Following in the footsteps of Korean director Park Chan-wook’s film “Night Fishing” which was shot entirely with iPhone 4s, another Korean director is taking a stab at using a smartphone to film a movie. Director Kim Dae-Woo’s “Age of Milk” is the first professionally-made movie shot with a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone.
January, 2011
The Nokia C7 might not be a flagship handset from the Finnish manufacturer, but being able to control your BMW with the phone certainly raises its mark. In conjunction with Nokia Asia, An Jiaxuan and his friend were able to demonstrate the potential of the C7 through a series of controlled tests – ultimately leading up to turning a BMW into a giant remote controlled car.
Google CEO and sometime tech boogeyman, Eric Schmidt, is to step aside as the internet giant’s co-founder Larry Page becomes CEO on April 4.
Facebook has announced on the Facebook Blog the launch of a new mobile app for feature phone users. Mark Heynen, a program manager at Facebook, (who apparently “still loves his flip phone) said: “Smartphones have offered better features for sharing with friends but aren’t used by most people around the world… The Facebook for Feature Phones app works on more than 2,500 devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and other manufacturers.” The new Facebook mobile app improves navigation from the home screen, better contact synchronization, and fast scrolling of photos and friend updates.
Are you a tinkerer? A fixer? Dab hand with a screwdriver? Best you steer clear of Apple kit for the time being then. A change in Apple designs has been uncovered, and it seems the Mac-maker is now using custom screws that’ll thwart any screwdriver set you can get your hands on.
After being impressed by the B&W Zeppelin Air this morning, this Marantz AirPlay enabled network audio player has cropped up, and if the date Marantz is claiming holds true, then it will beat the Zeppelin Air to market as the first AirPlay enabled device, hitting the shelves at some point this month.
Every day there’s a whole raft of stories sneaking out on the iPad 2. Every day we cover them, and our readers read them. Google iPad 2, and you get 457m results. But what do we really know for sure? What’s been corroborated with official information?