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You are in the Mobile Category of iGadget Life, here you will find News and Reviews on all the latest Mobile Technologies including Handsets, Software, Accessories and Mobile Operators.
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By Amanda on March 16, 2010
Android based smartphones are really starting to find their market, with a jump of over 150% shares since October (source: Digital Trends ). Along with the rising trend, a lot of Windows users will be using this phone with their computer. But could this be leading into a problem yet to come?
A Little Something Extra
According [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Mobiles | Tagged Android, smartphone, virus, windows |
By gadgetbot on February 5, 2010
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By Kristofer on November 30, 2009
So you may have went and grabbed a great deal on a Netbook on Black Friday, but now you must have something to protect it. Let’s face it, we’re not the carefullest of creatures when it comes to our things, and of course accidents can happen anywhere and anytime. Netbooks are great for kids, but [...]
Posted in Mobiles, Product Reviews | Tagged 900a, acer, Aspire One D250, Asus, be.ez, Case, EeePC, LA Robe, laptop, netbook, protection, review, Sleeve
By Kristofer on November 17, 2009
Today for review our friends over at MobileFun have sent me a very unique Bluetooth headset. It’s called the Bluetrek Bizz, it’s a BT headset and a USB drive in one, it might sound like a funky idea but it’s not. It utilizes a microSD card for storage actually that is hidden under the earpiece, [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Mobiles | Tagged BIZZ, Bluetooth, Bluetrek, Flash, Headset, memory, usb
By Mark on October 31, 2009
Over the past year my iPhone 3G’s battery life has decreased. This may be due to my reading emails, checking Twitter, playing games, listening to music or web surfing. Lately I have been charging my iPhone every night and even with a fresh charge to start the day I usually get the “less [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobiles | Tagged 3g, 3gs, Apple, battery, Charger, iPhone, review
By Kristofer on October 28, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at any DVD Ripper programs here, but I think I’ve found one that might be worth your while to take a look at. This one is called Extra DVD to All MP4 Ripper, it’s a DVD ripper that rips to MP4 format for iPod, iPhone and [...]
Posted in Mobiles
By Kristofer on September 29, 2009
My Acer Aspire One D250 came with a standard mechanical hard drive, and recently I acquired another SSD drive so I figured why not swap the HDD out for the SSD as that seems the popular way to go these days. Now I knew the read and write speeds of the SSD would be much [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Mobiles | Tagged acer, aspire, comparison, d250, HDD, netbook, one, Patriot, Performance, Results, Sandra, SiSoft, SSD, Testing, Warp
By Kristofer on September 27, 2009
Bluetooth is prevalent in lots of our devices, but it has yet to become a standard in our PCs, laptops and netbooks, and I’m not sure why exactly. You’d think with all of those BT devices out there more manufacturers would start to make Bluetooth a standard feature. I’ve got the Acer Aspire One D250 [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Mobiles, Product Reviews | Tagged Blue Soleil, Bluetooth, BT, dongle, Pico, review, Small, Tiny, usb
By Mark on September 9, 2009
You Wanted The Best! You‘ve Got The Best! The Hottest SKIN In The World! The KISS MusicSkin!!!!!!
Can you guess I grew up in the seventies? At that time KISS was one of the biggest bands in the world and at the pinnacle of their popularity. For the sake of nostalgia I picked the [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobiles, Product Reviews | Tagged 3gs, Apple, Case, cover, iPhone, Kiss, MusicSkin, protection, review, Skins
By Amanda on August 26, 2009
Everybody that has an iPhone has no doubt at one time or another had less than optimal coverage. That is a function of the user’s current location in relation to a functioning tower, and little you can do about it. Or is it?
It might not be completely out of your hands to improve your current [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobiles | Tagged Apple, iPhone, phone, signal, signal strength, tips
By Amanda on August 5, 2009
Having an iPhone in your pocket gives you a powerful tool to not only get information while traveling, but it also gives you a link back to your home, allowing you to monitor it for security and peace of mind.
There are many ways to make this work, and we will explain a few of the [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobiles | Tagged Apple, camera, home monitoring, iPhone, Mobiles, security
By Mike on May 28, 2009
Win a Nokia N97
Nokia are running a treasure hunt that has 7 N’s located across the British Countryside*.
