. Instead, @AppStore encourages people to “follow us for …
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Sony’s new Music Unlimited service will be getting iPhone and Android apps to allow people to listen to their cloud music collections on the go, the company has announced. It’s contrary to expectations that Sony might restrict the service to its own devices, such as Sony Ericsson phones, Walkmans, the PlayStation 3 and Bravia TVs. “When you provide these services, …
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Foursquare lets you win virtual mayorships, but what about winning people’s hearts? A new iPhone app called Singlesquare builds a location-based dating service on top of Foursquare’s check-in technology. The app, which is free, came out this week. It’s based around ‘sightings’ of single people in public venues, like bars and clubs. You can post a sighting of someone else, or …
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Nokia reckons its new digital radio headset accessory is bringing DAB to mobile phones “for the first time”. Not so fast, Finns! DAB was a key selling point of Virgin Mobile’s Lobster 700 back in 2006, although the handset turned out to be a bit of a flop. Oh, alright, a vast Gwyneth Paltrow in a fatsuit-size flop. Nokia clearly …
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US company mSpot is launching its music service in Europe. The cloud service gives you 2GB of space in which to store your songs, and then lets you access them from Web-connected devices. mSpot has been available in the US since last year. After signing up more than one million Americans, it’s now crossing the Atlantic to tempt us with its remote-storage charms. Europeans will …
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Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone is already the most-leaked handset ever in advance of its expected debut at the Mobile World Congress show next month. In fact, it might be time to stop using the word ‘leak’ — it’s more of a Queensland-style deluge. The latest footage to emerge of the new gaming smart phone is the clearest yet, shot in …
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