Stumbleupon is a service that lets you give a thumbs up or thumbs down to webpages. The process usually involves installing a toolbar and then browsing around websites you come across each day, or have a suggested web page pop up for you to rate. If you like it, you give it a review and if not you thumb it down. It might sound quite boring, but you certainly come across a lot of interesting content whilst stumbling and it’s easy to spend time each day just voting on pages.

A new version has launched for mobile devices. Stumbleupon has released apps for the Apple iPhone and Google Android based smartphones allowing you to rate web pages whilst on the move. [Read more…]

Research in Motion [RIMM] is rumoured to be looking at buying a mobile ad network to generate more revenue for the company. The networks are believed to be similar to that of Google [GOOG], Apple [AAPL] in that the ads will target mobile pages.

This move appears to have arrived because of the success of the Apple iPhone as well as the rise of Google Android based smartphones which are eating in to sales of the BlackBerry range of phone.

Mobile ads offer a new window to make money, big money, especially when you consider the number of mobile devices that have an Internet connection. To try and get a piece of this pie, RIM tried to purchase Millennial Media, but at $500 million, the asking price was just to high for the struggling company.

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We have already seen a few details on the next version of Android. That version will be Android 3.0 codenamed Gingerbread. Gingerbread is a big step up for Google [GOOG] who is also believed to be creating that version as tablet friendly.

Looking beyond that it is believed that the version after that could be either 3.1 or 3.2, will be named Android Honeycomb. TechRadar has been contacted by multiple sources who confirmed that the next version will be Honeycomb. It isn’t known just yet what additions that will bring over Gingerbread. What could happen with this version is some major polishing up of the 3.0 release as in optimising for speed, enabling a few new features and making a better experience. This would follow inline with what Android 2.2 did for 2.1. [Read more…]

Some leaked pictures of the Nokia N9 have surfaced. Normally when leaked photos are seen, they are blurry and often of just part of the device. In this case, they are very clear and show quite a bit of detail about the Nokia N9.

The Nokia N9 has received a new chassis that looks quite sleek. The chassis of the N9 is full metal mixed with a few plastic parts. The QWERTY keyboard looks to be done well and appears to be of a chiclet design. [Read more…]

If you use a task list or to-do list as it is also known as, you might be like many people in that your tasks just stay on the list and never actually get done.

EpicWin is a unique way of looking at the to-do list problem in that it’s an RPG (role playing game) that sets each task a challenge. When you complete a task, you get rewarded with points and so on.

The RPG aspect is designed specifically in to motivating you to actually get some real work done such as washing the car, washing the dishes and other general errands or projects that need out attention. [Read more…]

Next week, Motorola will launched the Motorola Charm mobile phone. The Charm will launch on August 25 on to the T-Mobile network. Price wise, it will cost $74.99 along with a contract.

The Motorola Charm is a QWERTY Android smartphone that has a small screen up top with a keyboard below it. The screen is in landscape mode and has capacitive touch from what we can see in the video. On the back is a 3 megapixel camera. [Read more…]

The Samsung Galaxy S has a problem with it’s GPS. The problem is that it can’t get an accurate fix on the smartphone. Instead it either cannot find you, lists you a street or two away, or sometimes lists you in a completely separate town.

A fix for this problem which causes problems on ALL Galaxy S smartphones is coming next month from what Samsung tell us.

For those who are opting to get a Samsung Epic 4G (another variant of the Galaxy S class of phones), this problem has already been fixed. [Read more…]

Earlier this year, Verizon [VZ] started allowing some smartphones to run the Skype software. Since the launch the software has been restricted to working on a specific range of phones and none others.

It appears now that Verizon are opening up a little by allowing the software to run on non-smartphone devices. A few devices have started showing up on the Verizon database as being compatible. It isn’t clear who let them through the system (ie, Skype or Verizon) but it looks like a change of heart as Engadget words it. [Read more…]

For those Star Wars fans who are not ready to let go of their iPhone 3G or 3GS in favour of the Motorola DROID 2 R2-D2 version, the Star Wars site is taking pre-orders for an R2-D2 case that is styled to look like R2-D2.

The case is hard and has sculpted details according to the Star Wars website.

Price wise, it will set you back $30 and will be shipping in October of this year.

iPhoDroid is a project that puts the Android operating system by Google [GOOG] on to the iPhone from Apple [AAPL].

The iPhoDroid software transfers all the necessary files to your iPhone whilst keep iOS in tact so you can switch between operating systems.

Despite all the labs and developments of this Project, everything still running unfinished. So I decided to give you a little taste throughout my application which now supports Install and Uninstall process.

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Apple [AAPL] has won a patent for a couple of software features found in iOS.

The first is in relation to the “Slide to Unlock” bar that is found when you switch on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. The second is in relation to the character-pop on the virtual keyboard that Apple uses.

What it basically all means is that you can’t copy Apple by creating a Slide to Unlock that looks like the version that Apple uses. Also you cannot create a keyboard with popping characters like shown in the diagram above. [Read more…]

Almost 2 years ago, the T-Mobile G1 was launched. When launched, it ran Google Android which started a new class of smartphones. The phone seemed to quickly grow old in that many other Android smartphones have been launched although the G1 has a good following of people who still use it.

The T-Mobile G2 will soon be launching as the successor to the G1. With it will come updated features with the device it’s self capable of connecting up to the T-Mobile HSPA+ network allowing it to transfer data at 4G speeds. [Read more…]