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Android gets Opera Mini 5 beta

Opera may still be drumming its fingers waiting for the iPhone version of Opera Mini 5 to get the nod from Apple (probably best they don’t hold their breath, in our opinion) but that hasn’t slowed down Opera Mini development one jot. Opera has just released Opera Mini 5 beta for Android phones. The new [...]

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Review: Big Ben (Symbian)

Big Ben is a combined phone lock, screen saver & reminder app for S60 5th edition phones. A jack of all trades, but is it a master of any? . The default S60 screensaver is pretty basic – it does indeed save your screen (well, the battery anyway) but that’s pretty much it. Wouldn’t it be [...]

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Vodafone HTC Magic ships with malware

An HTC Magic mobile from Vodafone UK was sent out containing windows malware, reports Panda Security. One unfortunate Vodafone customer got a nasty surprise when she plugged her new HTC Magic into her Windows PC – a warning from her anti-virus software. Alongside the Android operating system, the Magic also contained the Mariposa bot, the Conficker [...]

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Android gets a 3D boost

Android developers will soon be able to make faster, more detailed 3D games and apps thanks to a new development kit for the OS. Android games have a been a little underwhelming compared to the much flashier titles running on the iPhone but that could soon change. Android Native Development Kit (NDK) release 3 will allow [...]

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Nokia invents self-charging phone

Fed up with carting a charger with you when you go on holiday? Nokia may have come up with the solution – the self-charging phone. Nokia has applied for a patent on a technique for a “?Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester” that can convert kinetic energy (e.g. shaking your phone) into electricity. This kind of mini generator [...]

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Review: Notes on the Phone (Symbian)

They’re not Post-It notes, they are just notes. It’s a legal thing. Notes on the phone is an attempt to create a ’sticky notes’ app for Symbian mobiles. Sticky note apps are quite commonplace on PC & Mac desktops. Partly, this is due to them being a natural extension of the desktop metaphor – they work on [...]

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Sony ‘Playstation’ phone rumours return

If we had a pound for every ‘Sony to make Playstation phone’ rumour we have heard in the last couple of years.. well, we would have several pounds. We could probably afford a fish supper, at the very least. No matter how many times the rumours are denied by Sony (or, indeed, Sony Ericsson) they just [...]

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Nokia trialling movie downloads via Ovi Store

Nokia is conducting trials that could see Hollywood blockbusters downloadable straight from the Ovi Store to your mobile phone. It is certainly possible to watch movies on your mobile, but at the moment the simplest way of doping so is still an almighty faff – ripping a DVD (or otherwise ‘acquiring’ a copy of a movie [...]

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Review – Wiki-Droid (Android)

Ah, good old Wikipedia. Whether it’s used as a sneaky way of double-checking work or just to answer a random question from a pub quiz, it’s certainly taken the world by storm since it’s inception in 2001. Yes, I just checked Wikipedia for that date. Following on the theme set down by the other of today’s [...]

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Review: National Rail (Android)

While the UK’s train service has been getting better in terms of punctuality over the last decade, it’s still not the most reliable or consistent way of travelling on public transport, as anyone who’s been affected by rail-replacement busses will testify. The plain-titled National Rail app for Android phones looks to help you avoid any engineering [...]

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