With all the finger-biting ahead of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1’s September release many are idling crossing the calendar while China does what any self-respecting manufacturing-based copyright snubbing culture would do - it releases it first. While many will elect to await the GPSsmartphone to come from Sony Ericsson why not enjoy globalisation with us and ponder the future of innovation.
What with hybrid cars and ethanol powered air travel you would think the market for foodstuffs would be exhausted, but then you hadn’t expected the Samsung “corn” phone clearly.
In a move that may be problematic if recent cellphone corn interactions are anything to go by, the Eco Phone SCH-W510 is a constructed of a shell of bioplastik derived from Corn.
A laudable attempt by Samsung to improve its green credentials the Corn phone process avoids toxic substances such as BFR (brominated fire retardants - brominated flame arresters) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls - polychlorinated biphenyls) and avoids the use of lead, mercury and cadmium.
So if you avoid slathering the device in butter and watching Sleepless in Seattle you can enjoy a feature set that includes 3 mp camera, Bluetooth, DMB-receiver and 3g HSDPA.
If your sick of all the hoopla about the first Android gPhone and you want in on Android now you can , with a Nokia N810 and a few downloads you can immerse yourself in Google’s open-source OS.
1. First download android.img.bz2 here or here
2. Install the the android-installer.deb from here or here
3. Reboot!
Now to enjoy your new OS just start Android from the extra’s menu and wait 60 seconds and voila you are Google-toting internet-tablet-waving god of thunder.
Once villagers wise to the fact that you are in fact a tech head and not the often claimed god of thunder and you wish to rid yourself of all remaining evidence simply uninstall by removing the deb and deleting the android.img sitting on MMC card to get back to your original jobs-fearing ways.
For Nokia N810 find your flash here for N800 find it here Once installed simply reboot. Now wasn’t that fun.
In a marriage made in heaven the FriendMobilizer app joins Facebook with WinMo phones to allow access to your notifications directly to your mobile.
The free download pushes friends updates be they wall, photo album, status updates or friend requests, and delivers them straight to your smartphone or PocketPC home screen. If you have a HTC Diamond, LG KS20 or even a Samsung I780 you could be reacting to the latest romance in seconds.
Great for those obsessed with all the latest gossip, break-ups and of course cyber-stalkers. Yes I’ looking at you. Get the free download here.
