Archive for May 5th, 2008
Giga-Byte recently announced a newly developed user interface for its GSmart Windows Mobile smartphones called “Smart Touch”. The thumb-friendly UI is quite intuitive and flexible, but few icons located at the bottom of the screen make us think they borrowed an idea or two from Apple.
Smart Touch grants users to add up to 16 most frequently used apps as shortcuts on standby screen. Four icons are visible at once and the rest of them are accessible by swiping across the screen. The center of the screen is reserved for a huge clock, and there's an icon for swift access to the user's This day screen. Naturally, users can customize the look and feel of Smart Touch by changing theme, colors or even use their own images for the background.
Finally, if you're interested to try out the new GSmart's UI, you'll have to wait for “after May” when the company will officially release it to the general public. One thing we're not sure, though, is whether it will work on other, non GSmart-made, Windows Mobile smartphone. We certainly hope it will as the demo bellow looks promising. Enjoy!
[Via: the::unwired]
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Giga-Byte recently announced a newly developed user interface for its GSmart Windows Mobile smartphones called “Smart Touch”. The thumb-friendly UI is quite intuitive and flexible, but few icons located at the bottom of the screen make us think they borrowed an idea or two from Apple.
Smart Touch grants users to add up to 16 most frequently used apps as shortcuts on standby screen. Four icons are visible at once and the rest of them are accessible by swiping across the screen. The center of the screen is reserved for a big clock, and there's an icon for swift access to the user's This day screen. Naturally, users can customize the look and feel of Smart Touch by changing theme, colors or even use their own images for the background.
Finally, if you're interested to try out the new GSmart's UI, you'll have to wait for “after May” when the company will officially release it to the general public. One thing we're not sure, though, is whether it will work on other, non GSmart-made, Windows Mobile smartphone. We certainly hope it will as the demo bellow looks promising. Enjoy!
[Via: the::unwired]
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 Just few days ago we posted Verizon will release the Samsung's touchy feely Glyde, aka U940, on Might 9. Apparently, that won't be the single device released on that day. Alongside the Samsung's baby, Verizon will also make the BlackBerry Curve 8330 available.
Announced during this year's CTIA, the new Curve sports an EV-DO radio allowing you to do your “push-email thing” much faster. In addition, you'll also feel the speed bump when surfing the web or using some of the Internet-based services.
Again, the price is $269.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year customer agreement. Or you could save $100 more if you sign up for “qualifying voice and data plan” at the time of purchase…
[Via: Unwired View]
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 Back in November of last year, we talked about Verizon's plans to release the dual CDMA/GSM version of the Samsung i760. From then on, we haven't heard anything more about it. Until now.
Not that Verizon or Samsung are announcing anything, yet. It's the FCC where we spotted the i770 smartphone, which looks familiar and if we're right it will be the globetrotterin' version of the i760 model. Both GSM and CDMA radios are on board, as well as WiFi and Bluetooth. HSDPA may also be in the mix, but there's no proof about that.
Considering the look and feel of the Samsung i760, I guess it would be wise for Verizon and/or Samsung to release the device ASAP. Its design is getting kinda outdated, especially when you compare it with TyTN II or God forbid XPERIA.
[Via: Engadget Mobile]
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(FYI, the pic above is of a fake HTC TyTn II)
Now we here at IntoMobile are often posting about faked versions of major manufacturer handsets that we've seen - only a few months back, barely a week used to go by without a new set of “fake vs real” pics (you can check some of them out here and here).
Well, now, according to James Hilton (who is a director at a Mobile Marketing company called Inside Mobile), the fake handsets are making it near-impossible to deliver content that can will render properly on screen.
“It's a large problem because, as Hilton states, China Mobile already has more subscribers than there are people living in the USA. Plus there are actually two major Chinese mobile operators – the other being China Unicom. Hilton believes that as many as 60 per cent of handsets possessed by Chinese subscribers are clones rather than the real thing.“
The issues come when the content delivery systems need to identify the handset, to ascertain which specific version of the digital asset should be delivered - because the “knock-off” handsets identify themselves either with incorrect data, or not at all, the appropriate content cannot be sent - and hence might not appear on-screen correctly.
accessing the system.
Anyway, the upshot is that Hilton wouldn't advocate to international brand owners to launch major ad campaigns (yes, it comes back to money) in China because there’s no guarantee the ads will render correctly.
There is also apparently a knock-on effect that could occur with other kinds of content such as games - although there is enough of an issue right now with all the versions of a game that need to be created for Mobile handsets that ARE official!
Still, not being able to access correctly-fomatted content properly on a device that bought has got to be frustrating ….
[Via: The Inquirer]
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According to a new survey of 1,200 people conducted by Nationwide Insurance (UK), one third of “Generation Y” admitted they “multitask” whilst driving - that it itself is one scary admission, but check this out - 37% of them said they’re texting whilst driving…
Now I don't know if you have ever done this, but I would envision it would take your eyes off the road for several seconds at a time - have you ever tried driving a vehicle blindfolded? No? Well this is pretty much the same thing.
Worse, if you assume this data is accurate, and extrapolate it out, then there have got to be huge amounts of time when lots of the car-driving public are not looking where they are going - as a husband and a dad, that scares the living hell out of me…
[Via: textually.org]
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Research by Orange has shown that texting is on the way out - appraently when peopel start using Mobile-IM, they reduce their use of text messages:
“Of each 100 messages - including texts, emails and picture messages - sent by users without mobile instant messaging from their mobile phone or computer, 38 are text messages. Once consumers start using mobile instant messaging, the number of texts falls to 23 per 100.”
One of Orange's portal heads stated that older people continue to use text messaging, and even in the face of the research, text is still alive, with Orange Customers sending an average of 1.3bn texts between November and January.
So, looks like I’m old since I use text - also looks like, from the stats, that I’m helping to make Orange very profitable!
[Via: textually.org]
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Give Windows Vista desktop and programs a feel and style of the Mac without ruining it’s originality.
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Hey, do you like the metal band Disturbed? You know, that band whose singer makes weird screeching monkey noises in some of their songs? Yeah, me neither. But there’s some pretty cool news for those of you who do.
Best Buy is offering a pretty slick Rock Band-related deal for the band’s new album, Indestructible, which is set to hit stores on June 3. Pre-order the album on the internet and you’ll receive a download code for two Rock Band tracks, “Inside the Fire” and “Indestructible,” both from the forthcoming album. No word on whether or not these tracks will be available through the Rock Band Music Store, though it seems like a fairly obvious move. (Note that the Ideal Purchase site only appears to be offering the tracks for Xbox 360.)
This is the second time that a band has decided to make songs available for Rock Band prior to their commercial release; last month, M
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 It just won't die. The idea of sending various scents and odors along with your mobile-message isn't novel and it looks like it's not going to go away any time soon. A group of German tech developers have announced that they've patented hardware that would grant mobile phone users to send scents along with SMS text messages or MMS multimedia messages.
The technology, which has been cooking for 8 years, has finally come to a head with the German group's patent. By incorporating a chip stuffed with approximately 100 different scents into cellphones, the smelly technology allows users to send the smell of a flower along with a picture message of a bouquet of flowers. The chip could hit the commercial market as early as 2010.
Of course, we'll have to wait for scent-compatible handsets equipped with this new chip to go public before smell-o-phone become a reality.
The good news? Scent-message recipients can opt to reject an incoming smelly-message.
[Via: EETimes]
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