One of the benefits of the Aliph Jawbone Icon is that if you pair it with an iPhone you can see the headset battery meter next to the iPhone’s. Now BlackBerry owners have the icon as well. Just pair and connect the Jawbone Icon to your BlackBerry and you’ll see the Icon’s battery meter. To …
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Nokia World was all well and good with the new C6, C7 and E7 smart phones, but secretly we’ve always yearned for a phone that looked like the original Star Trek communicator. And guess what? Nokia actually designed some, TrekMovie.com reports. Back in 2008, Nokia designed a mobile phone built to externally resemble the original Star Trek communicator from the …
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One of my favorite apps of 2010 just got a major update. Tales2Go, which provides on-demand access to nearly 1,300 children’s audiobooks, updated the app to add multitasking support, story caching for offline listening, new subscription options, and more. Intended for children between the ages of 3 and 11, Tales2Go offers a huge range of listening material–everything from two-minute fables …
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Here in the office we’ve been struck down with a serious case of Desire fever. In fact, we’re as excited about the upcoming HTC Desire HD as it’s possible to be without cracking a smile (we don’t crack our sang froid for nobody). We’ve been shovelling news on HTC’s latest, greatest Android smart phone down your gullets like grumpy goose farmers …
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The chief executive of South Korean consumer electronics giant LG Electronics resigned today amid declining mobile phone sales, according to news reports. Nam Yong will be replaced on October 1 by Koo Bon-joon, 59, who is the head of trading firm LG International, Reuters reported. The incoming CEO is a founding family member of the company and younger brother of …
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RIM has plans for BlackBerry, oh yes it does. With the lukewarm reception of the BlackBerry Torch and with Android’s steady onward march into market share, few pundits expected RIM to exceed its revenue estimates for the quarter. Now with more BlackBerry Curves sporting OS 6 flowing into the market, RIM’s continued courtship of application developers is crucial. To that …
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There’s now a new way to annoy your friends and overshare, with the Facebook Places location feature going live in the UK. The roll-out started this morning, so the service will be available within the next couple of days for all Facebook users. You’ll be able to use it through the Facebook for iPhone app, or through its mobile site …
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Sony Xperia X10 and X8 owners on the near-antiquated Android 1.6 OS are still hanging on for a 2.1 Eclair upgrade, but a leaked roadmap from the Xperia X10 blog shows they may have to wait until next year for a 2.2 Froyo update, if they ever get it at all. Late last month, Xperia X10 owners got a snippet …
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Amazon UK has put the unlocked HTC Desire Z up for sale with an 11 October release date, pricing it at £430. This matches the price we saw yesterday from another online retailer, Mobile Fun. It had a slightly different 8 October release, however. We’re not sure whether Amazon cut the price of the smart phone to match that of …
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After the horns-blaring, pompom-shaking announcement of the C6-01, C7 and E7, Nokia has quietly slipped out the C3 Touch and Type. It’s very different to the previously revealed phones, as it doesn’t run on Symbian 3 or carry a Qwerty keyboard. Instead it has a traditional numeric keyboard with a display offering ‘touchscreen functionality’, which could turn out to be …
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