HTC have been busy and have unveiled a number of new mobiles at the MWC.
Thing is that, in my opinion, none of them look as lovely as the HTC Legend.
The body is carved from a single piece of aluminum – Mmmmm….. unibody….. I hope Apple are watching!
Under that gorgeous hood purrs Android 2.1 wrapped up in HTC Sense.
It’s fitted with a 3.2 inch capacitive AMOLED screen with a res of 320 x 480 pixels.
The Legend sports a 5.0 megapixel snapper that’s paired up with autofocus and flash.
This is all pushed along by a 600 MHz processor and 512MB ROM and 384MB of RAM.
There’s a microSD slot to increase it’s capacity as well as the now expected Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
I’m particularly digging this “helicopter view”. Perhaps another inspiration from Apple – think Mac OS X’s exposé.
With Helicopter you get to be able to pinch the screen to view all the five Android homescreens which helps you jump from widget to widget with ease.
Social Networked butterflies will get plenty use out of the new FriendStream. This pulls together all status updates, photos and links from your various social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook and Flickr are the ones supported at the mo), but you can still use the individual widgets and apps if that’s how you roll.
It’s out in Europe late March/early April – go on; admit it. It’s nice
Barcelona’s MWC has been buzzing as to what Microsoft was going to bring to the stand.
Even though the Project Pink hasn’t been officially outed yet the Windows Phone 7 Series has.
“Smart design and truly integrated experiences” is how the big M describes it.
What is cool is the Xbox LIVE games and Zune music and video marketplaces that will drop content directly to your Windows Phones.
Microsoft already has partners building phones with Windows Phone 7 Series inside, in Europe the first to confirm its involvement is Orange, which says it’ll be making handsets with all of Microsoft’s new gaming and media skills inside, as well as Orange TV and Orange Navigation services.
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have spotted those ‘Live Tiles’ that replace the usual shortcuts on the homescreen on the Windows Phone 7 Series. These clever tiles actually update to show content from the web automatically.
Microsoft’s LT’s lets you create a Tile for a friend and then you’ll automatically see that person’s latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at that Start Screen (stalk you much?).
Windows Live is integrated as is Facebook so there’s no excuse as to why you don’t know what your ex had for lunch.
Windows Phone 7 Series is rocking the multitouch so now WinMo is going toe-to-toe with Apple’s iPhone.
Anyone making a handset and wants it to run Windows Phone 7 Series will have to include a real button to that takes the user straight to Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Microsoft says that Bing is getting cleverer and on the Windows Phone 7 Series it will deliver “intent-specific results”. This means that the results will be more tuned to the things you type in – which might/might not be embarrassing depending on what you usually type about.
Another new feature is Windows Phone 7 Series’ hubs. The hub themes cover: People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace and Office.
They’re kinda like homescreens for specific areas.
The ‘People‘ hub is where you’ll find your contacts. The first screen sorts your most popular friends (those that you’ve contacted most recently) in a mosaic of photos. Just swipe through to the next screen to see all your mates, then a list of their recent status updates in Windows Live, Facebook and an as yet unknown number of other similar services.
The ‘Music + Video‘ hub syncs music from your PC using the Zune software – people of the UK may be confused by this (click here) as we’ve never seen a Zune – but imagine iPhone and iTunes but more Microsofty.
The ‘Pictures‘ hub pulls in photos from the phone’s camera, from online photo-sharing services including Facebook and perhaps Flickr, and galleries you’ve synced from your PC.
The ‘Office‘ hub is exactly what you’d expect from a Windows phone. Here you’ll find support for OneNote, Office docs and SharePoint.
Most interesting is the ‘Games‘ hub, which offers the “Xbox LIVE experience on a phone,” says Microsoft. It includes Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see friends’ avatarsr, achievements and gamer profile. You’ll be able to buy games and earn gamer points. The best bit has to be the possiblity of interacting with proper Xbox or PC games.
Mobile-Review seems to have a bit of a scoop – this, they say, is the new Vodafone 360 phone.
Dubbed the Vodafone Compass (which may confuse people as Vodafone Compass is also the name of a GPS app), it could well be the third Vodafone 360 social networking phone.
