2007
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By Mike on December 25, 2007
I just wanted to wish all my readers here at iGadget Life a great Christmas!
I hope you all get lots of exciting new mobiles and gadgets! (as do I!)
Posted in Other
By Mike on December 12, 2007
For a limited time DivX are giving away free DivX Pro licenses for Mac users. All you need to do is provide an email address and a serial number will be emailed to you.
DivX Pro normally retails for £12.99 and comes with DivX Converter, DivX Pro Codec, DivX Player and DivX Web Player.
Grab your copy [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged DivX, Free, Mac
By Mike on November 30, 2007
Get ready to track the fastest and most exciting thing on Earth!
From tomorrow (1st December) join NORAD Tracks Santa in the countdown to December 24th when you will be able to track the man himself – Santa – live using the power of Google Earth.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2wrFnhqcSw
Beginning at 2:00 am (MTN) on Christmas Eve, you can track [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged NORAD, Santa
By Mike on November 30, 2007
We all love the Accelerometer built into some of the Nseries Handsets currently available. For those of you who have such a handset, you’ll be pleased to know that there is a new version of Accelerinvaders available for download from MOSH. You know you want it! (Make sure that you have installed the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, nseries
By Mike on November 30, 2007
UK mobile service provider O2 have announced, in conjunction with Nokia, the dawn of a new age in mobile technology – the Digital Mobile Wallet.
The O2 Wallet as its called will be a six month long pilot in the UK’s Capital of Near Field Communications (NFC) on mobiles. The technology allows the user [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 6131, nfc, nokia, O2, O2 Wallet
By Mike on November 29, 2007
Leading up to the launch of the iPhone here in the UK, the BBC News ran a spoof video similar to “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads by Apple comparing the iPhone to the N95. I tried to get hold of a copy of this at the time but the BBC media player doesnt [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, BBC, iPhone, n95, nokia
By Mike on November 28, 2007
Posted in Internet | Tagged Google, GPS, maps
By Mike on November 27, 2007
Mark over at the Nokia Blog has got his hands on an interesting new Nokia mobile accessory – the Mobile Video Hat that he’d previously seen at the Crown Point Festival.
The Mobile Video Hat is the ultimate product for people who want to watch their videos – and find new ones! – when on the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, nokia
By Mike on November 27, 2007
British Satellite TV provider Sky have announced some funky new limited edition Sky HD boxes called the Designer Collection.
The five new designs are by Basso & Brooke, Giles Deacon, Preen, Gareth Pugh and Jonathan Saunders.
If you like these bright new boxes why not enter the competition to win a Sky HD Designer box.
Posted in Gadgets | Tagged HD, sky
By Mike on November 26, 2007
It would seem that there is another addition to the v20.0.015 firmware update for the N95 released today:
After updating your device software to 20.0.015, and restoring your personal data, you can optimise the menu layout by installing the New_Menu_Structure.SIS file . This file will rearrange your menu layout specifically for SW 20.0.015. Reboot your device [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, nokia, nseries
By Mike on November 26, 2007
The original Nokia N95 has just gotten itself a nice little firmware update that adds some great functionality to this first generation N95 handset.
One of the major improvements in this (v20.0.015) release is that it now features Demand Paging a technology that allows the handset to better manage its memory, allowing more applications to be [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Firmware, n95, nokia
By Mike on November 24, 2007
The new Apple Store in Exeter in the recently built Princesshay Shopping Quarter opened it’s doors for the first time this morning. This now brings the number of UK Apple Stores to 13, unlucky for some – but lucky for us Brits in the South West of the UK!
Of course I was armed with [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, Exeter, princesshay, store
By Mike on November 21, 2007
I took a walk up on the hills today with Harvey armed with the funky new 3 Skype Phone to check out the photo quality of this little handset. The camera is 2.0 mega-pixel which is a little less than what I am used to with my Nokia N95. although there is no auto-focus, the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3, 3Skypephone, photographs, skype
By Mike on November 20, 2007
Interestingly in the new Nokia Nseries PC Suite BETA 2.0 the new Nokia Photos application contains Nokia Muvee for Photos.
Could this be the reason that the video editing software has been removed from the latest Nseries handsets?
