Toshiba‘s about to up the mobile megapixels once more, announcing it’s conjured up a 14.6 megapixel camera sensor destined for handsets next year. It’s official: 12MP phones are already old hat.
October 27th, 2009
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The latest Sonos software has just hit the web, letting anyone with the multi-room streaming rig add new menus and Twitter support to their remotes. Want to microblog what you’re listening to? Here’s how to get it.
We’ve been on the floor at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition tradeshow at Earls Court, London all morning, checking out what’s new with Nokia as well as Sony Ericsson and Samsung’s experiments with the mobile operating system.
The answer though, is a depressing one: not a lot. The show is much smaller than last year, but that’s not all: we’ve heard a lot of grumbling from attendees about Symbian’s failings and inability to keep up, while smartphone software on rival platforms explodes. Is Symbian beginning to stagger? That’s what some developers have told us.
Queen Rock Band is already being lined up. But for those who prefer to go a bit more, well, mental, then how about The Who Rock Band? Well, Roger Daltry has as good as confirmed there’ll be one featuring his huge hair and Pete Townshend’s windmilling guitars next year.
Got issues? Need an answers to life’s biggest problems? Then David Hasslehoff is here to answer your queries with a new iPhone app. Called Ask The Hoff, it’s “the only way to make important decisions at home or work,” according to the Hoff’s people.
We’ll go to any lengths to win a cool £5,000. Or just a spanking new smartphone worth its weight in gold. But we’re happy to settle with Vodafone’s new Touch The Phone game, which is offering you the chance to nab all that cash or a new SIM–free blower.
CoPilot Live 8 satnav software is already out on Windows Mobile, with matching versions on sale for Android and the iPhone too, but it’s still missing on one major smartphone platform: Symbian S60. Never fear though: ALK is hard at work bringing it to a Nokia near you, and we’ve got the photo evidence to prove it.