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Sony Ericsson Racheal UI Demo

2009-07-10T13:59:00.004+01:00

Following the news about the possibility the leaked Sony Ericsson Rachael might be running on Android, we have a demo video of the actual UI itself. It seems very likely that it will be running on Android.

The UI looks pretty sweet with nice transitions, and with support for many Social services such as Twitter and Facebook, so far it's looking pretty sweet!

Se the video below:

via [BGR]

Bishop Bacon's Nokia S40 Themes

2009-07-06T12:34:00.005+01:00

If you have a Nokia S40 handset and it's looking bland and boring, or if you are just looking for a change then you should consider taking a look at these awesome themes created by Mobile9 member Bishop_Bacon.

With lots of attention to detail, custom icons and a good selection of different appealing themes, the talents of this themer are evidently clear!

Mint

Download S40 5th Edition
Download S40 3rd Edition

Jet

Download S40 5th Edition
Download S40 3rd Edition

Syringa

Download S40 5th Edition
Download S40 3rd Edition

Coloreeno

Download S40 5th Edition
Download S40 3rd Edition

Heart Core

Download S40 5th Edition
Download S40 3rd Edition

If you aspire to be a Nokia S40 themer and need help, then the Bishop is always on hand to offer advice and tips to improve your theming. Just visit her Thread in the Forums.

Sony Ericsson "Rachael" Uncovered, Possibly Xperia Android Handset

2009-07-04T19:11:00.005+01:00

Engadget has uncovered a story on Danish phone site Mobil, who claim they have uncovered details about Sony Ericsson's latest Xperia handset which could be running on the Android platform.

We all know the Xperia X1 was unveiled to be running on Windows Mobile 6.1, which surprised many at the time. In the end it was basically a HTC handset running Windows Mobile with Sony Ericsson branding and custom UI, but if this latest Xperia handset happens to run on Android it will be a major development for Sony Ericsson as many hardcore SE fans will likely go out and purchase it.

The phone is based on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform, that enables processor speeds up to 1 GHz, and HSPA-speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. This platform will also sport great 3D graphics capabilities.

The phone's built-in camera is an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus. There's also a 3.5 mm jack connector as well as a mini-USB connector at the top of the phone. The touch screen seems to be quite large, but as of yet there is no specific information about its size.

If Sony Ericsson's fortunes and profits are to take a turn for the better, it will probably be down to handsets like this which would be responsible. For now Android is the future it seems as Samsung and HTC seem to be concentrating on that particular market also.

Video Demo: HTC Sense SuperHERO ROM

2009-06-30T14:25:00.004+01:00

News is filtering through that the HTCSenseUI on the recently announced Hero won't be coming to current handsets on the market, mainly due to licensing issues with handsets branded as "Google" handsets. Those with "Google" branding will not get the SenseUI via HTC and those handsets without "Google" branding may not get the SenseUI either, so there's only one possible alley left - hack!

Video below shows the hacked SenseUI running on a G1, it's noticeably buggy, slow to respond and obviously will crash. But there is hope for those that are willing to take the risk and try the hacked ROM, as can be seen with the Hyakuro ROM hack, it's possible.

via [AndroidCommunity]

HTC Hero Announced - Lives Up To Hype

2009-06-24T16:44:00.010+01:00

HTC announced their latest Android powered handset the "Hero", now don't expect it to perform miracles or save lives on demand, but do expect to be wowed and intrigued and maybe a little lustful. Like the HTC Magic it's a fully touch screen handset without a physical keyboard running on Android, but this is where most of the comparisons stop. The design is more reminiscent of it's older brother the T-Mobile G1, and in keeping with the branding T-Mobile is aptly calling this the G1 Touch, whilst Orange will be calling it the Hero (probably).

The handset is very slim, has an angled bottom and bevelled edges and includes a Teflon coated screen to stop fingerprints sticking to it, as the main input method will be touch this is a very good addition. The screen itself is a 3.2 inch HVGA (320x480) display which also supports multi-touch. Also included is a 3.5mm proper stereo headset audio jack and a bumped up auto focus 5 Mega Pixel camera (but still no flash) and MicroSDHC support of 16GB expandable memory. HSPA is also included which will support 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds.