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged muvee, nokia, photos
By Mike on November 20, 2007
After the backlash over the first release of Nseries PC Suite 2.0 BETA back in Sept, Nokia quickly pulled the BETA to refine their application somewhat. Some 2 months later and we have now a re-release of this application.
You can download the lightweight web installer here, but the full package still requires 540MB of free [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Beta, nokia, software
By Mike on November 20, 2007
Nokia are trialling an advertising-based version of their download! Client to UK residents.
The new beta application will allow for some of the content to be funded by the advertising, meaning that more applications could be free to download. This is an interesting concept as everybody loves free stuff!
Download! is a service available today on Nokia [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Download!, E65, nokia, S40, software
By Mike on November 20, 2007
Great news for you people in the South West of England – the Apple Store at Princesshay, Exeter will be opening its doors at 9.00am on Saturday 24th November.
Get down there on Saturday for the special opening event with a Grand Opening Sweepstake and Apple T-shirts for the first 1,000 customers!
Store Address:
24 Princesshay
Exeter, EX1 [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, Exeter, princesshay
By Mike on November 19, 2007
Nokia have revealed that they have exclusively got the much anticipated new album by Kylie titled ‘X’ that will be available for download from the Nokia Music Store on Wednesday.
OK, it’s cool that Nokia managed to bag the album for it’s all-new music store 5 days before general release, but reading the small print, It’s [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged kylie, music, nokia, pc, store
By Mike on November 19, 2007
Real Networks. have released a BETA version of RealPlayer 11 for Mac.
The new addition doesn’t appear to include any dramatic new features though:
Download Flash videos quickly and easily
View video clips in full-screen theater mode
Optimize your sound with our graphic equalizer
Behaves just like your other Mac applications
Plays QuickTime files
Minimium Requirements are:
Requires Mac OS X v.10.4 [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged osx, software
By Mike on November 18, 2007
Orange have announced that they are exclusively selling the worlds first solar-powered Bluetooth headset. The Iqua BHS-603 SUN will be sold first by Orange for the next 3 months for only £49.99.
Being Bluetooth this means that the headset is compatible with most phones including Nokia Nseries handsets.
Tech Specs:
The worlds first solar powered Bluetooth headset
Energy efficient [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Bluetooth, Handsfree, Headset, iqua, orange
By Mike on November 15, 2007
Friday 26th October was a special day for two reasons, firstly it was the day that Apple launched it’s new OS – Leopard and more importantly for me it was also the day that I ordered myself a shiny new iMac.. Unfortunately I had to wait over two weeks for it to arrive on [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, imac
By Mike on November 14, 2007
So, as we expected the speculation was true and the Nokia N82 is now a reality!
Much like the flagship N95 Handset the N82 comes with a 5 mega-pixel camera and Carl Zeiss lens, but the interesting part is that this is the first Nseries handset to have a Xenon flash. Finally Nokia have listened [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n82, nokia
By Mike on November 12, 2007
A week or so after getting hold of the one of the amazing Skype Phones from 3 I finally got around to uploading an un-boxing video to YouTube.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1c_ibVOhQ
The video is the usual ceremony which then leads onto a tour around the handset and a very quick look at some of the phones features.
So far I [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3, review, skype
By Mike on November 9, 2007
For all you Brit readers out there – you can fail to notice that tomorrow is the launch of the iPhone here in the UK.. With the adverts now running on TV stations here, the big build-up is soon to reach its crescendo.
With news that people are already starting to queue outside the Apple [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, iPhone
By Mike on November 6, 2007
Without any doubt the original N95 is certainly a feature-rich handset and surely packs a punch compared to other handsets on the market. As feature rich as it is, it has been plagued with problems which maybe the general public aren’t as tolerant too as a gadget-geek like myself is. I have been [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, n95 8gb, nokia, review, video
By Mike on November 5, 2007
As the title says this is a video that compares the original Nokia N95 against the new 8GB edition. It highlights some of the design changes in the handset in a side-by-side look at these two great handsets.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHtoFjnv4U
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, n95 8gb, nokia, review, video
By Mike on November 1, 2007
As always these things always take me longer to do than I hoped..
