Skype Mobile Beta for Java.

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Apr 26 2008 - 555 views

Seems like skype have been trying to infiltrate the mobile market for quite a while now. Remember the skype phone, we reported late October last year, slated for the UK.

Well it seems they are trying a new tack, announcing a Mobile Beta for Java phones. With the release of this Mobile "Thin" client, the company is targeting about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

The beta version of Skype for your mobile is available worldwide with a feature set that includes chat, group chat, presence (seeing when your contacts are online), and receiving calls from Skype users, and through SkypeIn.* Additional features, which include the making of Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from the mobile handsets, are initially supported in seven markets: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

You can download to desktop and transfer to phone or get it over-the-air from www.skype.com/go/mobiledownload.

 

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T-Mobile and …. Android?

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Apr 25 2008 - 298 views

So we are all waiting with baited breath to see who’s gonna come up with the first Google Android phone. So much speculation, so much hope of a new format that will give us some new gadgets to obsess about. So a VP over at T-Mobile has let it slip that they’re expecting

Joe Sims, VP and general manager of T-Mobile broadband, recently said at a conference that he had seen early versions of the forthcoming Android-based phone. He said that T-Mobile is on track to ship them by the fourth quarter of this year. "I’m impressed," he said. "We will have more than one product." He also said the open platform will spur innovation everywhere, not just on the Android phones.

This article over at  InformationWeek, has some great links to other great rumours going around at the moment, especially more HTC stuff. Hope Android isn’t as ugly as the fore runner pictured.

Via Solsie

 

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Now This Is Mobile Technology! part 14

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Apr 25 2008 - 307 views

How we transport our mobile gadgets, is always up for question. Cases, carriers,sleeves and device holders are constantly in the news because we want to protect our investments, namely your current device. Actually, quite a while ago, I was looking for a review unit that I couldn’t get. The UtiliKilt, is another in the next wave of wearable accessories

What are ye starin’ at, ye wee girl?! This be no skirt, this be a UtiliKilt! Fashioned after the traditional garb of the Celtic warrior. Now of course ye know, William Wallace has ne’er worn a kilt - they weren’t invented until Willie had been stone dead for nearly four-hundred years, but they’re still all about freedom!

Made from a poly-cotton blend so it’s durable and yet soft. It’s got lots of pockets for your crap, so you can carry a cellphone, or screwdrivers, or a beer should the need arise. Big riveted snaps keep everything safe and secure, including your manhood.

Obviously a solution for transporting your mobile devices, but what about wearable devices. How about something stylish that’ll let you enter data on the fly…

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Cuz you’d better learn about it: Hexxagon Labs coming to PDA/Smartphones!

Posted by: Ragart on Apr 25 2008 - 254 views

Hot on the heels of their last strategy game comes Herocraft’s new puzzle strategy time-killer: Hexxagon Labs! The game isn’t out just yet — but the juicy info sure is! From what I understand it’s played with hexagons and you have to take over the board as well as the enemy’s hexies (new slang term I made up) without losing any of yours. You can do this alone and face the "best American and European professors whose brains were implanted in the game’s" AI — or you can just play with friend x and y next to you.

And if all of this high technology (just how did they get all those brains into the game?!), social interaction, and six-sidedness isn’t enough for you, there’s one last thing! Before every level there will be a set of scientific facts that are guaranteed to blow your mind. Learning + Fun? Oh, Herocraft, I thought only Sesame Street did that!

 

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Review: Stand Back, I Know Mozaki! Hi-Yah!

Posted by: weiganla on Apr 24 2008 - 807 views

I used to have a friend who really liked to play Scrabble. We never bothered to play by the rules and keep track of how many points each word got. (Well, we did gloat at each other when we played "ZOOLOGY" on a triple word score.) It was more fun to keep going with foreign words and proper names until we ran out of tiles, and by the end the board was so clogged I could hardly find a place to put down another word.

Mozaki sort of reminds me of those Scrabble games. The goal is to lay down groups of tiles as they are "dealt" to form single-color bridges between the center and the side of the appropriate color. That sounds easy enough until you consider two things: 1) if you’re angling for a high score, you need to form big tile squares for big points, and 2) the groups of tiles are funny shapes and mix colors, so your straightforward path turns into a torturous circuit around marooned odd-color tiles until you can’t find a place to lay down the next piece without completely blocking yourself in.

What is Mozaki? It’s a game played with mosaics that makes you wish you had some sake.

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Acer…E-Ten, New phones imminent!

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Apr 24 2008 - 240 views

Considering Acer’s acquisition of mobile manufacturer E-Ten back in march, it’s been quiet on the GloFish side of things. Until now Acer haven’t really communicated an action plan as far as it’s participation in the world of converged mobile devices.

Acer have been able to provide great laptops, desktops and handhelds, but how will they go with smartphones?

 

 

But will Acer be able to stir up the smartphone industry the way it has PCs? It’s obviously not impossible for a new smartphone maker to enter the market and quickly scoop up share (hello, iPhone), but Acer is obviously no Apple. It doesn’t have the same marketing machine or demonstrated design chops. But it doesn’t have to make the next iPhone to find success. Betting on the evolution of mobile computing from laptops to a smart device like a phone is a no-brainer at this point.

This post from C-Net today seems to say, smartphone for acer, What do you think?

 

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