The main feature is the actual OS tweaks made by HTC, which includes their ~~TouchFlo UI~~ TouchSENSE which is an updated version of their TouchFlo UI which they have included in various Windows Mobile handsets which looks stunning and intuitive (see the video below) and also a trackball for those familiar with the G1 and Blackberry handsets. Other features such as G-sensor, Digital Compass, GPS and 1350mAh battery is included and oh, it comes with 512MB ROM and 288MB of RAM and a 528 MHz processor. Happy? No? It also supports Flash now for a fully rich internet browsing experience.

Full Specifications:

Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Platform: Android™
ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions (LxWxT) 112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm
Weight 135 grams ( 4.76 ounces) with battery
Display 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320x480 HVGA resolution
Network HSPA/WCDMA: - 900/2100 MHz - Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: - 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Trackball with Enter button
Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
3.5 mm audio jack
Camera 5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Audio Supported Formats MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media® Audio 9
Video Supported Formats MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1350 mAh
Talk time:- Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA - Up to 470 minutes for GSM
Standby time:- Up to 750 hours for WCDMA - Up to 440 hours for GSM
MicroSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
Special Features G-sensor
Digital Compass

Availability
The HTC Hero will be available to people across Europe in July and in Asia later in the summer. A distinct North American version will be available later in 2009.

3 Pay As You Go Free SIM Is Win

2009-06-16T16:06:00.003+01:00

3 have launched what is in my eyes a win PayAsYouGo tariff which is literally Free to use. It comes with Free Skype-to-Skype calls and Instant Messages. it's a low priced tariff which will cater to all as once topped up you can get additional allowances which include free calls, internet and SMS.

3 claim they are leading a mobile revolution, with offers like these and the many other innovative tariffs they have recently released, they could be just right. Breakdown of what you get for topping up below.

To claim your Free SIM head on over to their website to order yours - simple as can be.

Why T-Mobile Sucks, Why I'm Leaving Too

2009-06-16T15:45:00.004+01:00

I'll be honest, T-Mobile are pretty decent when it comes to signal (well most of the times) and tariffs, I've been a customer since I was in school - that is a long time ago! But one thing that hasn't always been good is their customer service, but this new article by @munkimatt leaves me in utter disbelief. Worst Customer Service ever!

Head on over to his blog post on what is a shocker from T-Mobile Customer Service - it's epic in proportion. I'd urge anyone in T-Mobile CS or PR departments to get in touch with him, you'd better try Twitter as his number has obviously been cut off.

Nokia E72 Video Leaked

2009-06-15T01:05:00.004+01:00

A leaked Nokia video of the successor to the successful and sexy E71 has been put up by Symbian-Freak on Youtube.

The design of the handset looks pretty sleek IMO, it's slim, has nice curves and the keyboard looks very similar to that of the E71 except more spacious. From the video we can gather a few things:

Front facing camera - expect 3G video calling
3.5mm jack
5MP camera - the text on the back confirms this!
MicroSD support
Most likely running Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2
Will be coming 3 different flavours - black, silver/grey, brown-ish

So far it looks pretty enticing, expecting to see more of this soon. Check out the video below:

via [TamsS60]

BBC iPlayer for N95 - Officially

2009-06-11T13:13:00.006+01:00

Gerrymoth from NokiaAddict brought to my attention that the BBC were finally offering an iPlayer client for the N95. Heading over to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer on my handset I found the following screen, where I downloaded and installed the app (widget really).

Upon downloading the client I quickly launched to see what it was on offer and if it could live up to expectations. The optimized client brings a few new things which the app the N96's hacked version did not - the most impressive being able to watch Live TV - just like the normal web iPlayer. So far it's limited to using only WiFi connection to stream, but this can be hacked work with 3G and also any other S60 3rd edition handset (this is not tested to try at your own risk) see below for the details:

To do the changes, download the .wgz file to a desktop PC, extract it using winzip, find the .js file, look for N96. You will see a | separated list. Add your model number and save the file, repackage as a .zip and rename to .wgz and send to your phone over cable or bluetooth.

The main thing of concern is the quality of the content streamed, which uses Realplayer - and for something that requires a WiFi connection the quality is pretty poor, there is too much buffering prompts and the video is joggy, pixelated and pretty low. Google's Youtube application streams better quality over 3G. All in all it's a good attempt, but I think I'll stick to the hacked N96 version for now.