Myself and some of my fellow bloggers were invited to London last week by WOMWorld/Nokia for an exclusive mysterious screening. Unfortunately I was unable to attend due to work commitments, but for those lucky enough to go to [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n97, nokia, nseries
By Mike on May 5, 2009
Nokia N95/N95 8GB Video hits 1 millions YouTube Views
Back in November 2007 I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people to be sent a Nokia N95 8GB, the much anticipated update to the hugely successfully Nokia N95. Due to the huge interest in the handset at the time, I wanted to be [...]
Posted in Internet, Mobiles | Tagged n95, nokia, video, youtube
By Mike on April 29, 2009
Google Voice Search now for British & Australian iPhone owners
Google have updated their iPhone App for British and Australian citizens to better recognise their accents when using the voice search feature.
Being a Brit I have previously had problems using the Google iPhone App, as most of the time it failed to recognise what I had [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, Google, iPhone, Mobiles, voice
By Mike on April 28, 2009
Beam me up with a Nokia 5800
Today Nokia announced that there will be a Limited Edition Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone sold exclusively through Phones 4U in the UK from 1st May.
The Limited Edition Nokia 5800 touch screen handset which features a 3.2 MP Camera, A-GPS and 16GB of storage will have the following additions:
Four special [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 5800, Mobiles, nokia, xpressmusic
By Mike on April 23, 2009
1 Billion Apps in 9 months – WOW!
Amazing when you think that it took nearly 3 years before 1 Billion music tracks were downloaded from iTunes in 2006!
Love it or hate it, the iPhone really has shaken up the mobile industry!
Posted in Apple, Mobiles | Tagged app, Apple, Download!, iPhone
By Mike on April 23, 2009
Free Skype Calls & Messages from 3UK – No Top-up or Contract required!
Mobile network innovators 3UK have announced today that from 1st May you will be able to make free Skype to Skype calls over the 3 network with no top-up or contract required.
To start with any compatible 3 mobile handset will be able to [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3uk, Mobiles, skype, three
By Mike on April 21, 2009
James Whatley talks mobile apps
Mobile blogger and voice of SpinVox James Whatley, or Whatleydude as he is more commonly known in these circles made his first prime-time TV appearance on the BBC News at Six here in the UK yesterday.
In a piece by the BBC’s technology correspondent about how developers are making money from mobile [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged BBC, news, video, whatleydude
By Mike on April 7, 2009
Sky+ Remote Record from your iPhone
Sky have released an official remote record app for the iPhone. The new app will allow you to access your Sky+ Planner from your iPhone to record your favourite shows when you are out and about.
After logging in you will be presented with the familiar Sky+ TV Guide, where you [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, iPhone, record, remote, sky, TVs
By Mike on February 9, 2009
Google have just launched a Beta of their Google Sync for Mobile Phones.
The new service opens up Microsoft Exchange connectivity direct to the Google Cloud, so that you can sync your Contacts and Calendar to a variety of mobile phones:
iPhone
BlackBerry
Nokia S60
Nokia standard
Sony Ericsson
Windows Mobile
This means that companies like NuevaSync who have currently been filling the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Google, Mobiles, sync
By Mike on February 2, 2009
Google Tasks goes Mobile
Google have announced that their Google Tasks, recently launched as a Gmail Labs addon, is now available for iPhones.
The interface is clean and simple and enables you to update or create Tasks for use within your desktop GMail.
Goto gmail.com/tasks on your iPhone.
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Google, taskd
By Mike on February 2, 2009
Track your Photos and Videos with Nokia viNe
Back at the beginning of September I was fortunate enough to be part of the Nokia viNe Beta trial. For those of you unfamiliar with Nokia viNe, its an application you can install on your Nseries handsets that will record your journeys out and about and when and where [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Mobiles, nokia, nseries, software, vine
By Mike on February 2, 2009
Get free credit from Tesco
British supermarket giant Tesco have some great deals on their Tesco Mobile to beat the credit crunch.
Simply top-up your pay as you go Tesco Mobile and they will give you extra credit free!
Top-up £10 and get £10 free giving you a total of £20 credit
Top-up £15 and get £30 free giving [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Mobiles, offer, tesco
By Mike on January 29, 2009
For all you Gadget Show lovers out there, set your Sky+ for 8pm this Friday as your favourite gadget presenters are back for The Gadget Show Road Trip Special.
The guys, with new presenter Otis, will take part in a series of tech challenges on their way from Edinburgh to London.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_zqOW7cJk
The Gadget Show is on 8pm [...]
Posted in Mobiles
By Mike on January 28, 2009
The Samsung Show with built-in Projector
It was only yesterday that I wrote about my experiences with the 3M MPro110 Pocket Projector, and how I was looking forward to seeing how this will develop in the future and arrive in actual mobile phones.
