The Automotive Industry and Smartphone Apps

Applications or Apps as they have been aptly named are an integral feature across all smartphone platforms – at least any worthy of the title ‘smartphone’. The expectations of what a smart phones functions and the added value of such apps has caused an explosion in software development and porting of existing software to utilise this maturing market. An app store in its simplest form a place where one can securely download and install an application (free or paid) over a web browser or dedicated software, directly to their handset. Read more

Will Smartphones be the End of the PC?

Last year I read an article in the Wall Street Journal which suggested the possibility that smartphones may one day replace the PC. It was one of several articles making the rounds in 2010, touting the smartphone as the next big technological advance that would change the way we communicate and do business. While the Wall Street Journal piece was a bit kinder to the PC, other writers in syndicated media and the blogosphere out and out predicted its eventual extinction. Read more

iPhone mms update

The whole world was waiting for this iPhone MMS update where the users could use the MMS facility with their iPhones. This feature was available long back in July but the ATnT network could not handle the pressure of mms and thus had been shut off till now. Its 25 September and its about time, as the pacific, late morning time was scheduled Read more

HTC Hero – Android os based Smartphone – launched in India

Smartphone market always finds new entries from time to time, and this time it’s the Taiwan handset maker – HTC with the HTC hero. The HTC hero is an android operating system based smartphone, which is about to hit the Indian market at just under 32k INR. Some of the quick features of the phone include a 5 mega pixel auto focus camera, with a 3.2 inch display and GPS, also it has MicroSD expandable memory. Read more

Nokia x6 – A Perfect Gadget for Music Lovers

Nokia x6 is planned to launch in the 4^th quarter of 2009, just before the Christmas. What’s so special about nokia x6, humm… 35 hours music playback or 16 days standby time talks volumes about the battery backup, 32 GB storage capacity can store huge amount of music files that you want to keep with you. Read more

Nokia Surge – Symbian S60 based Smartphone – QWERTY keyboard

Nokia surge is one of the latest mobile phone release by nokia. The smartphone is Symbian s60 based and has a flash browser support. The qwerty keyword is side slider and is packed with quite a few nice features. On the first look the phone appears to be a raido, and having said that, the design did not impressed me much. Lets see the positive and negative features: Read more