Giorgio Armani-Samsung luxury mobile.
Continuing the never-ending battle of Korean giants Samsung announced the new Giorgio Armani-Samsung luxury mobile phone. Giorgio Armani presented the new mobile phone at a press briefing in his Armani/Teatro in Milan before his Spring Summer 2008 Women’s fashion show. (more…)
Opera Mini 4 beta 3
The most feature-rich (and FREE) internet browser for mobile devices is shipping its 3rd Beta for version 4. It has numerous improvements over previous Beta including support for RSS feeds and ability to synchronize your phone Web links with those of other mobile phones or computers. Good stuff! Go check it out. (more…)
Free mobile apps
Handango is giving away one (1) high quality, fully-functioning mobile software application for FREE on Fridays! The free app is available from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. CST on Friday only and must be downloaded during that time period. In addition, the promotion features other applications at a 25% discount throughout the week. (more…)
Antenna Handset Device
Those of you who are lucky to have FM radio in their cellphones would probably know that you need to connect your headset cord (which acts as an antenna) in order to get FM signal. Right? Not anymore! (more…)
eBooks are gaining momentum.
eBooks are getting popular these days. And they have all rights to be for the number of reasons.
They are compact (you can bring a bookshelf worth of books with you on an average sized flash card), they could be read on a multitude of devices, be it a laptop, PDA, smartphone or specifically designed for that purpose hardware, such as Sony’s The Reader Digital Book. Some readers even allow for eBooks to be read aloud by a synthesized voice (which sounds not as good as those “books on tapes”, but still a viable alternative for a fellow commuter when you can’t wait till you get home to find out what happened to the main character in the next chapter. Please don’t “read and drive”, it’s tempting but very dangerous) .
New eBook stores are growing on the Net like mashrooms, and industry giants like Amazon.com invest in software and hardware, which is a good sign for the eBook business. Online stores offer downloadable books on any subject and by any author, from religion to science fiction and from James Rollins to Leo Tolstoy (can you imagine carying the ~1500 pages of War and Peace in your pocket with you on an airplane).
The guys at Project Gutenberg are busy transfering to electronic format books that are no longer under copyright protection in US. They have managed to digitize about 100,000 titles so far. The books are available free of charge.
An effort is made to create a universal XML-based standard called FictionBook that would be compatible with current and future devices and standards.
With a recent announcement of 4Tb (terabyte) hard drive the day is coming when you will be carying the Library of Congress in your pocket.
Motorola to join Sony Ericsson in ownership of UIQ
London and SCHAUMBURG, IL – October 15, 2007 – Sony Ericsson and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced a definitive agreement under which Motorola will acquire a 50% interest in UI Holdings BV, the parent company of UIQ Technology AB, which is currently wholly owned by Sony Ericsson. Under the agreement, Motorola and Sony Ericsson will work together and jointly invest in the development of the UIQ open user interface platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. As previously announced, Sony Ericsson acquired UIQ Technology from Symbian Ltd in February 2007.
Is it good or bad for the UIQ? We’ll see.
Read the press release.
N95 vs. iPhone
Here’s a funny series of YouTube “commercials” comparing the features of the two devices - Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone.