Nokia is working on a sidekick-like phone with a strange new ‘swivel’ form factor, according to leaked documents. Don’t get too excited though, from what we’ve seen this won’t be a full-blown Nseries smartphone, instead running the lower-powered Symbian S40.
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Twitter SMS updates are returning to Vodafone, it’s now been confirmed. As we heard first last night, if you’re on Vodafone, you’ll now be able to send and receive tweets for free. Yup, free. Absolutely nada. Read on for the lowdown.
UPDATE: Twitter SMS updates are coming to Vodafone UK, it’s now official! Check out the details.
Exclusive: Twitter SMS updates are returning, on Vodafone. It’s yet to be officially announced, but we’ve heard the massively popular microblogging service is about to get a massive boost as Vodafone allows text updates to and from Twitter.
Apple couldn’t stop unveiling new iPhone apps today. As well as a ton of new features for developers, including push notifications and cut and paste, it’s updated the iPhone to support MMS messages, record voice notes and even squeezed in a new e-mail app.
KLM and Air France have announced that their six-month trial of electronic boarding passes displayed on customer’s phone has been a success and that they will expand the service across their European routes. Sadly, the UK will be missing out.
We’re all doomed. British Airways has just announced it will offer a mobile phone service to the suits in business class on some of its flights – but no voice calls allowed, for the moment at least.
With an increasing amount of confidential data being shuttled around on mobile devices – and a seemingly releated rise in the number of such devices being left on trains or stolen from glove compartments – there is clearly a need for some way of remotely wiping missing data.
Researchers at the University Of Utah may have found an elegant solution to the problem of drivers using their mobiles at the wheel – a key fob that ‘jams’ the phone.