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More Crap from the Mobile Blogosphere
Sometimes I honestly believe that mobile and tech bloggers are the dumbest animal in the world. Every single day we are bombarded with more and more useless statistics. Softpedia.com recently reported that worldwide shipments of cell phones reached 300 million in the first quarter of this year. Who can honestly say that this number means anything anymore? We get that people love their phones, but to keep hashing out data like some of us are still non-believers is simply redundant. Next thing you know, some miserable blogger will report that of the 300 million devices shipped, 90% of them come with a camera. Some idiot even reported that despite the ash clouds over Europe, the 300 million mark was reached – as if this was his own personal triumph. Last I checked, you…
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Twitter Available for the Android
Apparently Twitter is now available for those with Android 2.1. I say apparently because I really didn't investigate the matter fully. The reason is because I firmly believe that Twitter is a waste of time. That being said, those who have tried it are ranting and raving about its functionality. It is fully cohesive with Facebook (anther application that needs to be put to the sword) and also offers an open-source API. A review from the blogosphere reports: 'Reading tweets is easy in a bunch of places on your phone. Quickly access your timeline with the home screen widget, view a tweet location on a map, and see your friend’s latest tweet in your phonebook, GoogleTalk list or any application that uses Android’s QuickContact bar.' Those with less than Android 2.1. will…
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Best Buy to Open 1000 Mobile Locations
Best Buy, the world’s largest electronic retailer, has announced plans to open $1,000 mobile phone locations in the United States. Chief Executive Brian Dunn made the announcement to the Financial Times recently. Best Buy earnings have been positive of late, with the increasing revenue being attributed to the improvement of the global economy. However, with the hard number showing the world economy is not improving, and is in fact continuing to spiral downwards into oblivion, Best Buy’s recent financial success must be linked to other influences and measures. Best Buy has become a major retailer in the mobile industry over the last year, with a growing emphasis by the company to satisfy the ever increasing appetites of mobile consumers. This is evident by the large and…
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Indians Prefer Phones over Toilets
Indians love cell phones, but don’t like toilets. Strange but true ladies and gentlemen, if you believe the UN University in Canada. There are 545 million mobile phones in India and only about 366 million people have access to toilet facilities. ‘Access’ does not mean they have private facilities. There may very well be million of Indians relying on neighborhood toilets, something unthinkable in the industrialized world. With the average toilet costing 300 USD, Indians simply cannot afford to install one in their home. Defecating outdoors does have some advantages. The breeze can be rather pleasant and nature directly benefits from the ‘contribution’. Constantly we are reminded that India is becoming an economic powerhouse, among the world leaders in technology and…
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Opera Mini Now Available
Apple has finally approved the Opera Mini mobile browser for the iPhone and iPod. It took some silent prayers from Opera fans and crossed fingers throughout the blogosphere, but Apple has finally given the go ahead. The Opera Mini is now available for download via the App Store. Early feedback has been extremely positive, with some users vowing never to use Apple’s Safari browser ever again. Opera for mobile remembers previous pages and is much faster than Safari. (According to some users.) One drawback however is that Safari will remain the default browser. Email links for example will always been opened in Safari. This is a way for Apple to ensure that users will still interact with their pitiful excuse for a mobile browser. Opera has become a popular web browser, but…
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Digg Coming to the iPhone
A few screenshots of the soon to be released Digg iPhone application can be found at dailymobile.se. Digg, the social networking monstrosity that is partially responsible for the overflow of useless information that is dominating our daily lives, will now encroach upon the fertile lands of the App Store. Great. Now annoying Digg users can post their articles at any time and continue to harass those of us that feel as if our brain is about to explode from information overload. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and now Digg. I may very well slit my throat before I finish writing this short rant. Not really sure about Digg for the Android and BlackBerry and to be honest, I don’t really care. The word ‘Digg’ is actually very fitting. You literally have to dig through tons of horse…
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Crossbows Used to Smuggle Phones into Prisons
Criminals are a desperate lot, so it comes as no surprise that some ‘colleagues’ of those behind bars are using any means necessary in order to provide them with mobile phones. This latest charade has shady characters standing out side of prisons and firing the mobile device via a crossbow into the indented recipient’s cell. No word on how successful this new tactic has been, but it certainly is a source of some humor. Mobile phones are banned from many prisons in the Western World and ‘guests’ of those prisons covet the devices in order to communicate with the outside world. Some inmates have complained that denying them the use of cell phones is against the law. However, most of these ‘innocent’ individuals are not interested in calling their grandmother on her…
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Free Calls on St. Patrick’s Day
Truphone, a VoIP provider similar to Skype, is offering free calls on St. Patrick’s Day to five different countries. The first country is Ireland, the home of green beer and weak guts. Users can call Ireland for free on St. Patrick’s Day. The second country is the UK. The dreaded oppressor of the Irish for many years, those in the once great colonel super power can be called on their landline for free. The United States is the third country and the favored destination of the Irish. The question always arises regarding how long should Irish Americans be considered Irish? But in reality, who cares. Free calls to both landline and mobile. The fourth country is Canada. Home to many frozen Irishmen, Canada is the home of ice wine and frozen beer that is the delight of any…
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BlackBerry Slider Coming to Sprint
More rumors are gaining momentum in the mobile industry. This time they are emanating from the frosty north of Canada. Research in Motion, (RIM) creator of the beloved BlackBerry, is supposedly working on a slider phone that will be offered via Sprint. No release date has been revealed as of yet, along with the name of the device. Apparently, the slider is not attached to the Bold series of phones, or any other offering by RIM thus far. One tidbit of information that has been confirmed is that there will be a GSM/HSPA version of the new BlackBerry slider that will include 850/1900MHz UMTS bands. These bands are required in order to use the device with AT&T and Rogers networks. Sprint is naturally looking to bolster its lineup of phones, which some critics feel was a bit…
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New Emotion Technology for Mobile
A team of genius tech nerds from the University of Tokyo have reportedly invented an incredible new mobile technology that allows the user to know the emotion of the other party. This is done via a heat senor of some kind that will heat up as your body temperature elevates due to excitement, anger or other emotions. Then, the person at the other end of the line will feel the warmth approximately two seconds afterwards. This enables him or her to know the mood of the other person. It is odd that the Japanese would event something of this nature. While very much a stereotype, those from Asia will often have a lower emotional IQ than their counterparts from the rest of the world. It is also ironic that people who do not rely on as much emotion to convey a message as their…
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