Well in my RSS Feeds today I came across an example of such a [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Mobiles, oled, projector, samsung show
By Mike on January 27, 2009
3M MPro110 Pocket Projector
The projector has taken a massive leap in technology recently, but not a major leap in size, the total opposite in fact. Miniature projectors have started appearing that can display great images, but the unit is the size of your average mobile phone and in some cases actually built inside a mobile [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3m, Mobiles, mpro110, n82, nokia, projector
By Mike on January 15, 2009
A little while ago I was fortunate enough to be sent a Google G1 to have a play with…
I guess like most people we have all read so much about the new Android phone by Google – simply called the G1. Pictures of the handset to be honest didn’t make me go wow like the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Apple, g1, Google, iPhone, n82, nokia
By Mike on January 9, 2009
Congrats to Mark from The Nokia Blog on his wedding to Shelia a little earlier. Mark was kind enough to share their special day with us all straight from his Nokia handset using steaming video service Qik.
It was only a couple of months ago that Mark proposed to Shelia and shared with us how he [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Event, Mobiles, nokia, quick
By Mike on January 8, 2009
This is long, long overdue – Facebook have FINALLY updated their faulty iPhone App with some much needed bug fixes.
The incorrect timezone dates, duplicate contacts and the dreadful crashing since the 2.2 OS update have been fixed.
For me the Facebook App was one of the best apps on the iPhone, although it’s taken months for [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged iPhone
By Mike on January 6, 2009
I never understood why you weren’t able to download music directly from iTunes on your iPhone 3G over the mobile network, you could only do it via a Wi-Fi Hotspot. There have been quite a few occasions when I have been out and about, used Shazam to identify a track and clicked to purchase from [...]
Posted in Apple, Mobiles | Tagged 3g, Apple, iPhone, itunes, music
By Mike on December 10, 2008
Google have just announced that Google Street View is now available in their latest version of Google Maps for Mobile for S60 handsets.
Street View is spreading across mobile handsets quite rappidly, with the G1, iPhone and Blackberry already getting a piece of the action.
Goto m.google.com either on your PC or phone to download your copy.
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Google, maps, Mobiles, software
By Mike on December 9, 2008
Nokia are the biggest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world, and with that comes so. much. choice.
If you cant decide which Nokia handset will be the ideal Christmas present this year, then why not take a look at their ever-so helpful Nokia Christmas Gift Guide.
You can filter on who you want to give to [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Mobiles, nokia
By Mike on December 8, 2008
It would seem that getting live TV on your iPhone is one step closer thanks to the guys at Livestation who have been demoing their Livestation App for the iPhone. The P2P TV network have previously offered its TV coverage via a downloadable desktop app (available for Windows, Mac & Linux) and via its website [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, Apple, iPhone, livestation, p2p, software, TVs
By Mike on December 8, 2008
That was the verdict of The Gadget Show, as they announced that the Apple iPhone 3G was the must-have gadget of 2008.
What do you think? What is your Gadget of the year?
Posted in Gadgets, Mobiles | Tagged Apple, Gadget, iPhone, Mobiles
By Mike on December 2, 2008
Video streaming site Joost have released a Joost iPhone/iPod Touch App free to download.
The first version of the iPhone application provides access to our full content library via Wi-Fi. You can browse, search, or simply enjoy some of our most popular programs.
Download Joost for your iPhone/iPod Touch
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, Apple, iPhone, joost, Mobiles
By Mike on December 1, 2008
Tomorrow is the big day for Nokia fans, as it would seem that Nokia have something up their sleeves to announce to the world in a live broadcast from Nokia World 2008 titled Transforming the way we connect.
What could it be about? Grab your seat tomorrow morning to watch the live feed. In case you [...]
Posted in Internet, Mobiles | Tagged Event, features, Mobiles, nokia, nseries
By Mike on October 27, 2008
Great news people – Google have just released their amazing Google Earth for the iPhone.
The app allows all the normal zooming and searching and of course uses the iPhones location feature to zoom in to where you currently are.
One nice touch is tilting the iPhone to a more vertical position and the view you see [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, Apple, earth, Google, iPhone, Mobiles
By Mike on October 21, 2008
The amazing TV Plus app that was only launched last week, that allows you to remote record your favourite TV shows on Sky+, has just had an update to 1.1.
The update brings regional settings allowing you to select your TV region so that you have the appropriate variation of BBC1 and ITV1.
I think this has [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged app, iPhone, Mobiles, sky, software