Nokia N86 8MP Starts Shipping

2009-06-10T15:56:00.009+01:00

Nokia's first 8 Mega Pixel capable handset is now shipping according to Nokia's Press Bulletin Board - although it's still yet to appear in their Online Shop inventory (not even in the pre-release sections). The N86 is the first Nokia handset to support 8 Mega Pixel of photo capture, I previously had a hands on with a pre production version at MGoL. I was impressed to say the least.

The is the first handset Nokia has released which I can say I'm impressed with, the N97 is still quite not my cup of tea, mainly because I don't trust Nokia can yet deliver a touch handset which will work as well as the iPhone or Android handset devices, this is mainly because they all run on the old S60 OS, which was not designed for operation via Touch. The N86 8MP therefore is a natural choice for those N95 fans who would prefer the familiarity of their old handset albeit with bumped up features to keep them up to date within the current market.

N86 8MP Notable Features:

8 Mega Pixel Carl Zeiss Tessar lens
VGA video capture (640 x 480) at up to 30 fps
F2.4/3.2/4.8 (automatic aperture control)
3rd generation dual LED camera flash
AM OLED 2.6 inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) 16 million colours
BL-5K, 1200 mAh
8 GB internal flash memory
Supports up to 16 GB microSD card
Up to 74 MB internal dynamic memory - (highly disappointing)
WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP support
MicroUSB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0
3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
TV-out support
GPS receiver with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS)

For the full specs check the data sheet for the N86 or the Device details here.

Multi-Tasking The S60 Way

2009-06-07T17:43:00.005+01:00

One of the many reasons I still have a Nokia is the simple fact it can multi-task. Doing many things at once is very useful in a fast paced environment and for those suffering from ADD (attention deficit disorder) - we get bored very easily, so being able to switch to doing something else and returning back to what I was doing is very handy indeed.

The Nokia N95 does all this and coasts whilst doing it - albeit with the exception of bloat ware and high resource applications (such as OviStore) - if it had more RAM I'm sure it would cope much better - but this is a 3+ year old handset and still the original one, not replaced even once - which means it's pretty reliable too! Although my OCD might have to say something about that!

I'm glad I can Tweet, Check e-mails, browse the web, listen to music (whilst scrobbling to last.fm) and share my location via Google Maps and Latitude all at the same time. I'm going to miss this handset once I move on.

Palm Pre Released - Rapid Repair Rips It Apart

2009-06-07T17:05:00.006+01:00

The Plam Pre has been released just a few days ago and whilst many users and reviewers have been busy playing around with their devices, the guys at Rapid Repair have disassembled it and have put together a guide to repairing it - just in case you happened to be one of the clumsy people who drop their brand new handset.

Not sure what Palm would make of this, not that they could do anything about it either.

Pixelpipe 1.5 for Android Lets You Upload Videos

2009-06-07T16:57:00.004+01:00

Pixelpipe the "media distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files" to many different social, and media portals has been updated to 1.5 for Android users running 1.5 "cupcake", which now allows users to upload video from their devices to many of their favourite social and media sharing sites.

Pixelpipes will now allow users to upload videos to Facebook, Picasa, 12Secods.tv, Twitter, Flickr and many more. The application is now available via the Android Marketplace.

Tips:

Press Menu to switch between video, audio and photo views
Select the text to the right of the media to set title, caption and tags
Use routing tags to send to specific destinations at time of upload eg. @twitter, @facebook
You can send to Pixelpipe directly from the Camera and Gallery options by selecting Menu and then Share and choosing Pixelpipe. This feature is great since it’s convieniant and doesn’t require that open the Pixelpie application.
Press the Home key to put Pixelpipe in the background and continue uploading

TweetS60 - Another Twitter Client

2009-06-04T13:19:00.006+01:00

Ravensoft have made their Twitter application TweetS60 for S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices available for the public. Note it is still in Beta phase so expect bugs and crashes.

Features

Post directly from your phone
Faster and more efficient than the mobile site
Keep up to date with automatic polling
Manage who you're following on the go

At first impressions it's easy to see it's not as polished as Gravity is - THE standard for any Twitter client for S60 currently. To keep updated with the latest updates on TweetS60 - you should start following them on Twitter.