What makes this interesting, apart from the shape, [...]
Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games?
If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular.
Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter.
Some may stand-up and say that FPS games cannot be [...]
I’ve been messing around with the cool n quirky Boxee software and am digging how it works and does its thing.
I know it’s been out for a while but the reason for this interest is the equally funky looking custom media player that they’ve just unleashed.
What this Boxee Box will do, apart from being great [...]
Zune coming to UK?
Yeah – that’s what I thought when I was told this.
I reckoned that these very shores were going to get a taste of the MP3 player that was designed to take on Apple’s iPod.
Ok, so almost four years later the Zune only owns 2% of the US MP3 market – a [...]
Facebook has just announced that it’s bringing in a new feature that will allow friends and family to ‘memorialise’ the profiles of their loved ones who have sadly shuffled loose this mortal coil.
As well as being able to memorialise the deceased Facebook will also ensure that the friends and family are not needlessly reminded of [...]
You update your Twitter and Facebook regularly and your Twitpic and Flickr pages are awash with little glimpses into your life.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a specially designed camera for lifeblogging updates?
Say, a snap every 30 seconds?
The ViconRevue was developed to help stir the memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, but now the Oxford-based [...]
Foursquare has announced that it’s bringing its location-based social networking game here to London.
The service that started in March awards points and badges for experiencing things in certain locations and is apparently quite the hit over in the USA but remains pretty much unknown on this side of the pond.
Foursquare is a location service-based social network/game.
It’s [...]
It’s almost a year ago since I reported about INQ’s Facebook mobile the INQ 1.
Now they’ve gone ahead with a pair of new socially aware phones that promise not to hurt your pocket – named Chat 3G and Mini 3G.
The INQ Mini 3G follows directly from where the INQ 1 will hand over with its [...]
There’s a Microsoft funded Research team somewhere in the UK developing a device that combines the office-gold that is the Post-it note with its own Social Network service called Wayve.
It kinda looks like a digital photo frame but this has a touchscreen that allows you to write messages on ’sticky notes’ as reminders to feed [...]
Now, unless you’ve just come out of a coma, you will have heard about the mico-blogging site Twitter.
It seems that Twitter could soon become part of Google.
According to TechCrunch Google is into advanced negotiations for the latest social networking addiction for an undisclosed sum.
Why would Google be interested in Twitter any how?
Well, it’s not just the [...]
Gear Live has received a survey asking whether or not they’d be interested in Twittering whilst driving around in their car.
Recently YouTube got in on the action and now you could be sending and receiving Tweets on the road.
The setup works via hands-free calling, voice-to-text, as well as text-to-speech so you can in fact hold [...]
The number of people joing the microblogging experience that is Twitter just keeps increasing and now none-other than YouTube has joined in!
The video-sharing site has now added a Twitter button to the ’share’ section of the site below every video link (along with the current Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Digg links).
When you click the Twitter [...]
The UK based Twit Or Fit has now launched!
Think a mash-up of Twitter and Hot Or Not.
Basically you rate the appearance of people displayed on a scale of 1-10.
Why has this happened? Well, it could be something to do with HotOrNot being sold recently for a rumored $20 million!
TwitOrFit relies on Twitter members and therefore has little inherent intellectual property so [...]
Remember my announcement of the INQ1?
Well, the 3 Social Networking phone has now had its official launch.
OK, so it’s a phone that is neither that fancy or revolutionary.
However, its integration with Skype (just like 3’s Skypephone), Facebook, and a handful of other consumer-friendly apps is something worth taking note of. Also that Open Source OS.
The [...]
Nokia has recently announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the context-aware social-activity mobile phone service – Plazes
“This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy”, said Niklas Savander, head of Nokia services and software. “In addition to the key assets, [...]
Get ready for yet another Facebook Group – the “Give Us Back The Old Layout” group!
Possibly something to do with the reported fall in visitors to the social networking site, Facebook is soon to roll out some major changes to its layout.
The revamp to member’s profile pages will mean that you won’t be able to see [...]
From The BBC
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