Sony Ericsson G900 - Stay OrganisedJune 26, 2008 at 9:34 am by Jay | In Coming Soon Handsets, Mobile NewsEverything with the Sony Ericsson G900 is simple, and the phone is designed for people who are constantly on the go. Email, calendar, notes, reminders, are all available at the touch of your finger. The touch screen interface is navigated by large icons on the screen, simple to use with thumb or finger. The operating system on the handset is Symbian UIQ, the same OS as used by the P1i or more recently the W960i. One of the main features of the G900 is the built in 5.0 megapixel camera. The camera focus feature can be moved by touching the screen. There is a video clip below, and you will see this in operation. The G900 is a 3G handset, and also has WiFi connectivity, so you can access the information you want without delay. The G900 also has built in blogger support, so once you have taken your picture you can upload it to the web within minutes for all to see. The handset is supplied with a stylus, which is used for handwiriting recognition. This is the simplest way to create messages and emails. You can also choose to store memos on the phone, which are stored to the main screen of the phone, a bit like an electronic post-it note - this is a neat feature from Sony Ericsson. Other features on the handset include support for push email, and access to RSS feeds. The RSS feeds work exactly the same as they do on your PC. Once you have subscribed to the content from your favourite websites, it will be delivered automatically to the standby screen of your mobile phone - this is a great way to keep up to date with topics that interest you whether it be gaming, politics or the weather. If you wish to register your interest in the Sony Ericsson G900, click here and we will email you when we have more information on availability Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb First Ever 8 Megapixel Camera Phone - Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-ShotJune 20, 2008 at 11:07 am by Hannah | In Coming Soon Handsets, Mobile News
The camera has some great features including a Xenon flash, auto focus, face detection and image stabiliser to name just a few. You can make videos of your friends and family with the video recording feature. It even has a video stabiliser and a video light. When you have finished taking pictures and videos you can upload them quickly to your blog for everyone to see. The media player comes with an FM Radio, TrackID, Album Art and Play Now, to make your music experience much smoother. The Sony C905 also comes complete with a range of in-built games and is Java enabled so you can play games to your hearts content on those long commutes or nights in. For the internet user the C905 jas an Access NetFront Web Browser, WAP 1.2.1, WAP 2.0 XHTML and Web Feeds, so you will never be without the internet. The C905 is a super-sleek looking phone that comes in a variety of colours; Night Black, Ice Silver and Copper Gold. A contemporary mobile phone with all the features you need and more. Register your interest here to be kept informed of availability, pricing updates and reviews of this phone. Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb The Samsung F480 – Is it a Touchwiz, or a Tocco?June 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm by Jay | In Mobile News
Take the Samsung F480 as an example. Apart from the F480 model name, I have seen the phone referred to as the Libra, and more recently the ‘Touchwiz’ (who thinks of these names??) and now the Tocco. And that is just for the UK, the F480 will be known under different names in different countries/regions. It’s crazy! And I assume if I find it confusing, and I work in the mobile industry, how do the consumers feel? Another example would be recent handsets from LG. The KG800 was always better known as the Chocolate. Move on to the Venus. Oh no, hang on, the Venus isn’t the Venus, it’s a KF510! Then they announce the LG KF750, only to change it at the last minute and call it the LG Secret. Very confusing, and seemingly without any logic. I wait to see what the next mess will be that one of these two manufacturers brings to the market. Let’s hope this naming problem doesn’t spread to the other handset makers. Regardless of confusing names though, it has to be said that the Samsung Tocco is a really well specified phone - it’s very much like a 3G iPhone except that it’s available right now and is a fraction of the price! Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb Jawbone Bluetooth Headset developed for the US militaryJune 16, 2008 at 1:38 pm by Daniella | In Mobile Phone Accessories
The Aliph Jawbone includes a new feature called “noise assassin”, developed for the US military to be used in extremely noisy environments such as being in a helicopter and even a battlefield. This blocks out up to 90% of background noise compared to other Bluetooth headsets. The new Jawbone 2 is constructed with premium materials including ultra smooth medical grade plastic and optional fine leather earloops. It has an elegant, clean look to it and has an invisible button by using touch-surface technology. The luxurious design of the new Jawbone was created by Yves Behar. The outside cover of the Bluetooth headset is curved which matches the outline of the face so it is comfortable to wear. The look of the outside cover has a unique diamond pattern made up of a three dimensional texture, the materials of which help in reducing background noise. The inside surface of the headset is made from medical grade plastic that makes it soft and smooth on the skin. Other brilliant features on this latest edition Jawbone headset are that it has a excellent standby time of 8 days and a talk time of 4 hours. It can be used at up to 10 meters away from the mobile phone and can be used on both left and right ears. Normally retailing at a premium price the Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset is available free with selected pay monthly mobile phones from Mobiles.co.uk. Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb Sony Ericsson G700 Touch Screen Mobile PhoneJune 11, 2008 at 5:30 am by Jay | In Mobile NewsThe Sony Ericsson G700 is due for imminent launch, so to whet your appetite here is a video clip: The G700 is a Symbian UIQ phone, which operates via a touchscreen. As well as the large simple icons that are ideal for selection by thumb or finger, you can also use a stylus on the phone for writing text messages thanks to the handwriting recognition support. You can also use the stylus to write yourself a quick note, which is saved on the screen of the phone, a bit like an electronic post it note. The G700 has a built in 3.2 megapixel camera, and the handset has support for mobileblogging. Once you have set up the handset with the correct settings you can post to your blog on the move. A web browser is also included on the phone, and this is complimented by a 3G data connection. The G700 includes support for push email. With the correct email account you can receive emails on your mobile phone as soon as they are received in your email inbox. To register your interest in the Sony Ericsson G700 and receive an email when the phone is available to purchase, click here. Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb Camera Phones - Take a Picture, Share OnlineJune 9, 2008 at 7:30 am by Jay | In Just For Fun, Mobile Content/Services
Once the picture has been taken, the choice then is what to do with it. A picture can mean so much too so many, if it is shared. There are many services available to you to enable you to share your pictures with as many people as possible. On a simple level, you can send a picture captured on your phone by MMS picture messaging, to a handset of a friend or family member. MMS can also be sent to an email address. Sending via MMS rescales the picture so it can be sent via the network servers. Therefore if you are going to send a captured picture to an email address it is much better sent via your handsets email client. Sending this way has two advantages; Another way of sharing your pictures is via your own blog. You can send pictures from your phone directly to your blog via email; the subject of the email will be the title of your blogpost, the picture will be stored as per your preset defaults and the body of the email text will be the main text on your blog. This is an excellent way for posting pictures online quickly and simply. If you have many pictures you want to share then you can take advantage of one of the online portals, such as OVI from Nokia.