Youtube S60 Updated v2.0.17

2009-06-04T12:44:00.004+01:00

The Youtube application for S60 has been updated recently from v2.0.14 to v2.0.17 - which looks like a small incremental update. There is no info on what the update includes so it's probably safe to assume it's either a bug fix, security related or compatibility update in relation to Google launching the Google Mobile App for S60.

To obtain the latest update you should head over to http://m.youtube.com/ on your handset.

ShopSavvy Goes AWOL from Marketplace

2009-06-04T03:58:00.004+01:00

Android users are being asked to help find the popular app ShopSavvy which seems to have gone AWOL for some reason. This is a concern for Big in Japan the developers of the app as precious days searching for an app will affect it's user base.

So in true open source community get together the search is on to find it again, here's what you could do to help:

Please visit the market right now. Look under All Applications and sort by popularity. Take a picture of that screen (screen grab or just a plain photo) and email it to support@biggu.com - let us know if ShopSavvy was missing.

In the meantime if you can't find the app you can download it from here directly.

Shozu Becomes Payware

2009-06-04T03:15:00.004+01:00

So what happens when a new appstore opens and one of the best photo / video sharing apps for mobile handsets wants a piece of the action = it turns payware. I attempted to use the service many times before, all unsuccessful it should be noted, installation problems, slow web page, no mobile site were all problems. So now it's payware why should I even consider installing the app when there are many free alternatives to it?

It looks like Shozu is cashing in on the appstore hype, with the success of Apple's Appstore with developers seemingly raking in the cash it seems Shozu has decided the same suite will probably apply to their app too. But with so many alternatives and them also being free, will it really be a success? What's worse is that current users will get away without paying whilst new prospective users will have to reach for their wallet.

Going forward, we will begin charging for the mobile application. If you're already a ShoZu user, you'll be happy to know that there's no charge to continue using it. If you're new to ShoZu's mobile application, then there is a one-time charge to download the application and join thousands of happy ShoZu users.

As a possible users who tried signing up for the service but couldn't actually get it to install properly, I doubt I'll even give this app a look now (as well all know I like my freeware alternatives) there are many other solutions to this, most notable Pixelpipes especially with Share Online integration - which is free, can send to various popular services and is easy to setup.

3rd Gen iPhone Rumours In Visual Diagram

2009-06-02T14:59:00.005+01:00

The Green Room has done a splendid job on visualizing all the rumours of the 3rd Gen iPhone into one clear visible graphical diagram. Amongst the rumours we have an improved camera, a front facing camera for video conferencing, OLED screen, ability to record and send video, Adobe Flash support amongst a whole host of others. The colour coded key shows which rumours are more likely to be true or not.

It seems finally the iPhone could start to become the device we all wanted from the start, fingers crossed we get multitasking too!? Or is that too much to ask for? We'll just have to wait for next week's WWDC 2009 announcement.

OVIstore: Top 10 Free Apps

2009-06-02T01:54:00.005+01:00

Since finally getting access to the OVIstore I have been searching around the store for some of the best applications which can be found for free, yes no paid or trial software here, all free apps only.

Funnily enough whilst looking through the OVIstore I came across an interesting stat, at the time of writing there are 277 items available for the Nokia N95 of which only 67 are free which is approximately just over 24%, so I didn't have a huge catalogue of apps to go through. Nevertheless I did manage to find 10 decent applications which I would and have installed and on my N95.

Alphabet Wordsearch

Worldmate 2009

Skyfire Browser

See my review of the Skyfire Browser

Photobucket

Flixwagon

myRMX

SearchMe

France 24 Live

Trapster

I also managed to find one of the ugly and misleading sides of OVIstore and the deeper and darker side of the true purpose of it, yes it's to make money - what business isn't? A little disclosure and perhaps a new category for such trial and demo apps should be created, and if not marked and highlighted so the user doesn't think it's a free fully working application and later find out it's quite the opposite. Honesty is pretty high up with me personally especially when I have to hand over my hard earned money to someone else.

IM+

If the OVIstore is going to be successful at becoming whatever it intends to be, it needs to be more honest, include more content, have much more free / free-to-try apps and reduce the prices of some of the applications it delivers, most of which are highly over priced especially for a store which has just opened.

