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Archive for February, 2009

Google Latitude on Bold Review: 5-day Impression

When Google announced Latitude last week, we wanted to use it in a hurry. But crap, Latitude wasn’t available yet on the iPhone (probably due to Apple’s no background apps policy). Fortunately, we have a BlackBerry Bold lying around as well. We went to Google Latitude’s page to enter in our mobile number, and the [...]

What’s New in Kindle 2

As expected, Amazon.com announced the Kindle 2 in NYC today. And as expected, the pictures that were leaked prior to the announcement were the real thing. So what’s new in the Kindle 2? Short answer: not a whole lot.

E-Books on Your Phones, Big E-Newspapers

Lots of news for you if you love e-Books. You probably know by now that we are a big fan of the Kindle. But if you don’t want to fork out $359 or wait in line for one, here is a free instant solution for you.

iPhone 4G Concept Shown

Something for you fanboys out there to drool over. These aren’t real, and they are just mockups from a designer. Very nicely done though! We can keep dreaming…

iPhone Tip #9: Connect Your Computer Online via Your iPhone

Remember we said one of our wishes for the iPhone is data tethering? The iPhone doesn’t officially support it, but if you have a jailbroken iPhone, this can be done *very easily*. This works for both 1st Gen iPhone as well as iPhone 3G. Data tethering is just fancy technical term that means use your [...]

We are on Facebook!

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Garmin’s First Phone Imminent, Partnering with Asus

Garmin and Asus announced today that they are teaming up to create a line of co-branded location-based services centric phones, called Garmin-Asus nüvifone™ series. The original nüvifone™ that Garmin announced way back in January 2008 will be rebranded as nüvifone™ G60, is still expected to hit first half of 2009. Garmin and Asus said that [...]

Google Latitude – Mainstream Location-based Social Network is Here.

Today, Google is introducing Google Latitude to give you the ability to see where your friends and family are on your smartphone or PC. It super imposes the location of the person on top of Google maps, and shows provides users with the ability to control whether they would like others to see their locations. [...]

Why Palm Pre is Better Than the iPhone and Why it is Threatening Apple

This is a follow-up article to yesterday’s post, “Apple Threatening Nuclear Arsenal to Palm”. So why is Apple acting so defensively? In short, because Palm Pre really has the potential to be an iPhone killer. Palm has taken what’s good about the iPhone and improved on it. It is really the first touchscreen mobile phone [...]

Next-Gen iPhone Coming in June?

The iPhone 3G will be finally launching in the United Arab Emirates later this month. While interviewing with the press, Mark Davis, the iPhone Program Director at Emirates Telecommunications – Etisalat let slip that “next version of the device, which is due out in June, will be launched in the UAE at the same time.” [...]

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