So I’ve had a play with the new Nokia N95 8GB for a while now and have come to the conclusion that it’s not as good as I’d hoped ….
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95 8gb, nokia, review
By Mike on October 29, 2007
VoIP big boys Skype have joined forces with mobile network 3 to launch a revolutionary new Skype Mobile Phone imaginatively called 3 Skypephone. The new Voice over IP (VoiP) handset will launch on 2nd November in Italy and the UK with Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong and Sweden coming soon.
Calls using the [...]
Posted in Internet, Mobiles | Tagged 3, skype
By Mike on October 22, 2007
It’s a handset that we have all been waiting for – the Nokia N95 8GB, and I have been lucky enough to get my hands on one of these sexy little devices.
As appears to be tradition with these kind of things – I thought that I’d have a go at my own un-boxing video – [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95 8gb, nokia, review, video
By Mike on October 19, 2007
As readers of this site will know Tuesday saw the start of the Symbian Smartphone Show in London. Being a huge fan of Symbian phones, I thought that I’d take a trip up to our nations Capital to check out what was new.
Living in Somerset I thought that I’d make the most of the trip, [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged show, symbian
By Mike on September 22, 2007
British pop act Pet Shop Boys are using the latest mobile barcode technology in the video for their latest song Integral. The QR Codes feature heavily throughout the pixelated black and white video which appear for a few seconds at a time.
Handset makers like Nokia are starting to embed Barcode Readers in their handsets, [...]
Posted in Internet
By Mike on September 17, 2007
In the second part of my N95/N93i comparison I look at the video quality of the two handsets. Again the examples were taken on the same day as the photo comparison in Torquay back in early July. Although far from being scientific, the videos were taken at the same location within a minute or [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93i, n95, nokia, review, video
By Mike on September 17, 2007
I love my N95 and it’s built-in GPS, and since the recent upgrade to version 1.0 it has been so much snappier at getting a fix (thanks to A-GPS).
All was hunky-dory until yesterday when I opened the app in my back garden and after a couple of seconds it had a lock. Not recognising [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged maps, nokia
By Mike on September 11, 2007
Nintendo today announced that the Wii Zapper for it’s Wii home console will come bundled with Link’s Crossbow Training. The game drops players into a world in the style of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess where they assume the identity of hero Link, who progresses through [...]
Posted in Consoles | Tagged nintendo, wii
By Mike on September 10, 2007
OMG Sky+ has to be the best thing ever invented!
Yesterday at 8am (yes it was a Sunday!) I had a Sky installer on my doorstep ready to upgrade my standard Sky equipment to the wonders of Sky+. It’s something that I have wanted for ages but have refused to pay Sky £10 a month [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Mobiles | Tagged Mobiles, n95, review, sky, software
By Mike on September 7, 2007
What has to be the best movie of the year, if not some, is now available for pre-order from play.com for only £9.99 (including postage)!
Sadly you’ll have to wait until 3rd December to get those awesome autobots from Transformers on your small screen! Personally I can’t wait.
The half-price offer is limited, so like me. get [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on September 7, 2007
Twitter users out who like to tell the world what they are up too might like the new Twitter T-Shirts available from reactee.
The picture above says it all.. Only $20
Posted in Internet
By Mike on September 6, 2007
The once mighty AOL are trying all kinds of methods to lure people to the ailing ISP. Their latest is to give-away a free DELL laptop when you subscribe to their Broadband service in the UK.
The offer in conjunction with the Carphone Warehouse comes when you sign up to their Broadband packages starting at [...]
Posted in Internet
By Mike on September 5, 2007
Apple have finally put everybody out of their misery with the announcement of the new iPod line-up:
As you can see the iPod nano has gotten a little fatter and now features video. The iPod Video has been re-branded the iPod Classic and the one that everybody has been talking about the WiFi enabled iPod Touch [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, ipod
By Mike on September 4, 2007
Nokia have finally added some more content to their much talked about Video Centre featured on the N95.
As well as YouTube, Reuters & Rocketboom you will now find some new additions to the Video Centre Carousel:
Jamster Video
Features a selection of clips that can be played but not saved. Choose from Cartoons, Fun and Music and [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, nokia, software, video