OVI Store - My Experience

2009-06-01T13:04:00.017+01:00

Following on from my rant about how the OVI store failed to release successfully here's my experience on the whole OVI store so far.

Access
Trying to actually get access was the main problem for the first few days, the mobile and pc version of the OVI store was inaccessible - the reasons were due to high traffic and server overload - is that real? On the first few days when 95% of the intended user base isn't even aware of it's existence? After spending most of the day trying to access store.ovi.com and store.ovi.mobi respectively and finally getting some sort of bitter joy I was presented with the following screen:

Clearly this wasn't going to be my day! Nor was it going to be Nokia's for that matter. I am running a Nokia N95 on Generic v31 firmware something I did to get away from Operator branding and restrictions! It seems T-Mobile might be restricting the download of the OVIstore app via the Download! service pre-installed into the handset (it is still not available). @Munkimatt on twitter confirmed to me once he installed his Vodafone sim card into his handset the app appeared - this in itself is not acceptable but could be understood - I would still have liked Nokia to work with T-Mobile ensuring the app is available. The problem is I'm running a generic firmware using Wi-Fi, so how can I be restricted this way? What's worse is the above screenshot is from Nokia's .mobi site - why doesn't it recognise my N95 and how can it not be compatible!?

Obtaining The OVI App
Finally having obtained the Application via NokiaUsers I finally had access to the OVI store natively on my N95. Now there are 2 things to point out here:

1 - The application itself is 2.9MB in size - that is pretty big!
2 - I've got a hint it is a system resource hog! Upon running the application itself the RAM available dropped to 8.5MB - I usually have more than this many apps running at one point and still have 13MB+ of free available RAM. I have to point out it also feels sluggish navigating through it - not sure if this is my Wi-Fi connection (I'm presuming not on a 8MB connection), the OVIstore servers or the application itself.

OVIstore Content

I won't go into the problems with the UI and all that, mainly because I think most of it has been covered by TheReallyMobileProject and Terence Eden. Although one thing I can point out is the really annoying feature of installed apps not being highlighted after exiting the application and returning. Android and Apple do this perfectly, it should be simple, but why does the indication of the installed app disappear upon restart of the application? This is highly disappointing and also time wasting as it requires additional clicks to see if the app is already installed on the device.

The Apps

The main point of an Appstore is to have actual Apps available - most of these on launch should be free - it's pretty obvious if you give out free stuff when you open, you will attract more customers. I've heard some ridiculous numbers stated for the amount of apps which will be available via the OVIstore and yet when browsing through I can hardly find any half decent applications which would peak my interest. This is a combination of major errors in the UI of the store and the lack of real time updates. It's been a few days since the launch of OVIstore but yet the ratings and reviews of applications are minimal. From experience even after I downloaded, installed, reviewed and rated an application, upon returning to the application page itself, the ratings were not updated - this should be instantaneous!!

Conclusion
On the whole, the launch, access and content availability of the OVIstore has been pretty awful. Although I have spent most of my time looking for some decent applications (which were not extortionate in price) I have found very few that are actually worthy of a mention. It comes to no surprise that Nokia actually failed miserably on launching a service which already had a success model behind it and all they had to do was research and copy it. How long is Nokia going hide behind the dominance they had in the handset market and point at sales figures, it seems they are still riding on the wave of success from previous years and not looking into the future and boldly making attempts to progress. Will the OVI store be a success in the future - probably, but most of it's competitors will have taken big chunks out of the cake it's eating at the moment.

Look out for some Apps reviews from the OVI store - obviously once I find some remotely interesting to try and review.

OVI Store - What Went Wrong

2009-06-01T12:04:00.007+01:00

Nokia recently announced the public release of their own Appstore called OVIstore which is in direct competition with Apple's Appstore, Android Marketplace & Blackberry's App World all of which aim to deliver very similar services to their end users. So how does Nokia's OVI store match up to the most mature and successful deployment of this service so far; Apple's Appstore? In short pretty badly!

