Mobileography

While certainly not as exciting as the 1.1.3 firmware, Apple has just released version 1.1.4 of their iPhone firmware.

This update:

• Fixes a bluetooth bug, which was introduced with the 1.1.3 firmware.
• Fixes an SMS ordering bug (text messages didn’t always stay in the right order).
• Some people are reporting better signal strength.
• Support for O2 wireless in Ireland and T-Mobile in Austria.

Unless you want to jailbreak your phone, this sounds like an update worth getting.

admin Apple Apple, firmware, iphone, o2, t-mobile

Not only will this new phone be running WinMo 6.1, but it will feature a display with 800×480 resolution! Wow!

Beyond that, it has a 528Mhz processor, 128mb RAM, 256mb ROM and as 1500mAH battery. This is shaping up to be a very impressive phone. It also has the nifty slide-out QWERTY keyboard — a style I’d love to see the iPhone implement (but they never will). I think this design makes more sense than the flip-open QWERTY (like on the Verizon Voyager), as it only needs to have one screen. Building two screens into a unit seems like a waste, as it requires more space, more horsepower and it would be a higher cost.

The phone will also feature GPS and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Other reports have said it will be a 5 megapixel camera, so we’re unsure what the real number is. Either way, this is shaping up to be an incredible phone. No word on pricing or availability yet.

admin Hardware, Sony ericsson, Sony, windows mobile, xperia x1

It’s not as exciting as they’d have you believe, but it’s a useful application nonetheless — the Google Search Shortcut for Nokia N-series and E-series phones.

The application simply adds a shortcut to your standby screen that allows you to access Google search with a single keypress — the pencil icon on most phones. Very useful.

admin Google, Nokia application, Google, Nokia

Garmin has a phone coming out this August called the “Nuvifone”. I’ve just seen some new pictures of the UI, and it’s looking really slick.

They haven’t released much in the way of details (carrier, memory, etc), but we obviously know it’ll have a GPS. In fact, they says the GPS experience will “far exceed what we’ve seen so far on mobile phones”. They also haven’t said anything about the browser, but it looks to be a very full-featured one based on the screens we’ve seen.

Have a look:

admin Garmin Garmin, gps, nuvifone

The Nokia N96 has been official unveiled, with an expected release of late 2008.

As expected, it’s very similar to the N95 line. The big difference is that it has 16GB of internal memory AND a microSD slot. Full details and specs can be found on All About Symbian.

admin Nokia n96, Nokia

Opera has just finished updating the server that powers Opera Mini 4, with some nice enhancements.

From their forums:

• Added a simple UI to the server-side preferences that exists. Go to ‘opera:config’ to configure some settings.
• Tweaked phone number detection, there should be somewhat fewer false positives now, but you can now also disable the feature on the opera:config page.
• Increased the default timeouts to 40 seconds from 20.
• Updated to a HTML rendering engine to be similar to the latest Opera 9.5 weekly release.
• Fixed support for entering hostnames starting with a number (eg, 360.yahoo.com) as a URL without the starting http://
• Made content folds visible even when the background is black.
• Fixed inter-page links ().
• Fixed clipping rectangle for iframes with hidden overflow css properties, this bug caused some links inside some iframes to be unclickable.
• Fixed HTTP basic auth for pages with non-7bit authentication realm.
• Pages with nested <a> tags are now somewhat easier to navigate (<a href=’link’>Link 1 <a href=’link2′> Link 2</a></a>), it’s now possible to follow both the inner and the outer link.
• New WML stylesheet.
• Various optimizations resulting in the average transcoding time to be 20% lower.

All in all, it looks to be a very nice upgrade. The great part is that no update is required on your end — it’s all on their server. Talk about an easy upgrade…

admin Browsers opera, opera mini

(via IntoMobile) With relatively little fanfare, Apple as released the 16GB version of the iPhone. The price is $499, which is $100 more than the 8GB version.

We thought it might be released at MacWorld a few weeks ago, but that turned out to be a hoax. Since it didn’t launch then, the timing of this really surprises me.

Now if they’d just add pic txts, video capture and 3G support, we’d be all set!

Update: 4:29pm EST – The iPod Touch has also doubled its memory, up to 32GB. Same price as the 16GB iPhone at $499.

admin Apple Apple, iphone

(via The N95 Blog) Nokia has finally granted access to their new N-Gage system, but it’s currently only available for N81 phones. If you have an N81, just head to their site, download the 6 meg package and give it a shot.

Right now there are three demos you can choose from:

• Space Impact
• System Rush: Evolution
• Creatures of the Deep

I expect we’ll see many more games (and compatible phones) very soon.

admin Nokia n-gage, N81, Nokia