Though I’ve always been intrigued by Apple’s original Nike+ Sports Kit, I didn’t want to have to buy a specific Nike shoe (I’m an Asics guy) just to use the sensor. Also, the sensor seemed like just another thing that I would lose. Still, I liked the idea of keeping track of my runs by …
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If you’re quick off the mark and ready to commit to an 18-month contract, you could get hold of the white HTC Desire by next week. Carphone Warehouse will receive stock of the white HTC Desire on Friday 1 October. You can pre-order it now from the phone vendor’s Mobiles.co.uk website. As we previously reported, the white Desire will sport …
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If you thought location-aware search and other mobile mapping technologies were cool, hold onto your hat. A new wave of innovation in the mobile market will bring augmented reality to smartphones, allowing users to interact virtually with their surroundings. Qualcomm has worked with toy maker Mattel to demonstrate the power of augmented-reality technology in gaming. Qualcomm Augmented reality, or AR, …
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When Audible.com rolled out its iPhone app earlier this year, the big complaint was that you couldn’t browse the Audible store or buy audiobooks on the fly. You could access your existing library of purchases, but for new stuff, you had to stop by your PC. Not anymore. Audible 1.3 provides access to a new mobile store, where you can …
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Motorola has just announced the ES400S, and it will be the first Motorola Mobile Enterprise Handheld to be sold through a wireless carrier, namely Sprint. The enterprise-class handset is built to be rugged and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5.3. A few of the phone’s features include a biometric finger swipe, a 3-inch VGA touch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, …
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Apple If you have a Mac and an iPhone 4, this trick is for you. iOS currently provides no way to tell if the photos you’ve taken were from the front camera or the rear camera on your iPhone 4. Using iPhoto Smart Albums, you easily keep them organized. This hint is fairly basic, but you will need a Mac …
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The juiciest Android story so far this week is Amazon’s plans to open up an app store of its own. Going from rumor status to all but confirmed in just a few days, it appears that the Android Market is about to have its biggest competitor to date. Currently there are efforts from the likes of Mobihand, SlideME, and AppBrain, …
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Ad requests and impressions for mobile ad network Millennial Media show a surge for Android devices and the iPad. Meanwhile, Apple overall is maintaining its commanding lead but has slipped a bit lately. In its August MobileMix report, Millennial Media found that ad requests (the number of times a mobile ad is clicked on) for Android rose 39 percent since …
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AT&T announced today that it will start offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100, with the added benefit that app purchases will automatically be included on AT&T customers’ bills. Carrier billing was one of the features highlighted in the Payment Service SDK announced this week at BlackBerry DevCon 2010. BlackBerry Curve 3G AT&T The Curve 3G …
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iPhone and iPod touch owners will be able to download the new Sonic the Hedgehog game from iTunes on 7 October, ahead of the spinny, spiny blue mammal’s debut on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. It’ll be an episodic side-scrolling platformer in the style of the first three classic Sonic games. It’s not clear whether further episodes will …
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