Month: June 2010
Five apps to get free texts and calls on your iPhone
With the pricing plans for iPhone 4 starting to filter through, it looks like aspiring owners face some pretty hefty bills for the next two years. While there are some cheaper contracts at the £20-30 end of the spectrum you sacrifice heavily on the minutes and texts available. However, providing you don't go overboard on…
Windows Live Messenger is now an iPhone app
Windows Live Messenger has just released an app for instant messenging on iPhone. It's free and it adapts lots of the computer-based features for mobile. As with the chat service, the features are better if you've got hotmail because the email and chat services integrate. Currently the second most downloaded Free App in the social…
Guiding principles behind Android Apps: mobile net surfers are either Repetitive, Bored or Urgent
Google gave a realistic assessment of what people want from apps at a conference in New York last weekend. At "Google Presents User Experience & Mobile Apps," user experience designer Leland Rechis laid out what matters to mobile internet users. And no, it wasn't virtual pint applications. In their schema, mobile internet users fall into…
National Bike Week: Electric Bike gallery
By Alana McVerry There seem to be few Londoners left who still battle with public transport and are yet to be converted to the cycling revolution. Either they feel that work is a little 'too far' to arrive there solely under their own steam or they believe that getting on a bike is certainly going…
HTC tries to recreate Facebook in real life.. (uh?)
Well this is a madcap social media scheme. To celebrate the launch of the HTC Wildfire - a phone geared towards social networkers - HTC are trying to recreate Facebook in real life by bringing all of one person's friends together in one place. They are putting out a request on their Facebook page for…
Klout, finding the most influential people on Twitter
How influential are you on twitter? Flagged up by Robert Scoble of Scobelizer, the start-up Klout measures how influential people are on Twitter. And it doesn't just go by how many followers you have. Klout looks at interactions - retweets, replies, listings and who makes those interactions (are the retweeters influential themselves?) and gradually builds…
Changes to Layar bring social features, gaming & Floaticons to Augmented Reality
Mobile-based augmented reality will get more social and gaming features and cute little bouncing Floaticons it was announced today. At a conference a few hours ago marking its first birthday, Layar the augmented reality app platform announced some interesting changes that amount to a Layar 4. With fans billing the budding technology of Augmented Reality…
Orange Power wellies – use your feet to get mobile phone charge at Glastonbury
Not content with developing an augmented reality iPhone app for Glastonbury, Orange has also been developing a rather low tech prototype - a mobile phone charging device for your Glasto wellies. At first I thought this was an April Fool. But seemingly not, given we are half way through June. Billed as perfect for this…
Gallery: Ten Great iPhone 4 Accessories, part 2
It's a great phone and we're dying to get our hands on its slim flat back, glassy screen and retro-style buttons. Anyway, no harm in filling the time till release date by browsing the internet for sexy cases, Apple-friendly headphones and imaginatively shaped docks. That's what we're doing anway. Here are 10 more of our…
iPhone 4 pricing: Orange and O2 deals compared
Orange and O2 today announced their pricing plans for the new iPhone 4. The cheapest deal on Orange is £30 a month for two years plus a £169 down payment. That gets you 300 minutes of talk time and 750mb of data. At their cheapest deal, O2 are offering a £25 a month two year…
