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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Windows phone 7


So today I was lucky enough to attend a training event for the forthcoming Windows phone 7. I got to play with a pre-production prototype handset and had a very in depth look at what this exciting new OS has to offer.

I think this will be a total game changer, it takes some of the best of what is already available and takes it further, simplifies use and give you really intuative access to all the things you need and use in fewer steps.



All in all I was very impressed with how it works and I can see myself using this OS and enjoying the experience.



One of the key parts of this launch will be demonstrating the OS and it new features to customers, At the event and also on the training website, there is lots of emphasis on the out of the box experience and a few key steps that we need to take to get customers up and running.   This is a brand new operating system and radically different to the previous version, and if we can get customers set-up and running before they leave the shop, then we will limit possible returns and give our customers a better experience.

We are one of only 2 launch partners to sign up to the training, this can give us a real edge in terms of launch, and give o2's customers a far better experience.

There is a new training website, www.windowsphoneexpert.com, here you can learn about the new OS and also earn points to redeem against Microsoft products. This is a really informative site, and almost all of the content that was on the course, is on the site, and it goes over lots of useful information, from set-up, to the key differences between windows phone 7 and other operating systems.  You will also see the demo and set-up that will be required to get customers enjoying windows phone 7 before they leave the store.



This will be a major launch so try to get up to speed. In-store set-up and demo will be key.  Please visit the site and if you need any further information let me know.


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Saturday, 25 September 2010

Launching on the 4th October, the Nokia N8 will be the flagship for Nokia, and has been hotly anticipated.





Nokia introduces the Nokia N8, our latest smartphone that intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. The Nokia N8 enables people to create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy the latest on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. People can also make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite.
The Nokia N8 offers a true home theater experience with HD quality film and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. You can plug the device to your home theatre system with an HDMI cable.
The Nokia N8 enables access to local and global Web TV services that deliver TV programs, news and entertainment from channels such as CNN, National Geographic, E! Entertainment and Paramount directly on the homescreen.
People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, taking you where you want to be and showing you what want to see in over 70 countries worldwide.
The Nokia N8 has 16GB of in-built storage space, expandable up to 48GB with a Micro SD card. Large files can be easily transferred to a memory stick with the USB On-the-Go.  USB on the go, allows the user to transfer the N8 into a portable storage drive,e and easily swap files between PC or laptop and the device.
With this announcement, Nokia is offering developers a new platform to innovate on. The Nokia N8 comes integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
The Nokia N8 marks the global device debut of the new Symbian^3 software, featuring several major advancements:
  • Usability enhancements across the user interface, including single tap, multi-touch and support for gestures such as “pinch-to-zoom.”
  • Three personalizable homescreens on the Nokia N8, easily maneuvered through by a simple flick.
  • Faster and more responsive user interface with new 2D and 3D graphics architecture that takes full advantage of hardware acceleration
  • More efficient memory management allows more applications to run in parallel for a faster, more complete and efficient multi-tasking experience.
Specifications.








Available colors
Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange
Operating times
  • Talk time (GSM/WCDMA) – 12/5 h 50 min
  • Standby (GSM/WCDMA) – 390/400 h
  • Video record – 3 h 20 min
  • Music playback – 50 h
  • Video playback – 7 h
  • Video playback with HDMI – 6 h
  • Web TV – 3 h 20 min
Nokia Original Accessories:
  • Nokia Wired Headset WH-701 (in box)
  • Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905
  • Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608
  • Nokia Extra Battery DC-11
  • Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-214
  • Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-505
  • Nokia Mini Speaker MD-9
Technical Profile:
  • System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
  • OS: Symbian^3
  • Form Factor: Touch screen monoblock
  • Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H)
  • Weight: 135g
  • Display: 3.5 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) capacitive touch
  • Battery: 1200mAh BL-4D
  • Media Storage/Memory: 16GB mass memory + micro SD card slot, 135MB internal memory, support up to 32GB memory cards. RAM256 ROM512
  • Video Playback: Video recording, Performance: encoding 25fps, decoding 30fps, File Formats: H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263, Real Video 10, ON2 VP6, Flash video
  • Music Playback: FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player, Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC, eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM: OMA DRM 2.0
  • Main Camera:

      • Lens: Carl Zeiss optics
    • Image capture: 12 megapixels
    • Video capture: HD 720p
    • Aperture: F2.8
    • Focal length: 5.4
    • Flash: Xenon flash
  • Connectivity:
  • HDMI adapter CA-157
  • WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
  • BT2.1 with support for stereo headsets
  • Positioning with GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID
  • Micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file transfers and charging
  • USB On-the-Go
  • Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio input/output and TV out



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Thursday, 23 September 2010

Blackberry torch

The blackbery torch launches on o2 on the 4th October. This is a significant handset for blackberry and blackberry fans.
This torch features a 3.2" hvga capacative touch screen display and full portrait sliding keyboard.
512mb on board memory and a 4gb micro sd card included.

