Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Weather Channel has just introduced a long-overdue update to their mobile site, finally making it something worth using.
Some of the features include:
Hourly Forecasts
Current Conditions
Hurricane Central
Radar and Satellite Maps
Severe Weather Updates
Airport Delays
Pollen Conditions
Traffic
Baseball Stadium Forecasts
More information about this update can be found here, or you can pull up the new ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
We've covered the excellent emTube application before, but now YouTube has released their first official mobile application.
Using this software you can view any video on YouTube, watch your subscriptions and playlists, and even upload directly from your phone.
The only major downside is that it's available for a very limited number ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
(via Into Mobile) It's taken a long time, but Windows Mobile 6.0 will finally be available for the Samsung BlackJack, starting this evening at 5PM EST.
Head over to the Samsung update website later today and give your aging BlackJack a fresh lease on life.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Despite some optimism yesterday, the keynote today offered very little new news for the iPhone.
The 1.1.3 update was announced (and is now available), but that was about it. No 16GB iPhone yet, and nothing about the SDK. The lack of a new iPhone was a bit of a ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
(via IntoMobile) According to this supposed leaked document, the 16GB iPhone will launch tomorrow for $499.
In addtion, details of the SDK will be released. Some snippets:
Applications can be priced from $0 to $7
Widgets can be priced from $0 to $3
Developers submit their code to Apple for approval, then it ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Yahoo has just released Yahoo! Go 3.0, and it's quite slick. It's available for a lot of different phones and was a breeze to install.
I've found it to be a bit sluggish at times, but overall it runs pretty well. Some of the features:
E-mail - Your standard Yahoo ...
Posted in Software, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
As reported by All About Symbian, Nokia has officially unveiled the US version of the 8GB N95.
It will be available sometime in the first quarter of 2008, for an estimated price of $749.
Read the rest on AAS, or you can read the official press release from Nokia.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
According to AllAboutSymbian, version 15.0.015 of the Nokia N95 8GB firmware has been released.
Early reports show very few new features, but quite a few speed improvements:
Gallery and search are now much faster.
Access time to use the internal 8GB memory is much improved.
A bug fix for the problem that prevented some ...
Posted in Hardware, Nokia | No Comments »