Archive for January, 2008

The Weather Channel launches new mobile site

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 ...

Official YouTube Mobile application released

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 ...

Windows Mobile 6 FINALLY comes to the BlackJack

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.

Very little iPhone news from the MacWorld keynote

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 ...

Keynote leaked? 16GB iPhone, SDK details, and more.

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 ...

Yahoo Go 3.0 released

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 ...

Nokia officially reveals the US N95 8GB

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.

New firmware for Nokia N95 8GB

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 ...