5mp camera, 2x digital zoom, continuous auto focus , image stabilization and camera flash.

Wifi(802.11n) and Bluetooth (v2.1)

The capacative screen features pinch and zoom, and there is social intergration built in with facebook and Twitter apps included.
The torch launched with blackberry6 and one of the main improvements is in the web browser.

Tabbed browsing, multiple pages open, bookmark your favourite pages and acess them from the homescreen.

Blackberry 6 is overall a cleaner experience and attempts to bring the os more in line with it competitors while remaining true to the blackberry way of doing things. Main features include:

Intergrated social feeds
Faster web browsing
Enhanced multi media

The torch claims 5.8 hours of talk time and 30 hours of music playback.

For more information go to:

uk.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrytorch




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Friday, 17 September 2010

Nokia handsets!

At the recent Nokia world, Nokia unveiled some beautiful new handsets,

C6-01


This is probably the budget phone of new models, but don't let that fool you into thinking the phone feels cheap. Featuring mainly recycled metal the C6 feels solid and well made. Hopefully the prices will keep it honest, featuring an AMOLED display the C6 looks and feels great.

E7


This handset looks similar to the N8, however it is larger and more imposing, features include a full hinges slide keyboard similar to N97 mini, and beautiful "clear black display" this is a very compelling device.

4" tilting touchscreen, 8mp camera, symbian^3, 720p HD video,



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HTC Desire Z & HD



HTC Recently announced two new top of the line additions to the Desire family, the Z and HD.

Desire HD
This is basically a European version of the Evo 4g. Unlike the evo the HD doesn't have a kick stand, it does however boast the same 4.3 inch screen, 1ghz snapdragon processor, 8mp camera with dual-LED flash and 720p video. HSPA support and 802.11n WiFi, this handset will also come with enhanced HTC sense.

Desire Z

The Desire Z if the euro version of the G2, and features a "pop" out hardware keyboard. 5 mp camera with flash that's HD capable, 800mhz processor, HSPA, and 802.11n WiFi. The Desire Z will also feature enhanced HTC Sense,

Enhanced HTC Sense,

To compliment the 2 handsets HTC also introduced an enhanced version of sense. At the centre of the enhancement is HTCsense.com, that will control backup and security features among others.

There is a new locate feature that will trigger the handset to ring loudly even if it's set to silent, also flagging the handsets location on a map. Additionally remote lock and wipe, as well as auto backups for contacts and text etc. There will also be a host of multimedia capabilities to play with too!


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Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Android updates not going so well :(


So o2 uk have just rolled out the 2.2 (froyo) update for the HTC Desire and the 2.1 (eclair) update for the dell streak and both updates have issues!

Reports of multiple issues with the streak including touchscreen, web borwsing, text messages and photos to name a few, and similar goings on with the desire too !

How ironic, most of us have been waiting for these updates with great anticipation and now there finally here they are more of a frustration.

Hopefully they will be sorted very soon so we can enjoy them as they are meant to be.

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iOS 4.1 available now


So the latest version of iOS, 4.1 is available to download right now via iTunes. New features include game centre and HDR photos, (see my post on 4.1 & 4.2)

IF YOUR INTERESTED IN JAILBREAKING OR IF YOU PLAN TO JAILBREAK DO NOT UPGRADE!

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Monday, 6 September 2010

iOS 4.1 & 4.2

At their September the 1st iPod event, apple announced that 2 new version of the iOS software would be released soon, iOS 4.1 & 4.2.

iOS 4.1
First off iOS 4.1 will contain some bug fixes, most importantly will be the proximity sensor issue. There are also fixes for bluetooth and for performance issues relating to iPhone 3G.

HDR photography (High Dynamic Range)


HDR photography is introduced to iOS. In the camera app there is a HDR button, when HDR is on the camera will take 3 quick shots of your chosen subject, one at normal exposure, one under-exposed and one over-exposed, it will then combine these images to give a clearer image without the colour washing that is present in some images. For some situations this will greatly improve the image, the iPhone will save the HDR version aswell as the normal exposure version for viewing in photos.

