Archives for April 2010

Google Nexus One Heading to Vodafone UK April 30

Vodafone UK have updated their website to include the Google Nexus One availability. The phone is up for pre-order at the moment for an April 30 launch although deliveries are not shipping till May 5.

The Google [GOOG] phone has been available in the US for a while now. It runs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, has a 3.7 inch touchscreen and a number of features that make it one of the flagship Android devices available.

Regarding prices, they are quite good for us in the UK where you can actually pre-order on the Vodafone website rather than through google.com/phone. The phone it’s self is free on 24 month tariffs for £35/month. If you opt for an 18 month tariff you can still pick up a free Google Nexus One for £40/month. Full prices available here. [Read more…]

Nokia N8 Reviewed

Mobile-Review managed to get their hands on a Nokia N8 recently for review to see if it’s as good as expected, or if it will be a flop for the mobile phone company.

We first heard about the Nokia N8 back in March where a leaked picture of the phone was found. Since then the phone has been spotted a few times in XML files and another location. Mobile-Review now have a hands on with the device.

The Nokia N8 is set to be the first ever Symbian^3 phone launched with launch dates being scheduled for for Q3 (previously Q2) with an unknown announcement date although it is expected to be announced in May or June. [Read more…]

How to Install Google Android on the iPhone 2G

Last week we wrote about Google Android running on an Apple iPhone. The video demonstration showed a dual boot setup where Android could be selected as an OS to run on the iPhone.

A lot of the features worked on the build including the ability to make calls and browse the internet. Some how-to instructions have now been made that show exactly how you can get Android running on your iPhone.

The instructions come thanks to Androidalot who have broken down every single step click by click so that even beginners should be ok with this. Remember this is for the iPhone 2G only at the moment though! [Read more…]

Google Maps Navigation NOT Hitting Apple iPhone

This morning we heard that Google Maps Navigation could possibly be heading to the Apple iPhone. Google [GOOG] have now stepped up to confirm that this is NOT the case and have said that this will not be happening.

It’s a shame as this feature would have been well accepted by the iPhone community and it’s bound to disappoint a few people.

Google are continuing to support the Android OS version of Google Maps Navigation (not a surprise there) and hopefully will continue to roll the service out to more users around the world. [Read more…]

Digital Cowboy NAS

The Digital Cowboy DC-MCNAS1 is a NAS that brings a lot of features to what normally is a pretty standard device.

The DC-MCNAS1 can almost do everything from what we see including the ability for BitTorrent, acting as a Printer Server, handling DNS, FTP, Php, MySQL, Free DDNs, Web Server, iTunes Music Server UPnP, Jumbo Frame and it also features RAID 1 and JBOD with a dual 3.5″ HDD bay. [Read more…]

Viper SmartStart for iPhone to get Push Notifications

The iPhone ViperSmart system is an app that costs $30/year to use and an extra $500 to install kit in your car that allows you to remote start/stop and do other things to your car from anywhere in the world.

Right now the system only works one way in that you tell the car what to do and it does it. This is changing though as SmartStart will now be featuring push notifications that allows the car to feed back information to you regardless of the application being open or not. The push notification system can also let you know if a command failed to execute. [Read more…]

Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit Unboxed

The Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit is now being delivered. Jerrod H decided to post a few unboxing pictures to show exactly what’s in the box and what you can expect to be using the kit for.

The Camera Connection Kit comes with a paor of dongles that convert the 30 pin dock connector in to a USB connection. One of the dongles is home to an SD card reader while the other is a USB adapter allowing you to connect your camera up to the iPad.

Although USB is opened up on the iPad, it still is restricted to do exactly what it says in that you can transfer pictures from either an SD card or from a camera direct. [Read more…]

Velocity Micro Cruz Android 2.1 Tablet and Reader announced

Velocity Micro are launching new tablet devices called Cruz. The Cruz will run the Android 2.1 operating system and will come in a couple of variations which include a 4 x 3 and a 16 x 9 aspect configuration.

The high end devices out of the series will have 7 inch capacitive multitouch screens. Inside they will run 800MHz processors that should keep Android running quite well. The tablets are to be compatible with Adobe Flash 10.1 out of the box.

We also are hearing that the tablets will cost less than $300 when launched hopefully in the summer of this year. [Read more…]

Fusion Garage Only Sold 64 JooJoo Tablets?

It appears that Fusion Garage might have only sold 64 JooJoo tablets since launch. This information, although not highly accurate, comes from a mistake where Fusion Garage emailed 64 clients asking them for feedback. The problem was that they CC’d rather than BCC’d clients allowing all 64 customers to all see each others email.

So we have a couple of problems here… first off a privacy mistake allowing customer email addresses out, and secondly… just 64 email addresses? I know this isn’t rock solid evidence that this is their entire sales list but it’s looking like it could be the case.

Here is the email below…

Dear Sir and Madam,
Thank you for supporting JooJoo.
We hope to get your feedback about the JooJoo Tablet.
Please revert back to us want you think of our product.
Please drop us a line on how your JooJoo is working.

Thank you.

JooJooSupportTeam

[Read more…]

Google Nexus One might get Wireless N on Android 2.2

The next Google Android 2.2 update might bring wireless 802.11n to the Nexus One. This has become apparent because of Broadcom and Google [GOOG] releasing new drivers for the wireless chipset that the Nexus One uses.

Up till now and including Android 2.1, Google have not included these drivers in the firmware for Nexus One.

Looking at results of testing from the guys at Android and Me, it certainly seems possible that Google could include this in the next update as those guys managed to get 802.11n working on an Android 2.1 build. Full details of how that was achieved are over on the Android and me site linked above. [Read more…]

YouTube Movie Rentals Now Available – Starts at 99 cents

Google [GOOG] has unveiled YouTube Movie rentals in what seems like a quiet way. Various movies and TV episodes are available to rent for 48 hours at a cost of 99 cents to $4. The Youtube Store can be found at youtube.com/store (although in the UK that URL redirects to a user called Store which indicates this is US only at the moment).

Experiments were done back in January by Google where they were offering $5 rentals. The new system uses Google Check-out to allow you to pay for video.

Independent, Bollywood, Manga and documentary films dominate the charts so far. We expect a formal announcement from YouTube about the store soon, we were tipped off to its opening this morning by reader Ron Ilan, creator of children’s video aggregator site creator Totol.

[Read more…]

Apple iPad doing well in web browser share

Wired have reported that 26 percent of their mobile traffic comes from Apple iPad users. The numbers used on the chart were recorded from April 3 to April 19 and are broken down to iPhone/iPad, iPad and others.

Wired also comment that the sharp incline of iPad users also is followed by the same decline in iPhone and iPod touch users indicating that many users who own an iPhone/iPod now also own an iPad and have ditched the mobile for browsing on the iPad.

Looking at the Gadget Venue numbers, we don’t quite see the same 26% of mobile users on iPad but we do see 18% which is still impressive for such a new device. [Read more…]