Tag: CELLPHONE

Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour Uploaded by operasoftware A little over a month after releasing a public beta of Opera Mini 4.1, the Opera team has pushed out the final version of its latest cellphone browser. The newest build is reportedly 50% faster than opera mini 4.0. It also has a handful of new features including the ability to save web paes fr offline viewing, the ability to upload and ...

If you consider taking out a second mortgage on your home every month when the cellphone bill arrives, you might want to check out BillShrink. This web-based service lets you compare cellphone plans in the most useful ways possible. It shows you which plans can save you money and which companies provided the most reliable coverage in your neighborhood. The toolbar at the top of the page lets ...

Like the idea of having access to email, traffic, weather, and news information on the go, but don't feel like spending the extra money on a data plan for your cellphone? 800PBX launched a new service that lets anyone access web content on their cellphone without a web browser or a data plan. It's called 800 Genie, and here's how it works. You call a phone number on your cellphone and 800 Genie ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/08/5-things-missing-from-your-mobile-life-in-2008-google-mobile-an/";Life's getting mobile, and it seems that's the way it's always going to be. Humans don't come off as the traveling type, yet we do. From horse carriages to cell phones, we're always looking for ways to do more on the move, so what's missing from your mobile life in 2008 and ...

At first, it sounds like a texting nightmare from hell, but RSS via SMS has a place in our world through Web-Alerts, a small web experiment that may get lost in the vast internet desert that is web 2.0 failures. The service sends you a text message for every update to a chosen site's RSS feed. The service is simple and easy to use. When you first visit the site, it'll ask your to enter a web ...

As promised, Google released the SDK for the Android mobile phone platform today. There's no actual phones running Android on the market yet, but the early release of the SDK means that as soon as you get your hands on an Android phone, there's a good chance you'll be able to slap some third party applications on there without having to wait for hackers to unlock anything. In fact, Google is ...

Apple has the iPhone, Microsoft has Windows Mobile, and Google has, well, whatever the new gPhone operating system is going to be called. Computer software companies can't seem to get enough of the mobile phone market. Now it looks like Skype has plans to partner with 3 Mobile to create a Skype branded cellphone. 3 Mobile is a wireless carrier covering Europe, Asia, and Australia, so don't expect ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/10/08/google-phone-will-take-on-microsoft-not-apple/';Rumors about a Google phone have been flying for months. And since they started around the time that Apple was releasing its game-changing iPhone, it should come as no surprise that we all started to get the idea that Google might get into the hardware game and release a gPhone handset ...

With over 1 billion page views from phones using the Opera Mini Web browser, could the Norwegian browser developer be targeting the iPhone next? Opera was originally built in 1994 to battle against the heavy hitter that Netscape was. Then everything changed as the mobile landscape grew and Opera began focusing on viewing proper HTML documents on handheld devices. Opera Mini basically connects to ...

Scrabble is without a doubt one of the most addictive games you can play on a mobile device. Handmark's Scrabble for Palm OS and Windows Mobile has been around for a couple of years. But if you have a mobile phone with a simpler operating system you'd been out of luck. Until now. Electronic Arts has released a version of Scrabble that plays on any cellphone with Java support. It's a bit trickier ...

Payments by cell phone? Its 2007, we should have had that by now! (as well as flying cars) Not to worry, Google is on it. Apparently the team in Mountain View California does have a patent describing how to make payments via cell phone by texting the sum to a processing server. Person to person transactions can also be made using cash by the integration of Google Checkout into the mix. As it ...

In the annals of video game history, there is no finer an opportunity for endless explosive glee than the vertical shooter. Most vertical shooter games involve a little two-dimensional spaceship that flies only in one direction (up) and shoot lots of interesting projectiles at an abundant cache of enemies. These seemingly endless enemy spaceships apparently have figured out how to fly in many ...

Given that we do everything else with our mobile phones, it's about time that we demand more user generated content. Calendars, Email, P2P and VoiP are not enough! Fans of the social networking scene are driving mobile user generated content towards revenue of $6 billion for 2012. It currently sits at a mere $572 million with the skyrocket predicted by Juniper Research in four years. With the ...

AOL (this blog's parent company) has launched a new and improved mobile portal for searching the web and AOL content from your cellphone or portable device. The new portal integrates AOL properties including Moviefone, Mapquest, and CityGuide. When you conduct a search, the results screen will have several tabs at the top for switching between local, images, web, finance, and other sections. AOL ...

Cellphone maker Nokia has purchased Twango, a site that lets users upload and share photos, videos, and audio. Nokia plans to use the company to make it easier for users to share multimedia content whether they're using a computer or a mobile phone. Twango was founded in 2004, and like other social media sites allows users to share files through a central website or embed audio, video, and images ...