Through OVI, you can group your photos together on one main page, and also arrange them into different channels. So you can have a channel for your best friend’s wedding, a channel for your holiday, a channel for family pictures, the work’s Christmas party, etc. Once all of your photos have been tagged and arranged into their respective channels you can share them with the world, or if the pictures are personal, just choose to share the channels with people whom you authorise to view them. With OVI you can add friends to your profile, much as you can on many social networking sites, which allows them to see your latest updates, and also you will see all new public photos they post, or private channels to which they have authorised you to view. Much more than just a photo sharing site, OVI allows you to network with your friends and see their latest uploads. The channels you create on OVI can be embedded into your blog, and presented as a slideshow or thumbnails, with code that is created for you on the OVI site. Alternatively you can link to individual photos from your channels into your blog or forums, again using embed code provided by OVI.
The magic of a photo is best enjoyed when shared, the only question to answer is which way works for you? Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb Over £20,000 Raised Through CharityMobiles.co.uk and Mobiles.co.ukJune 5, 2008 at 10:33 am by Hannah | In Charity Related, Mobile NewsHere at Mobiles.co.uk we like to do our bit for charity and regularly have staff raffles to raise money for Macmillan as well as supporting Oxfam’s mobile phone recycling initiative. A few years ago we took it one step further and set up CharityMobiles.co.uk, a website where we donate £25 to your chosen charity when you buy a pay monthly mobile phone. To date we have raised over £20,000 for charity and the amount keeps growing, month by month. There is a massive selection of charities on there, from choral groups to childrens respite centres. With the money we have raised we have helped to send children on dream holidays, helped to fund important medical research, funded university alumni projects and helped to pay to feed animals in need. Everyone from Mobiles.co.uk would like to thank all the charities involved for their continued support and all the customers who choose to give something back when buying themselves a new phone.
StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb The Best of the Mobile WebJune 3, 2008 at 5:23 pm by Jay | In Just For Fun, Mobile NewsMobile Web browsing has come a long way since the early days of WAP and BT’s silver surfer ads. Back then, web browsing on your mobile phone meant being restricted to text only sites that were poorly laid out and hard to navigate (Ed: apart from wap.mobiles.co.uk obviously!) The difference today is marked. Nowadays the average mobile phone will offer a colour screen, very often with a QVGA resolution. And if your handset doesn’t have an excellent default browser, such as the browser found on NSeries handsets, then you can use the next best option, the fantastic Opera Mini browser. Opera Mini is so good that even if you do have a good default browser it is worth having as an alternative solution. In a future blog post I’ll talk about how good or bad different handsets are for the mobile web so if you have an opinion on your own mobile experience then please do leave some feedback on our mobile phone reviews page. The mobile websites available today are a step above what used to be available, so here, in no particular order, is a list of 10 of my favourite sites: Yahoo BBC Facebook Weather.com Google Google Reader Twitter Amazon CNN MSN StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb Orange Launch Live RadioJune 2, 2008 at 9:47 am by Jay | In Mobile News
The service will enable customers to access over 4,000 internet radio stations, from a local, national and international database. Orange have a website designed to be used with the service, which is located at liveradio.orange.co.uk. After registering on the site, you will be able to customise the preset radio stations and create folders to easily reference different radio channel types. Adding a radio channel is as simple as drag n drop. Mike Newnham, Vice President of Home, Orange UK said:
There is a Liveradio device which can be purchased from the Orange Liveradio site. With this device your PC does not need to be on to listen to the radio, all you need is a broadband connection and a wireless router, and you can listen to internet radio all round the house or in your garden, basically anywhere within range of your router. In some ways this new technology is a step forward from many Orange mobile phones that have built-in FM radios and with the convergence of mobile phones and broadband it can only be a matter of time before new handsets start to offer digital radio enabling a massive choice of radio stations wherever you are. Bookmark at:StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb |
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