Day: February 27, 2008

“We’ve just received word from one of our readers, who’s obviously been keeping a keen eye on things, that Motorola have FINALLY released a public firmware update for the Z8. To update the phone, you’ll need to download Motorola’s software update tool, available on their website or in our downloads section. Once downloaded, install the application then connect your Z8 by USB cable. (the phone is only detected by the software update program when in USB Modem mode) You should now see an updated firmware available for your phone. ” via motosmartphones.com

“EMOBILE, a young 3G operator in Japan, has launched preorders (effective from March 1) for the S11HT communicators with a threatening name “EMONSTER”. Other regions know this device under the name of HTC TyTN II. The operator timed the sales of the communicator to the launch of voice services in its networks. EMOBILE was positioned as the carrier of HSDPA data transfer services and thus lacked voice ones. Reportedly, the S11HT runs on a Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition and is the first smartphone in Japan with GPS onboard. The short technical specs of the S11HT (EMONSTER): Operating system: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition (Japanese version) Display: 2.8” touchscreen TFT, 240×320 pixels Slide-out QWERTY-keyboard Wireless: HSDPA / W-CDMA (1700 MHz), up to 3.6 Mbps downstream/ max. 384 Kbps upstream; WLAN (IEEE802.11b/g); Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Main camera: 3-megapixel auto focus (CMOS) Camera for video calls: VGA (CMOS) microSD 2.0 slot miniUSB jack (USB2.0 Full Speed, charging and audio connector in one) Dimensions: 112x59x19 mm Weight: 190 g” via mobile-review.com

“Personality Psychology Pro is a huge pack of personality test & games presented in a pleasant / funny way. By these Psychology tests & games you can realize much more about yourself and about your companion (Sexual partner). You can analyze your personality and find out what is on your mind.You can use this program to understand yourself, to find more about a close person or to have fun with your friends. You can even impress someone by its accurate results.This program is a pack of:* personality tests (> 1000 ques.),* personality statistics and outcome* games/fun (Graph., text, stories etc)* birthday analysis (What tree did you fall from? etc) * you can set up to 3 completely different users at the same time!…and much more that will make you realize about your character learn more about psychology and of course have fun.” Check this GREAT program here:

“Nokia’s Morph nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Centre, and England’s University of Cambridge, has been put on display, at The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, USA. Morph is basically a concept, showing how mobile phones could be in the future – stretching, and flexing the phone into different shapes. But, ultimately, the technology inside the morph concept shows off transparent electronics, and, self-cleaning surfaces. Hopefully, elements of the Morph concept should be available in handsets, within the next seven years, obviously, in high-end devices, to begin with. The nanotechnology will hopefully allow for integrating complex functionality at a low price. Learn more about what the Morph can do here.” via mobile-review.com

“How time flies! It seems like yesterday when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone Firmware version 1.1.3 during his keynote in Macworld. Then we discover that bricked iPhones could be resurrected by said version. Now, iPhone firmware version 1.1.4 update was announced. No specifics were given about this update, except “includes bug fixes and supersedes all previous versions.” Hey, as long as it doesn’t kill phones again, then it’s all good. Update version 1.1.4 is now available in iTunes.” via mobilewhack.com

“Yahoo and Nokia have a good relationship, with a number of joint projects, so the continued support from Yahoo for their mobile phone client, Yahoo! Go, is welcome. Easily downloaded and installed, simply by pointing your smartphone browser at http://get.go.yahoo.com/, the java application provides a single icon to click on for a number of Yahoo services.With a big warning on the download page that you ‘have to install this on the internal memory’, the target audience (i.e. the non-Symbian geeks) might just wonder what to make of that – especially if they have an N81 or N95 8GB where, to their mind, all the storage is internal!The big change with Yahoo! Go 3 is that their widgets engine has been ported into the client. These widgets allow access services outside of the Yahoo portfolio – currently there are widgets for MTV News and MySpace. Yahoo is looking to release an SDK at some point in February so other sites can join in the fun. Of course, at that point they’re going to have to explain to their users how to install their widget into the Yahoo! Go system – and that’ll be a lot of hoops to jump through.” Read more here: