March SplashShopper Contest Winners

Posted by: PatrickJ on Mar 31 2007 - 570 views

Our winners are:

jphj44, Merlin, SinisterJunkie

As always, huge thanks to SplashData for generously running this contest with us each month - and thanks to all those who participated.

Congratulations to our winners. Please look out for an email soon from Just Another Mobile Monday, asking for some details required for the software publisher’s license database.

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BlueAnt SuperTooth Light Makes Driving and Chatting Safer

Posted by: tjchan on Mar 31 2007 - 1,116 views

Mobility Site recently talked about the SuperTooth Light, a cool new Bluetooth hands free kit, that is affordable and promotes safer driving. By attaching this device to a vehicle’s sun visor, it is ready to go and is easily transferred from one vehicle to another or even your home.

With a retractable microphone that support full duplex mode (2 parties can speak simultaneously), amazing battery efficiency - 15 hours of talk time and 800 hours of standby time, echo/noise cancellation, and voice dial activation this is one really sweet solution that works with all Bluetooth phones. So head on over to BlueAnt and get all the juicy details including some more great pics of the SuperTooth Light in action!

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AT&T Cranks Up the Speed of HSDPA

Posted by: Steve Laser on Mar 31 2007 - 928 views

AT&T, formerly Cingular, is the speed leader in the data upload/download speed market, even though they purportedly don’t have as much national coverage as Sprint does with their slower, but blanket covered EVDO Rev A.

Now Cingular is upping the ante.  They are upgrading their upload speeds gradually, throughout the year via software updates.  They expect to multiply the already fast speed with up to a five times factor.  And the better news is that they plan on adding up to 65 HSDPA markets in the country.  To compete with the likes of Sprint, they really need the coverage.

Read more at Gizmodo 

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Disposable fuel cell: $20. Having the hippest power backup: priceless.

Posted by: PocketBrain on Mar 31 2007 - 829 views

     Medis Technologies is producing a $20 disposable direct borohydride fuel cell.  The product will have several different charging connectors for compatibility with a variety of devices.

• It is capable of sustaining your cell phone for up to 30 hours of talk time, and operating some ipods as much as 60-80 hours. 
• It’s ready for immediate use (no recharging necessary).
• It’s safe to use (nonflammable, nontoxic).
• It’s environmentally friendly, with no mercury, cadmium, or other harmful metals.
• Convenient size and lightweight.
• Cost effective.
• It "Bridges the power gap" for 3G and 4G cell phones.

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Review: Call of Duty 2 — Prepare To Be AMAZED!

Posted by: dgoldring on Mar 30 2007 - 8,275 views

 

I have been killing Nazis on the computer since the early days of Castle Wolfenstein.  Since those early days, I have played virtually every variation of first person action games: Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake, several Star Wars based titles, and, of course, the Call of Duty series.  It is an exciting genre which puts you directly at the center of the action. 

So, you are probably wondering why I am mentioning all of this here, on a site designed for mobile devices.  First person action games are ideally suited for desktop computers with their high speed graphics cards, mountains of memory, and stereo surround sound speakers.  The Pocket PC on the other hand is lucky to have VGA graphics, stereo speakers if you are lucky, and memory which seemed small in 1997, let alone 2007.   

Keeping this in mind, you probably expect any attempt at a first person action game to have slow, jerky graphics and poor sound.  I know I did.  I would have been amazed if anyone told me that a first person action game like this would run at all on the Pocket PC.  Then, I tried Call of Duty 2.  Prepare to be amazed!

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Resco Wants Your Opinions. Download Their Betas Today

Posted by: dgoldring on Mar 30 2007 - 966 views

Thanks to Solsie, over at Solsie.com for reminding me to post something about these releases.  Resco, which makes some incredibly popular programs is updating some of its most important programs: Resco Explorer and Resco Photo Viewer.  While they finalize the new versions, they have released a Beta version of each.  Click the links above to check out the Beta, or keep reading to see what is new.

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