iPhone owner sues AT&T, Apple and Steve Jobs

Posted on September 30, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

What’s the point is just suing Apple – Why not sue everybody involved, that’s what Dongmei Li has decided to do.

Li is a little pissed off with them after the price drop on September 5th and is accusing them of “price discrimination, underselling, discrimination in rebates, deceptive actions and other wrongdoings.

And wait for it, she’s suing for “compensatory damages in the amount of $1 million”

Source : engadgetmobile.com

Sony Ericsson V640i – exclusively with Vodafone

Posted on September 30, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

This Sony Ericsson V640i is a stylish music phone that is set to be only available exclusively with Vodafone in selected markets.

The mobile supports Memory Stick Micro (M2) up to 4 gigabytes and a dedicated music key to help you navigate all of those songs as required.

The Sony Ericsson V640i is available exclusively in Vodafone stores from Autumn 2007.

Fact and Figures

* Size (length x width x thickness): 103 x 47 x 15.5 mm
* Weight: 97grams Color(s): Havana Gold and Quick Black
* Screen: 262,144 color TFT
* Resolution: 176 x 220 pixels
* Size: 2.0 inches
* Phone memory: Up to 32MB
* Memory card: 256 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2)
* Talk time GSM/UMTS: up to 9 hours / up to 5 hours
* Standby time GSM/UMTS: up to 300 hours
* Video call time: up to 2.66 hours
* Music listening time: up to 21.8 hours
* Networks: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSDPA 2100

Apple release iPhone 1.1.1 update

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Colm1 Comment

Update on the new firmware for the iPhone, I know what your saying it’s not available in Ireland (yet) but I have seen some so this is for the 10 people in Ireland that just might happen to have one.

The new firmware Version 1.1.1 which is 152MB to download might just re-lock your phone, depending on how hacked your iPhone is, you might end up with a mobile that you can’t use.

Functionality-wise, 1.1.1 brings a number of tweaks and changes:

* iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
* Louder speakerphone and receiver volume
* Home Button double-click shortcut to phone favorites or music controls
* Space bar double-tap shortcut to intelligently insert period and space
* Mail attachments are viewable in portrait and landscape
* Stocks and cities in Stocks and Weather can be re-ordered
* Apple Bluetooth Headset battery status in the Status Bar
* Support for TV Out
* Preference to turn off EDGE/GPRS when roaming internationally
* New Passcode lock time intervals
* Adjustable alert volume

If you have installed Jailbreak to install third-party apps and custom ringtones, be aware that installing the update will block access to any of that content.

iPhone Update is Now Available!

Posted on September 27, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

The new iPhone update is now available (if you live in the US) The download is 152MB. Some reports so far are not good with reports of “unknown error” and then having to restore. This is on normal iPhone not unlocked.

Once it has worked some of the new features include :

Double Tap Home button short cut
Viewing Mail Attachments in Landscape Mode
Connecting your iPhone to your TV
Turning off Edge for International Travel
and more

iPhone unlockTeam hits back at Apple’s threat

Posted on September 27, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

The development team that hacked the iPhone have issued a statement in responce to Apple’s recent statement on unlocked iPhones.

They have promised that within the next couple of weeks they will have a tool that will restore your unlocked iPhone to it’s factory settings, so no need to worry about the upcomming update from Apple.

Here’s what they had to say

Based on download numbers, the iPhone Dev Team believes that, worldwide, several hundred thousand people have unlocked their iPhones. That number continues growing every day. The removal of the lock, a bug, was a major step forward in the iPhone development. It made the iPhone free and useful to anyone, not only to those in certain countries.

Apple now announces that the next firmware update, expected later this week, will possibly break the handset of all of us free users in the World. It speaks of “damage” done to the firmware and “unauthorized access” to our own property, The removal of those firmware problems, which were built in in favor for AT&T, does not cause “damage” as they want to make us believe.

We will provide you with a tool in the next week which will be able to recover your nck counter and seczones and even enables you to restore your phone to a Factory-like state.

In the meantime we advise you not to update your free iPhone with the upcoming firmware. Wait for the next version to be fixed to work properly with your carrier and not break your phone.

Sony Ericsson W910 pictures

Posted on September 26, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

The Sony Ericsson W910 is an attractive little 86g slider, it comes with a 262k colour QVGA display and supports GSM/EDGE networks on all four major network bands.

Sony Ericsson have added some new music capabilities in the shape of shake control that lets users access the next or previous track with a quick flick of the wrist.

