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TomTom have now released the v7 software update for the x10 devices (510, 710, 910) providing the new functions that have been available on the x20 devices (520, 720) for a while now. To get this update, you may need to first update your TomTom HOME application, and then you should be able to get the update for your device.
This is also available for some of the TomTom ONE range too.
Earlier this year, TomTom announed it was going to make an offer for TeleAtlas. A few months later, Nokia announced it was actually making an offer for Navteq. This prompted TomTom to firm up it’s offer for TeleAtlas.
Today, Garmin has joined in and has also made an offer for TeleAtlas, which is an interesting move from Garmin, who have traditionally used Navteq maps worldwide.
There are other rumours flying around about companies wanting to buy TomTom, but nothing is confirmed yet.
Story from PocketGPSWorld.com
Nokia have released the new version of the Nokia Search tool, v4.0. This is the version which ships with the N95 8Gb, but is now available for download for other S60 FP1 phones.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, Steve Litchfield notes:
You’ll have to go into App Mgr and delete EVERY instance of ‘Search’ – if your N95 is like mine, there will be several entries! After this, Search v4 will finally install
As expected, the 3 SkypePhone has a fair use policy, which is 4000 Skype minutes per month. This doesn’t sound too bad, until you remember that a normal phone, such as the N95 on 3, when purchased with a £5 X-Series Silver option, has 5000 Skype minutes per month.
Although the 3 SkypePhone is a very interesting proposition, you may be better looking at the X-Series range, albeit with a higher monthly charge (but more facilities and minutes thrown in too).
Right on cue, the 3 SkypePhone was announced this morning. Skype-Skype calls and Skype Instant Messages will both be free as long as you remain on contract, or you topup your PAYG (Pay As You Go) account (*). It will also be able to access the rest of 3’s Internet Services.
(*) Minimum topup of £10 every 30 days will keep Skype services running.
Although we originally said it would be available in 4 countries, it’s actually going to be available in the UK, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden. For the UK, it’s £49.99 on PAYG, and free as part of a new contract, and should be available on 2nd November (this Friday) in 3Stores, with other countries following in due course. It is available for Pre-Order from tomorrow.
One thing few people are reporting on – it’s rumoured the phone will not support SkypeOut…
More details and full specifications in the rest of the article.
WidSets, originally developed by a group of Nokia employees, have moved from a beta product into a mainstream, launched product. WidSets uses little graphical widgets to allow you to access content from a huge variety of websites directly on your mobile phone. For example, you can access the latest BBC News Headlines. WidSets is compatible with a wide range of phones, and hence is a nice example of Java application that provides good access to a lot of information on the internet. Many websites have created (or their users have created) widgets, which often connect to the RSS feed of the site – in essence WidSets offers you an easy to use RSS feed reader for your mobile, without the normal real estate problems of the desktop apps; there are very few phones where Google Reader is actually a practical option – for all the rest WidSets could well be the solution.
To encourage you all to download WidSets (it’s free after all), we’ve even created a UK Gadgeteer WidSet Widget for you to add to your WidSets application. Even before this post was created, we have had a healthy number of people add the widget to their WidSet – well done, and welcome to all our new readers!
It appears in advance of being launched on Monday, a few details of the SkypePhone are starting to leak out….
Also interesting is the news it will be available on a new £12 Mix’n'Match 100 Tariff (and this will be the only phone allowed to use this tariff).
Photo courtesy of Skype-watch.com
If a number of mobile sites are to be believed, this is the new Nokia N82, which is likely to get launched in the next few weeks, possibly even sooner than that. It’s basically a non-slide version of the N95, so it packs a 5-megapixel camera with a Xenon Flash, GPS, WiFi etc.
GooSync, well known for it’s ability to sync your mobile device’s Calendar with Google Calendar, has now launched it’s Google Contacts Sync support, which has been in beta for a few months. Due to limitations in the Google Contacts API, they cannot sync directly between the mobile device and Google, but instead offer a facility to sync your mobile device to their website, and then offer a manual import / export export which is compatible with both Google and other apps, such as Outlook.
It appears (potentially due to the built in Nokia Ovi music store support) that the UK mobile phone network operators have not been too keen on the N81, with The UK Mobile Report reporting that instead of the usual fight between operators to be granted an exclusive for a particular phone (eg Vodafone have the exclusive on the Nokia 6110 Navigator at the moment), Vodafone were the only operator interested in the N81, and then only in N81 8Gb format.
This is interesting – with Nokia pushing Ovi, MOSH, and other new services direct to its customers, the network operators are either going to have to embrace this and accept it, continue to demand phones with features removed (and I think Nokia has stood it’s ground with the N81), or start losing control of the handset market, and moving towards the mobile phone manufacturers selling direct.
This is happening in the US – you can buy Nokia and some Motorola phones direct from the companies, without involvement of your operator, and it appears the US may well move much closer to this model for all phones. In the UK (and Europe), we are used to being able to buy “SIM-Free” phones, but the cost is much higher.
I wonder if we’ll start to see the manufacturers subsidising the phones, based on services they provide, instead of the operator subsidising the phone…