Archive for August, 2008

LG announce LG KC910

Friday, August 29th, 2008

We’ll bring you more information and pictures next week, but LG have let us know that they’ve just announced the LG KC910, which features an 8 megapixel camera, and is destined to replace the Viewty released last year. As well as 3G and Bluetooth, LG have added WiFi and GPS capabilities into this touchscreen phone.


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Is this the smallest DAB radio…?

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Tesco have announced they are now selling the Technika DAB-108P, which is a very small portable DAB radio, and they are claiming it’s the smallest and cheapest portable DAB radio on the market.  At roughly £35, they certainly aren’t charging a premium for the portable device, especially as that includes an FM radio too.  We wonder whether the Intempo iDAB or the Roberts Robi aren’t actually smaller (although not cheaper), but as both also require an iPod to function, Tesco may well be right about their claim.  It’s already available instore, as well as online.

Details of the Technika DAB radio courtesy of Tech Digest.


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Garmin Oregon review

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Garmin Oregon 200Garmin Oregon 300

Here’s a very detailed (although US based) review of the new Garmin Oregon device.  GPS Tracklog always feature very detailed reviews (they’ve already featured a Hands-On review of the Oregon, but this review has even more detail), so if you are trying to decide between an Oregon and a Garmin Colorado, then this review also compares some of the key differences between the two devices.


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Garmin discontinue some nuvi models

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Garmin has formally discontinued some nuvi models.  These are the Garmin nuvi 310 / 350 / 370 models, and the widescreen Garmin nuvi 610 / 650 / 660 / 670 models.  With both the Garmin nuvi 250 Widescreen SatNav, and the traffic enabled nuvi 255WT being cheaper than the 3xx and 6xx models when first launched, this shouldn’t be a major problem for most people.  Garmin have not stated whether or not they will discontinue firmware updates for these elder nuvi models.


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Nokia Chat updated

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Nokia Chat

Nokia Chat has been updated by Nokia Beta Labs, which is available here.  They’ve fixed some compatibility problems, improved battery consumption, and generally bug fixed it.  However, Nokia are planning some “big feature enhancements” in future versions.


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Nokia announcing two new phones

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Nokia should this morning, announce two new phones, the Nokia N79 and the Nokia N85.  The N79 features Xpress-On replaceable covers,  a 5 megapixel camera with dual xenon flash (with a sliding cover to protect the lens), GPS with geotagging support, Nokia Maps, an FM transmitter, all in a candybar format.  This phone is said to replace the N78.

The N85 is more of a gaming device, with dedicated gaming keys, but still featuring specs such GPS with geotagging, an OLED display, and an FM transmitter.

Both phones feature microSD card slots, and even better, both phones should be on sale next month.


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JoikuSpot to support FON

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Joikusoft

We’ve covered JoikuSpot before, the software that enables a Symbian S60 device to act as a Wi-Fi access point for other mobile devices so that they can use the 3G data connection of the phone.  Well, it appears that Joikusoft are working together with FON to allow the device to act as a FON access point, allowing you the ability to share that 3G data connection to others as well.  This is an interesting association, and we’ll be watching it closer to see how it works in practice.


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3 to increase network speed and capacity

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

3 USB Stick Modem

Three have spoken with Tech Radar, and provided some interesting information.  Firstly, they are looking to improve their speed up to 14.4mbps over the next year.  This will be achieved by first rolling out 7.2mbps this summer, followed by 14.4mbps in the future.  3 do warn that you’ll need to be within about 200m of a mobile mast to get the benefit from the 7.2mbps speed.

More importantly, they have also stated that the main plan is to increase capacity; “What we hope to offer is greater capacity, in order to serve more users, rather than just focusing on the top speeds.”

With 3’s fantastic USB Modem deals in the 3Store, it might well be worth getting a device today and then upgrade it next year to an even faster one when your current contract is up.

Details courtesy of Tech Radar [via 3mobilebuzz]


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Thinkpad with built in Tablet

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Here’s the Lenovo Thinkpad W700, which includes a built in pen tablet (by Wacom).  Other specs include a weight of 3.6kg, a 3GHz Core 2 Extreme quad core processor, a 17″ widescreen display, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, two HDD bays (which can be configured with RAID 0 or RAID 1), a 1GB Quadro FX 3700M graphics card, a 7-in-1 memory card reader, 5 USB ports, and an optional Blu-Ray drive.

Expect a price of £1500 upwards when it goes on sale in September.

Details courtesy of Gizmodo.


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BlackBerry news

Monday, August 18th, 2008

After the previous news about the BlackBerry Bold, it looks like Orange have started selling the BlackBerry Bold already, as it went on sale today.  We wonder if they pulled forward their release date in response to T-Mobile’s heavy promotion of their September release date.

In other news, the device above is the BlackBerry Javelin, which should go on sale next year.  As well as the QWERTY keyboard, the feature spec seems to include a 3.2 megapixel camera, 256MB of memory, 512MHz processor, Wi-Fi, and GPS, but may not be a 3G device (which is not always a big issue for BlackBerry devices).  The key feature of this device though is the hi-res 460 x 360 HVGA+ display, which looks fantastic and will make this device very popular.

Javelin news courtesy of Tech Digest.


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