Game centre.


The highly anticipated game centre will make it's debut in iOS 4.1. The gamecentre will improve the already excellent gaming experience on iOS devices. It will focus around multi-player games and will allow players to challenge friends, invites will appear like notifications to different games and they can be accepted or declined.

Achievments can be unlocked and recorded on gamecentre, you can compare these achievments to those of your friends and share scores and rewards earned, aswell as view leaderboards.

There will be auto matching, so you will be paired to players of similar ability to yours when playing online.

Epic games, creators of the gears of war series for xbox showed a demo of a new game called project sword, a fantasy style RPG (role playing game).


Stunning 3D graphics and lots of unlockable achievments, the ability to invite your friends to play too. Intuative controls for fighting and general gameplay that can be adapted to your level of skill.

Game centre will add another huge dimension to the already killer gaming experience on iOS devices.

4.1 is available now for free download via iTunes.

iOS 4.2

This version is iPad focused and will bring multi-tasking and folders to the iPad, all working beautifully like on iPhone4, also wireless printing will be made available too.

This update will be available in November for free via iTunes.


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Sunday, 29 August 2010

We now repair ps3 yellow light of death!


If you are experiencing the yellow light of death on your PS3 then let us know and we can fix it. For a small fee we will re-flow your PS3 and return it to you repaired and working.

New blog for the ps3 repair is:

www.max-yellowlightofdeath.blogspot.com

Or email: reflowmyps3@gmail.com

Secure courier services used, get repaired and get gaming !


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Saturday, 14 August 2010

o2 UK desires to get Froyo soon!


So I have it on good authority that the Froyo update for HTC desires on o2 uk is coming in a matter of weeks. Among the new features will be wireless hotspot and 720p video.


My source at HTC also hinted that the recently announced press event scheduled for
September 15th in London, could see the announcement of the Desire HD.


Check out the smokey invitations with the subtle hint of a camera shutter in the smoke.

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Monday, 9 August 2010

Samsung Galaxy S

I have been playing with the galaxy for a while now, and if your looking for an android handset then take a serious look at this.


The Galaxy S is well made and light, although a little plasticy, it is thin and feels good in the hand, although the samsung designers obviously took some styling tips from the 3G/3GS iPhone.

Out of the box the galaxy runs 2.1 android and this really sets it apart from most other choices out there. The super AMOLED display is great to look at and use, and the iPhone inspiration again comes through with the UI. Touchwizz has a definate apple feel about it, icon layout and left to right scrolling are all to familiar.

The inclusion of both the android and samsug app markets gives a rare choice of where to get your apps, although I can't help feeling there will be a lot of similar apps in both stores.

So in summary, great looks, decent specs and 2.1 out of the box, 2.2 already promised, and £319.99 pay as you go, the Samasug Galaxy S is well worth closer inspection.


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Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Looking for your first Android phone?

Are you thinking about an Android phone? Then for your first taste of googles finest you can't go far wrong with LG's Optimus GT540.

This stylish, well built brushed aluminium, 3.2" full touch screen device will provide a useable and affordable way to experience Android.
LG LogoImage via Wikipedia



The 3.2" resistive touch screen is a little awkward to get used to, and navigate through, but once you get used to it, the GT540 offers all the functionalitly of more expensive handsets.

Facebook and Twitter access is provided through a single SNS icon, the theme of the phone can be customised, and there is a choice of Android or LG for the home screen design.

Google maps navigation is included, the voice directions downloadable from the Market. This works well, and provides accurate directions and location services.

So all in all the GT540 come highly recomended for your first dable with android, and with prices starting from £129 in most places, an offordable one too.


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Monday, 2 August 2010

iPhone4/iOS 4 jailbreak!

Jailbreak for iPhone4 or indeed any iOS device has arrived. Jailbreakme 2.0, will jailbreak iOS 4 devices running 4.0.1 or earlier, and ipads running 3.1.2 or earlier as well as the iPod touch.

What is great about this solution, is that the jailbreak is implimented by simply visiting the jailbreakme website, making the process much simpler.

WARNING-jailbreaking you device will void your warranty.

Demand on the jailbreakme servers is huge so it may take some time to get on, visit through safari. There have been some early issues with facetime and MMS, but these have been reported and fixes are available.

