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Nokia’s gaming service N-Gage stepping to death

Oct 31

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Nokia’s N-Gage blog has confirmed in a post that Nokia will close its battered N-Gage mobile gaming service and community next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering and to shift focus towards gaming on its Ovi platform. Nokia is looking for new revenue from online services as its traditional handset market matures, with games and music being the first focus areas. The online gaming service, which opened last year, took over the N-Gage brand and also never moved beyond a niche audience of hard-core gamers. It said the games from its first major services offering could be purchased until the end of September 2010 and the community site would remain in operation throughout 2010. After closing the N-Gage service, Nokia will continue to sell mobile games at its Ovi Store, a smaller rival to Apple’s popular App Store.

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iPhone game: Guerrilla Bob Debut Trailer

Oct 30

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Guerrilla Bob is the awesome cartoon top-down shooter for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Chinese xpPhone Will Hit Markets Soon

Oct 30

Posted by looda in Windows XP | No Comments

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China-based In Technology Group (ITG) has announced its latest contraption, the absolutely whacky xpPhone, which is all set to go on sale soon.

The fully functional 3G phone does not just bring PC like functionality to the phone. It is a PC complete with an AMD Processor and Windows XP as the Operating System. The xpPhone boasts of a massive 4.8-inch touchscreen display with a full QWERTY keyboard and has 1GB of RAM to run all your applications. With a colossal 120GB hard disk, you will never run out of space on this one – should you use it like a phone, of course! While the specs might be impressive for a cellphone, if it were a PC, it would have been an outdated slob. But then, it isn’t one!

Other features include a pretty rudimentary 1.3 megapixel camera. We don’t need to go on much about the multimedia capability of this one – especially if you happen to be used to Windows XP. The phone boasts of a comprehensive network support with both GSM and CDMA chips inside – and there’s HSDPA and HSUPA support as well! Other features include GPS navigation, an USB and VGA port. The xpPhone offers 5 hours of talk time and 5 days of standby time.

While the device is available on pre-order, the company hasn’t revealed the price of this wonder.

Here is the official spec sheet:

  • CPU: AMD Super Mobile CPU
  • Memory: 512M/1G
  • SSD: 8G/16G/32G/64G
  • HDD: 30G/60G/80G/120G
  • LCD: 4.8 inches TFT Touch-screen LCD 800*480
  • Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
  • Network: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA (HSDPA/HSUPA) CDMA/CDMA2000 1X/CDMA1X EVDO, TD-SCDMA TD-HSDPA
  • WirelessWiFi 802.11b/g, WiMax(optional), Bluetooth, Stand-alone GPS
  • Camera Specifications: CMOS, 300k/1.3 Million
  • Ports: 1 x earphone jack,1 x microphone jack,Docking Connector (include VGA output signal ), 1 x USB 2.0, SIM Slot
  • Battery: Removable Lithium-ion
  • Talk time: About 5 hours,Stand by time: about 5 days
  • Real life: About 7 hours(Standard), about 12 hours(Large)
  • Talk time: Standby time Operation time may vary depending different usage.
  • Weight: 400g (include battery)

iPhone app: Babelshot helps you translate text with the help of the camera

Oct 30

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This iPhone and iPod Touch application automatically translates restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from newspapers without typing anything on the iPhone / iPod keyboard. Simply take a close-up picture of the printed text and this app will recognize and immediately translate it into another language. The application costs 2$ and you can download it from iTunes

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Verizon Motorola Droid Arrives on November 6; First Android 2.0 Smartphone

Oct 29

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Motorola Droid is the latest Android phone that’ll be launched by Verizon on November 6 and it’ll be the first smartphone to run version 2.0 of the Android OS. The device comes with high speed web browsing, voice activated search, widgets and a customizable home screen.

There’s a brilliant 3.7 inch widescreen display on board , Android Market to download apps from, a 5 megapixel camera at the back, complete with dual LED flash, autofocus and image stabilization. A 16GB card will be bundled with the phone and you should know that Droid also handles multitasking, Exchange e-mail (pushed directly), Google Navigation and Street View.

Google Talk, YouTube (recording and playback via homescreen widget), Facebook, Amazon MP3 Store and Verizon Wireless Visual Voice Mail are all pre-loaded apps and Google Mobile Services also available on Droid. Verizon’s Android 2.0 device will hit the US next week for $199.99 with a 2 year contract, after a $100 mail in rebate. Till then, you can have virtual fun with the smartphone over here.

[via Motorola]

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LG, 20th Century Fox Offer Avatar Content Exclusively on New Chocolate

Oct 29

Posted by looda in LG | 6 Comments

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LG Electronics (LG) Korea today announced a partnership with Twentieth Century Fox (Fox) to introduce the new LG Chocolate (LG BL40) phone in the Asia Pacific region with embedded content from James Cameron’s eagerly-awaited epic fantasy adventure AVATAR. The new multimedia-friendly phone will mark its regional debut in Hong Kong on November 4th.

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iPhone game: Eliminated

Oct 28

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Here’s another video of the iPhone and iPod Touch game “Eliminated”. The game should be available in app store very soon.

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Android turns 2.0, gets a birthday Eclair and many new features

Oct 28

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Google’s gone ahead and uncorked the bubbly to celebrate the launch of Android 2.0 “Eclair” today ahead of Verizon’s big reveal tomorrow, bundling its announcements into two very important sections: SDK support, meaning devs can go ahead and start targeting the new bits, and a comprehensive list of changes in the latest version. Here are the major changes us lay folk are going to care about:

  • Support for multiple Google and Exchange accounts
  • Third-party “sync adapters” allow apps to tie in to the phone’s sync services
  • Quick contact menus for fast access to specific key pieces of contact information
  • Unified email inbox (yes!)
  • SMS and MMS search
  • Text message auto-delete after a user-defined thread size is reached
  • Significantly improved camera controls with white balance, macro, effects, and more
  • Improved keyboard layout, dictionary, and algorithm based on multi-touch support
  • Double-tap zoom in browser, support for HTML5
  • Bluetooth 2.1 support with addition of OPP and PBAP profiles
  • “Better” graphics hardware acceleration

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Nokia N97 firmware v2.0 released

Oct 27

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Nokia N97 software update 2.0 (version number 20.0.019, 20.1.021 and 20.2.019 depending on your region) is now available through the Nokia Software Updater. The software update will make your N97 perform even better, through numerous fixes, improvements, new features and new functions.

Changelog:

  • Improved touch screen scrolling
  • Ovi Maps 3.1 with 3–D maps
  • Nokia e-mail, Ovi Contacts, Ovi Store
  • Improved memory and battery performance
  • Improved image and video stability

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InPulse Smartwatch for Blackberry becomes official

Oct 27

Posted by looda in BlackBerry, Watch Phones | No Comments

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The inPulse Smartwatch for BlackBerry is being produced by Allerta, and now that it’s official, we can safely say that it’ll rely on Bluetooth in order to bring incoming emails, text messages and other alerts from your handset to your wrist (or your ankle, if you roll like that). As for specs, you’re looking at a 1.3-inch OLED display, glass lens, full metal body, vibrating motor, microUSB port and a rechargeable battery that’s good for around four days of “normal use.” inPulse users will have to install a special BlackBerry application in order to pass along information, but those hoping to use their watch to actually send messages will be sorely disappointed. It’s up for pre-order now at $149, and if all goes well, the first ones will ship out in February.

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