US Cellular Kyocera Tempo E2000
The US Cellular Kyocera Tempo E2000 is now available. The US Cellular Kyocera Tempo E2000 is a decent handset, that will fall into the mid-range category. It has external music controls, and actually looks pretty decent. The US Cellular Kyocera Tempo E2000 features inlclude: dual-band CDMA with EV-DO support, 262k color TFT display, 1.3 megapixel camera […]
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No More Firefly Phone?
Although I did think that the flyPhone and the glowPhone look like awesome phones (I’m actually thinking of replacing my son’s Tictalk for the flyPhone when he turns twelve next year), I didn’t know that the original Firefly was being phased out.. I received an email today from Andrew Lowenstein of Firefly Mobile stating the […]
Free Firefly - Regularly $119.00
If you’ve been checking out the FireFly phone for kids and teens and see it as a good option for your family. Check out this link, which will show you how to get the phone for free!! You can thank me later - LOL Go Here to Purchase Go Here for More Info […]
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S60 & Digital music
Digital music has evolved and is now playing an extremely important role in many people's lives. Nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the mobile environment. Beginning in 2005, mobile operators around the world started rolling out music services, including several that supported downloading full tracks directly to a phone. Since then, we have seen an expansion of these download services, plus the introduction of new services that help customers discover new music and share their collections and preferences directly with each other. And it’s not just limited to operators. Aggregators, manufacturers, and the content owners themselves are looking at ways of servicing this rapidly growing market. Today's mobile handsets are fast becoming the preferred portable music device. In terms of offering a complete music experience, mobile phones can provide much more than traditional portable music players. The phones can support the purchasing of music directly from the internet over the wireless network, virtually anywhere, anytime, providing great new opportunities for the music business. This can dramatically streamline the process of searching for and purchasing music, while at the same time removing the limiting factors of location and PC access. Now you can have the music you want, virtually whenever and wherever you want it, all without the hassle of carrying a standalone music player in addition to your mobile phone. S60 has taken a strong leadership role in enabling music capabilities in the handsets offered by multiple manufacturers. S60 has also refined the multimedia offering into a complete, powerful and feature-rich package that is easy to use and delivers crystal clear music playback. At the center of that package is the S60 Music Player. The S60 Music Player lets you enjoy the music you purchase from your favorite service, as well as music from your own collection that you want to carry with you on your mobile phone. It also lets you use a variety of popular tools to rip your CDs and transfer music directly to your S60 device. Users can choose from a wide variety of popular internet music file formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA, and Real Audio, as well as highly mobile-optimized formats such as AAC+ and eAAC+. With S60 3rd Edition, it is easy to transfer music between a PC and your mobile device. However, first you need some music. Music acquisition There are essentially three ways to legally acquire music for playback on your device. 1. Rip a cd from your collection using your favorite PC app (e.g. iTunes, Winamp, RealPlayer, PC Suite, etc.) and then transfer it to your phone. 2. Purchase and download music tracks from your favorite online music service (e.g. Napster, Wal-Mart, iTunes*, Amazon, etc.) using your PC, and then transfer them to your phone. (* most files purchased from iTunes Music store are not supported on S60, as they are protected by FairPlay (Apple’s proprietary DRM). However, S60 does support 'iTunes PLUS' files (DRM free MP4 files with AAC audio). 3. Browse, purchase and download music tracks from your favorite online music service direct to your S60 device. Music transfer If your music tracks are now on your PC, the next step is to transfer them to your S60 handset. There are a variety of methods and tools you can use to accomplish this: 1. Beginning with S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, S60 devices are compatible with Windows Media Player (WMP) 10 and 11. To connect your device you can use…(read more)
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Novatel Wireless Merlin S720 A reliable wireless card with the widest coverage area of any carrier. 99 (with two year agreement) Novatel Wireless Merlin
Linux on board: Developing for the Nokia N810
The Nokia N810 alarm interface allows developers to efficiently and easily set alarms programmatically. Peter Seebach illustrates how a small command-line program can hook into this API and make good use of it. The most serious limitation of the Nokia 770 as a potential PDA replacement was the lack of any way to set alarms that could wake the device. A much-improved alarm interface was introduced on the N800 and is still present on the newer N810. In this article, I take a look at the C language API to the alarm interface, and suggest an interface to make this available to shell scripts or programs in other languages. First, a brief overview of the N810 is in order. The N810 is an embedded handheld system with an 800×480 display. It has Bluetooth, wireless, and USB connections. The underlying kernel is a 2.6.21 Linux® kernel, adapted for the hardware. The N810 is fairly similar to the previous N800. New features include GPS and a built-in keyboard. The only way in which the N810 might seem less flexible than the N800 is that it provides only a single available MMC/SD card slot. The N800 provides two slots for user-provided MMC/SD cards, both full size. The N810 comes with