Archive for February, 2010

Google’s Goggles Take On OCR Translation

What can you do with Google Goggles? You can go out at a random place, point the camera around at the nearby bars and restaurants to figure out which place you might be able to get some decent food from. There will be prices, menus and even booking and reservation options depending on the establishment. [...]

Toshiba TG02 – Taking Power One Step Further

The Toshiba brand has something of a long-standing reputation in the mobile phone industry for manufacturing some of the biggest devices on the market and their new model, the TG02, is not really much of an exception packing, as it does, a massive 4.1-inch touchscreen. Including the weight of the battery, the device weighs 129 [...]

Samsung Wave S8500 – A Smartphone for the New Decade

The newly-unveiled Samsung Wave S8500 will be the first Samsung handset to be launched on the company’s new open mobile platform, Samsung Bada. There has been some excitement leading up to the launch with Samsung spokesmen stating that the Samsung Bada Platform ‘is truly representative of Samsung’s dedication and commitment to providing a smart-phone for [...]

Orange Halves Student’s Large Phone Bill

William Harrison of Nottingham University has accumulated a bill close to the amount of £8000 in his phone bill from Orange Mobile. Harrison was placed in Paris for the duration of six months. In an effort to avoid the costly long distance telephone calls, the student opted to use Skype. However, the costs of his [...]

HTC announce a new phone powered by Windows, the HTC HD Mini

Ever since Google launched their Android operating system, the mobile phone market has been moving on constantly in terms of technology, as well as relations with other companies. The android operating system gives mobile phones new powers, and gives mobile phone manufacturers the chance to use more technically advanced programs and features with the phone. [...]

Windows Phone 7: New Name, New Everything

The name change is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the many things that Microsoft has shown over the weekend. But right now, this all holds very little bearing as nothing presented or shown onstage will matter until the new Windows Phone 7 operating system finally comes out during the holidays. [...]

Microsoft Unveils WinMo 7

The unveiling of the Windows Mobile 7 operating system during last Sunday is unexpected, intriguing, exciting and if you think about it, utterly curious. The Mobile World Congress is the place to catch a glimpse of the innovations and technologies that would shape the mobile phone industry in the months to come. Still, for software [...]

Sony Ericsson Beefs Up 2010 Lineup with Keyboards

In the world of mobile phones, the physical keyboard is gold. There are plenty of smart phones that come with a physical QWERTY keyboard, but only a few are worth using. In any case, having a physical keyboard is a major plus on devices that it is not uncommon to see to phones re-released with [...]

Apple iPhone – Still Awesome

There are good mobile phones and then there’s the iPhone. It is easy to see why the Apple device is the most iconic mobile phones of this era and why people love the device so much. Apple has put a lot of effort into designing a phone so future proof, that even after more than [...]

LG InTouch Max GW620

As soon as the word Android pops up, you know that a phone running on it will be reliable and hard working. Android is the operating system made by Google that more and more phone companies these days are implementing with their phones. Android is fast, powerful and has many more uses compared to other [...]