September, 2010

• 2 September

  O2 iPhone users continue to be hit by phantom data roaming charges

  

  If you’re on O2 and been abroad using your iPhone, have a careful look at your bills, as reports say that some of you are still getting unexpected and wrong data roaming charges. As we highlighted back in July, people on the Apple forums have been complaining about being charged for data roaming, despite disabling the …

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• 2 September

  More T

  

  Earlier this week, we got our first official glimpse at the T-Mobile G2 and now we’ve got even more information about T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone. The carrier posted additional specs on its T-Mobile Scoop Web site that indicates the smartphone will ship running Android 2.2 with Adobe Flash Player 10.1, and it looks like you’ll get the stock Android skin, …

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• 2 September

  Dialed In 141: T

  

  This week we chat about new leaked information about the T-Mobile G2, the Samsung Fascinate, and also a little something that Steve Jobs mentioned about iOS 4.1. We go over a few more new phone announcements, plus the latest reviews. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 141: T-Mobile G2 unveiled 22:21 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. …

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• 2 September

  Android Atlas Weekly 14: Which Android Tablet will be the iPad killer?

  

  This week we get Android math lesson from Google, Apple and Microsoft, check out four tablets vying to be the iPad killer and get giddy for Angry Birds on Android. Join Justin Eckhouse and guest host Jasmine France for this week’s Android Atlas Weekly. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 14: Which Android Tablet will be the iPad killer? 30:40 Podcast …

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• 2 September

  Put a Starbucks card on your BlackBerry (hands

  

  Racking up another point for mobile management, Starbucks released its free Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry on Thursday. Once you log into the account associated with your Starbucks card, or register a new card to the app, you’ll be able to keep tabs on your lattes. Starbucks Card Mobile App can display your card balance and even better, let …

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• 2 September

  LG demonstrates prototype 31

  

  Since CES 2010 in January, we’ve known that 3D can be beautifully presented on OLED TVs, but this year has thus far done nothing to persuade us that OLED is anywhere near ready for primetime. Indeed, some manufacturers seem to have given up on the technology for the time being. However at Berlin’s IFA electronics trade show, LG is demonstrating …

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• 2 September

  Samsung announces the world’s largest 3D LED TV

  

  At the European trade show IFA in Berlin, Samsung announced a number of new 3D televisions, including the worlds largest LED illuminated LCD TV. The company has crowned iteslf leader in 3D TV, and with good reason, because according to its figures, 90 per cent of 3D TVs sold in the first half of 2010 were Samsung models. Its gigantic …

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• 1 September

  iOS 4.1 offers new photo features, bug fixes

  

  Though music and entertainment were the of focus of Wednesday’s Apple press conference in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs devoted a few minutes to the next release of the company’s mobile operating system. iOS 4.1 will be available next week for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And in a change from previous OS updates, it will be free for iPod …

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• 1 September

  Motorola adds Defy, Milestone 2 to European portfolio

  

  Motorola is having a rather productive week with Android. After releasing new Ming handsets on Monday, the company chose Wednesday to debut two more devices: the ruggedized Defy and the Milestone 2. Save for the exclusion of push-to-talk, the Defy has the look and feel of an updated i1. On the outside it features a 3.7-inch Gorilla Glass display that …

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• 1 September

  Skyfire promises Flash video playback on its iPhone app

  

  Skyfire’s first iPhone app try. Skyfire Mobile-browser builder Skyfire is striving to make good on its vow to get a solution for streaming Flash video onto the iPhone–without breaking any of Apple’s restrictions against third-party browsers. On Wednesday, Skyfire submitted Skyfire for iPhone to the App Store, albeit five months after it had promised to follow in Opera’s footsteps. Skyfire …

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