a hard-wired 2GB card in the "internal" slot and a miniSD slot for removable media. (This can be quite frustrating if, like me, you've accumulated stacks of SD media over a few years of playing with embedded systems.) The development environment for the N810 is essentially the same as that described for the N800 (see my other articles on the 770 and N800). There have been updates to Scratchbox and the maemo environment, but the essential process remains the same, and the Scratchbox and SDK install remain quick and easy. There are two major changes that are likely to affect a regular developer. The first is that xterm is installed out of the box; this is a big improvement. The second is that, when you install the openssh-server package, you are prompted to set a new root password. This is a big step up from the previous behavior: a default root password of "rootme". Obviously, you should pick some other password. The alarm API The alarm API was introduced in the maemo 3.0 release last year. It presents a set of calls to interact with the alarm daemon, which provides alarm services. You should prefer using this interface to trying to write your own, and you should definitely stay away from writing your own timer code in an environment like the N810. Power management on embedded hardware is an advanced topic, and it is easy to get it wrong; instead, just hand the job off to the specialized code provided. Even if your alarm code is written elegantly and well, there is a compelling advantage to a centralized service. Imagine that you have written a perfect alarm interface, which has to wake the system only rarely, perhaps once every five minutes or so. This will have almost no impact on battery life. Now, imagine that other people, just as skilled as yourself, write similar interfaces. With several of them installed, the system must wake up several times every five minutes. Worse, users tend to pick different intervals. So, if you have one thing that wakes every three minutes, and one every five, and one every seven, you end up with the worst of all worlds: even though no individual alarm goes off more than once every three minutes, you actually have an alarm about once every two—and worse, pairs of alarms going off may involve separate wake and sleep…(read more)
Kenbushi 7.4 update adds playlists, data limits, more
Lava Software has released Kenbushi 7.4, an update to its digital media jukebox. Kenbushi plays and manages media on both Macs and PCs, and syncs media to non-Apple media players. Version 7.4 adds the ability to load numerous media devices with data, including mobile phones, USB memory sticks, flash cards and portable hard drives. Multiple playlists can be created for each device, and space limits…
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Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi-Fi Stereo Speaker
Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi Fi Stereo Speaker This compact Bluetooth speaker packs a surprising punch. 179 Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi Fi Stereo Speaker This compact Bluetooth
Touchscreen Cell Phone with Projector Looks Familiar
What happens if you take a Nokia phone and an iPhone, mix them together, and then top it off projector? Well, you would probably end up with this tri-band smartphone. Tri band multimedia cellphone with interactive touchscreen, WAP, bluetooth, and big 1800mAh battery for extra long talk time and phone usage between charges. Among the multimedia features […]
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Sony Ericsson C905
The C905 is Sony Ericsson’s first Cyber-shot slider and its most advanced camera phone yet. With an 8.1 megapixel camera and real camera flash amongst its cutting-edge capabilities, it offers easy photo-taking in a phone that derives its looks from a digital camera and offers the picture quality to match. The camera features auto focus, face […]
Sony Ericsson PlayNow Arena officially launched
Sony Ericsson phone owners looking for a place to download digital content for their devices need not look any further than the newly launched Sony Ericsson PlayNow Arena. It’s like SE’s version of Nokia’s own download service, except that it’s suited for Sony Ericsson’s taste. Actually, PlayNow Arena is a long-awaited revision of its online music […]
SE w350i For AT&T Lands At Wirefly
Good news for fans of Sony Ericsson’s Walkman line of cell phones: we’ve confirmed that the new (yet retro-ish) Sony Ericsson w350i for AT&T will soon be available at Wirefly. We also happen to have one in the office this morning, so we’ll share our impressions. The first thing one notices about the new Sony Ericsson […]
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Palm Nova Gets Delayed
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Asus launches the un-compatible Eee Download service
Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Laptops, Software / Applications Asus has quietly launched their latest offering, the Eee Download service, and judging from the initial support and initial response, they should have kept it a little quieter and made sure it was a little further developed before they unveiled it. See, at first glance its a great idea, […]
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HTC Touch Diamond This luxury touchscreen phone sports an intuitive and fun touch interface, a desktop like Web browser, and the sharpest display on the block. 779
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Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi-Fi Stereo Speaker
Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi Fi Stereo Speaker This compact Bluetooth speaker packs a surprising punch. 179 Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi Fi Stereo Speaker This compact Bluetooth
Skyfire Browser Available to All for Testing
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"Condom, Condom" Ringtone A Hit In India
Ever heard a safe-sex promo sung in multipart harmony? Have a listen to the “condom a cappella” ringtone, just launched in India.
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