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iPhone OS 2.2 due Nov 21?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-11-14 19:38:58
iPhone OS 2.2 has been rumoured to be arriving on November 21, ensuring plenty of iPhone stories in the lead up to the most feverish sales time of the year, with Google Street View being one of the biggest new features.


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3 launches the “INQ1” phone, promises social networking nirvana
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-11-13 18:48:45
Billed as “the world’s most advanced social networking phone”, and by some as being “INQ”-redible (while looking similar to the Nokia N85), the INQ1 has been designed to integrate your Facebook, Skype, email and Windows Live Messenger “life” and contacts in arguably the most advanced way possible – but is it something competitors will quickly copy?


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OMG! iPhone sales sharper than RAZR at last
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-11-10 23:00:08
Well it only took a year and three months of iPhone availability to topple the cheap as very sharp chips “RAZR” handset from Motorola, something that only last month was being claimed by AdMob as outclassing the iPhone in terms of mobile ads served. Still, in all important sales, the iPhone is finally on top of the heap.


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Samsung Omnia, the most iPhone-esque WM phone yet?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-11-10 19:24:25
While HTC’s Touch range has worked hard to bring iPhone like gestures and graphics to the Windows Mobile platform, Samsung’s Omnia is far more ambitious, comes with a much higher feature spec, and thanks to Windows is much more open.


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iPhone duffs up Blackberry in smartphone reliability fight
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-11-10 10:24:57
iPhone users are more likely to drop it or spill coffee on it than complain about the battery, according to a new reliability study looking at the first year of smartphone ownership. You might be surprised by some of the other revelations as well.


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Apple tops for smartphone satisfaction
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-11-06 19:38:54
This is almost a 'dog bites man' story: Apple's iPhone has topped a customer satisfaction study. Who would have thought it?


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Google's Android: apps selling, jailbreak broken, Ballmer not a fan
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-11-06 05:51:23
With only 200 programs available so far for the G1 Android gPhone, Google says apps are nevertheless proving popular. Meanwhile, a gPhone jailbreak gets patched and shock, horror: Steve Ballmer says he’s not a fan.


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HTC and Google making waves with Android
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-11-04 00:51:50
Despite an economic downturn and lower Q3 results for mobile phone sales, HTC’s Peter Chou says he’ll sell more than 600,000 T-Mobile Android G1 gPhones this year alone, outdoing initial expectations.


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Mobile phone sales struck by financial crisis
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-31 10:09:23
Mobile phone sales dropped by 0.4% over Q2 08, and despite shipping 299m handsets in Q3 08, analyst firm IDC says this result is thanks to a “dismal economy” when Q3 sales are traditionally much, much higher.


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Azentek in-car PC, first with Vista but not first in Australia
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-24 02:00:05
Forget about sticking your laptop on the passenger side front seat if you want an in-car computer, you can now have a real Windows XP or Vista computer installed where your car radio would normally go for the complete computer-on-wheels experience. Is it any good, and what’s an alternative that works with higher-end mobile phones?


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BlackBerry flips into the market with BlackBerry Pearl Flip
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-21 02:43:08
Flipping into action with a well known but previously unavailable form factor on the BlackBerry platform is the “BlackBerry Pearl Flip”, which essentially is the popular Pearl model, complete with the now standard trackball, in a flip phone format. BlackBerry lovers will flip out!


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Motorola readies its own Android phone, hopes to save company
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-20 18:46:31
Can an Android save Motorola from the mobile phone doldrums, caught between having the highest selling phone in the US with the RAZR, but also only making profits thanks to cost cutting while trying to offload its handset business?


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Keep your sperm away from mobile phones, heated car seats
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-20 18:40:42
If you’re a guy that uses a mobile phone, the latest research suggests that using a mobile phone could be bad for sperm health, although the study in question used a machine that created the same sort of radiation for 16 hours straight on sperm for damage to appear.


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2008 the “year of the smartphone” says Telsyte
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-10-20 05:37:28
Research firm Telsyte has put out a report on smartphones in the Australian market, showing nearly 3 in 10 phones sold will be smartphones, with 50 new models introduced this year alone.


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Significant iPhone 3G unlock progress, no unlock yet
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-10-19 01:29:42
The iPhone Dev Team has announced “significant 3G progress” towards a 3G unlock, modifying iPhone 3G baseband and even running modified baseband code, but the unlock itself remains elusive.


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Web surfing on Motorola Razr still outranks iPhone
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-10-17 08:43:22
The latest statistics from mobile metrics firm “AdMob” shows that mobile ads served on a to the iPhone puts it in 4th spot globally, and 7th in the US, while Motorola’s thin Razr sits in top spot in both places. What’s going on?


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Google Android phone goes gangbusters on pre-orders
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-13 10:58:58
In terms of pre-orders which are now totalling 1.5 million, Google's first Android G1 gPhone is certainly hitting the gSpot, while reports say South Africa will also get the gPhone in 2009.


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“Keynote” says users find mobile iPhone sites frustrating
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-10-12 02:54:46
A “first of its kind” study says users are frustrated with some sites designed for mobile viewing on the iPhone, while only a low number of users are noticing or "clicking" on mobile ads. There’s still work to be done to get the Internet right on mobile devices!


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Go ogle the T-Mobile Google G1 Android phone emulator!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-10-10 02:27:53
Want to see what the Google gPhone is really like, and whether it hits the gSpot– or misses it completely? Then come and play with the G1 simulator and “literally” take it for a spin!


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Blackberry’s Storm set to rain on iPhone’s parade
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-10-08 06:27:06
“Exclusively” coming to Verizon in the US, and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, BlackBerry’s very iPhone-esque Storm promises the Blackberry’s unparalleled email experience, “world first” “click” feedback on a touch screen, cut and paste, multi-touch amongst other iPhone-beating and matching features designed to make the iPhone’s outlook cloudy. Should Apple get out its umbrella?


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