According to The Symbian Blog, Nokia’s N96 will begin shipping in early October. The phone is the follow-up to their very popular N95, and it remains largely the same. The main changes are an increase in memory (16GB) and a polished, black exterior.
I had an N95 for a while and it was a great phone. The N96 looks to make it even more attractive.
If money wasn’t an option, would you rather have a 3G iPhone or the N96?
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I’m gradually becoming less excited about the Garmin Nuvifone, and now it’s been pushed back to sometime in 2009.
It’s not that I think it’ll be a bad phone, but it’s just going to be too late. If the iPhone has turn-by-turn GPS in the next six months, what on earth will be the draw of the Nuvifone? Granted, the Nuvifone might have better turn-by-turn, but the iPhone will have thousands of apps, a superior interface (I assume), better browsing, etc.
As Unwired View points out, Garmin won’t even commit to a Q1 2009 release, meaning it could be well into 2009 before it comes out. At that point, it had better be awesome and cheap!
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There were various reports today that Apple is testing their 2.1 firmware for the iPhone, and one major feature will be improved GPS tools. In particular, items such as direction and speed tracking are reported to be in there. While I can see their usefulness, why are they necessary? If you get a mere two points from a GPS, you can very easily determine speed and heading, and theoretically could have a full-featured turn-by-turn system using that info.
I’ll admit I’m not an expert on GPS, but that’s how it looks to me. Am I missing something here?
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It appears that the iPhone’s much-heralded background push notification might show up with the version 2.1 firmware. I had assumed that it would be there with 2.0, but that’s not been the case.
Background push notification is a pretty slick concept. It allows applications to receive small updates even when they’re not running. For example, a gmail app could receive updates that tell me how many new messages I have, and a small icon would appear above the gmail icon. You can see how it looks with the Facebook app in the screenshot to the right.
Of course, the Facebook icon can only update after you run the application and it can check your inbox status, which kind of defeats the purpose of it. Hopefully this update gets this feature off the ground, because it will be very useful for a lot of apps.
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The first screenshots from Nokia’s upcoming S60 “touch” UI have been leaked, and they’re looking pretty good. Check ‘em out below:
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The WordPress app for the iPhone has finally been released and you can find it in the iTunes app store here. I created a draft of this post using it, and it works pretty well. It certainly won’t be my primary blogging tool, but it’ll be very nice to have when I’m on the road. Give it a shot and let us know what you think of it.
Mickey
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We’ve just installed the excellent WPTouch plug-in on this blog, making it look great when viewed from an iPhone or iPod Touch. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Mickey
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If you go download the latest version of iTunes (7.7), you can now browse and download applications for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Of course, you can’t load them yet because the new firmware hasn’t been released, but that is expected by about noon EST today.
There are over 500 applications available, including 135 free ones. I’m quite disappointed to not see much from Google (I was hoping for Gmail, Reader, etc), but overall there is some good stuff.
Personally, I’m pleased to see applications like Evernote and SmugShot in there, along with the expected ones like the Facebook app. What do you see that really grabs your attention?
Dang, I really need an iPhone now… 
(via TechCrunch)
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I can’t vouch for how it might perform, but the Blackberry 9500 is looking very nice. It has a 480×360 screen, and these screenshots make it look awesome. We’ll find out soon just how awesome (or not) it really is.
(via IntoMobile)
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According to The Symbian Blog, Nokia’s N96 will begin shipping in early October. The phone is the follow-up to their very popular N95, and it remains largely the same. The main changes are an increase in memory (16GB) and a polished, black exterior.
