As lucky US punters get their paws on the new T-Mobile G1 Android, one annoyance keeps cropping up. Why the hell do they have to pull out the built-in keyboard to type even the smallest thing, making it impossible to type in portrait mode?
Google has announced an update to the My Location feature of Google Maps for Mobile that uses Wi-Fi to help pinpoint your location more accurately. Which begs the question, how does Google know where your router is?
Google is opening the doors of Android Market to developers on Monday, much to the delight of T-Mobile G1 owners (the handset launches here next Thursday and launched in the US yesterday). But this is no App Store for now at least, because all applications will be free until the new year.
Sony Ericsson is cutting a fifth of its handset range after announcing its first quarterly net loss in more than five years. It blamed losses on consumers buying fewer handsets. But is James Bond really to blame?
It may look like a cheeky viral advert for the G1, but the marvellous rap love song hotting up YouTube right now is actually a promo for a fanboy forum.
RIM, creator of the BlackBerry, predicts that standalone sat-navs will soon be museum pieces, because mobiles will do the job better.
Motorola has seen the future and it’s bling. Even today, as the credit crunch officially becomes a recession, there seems to be no end to the market for luxury mobiles. After all, those bankers still have bonuses to spend. But what shape should Motorola’s new Aura high-end handset take? I know, the designers said, let’s dust off the design for the old V70 and tart it up a bit. (Hint: the Aura’s the one on the left.)
Children of the seventies rejoice. Not only do you have enough disposable income to own a touch-screen mobile phone that trumps all the sci-fi TV gadgets of your youth, but now you can bathe in nostalgia down the pub thanks to the iStylophone.