Jailbreak at your own risk!


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Sunday, 1 August 2010

o2 begins 4G trials in the uk



As you may have read on my recent article for talkandroid.com, o2 have begun 4G trials in Slough. Using a 4G dongle on a regular laptop speeds of up to 80Mbps were achieved, and this from a coffee shop in the middle of town.

Page load speeds were compared to that of early broadband of around 15 seconds, with the 4G connection loading pages in around 1 second.



So what does this mean for mobile phones? For demo purposes the 4G signal was routed through wifi, and using an iPhone4 the results were very impressive indeed.



In late August o2 will begin a trial of a low band 4G signal, it is thought that this signal will penetrate further and give a larger footprint from the towers, this could mean that hard to reach areas that have not experienced broadband, could soon enjoy 4G speeds and connectivity.

Huawei, a Chinese tech company, are already trialing 5G in china.




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Thursday, 29 July 2010

Top 10 iPhone games

1. Bloons Tower Defence
2. Doodle Jump
3. We Rule
4. God Finger
5. Tap Defence
6. Dactyle
7. Gun Range
8. Little Metal Ball
9. Doodle Bomb
10. Blue Block


1. Bloons tower defence


I first played this game on the laptop and loved it so the first thing I did when I got the iPhone was search for this and download it. The aim of the game is to build towers to pop all the bloons that come at you. You can build many different towers and also upgrade them. There is a free version but it is limited with levels that you can play or you could purchase the full version for £1.79.

2. Doodle Jump


This is one of the most addictive games out at the moment. I first played this on my girlfriends 3GS and shortly after got it for myself.  In the game all you have to do is bounce on the platforms and get as high as you can. Along the way you can get things to help you such as rocket packs. You also come across aliens at this point you tap the screen to shoot them. As I said it's highly addictive and is only 59p in the app store so is great value for money.

3. We Rule


This is a game that is free to download. In this game you plant crops and build shops. The higher the level the better the crops and buildings. If your friends also play this game you can link their farm with yours and you will be able to visit their farm and place orders at there shops.

4. God Finger


This game is like we rule in the way that you have to build things like farms. But the difference with god finger is that you control your followers and you have to place them on building and they will work to earn you gold. When you build certain buildings you get more followers you also get more gold and followers by completing task that are set for you. When your followers work on buildings they become tired so you have to rest them when they need it. As the title states your finger is good you make it rain/sun/thunder etc.

5. Tap Defence


Tap defence is a vert good free tower defence game. This is by far the best free tower defence game available at the moment. It has lots of different maps and difficulties. You can build many different towers and upgrade them to be better.

6. Dactyle


This is also a very addictive game. In the game you have a 4x3 grid of bombs all you do is tap the bomb when it is red. It slowly gets faster and faster making the game harder. The amount of bombs you tap is the score you get when you die.
This is free to download so is really worth it for passing the time. There is also dactyle 2 out for £1.79.

7. Eliminate:Gun Range

This is a very good game if you like shooters. You Start the game with an m60 machine gun. All you have to do is shoot the targets as the pop up. You control the crosshair using the iPhone by tilting it. With the iPhone 4 the game can also use the gyroscope to make it more reactive to your movements. Each gun has 12 missions and you can unlock new guns with the credits you get from completing the missions. This is a great game to pass the time. At first it is a little sensitive but you get use to it. This is free to download at the moment so I would get it while you can.

8. Little Metal Ball


This is a puzzle game where you guide the little metal ball around the maze by tilting the iPhone in the direction you want it to go. There are different zones to complete all with 10 levels. It's a simple game but very fun to play and a good game to pass the time. There is a lite version for free or the full game is £1.19 there is also a gold version for £1.79.

9. Doodle Bomb



This is a simple game all you have to do is flick the bombs into a certain place to open the doors. The levels then get harder and harder until you find yourself sucked in trying to get past this one level that you are stuck on. There is a free version with limited missions or the full game for £1.19.

10. Blue Block


The aim of the game is simple you slide the blocks out of the way to free the blue block. It is simple to start with and gets harder there are different difficulty to make it more challenging. But it does become very addictive. There is a lite version or the full game is 59p so well worth the money.

So there it is that's my top 10 games for the iPhone. But the thing is that because app store is ever growing it will not be long before there is a whole new top 10.

So thanks for reading and hope it helps you enjoy your iPhone more.
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