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.
In a major shakeup Nokia has announced its intention to purchase the remainder of Symbian Ltd to create a non-profit Symbian foundation aimed at turning the OS into a single open source mobile platform.
The acquisition requires Nokia to shell out 264 million Euros for the remaining 52.1% of the organization currently held by Ericsson (15.6%), the Sony Ericsson joint-venture (13.1%), the Japan-based Panasonic (10.5%), the German-based Siemens (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
The new company will combine Symbian, S60, UIQ and NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP(S) into a a single open-source platform creating an environment to encourage rapid innovation in what is already the most popular mobile platform in the world.
The news could dampen excitement in Google’s own ‘open’ Android platform and will have Apple and Microsoft’s ‘closed’ platforms re-thinking strategies perhaps with select components of the Symbian Foundation available at launch and the entire platform available within 2 years.
SlingMedia have released a proof of concept video of their video streaming software for the iPhone and will be demonstrating at the Apple WWDC.
While still in pre-alpha the SlingPlayer promises stream video on your iPhone, Tv to go.
While they are still awaiting official approval from Apple to go forward as an approved developer from the looks of the demonstration video this one will have Apple fans giddy.
While US iPhone users have enjoyed rapidly tumbling pricing on mobile calling their Canadian cousins will no doubt have upturned ear at news of a user-friendly VOIP solution for the Apple device.
iCall is in beta presently but the easy switch from GSM to WiFi mid-call allows users the freedom, and cheaper costs, of the VoIP functionality
Interested in cheaper calls and sick of using up your minutes? check out the video.
The $100 Million fund set-up in March to encourage development of applications for the iPhone has finally starting doling out some cash with two new apps taking advantage Whrrl and iControl.
Whrrl is a social mapping service that takes web 2.0 to your Apple and lets users rate events, entertainment and restaurants, the other iControl turns your iPhone into a multi-purpose device taking care of of all the nitty gritty of appliance control, light, sound and what have you.
Having received innumerable proposals the iFund still only has two new competition crushing apps being funded - but really what’s the rush?
Opera Mobile 9.5 is set to come preloaded on the HTC Diamond and be available for WinMo devices generally and by the looks of this video there is reason for excitement.
Including context-based zooming (Opera Zoom), finger scrolling and panning, tabbed browsing, Flash Lite 3 support, fast page loading and the ability to save pages for offline viewing Opera Mobile 9.5 is definitely worth checking out. Enjoy the video.
We have all swallowed hard at some point when we find our just bought device is suddenly running old technology, be it when EDGE was overtaken by 3G or 3G by HSDPA, technology advances but the devices running that technology can not, or can they?
Launching the world’s first MultiComm procesor ASCOS have created a chip that will allow users to upgrade their phone using software. Stuck with an otherwise outdated EDGE device? You can apply an upgrade and voila your phone is now HSDPA ready. Want LTE but rocking 3G? Apply an upgrade and your wish is ASCOS’ command.
While they do not produce phone themselves ASOCS design and test in house so it is likely one of two manufacturers may be knocking on their door very shortly to talk acquisition.
Now if only that pesky iPhone had one of these chips…
While HTC are letting it be known they expect to ship 2 million of their Touch Diamond in 2008, the rest of us are just thinking where’s my Diamond keyboard?
Rest easy friends you too can access the Diamond Keypad, Keyboard and QWERTY using a .cab, some installation and your stumbling attempts at Italian and you are just minutes away from a future of endless data entry options Enjoy the download here.
We announced its release but now there’s a video to show you the quality of the iPhone Video Recorder software released by DreamCatcher software. Check it out in all its 15fps, MPEG4 glory.