Overall it’s a really nice looking phone, The W910 will be available in red or black in Q4 of this year.

KDDI INFOBAR 2

Posted on September 26, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

This is one strange looking phone, but in fact it started life as a concept phone from KDDI. The phone is made by Sanyo and designed by Naoto Fukasawa. I’ve no idea of price it’s only available in Japan but it’s nice to look at what’s available around the world sometimes.

- 2.6 inch 240×400 OLED screen
- one-seg DMB
- microSD support
- 2 mega pixel AF camera
- AGPS
- stereo speakers
- CDMA EV-DO
- measures 47×138×15.5 mm
- weighs 104g

Steve Wozniak blasts Steve Jobs over iPhone price cuts

Posted on September 25, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

Steve Wozniak was the co-founded of Apple when they started, I watched a program about him a few months ago. The guy has so much money but has decided to teach instead of just sitting by the pool drinking cocktails – fairplay

Anyway I’m getting away from the story, Wozniak has had a pop at Steve Jobs about the way the iPhone dropped in price so soon after launch, and how refunds were handled.

“Nobody expects a product to drop that much in price in such a short time,” he said, adding that, while early adopters expected to pay more for getting a product early, the $200 drop was “too soon, too harsh”.

“Why don’t you just take my receipt and give me the money back? And of course it always comes back to Apple Store credit. So instead of getting $100 back you are getting $50 back sort of. It is very optimal to the company. I feel badly about the situation for everyone. I don’t think Apple should have even done it. Maybe a very much more gradual price reduction, $50 at first or find ways to bundle it into a savings on your account,” he said.

I kind of agree with ya Steve, I’m sure you read this blog and will answer me

Nokia 7750

Posted on September 25, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

At the moment the Nokia 7750, I’m not sure if I like it the design it just a bit to weird for me. I guess it’s something new from Nokia

Dimensions : 109*43.9*14.4
Weight : 82g
Display : Qvga 240*320, 2 Inches 16Million colour display
Available Memory : 30Mb internal memory, Transflash enabled external memory
Photography : 2Mpx Camera (Incl. flash/torch feature and video recording mode)
Audio : Mp3 Player + FM Radio
Battery : 700mAH

Expected to sell for around €200 it’s been available in part of Europe in black for a few months.

Samsung i780 GPS mobile phone

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Colm2 Comments

I guess we’ll never see this in Ireland but thats the way with most phones we review on this site, anyway the Samsung i780 look really interesting as it has a mouse pointer much like that of your standard PC or laptop.

- built in GPS
- Windows Mobile 6
- full QWERTY keyboard
- microSD support
- A2DP
- 3.2 mega pixel camera
- USB 2
- push email/MSN
- measures 115.9×61.3×13.8 mm
- 2.55 inch QVGA 65K color screen
- GSM850/900/1800/1900MHz
- GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA

Motorola Q9h smartphone pictures

Posted on September 25, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

The Motorola Q9h Smartphone is a really sleek design with larger keys phone from the mobile giant. Key features of this smartphone include Windows Mobile 6, HSDPA high-speed data, and large internal memory plus a memory card slot.

Here at Mobile Ireland we are highly impressed with this device, which is a major upgrade over the original “Q” that was released over a year ago for CDMA based networks.

- HSDPA
- full QWERTY keyboard
- 2 mega pixel camera
- microSD support
- 11.8 mm thick
- A2DP
- Windows Mobile

Nokia E51 review video

Posted on September 24, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

 Nice information video on the new Nokia E51, It packs a full feature list, such as HSDPA and WiFi into a slim bar-style form factor.

Mobile Phone Projector

Posted on September 23, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

This is something that has been on the cards for a long time, screens on mobile can really only go so big so the next step was going to be a built-in projector.

Texas Instruments appears to be getting closer to a projector that’ll cram inside a mobile phone with enough brightness and clarity to make it usable.

Other manufactures are working on this but who’ll be the first to mass market such a devise I wonder.

David Beckham promotes Motorola

Posted on September 22, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

So Beck’s decides to get topless for Motorola, I guess he needs the money. Beck’s has been signed up to promote their latest RAZR2 series mobile phone.

Expensive mobile phone

Posted on September 22, 2007 by ColmNo Comments

This is the worlds most expensive phone, the mobile made by the Swiss Goldvish and costs 1 million dollars. As you can see it’s covered by diamonds and crocodile leather.

It features a 2 mega pixel camera, microSD support and bluetooth, for that price I would want it to do a hell of a lot more. I really sometimes wonder who would buy such a phone.