Keeping in mind there have been various reports (mostly negative) from mobile enthusiasts, fanboys and individuals, it's should be said that the majority of Nokia users have hardly heard of the OVI store itself , which in itself is one major problem for Nokia and one they would do well to learn why and how to solve this. A simple look in the direction of Apple and it's PR strategy might give them a clue on where they went wrong and have been for the last 2 years or so. The simple fact is Apple knows how to market something, and even if Nokia can show sales figures in comparison, their PR is quite poor.

So why has the launch of the Appstore been such a big disappointment mostly? The answer probably lies deeper in the fact Nokia comes across as a rigid company who seems to have a liner approach in bringing products to market, and this includes OVI and all of it's services - there have been many mistakes made in the past launching these services and nothing seems to have been learnt from those mistakes to enable them to launch a service successfully in it's initial phase. Delivering buggy handsets to market and fixing them gradually with firmware updates is tolerable, but delivering a service to market which is buggy, over capacity is not good enough. There are two different expectations from purchasing a handset and gaining access to an online service. Nokia needs to realise these expectations and cater to them appropriately - get user feedback and give them the dedication required to launch successful FIRST TIME.

My Experience? Well to say the least it wasn't pretty, I tweeted about it for a few days on the fact I could not actually access the web and mobile sites initially and then couldn't find the actual OVIstore application in Download! and still can't is a serious flaw. More on this in my next post.

Lakeside Bluetooth Promotion

2009-05-30T16:10:00.002+01:00

On my visit to Lakeside recently I received a Bluetooth message on my Nokia N95 (Bluetooth is always on on my handset) from Lakeside. Upon accepting the message and installing the Java application I was presented with some promotional content which was obviously a way to advertise products to the modern shopper using the latest technology and in this case Bluetooth.

The company being used seems to be Bluepod, which have a lot of experience in distributing content via Bluetooth to handsets, but the key thing here is it's all FREE and quick. The only negative is when the handset is out of reach from the Bluetooth station, which I would presume would be nearer to the exits of the confined shopping centre. So when I was at home perusing the application, most of the content isn't available for download. But it does include a free Tetris game which can be accessed when out of reach.

This new initiative for using the latest technology and one which is pretty prominent on modern handsets is a good way to get content to the intended audience quickly and for free, albeit the audience needs to have their Bluetooth turned on for it to work - which seems to be the other negative factor in this sort of promotional advertising.

Terminate The Rate Is Murder For Call Charges

2009-05-20T16:07:00.005+01:00

In the giddy heights of the BT Tower on the 34th floor (150m above ground) BT and 3 Mobile launched the Terminate The Rate initiative, which aims to bring down Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs). The move has backing from quite a few organisations which include MoneySupermarket, The FSB, Carers UK, NUS and the General Trade Union (GMB) who have all voiced their opinions on the matter.

The main aim here is to make aware the extra charges being paid by the consumer so Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority) can help enforce lower MTRs charges and in turn reduce costs incurred from calling mobiles from landlines. The current rate of 4.7p was set by Ofcom until 2011, but getting Ofcom to look into this now and setting guidelines to reduce this will help reduce the cost of calling in the near future. The aim is to make Ofcom reduce this charge to less than a penny which is a more accurate cost of MTRs.

What you can do for now is spread the word and get your friends and families to sign up for the petition which can be found on the TerminateTheRate website as well as key useful information and latest developments.

What are MTRs?
MTRs (Mobile Termination Rates) are charges for making calls to mobiles from landlines or cross network calls from mobiles.

HTC Magic vs Samsung I7500

2009-05-18T18:16:00.003+01:00

The next two Android devices - HTC Magic and the Samsung I7500 are compared by CNET Asia with an exclusive hands on picture set. Head on over to the CNET Asia article to read more impressions from them.

Mechanics Touch Released on Android

2009-05-18T18:08:00.004+01:00

World of Mechanics have released Mechanics Touch for Android, which is a simple puzzle platformer where the aim is to lead the mechanics from one point to another optimizing the touch capability on Android handsets.

Use your fingers to tap on the screen and take control of various “Tools” spread around the levels. These tools will interact with your Mechanics and save them from harm as they happily walk around. Your main task is to figure out when and how to operate the tools and keep your Mechanics alive.

Short feature list:

Android
3 worlds, 45 levels
music and soundeffects
unlockable achievements (RumbleX.com)
online highscore rankings (RumbleX.com)

Visit the Android Marketplace to download the game to your device.