Month: February 2008

“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:

“I can’t help it but love the soap opera called the iPhone – that’s where true dramaturgy and spirit of the community are. The iPhone’s hype lives on only in the hearts of its devotees, while the maker’s marketing strategy starts going sideways. When I was winding up the previous piece on this handset, I was curious to check out AT&T’s data on Q3 and the number of activated iPhones, which was bound to differ from the official statistics tremendously. Whether Apple had a hand in this, or they did that on their own, but AT&T said nothing on activated phones in the Q3 report, however early in 2008 they reported on the entire 2007. And the numbers over there were, in truth, quite something. Apple claims it sold 3.7 million iPhones as of the end of 2007. However its senior partner reports 2 millions of activations.” Read more here:

“Made by Panasonic for DoCoMo, the P905i is a 3G/GSM/GPS phone featuring a 1seg TV tuner and Viera image processing (same technology as on Panasonic’s PDP TV including the PEAKS engine) on a beautiful 3.5″ screen. Rocking at a nice 854x480px resolution, it’s also got 1GB of built-in memory to record television for example. This phone was clearly produced as a pocket TV and targets TV freaks, it will also be able to take nice pictures thanks to the 2MPx sensor and AutoFocus. Last but not least it is also DCMX iD (bank friendly).” More photos here:

“Maps 2.0 seems to be a complete rewrite of the product and, like most things with Nokia (and indeed with the computer world in general) is a case of four steps forward and one step back. And that reverse count may be higher if you’re someone used to using the ‘free’ functions in Maps v1.x, since even basic route calculation now falls within the ‘pay-for’ domain. But I don’t think it’s fair to fault the Maps development team on this issue. They have as much right as the next programming house to try to make a profit and there were probably far too many people trying to get by on the free junction-by-junction keypress routing in v1.x and driving very dangerously as a result. With in-car navigation, voice guidance and automatic real-time route recalculation is the only way to go, if you want to stay safe.In fact, Maps 2.0 expands the remit of its navigation focus by including not only pedestrian route calculation but also a dedicated pedestrian mode, in which things work very differently. The cost, by the way, is less if you only sign up for pedestrian use, at 4 Euros for a month (say, for use on a business trip to a foreign city), and it’s also worth noting that pedestrian routing is included in the ‘drive’ routing package, i.e. by signing up for the more expensive package (8 Euros for a month), you also get help when not in your car. (Note that these prices vary according to your region and that lesser prices are available for a week’s use.)” Read more here:

“Opera Software announced that Opera Mobile 9.5 would be coming soon and would be shown at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. I had a chance to visit the Opera Software booth and spoke with a product manager who ran through this latest mobile browser on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device. You can see some of the features of Opera Mobile 9.5 in action in the video. The HTC Advantage I have been using for several months comes with Opera Mobile 8.5 preloaded in the ROM and is actually the selected default browser on the device. Opera Mobile 8.5 makes the device much more useful for me since I find Internet Explorer Mobile to be a weak mobile browser. However, there are still a few websites I need to visit that Opera Mobile 8.5 doesn’t fully support and I am hoping that Opera Mobile 9.5 provides this needed functionality and from the press release and seeing it in action I think this just may be the browser I need.Opera Mobile 9.5 has been improved with new zooming and panning capabilities, faster page loading, Flash Lite 3 support (up to OEMs and operators), and Opera Widget capable. Other features include tabbed browsing, landscape support, call phone number from a web page, send a link as a text message, and much more. The public beta should be available soon and I can’t wait to try it out.” via blogs.zdnet.com

“Sony Ericsson were first to make headlines at this year’s Mobile World Congress, and continue to keep us busy previewing a bunch of debuting devices. Our series of quick hands-on sessions ends with a cameraphone. Sony Ericsson C902 is the new Cyber-shot squad member. The C902 designation does break a mold, as all previous Cyber-shot models belonged to the K-series. It’s now C for Cyber-shot, nice and easy.At a first glance, C902 looks like a direct descendant of the Sony Ericson K850, but it will be another handset to inherit the latter.Sony Ericsson C902 has a surprisingly small 2″ 262K-color TFT display of QVGA resolution. When the display is off, it does look like at least a 2.2 incher, but with the lights on the reason for this size is obvious – there are eight touch sensitive camera keys that backlight in blue around the display. More about them is to come later on.As a camera-centric phone, Sony Ericsson C902 bundles up a 5 megapixel autofocus shooter offering a good range of niceties. Among them are face detection, image and video stabilizer, BestPic, auto-rotate, macro mode, photoflash LED, etc.” Read more here:

“Samsung has showed off a new patent, showing an ordinary mobile phone, with a projection display, and possibly a 3D holographic screen. You may ask what the point of this is – the reasoning is simple enough. It’s well known that the LCDs used in phones are quite thick, and, due to different production techniques, horizontal and vertical sizes of displays have gradually standardised, whih limits the different design types of phone quite a bit. Whilst this is only a patent, optical projectors are now small enough to fit in phones, so it could come into th market, at some point. One thing that is missing, currently, is a refractive plate, which basically evenly spreads out incoming light waves, which picks up projected light, and turning it into an image on the phones display.” via mobile-review.com