GSMA MWC 2008 Alternative Stats. OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” - for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct SMS surveys of essentially non-important, light-hearted topics each day. Below you’ll find the results of the demographics survey (comments welcome), but there are also some quite amusing ones in the full results here.
* 90% of Mobile World Congress shoes are black.
* 92% of people were shorter than 6ft Continue reading ‘GSMA MWC 2008 Alternative Stats’
Glu for N-Gage. Nokia and mobile games publisher Glu Mobile have jointly announced Glu’s initial line-up of games to be launched on the N-Gage platform in 2008. Two of the titles are based on films (Speed Racer, and The Dark Knight), and there are also ‘Super Slam Ping Pong’, and ‘Super K.O. Boxing!”.
HTC improving Video Acceleration. It’s always nice to see corporate big-wigs actually putting the customer ahead of any internal-policy nonsense. HTC has apparently done an about-face regarding the poor video performance on their HTC smartphones that use Qualcomm’s MSM7500 and MSM7200 chipsets. Peter Chou, HTC’s CEO, and Dr. Florian Seiche, Vice President of HTC Europe, have both stated that HTC will be rolling out some improved video performance for some of its smartphones. 
Tether iPhone to Leopard using EDGE. Methods for tethering the iPhone (using its EDGE connection from a desktop system or other device) have thus far been complicated and fraught with issues. Thanks to the hard work of Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski, however, the process has become easier and more robust. Yes, Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski has just released a new method to tether your iPhone to your Leopard computer (laptop). For the uninitiated, “tethering” your iPhone to your laptop allows you to share (connect) your iPhone’s data connection - your laptop is essentially using your iPhone as a wireless modem. 
Sprint $60 Unlimited Call Plans ? Following on the heels of the 
CoverFlow UI for iPhone Multiple Views. Paired with the iPhone’s capacitance multi-touch display, CoverFlow really shines. Well, it shines in the iPhone’s album/music browsing function and nowhere else. It’s just a shame that CoverFlow wasn’t more fully developed to work in other iPhone features. 
TimeBar Application for S60 phones. S60 3.2 fixes a fault that all other previous versions of S60 has: you can’t tell what time it is unless you switch to the standby screen. I present you with TimeBar. “TimeBar” is an application to enlarge and facilitate time management of S60 phones. Its main function is to display the current time everywhere, in every menu and every application. Furthermore, it is able to announce the current time with a voice or a tone. 
WiFi Access Point to Skyhook Wireless Database. The Wi-Fi Positioning System from Skyhook Wireless is a software-only location platform that provides 20 meter positioning accuracy to any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device. Unlike satellite based GPS systems, WPS uses terrestrial based Wi-Fi access points to determine location. Skyhook’s WiFi database is a great way to increase the accuracy of your iPhone v1.1.3’s faux-GSP positional features. With WiFi range maxing out at something like 100 feet, using WiFi access points to pin-point your location is a fairly accurate method - providing that you have a WiFi AP in range. 
iPhone Tips - Stop Auto-Rotating for Bedtime Reading. Some tips for iphone users who enjoy reading on iPhone in bed. When bedtime means iPhone-time! Whether its browsing through RSS feeds, keeping up to date with favorite forums, or reading an eBook through Safari, the iPhone can be critical to bedroom experience.
After Verizon : Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile offer Unlimited Too. Recently Verizon unveiled its “unlimited offering.” All other major carriers responded with pretty much the same deal. Sprint’s deal costs bit more ($119) but that price buys you both unlimited voice and data. The problem is that it seems they are restricting the new offer to four markets: San Francisco, Philadelphia, Tampa and Minneapolis/St. 
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