Nokia 3720 classic takes a licking and keeps on talking

Over the past few days, the folks over at Nokia have been putting an unknown handset through a variety of torture tests on video, presumably to whet our appetites for an imminent announcement. The poor little guy has been dunked in a pint, smacked with a golf club, punted through the air, drowned in a pool and even dropped two stories off a ladder — each and every time followed by the phrase “it’s still working!” Suffice it to say, this new Nokia kit is ruggedized and it fairs extremely well in a variety of real world accident scenarios. As many had assumed, it looks like said handset is shaping up to be the IP54-certified 3720 classic we first heard about last month. Specs were reported this morning as follows:

• Water and dust resistant (IP54 certificate)


• Battery life: over 2.5 weeks standby time


• FM radio


• Integrated flashlight


• S40 OS


• 2.2-inch QVGA display, 16M colors


• 25MB internal memory


• MicroSD card slot


• Bluetooth


• 3.2 megapixel camera

Pretty decent for a handset that can take a serious beating. Nokia will certainly be announcing this scrapper soon but for the time being, it’s rumored to be hitting the streets some time in September at an unknown price. Hit the jump for a few of our favorite 3720 torture test videos.

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O2, Movistar to have exclusive rights to the Palm Pre in Europe

It wasn’t exactly a surprise but it looks like there’s finally some good news to report for Pre hopefuls across the pond. That news: O2 and Movistar have been announced as the exclusive European carriers for the Palm Pre. To be available in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain before the year is through, pretty much no other specific information was given as to when or for how much the device would retail for in each market. Those of you who might be interested in importing a GSM Pre take note — the specific UMTS/HSDPA bands that it will be packing have not yet been listed so keep those fingers crossed.

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PopCap Working on Games for Pre

Bejeweled on the Pre. Zuma on the Pre. Peggle on the Pre. All this may someday come to pass. In a recent interview with Pixels to Polygons, Garth Chouteau, Senior Public Relations Director from PopCap Games discussed the future of his company, including the ripe-for-expansion mobile gaming industry. Addressing new platforms such as webOS and Android, Chouteau said (around 15:15 in the podcast):
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We have plans to support the Pre, as well as Android. There are games in the works for those devices. But it is certainly a kind of splintering of the market in some ways. I guess what I would say is, we think about platforms or prospective platforms in a couple of ways. One is: is this device right for one or more of our games? Is this the right kind of device for our games? Will it be a fun experience, and frankly as fun as it is on other platforms? And also, what is the audience for this particular device? And then certainly, but certainly not insignificantly, what is the install base?


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LG slowly unveils the next generation Chocolate

LG released a teaser spot on its Spanish blog that partially reveals the next generation of its popular Chocolate handset. According to LG, the new Chocolate will improve usability while maintaining the style and minimalistic design of its predecessor. A handful of carefully crafted profile shots reveal this sleek, simple design — and little else. Drooling over the design and want details? You will have to wait a little longer unfortunately as additional information on this sweet handset will be forthcoming in August. Hit the jump for a few more photos.

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Sprint's Now Network Campaign Wins Golden Lion

Sprint just took home one of the world’s top advertising prizes at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival on June 27 for its tech-savvy Now Network™ campaign. Hit the Jump for more Details...



Sprint just took home one of the world’s top advertising prizes at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival on June 27 for its tech-savvy Now Network™ campaign.

Sprint beat out several well-known campaigns from other notable competitors to win the Gold Integrated Lion award. A total of 2,205 entries were submitted in the Cyber category from organizations worldwide from which 208 finalists were selected. The Sprint Now Network campaign also took home five other awards – four Silver Lions and a Bronze Lion in the Digital Category. Sprint was the only brand to win multiple awards within a category. Additionally, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sprint’s advertising agency, was recognized as Interactive Agency of the Year at Cannes.

The Cannes Lion awards add to an impressive list of honors Sprint received earlier this year for the Now Network campaign, including Gold at the Clios, Gold at the New York Festivals, Silver Pencils at the One Show, and winner at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Next Awards Show and the D&AD Awards Show. Sprint also won top honors at the Webby Awards and was a finalist at the New York Festivals both awards given for the Get Work Done Now™ advertising campaign.










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Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews!

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Sony Ericsson “Twiggy” Walkman phone strikes a pose

We’re not exactly sure this upcoming handset from Sony Ericsson is deserving of renowned 90lb supermodel’s name — even as a codename — but slender form or not, the SE Twiggy is the star of a new round of live shots. Rumored to have been canceled (and it very well still might be), the Twiggy is a Walkman phone with a thin flip above the keypad common to various Sony Ericsson handsets over the years. In this new iteration, the face of the flip cover is home to a single touch-sensitive play/pause button. Nifty, but we would’ve liked to see forward and back buttons as well of course, as are present on the face of the W350. Beyond that, little is known about the music phone other than the fact that it has a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back.
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How to: Sync Notes and Memos on the Pre (Sort of)

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I wish I could tell you that you could actually synchronize the notes from the Memos application on your Pre, but then I’d be lying to you. For whatever disappointing reason, the Pre in its current form does not support the synchronization of Memos and there’s not much that we can do about that. There are at least four different ways to deal with this. The first way is to just deal with it. The built-in memos application is both easy-to-use and plenty fast, plus it comes with type-to-search. But... it doesn’t sync with anything.

And then there’s Evernote, currently in free beta form in the App Catalog. You can take the notes in Evernote, in addition to snapping pictures to storing tasks, and all of it will sync with your PC, Mac, and even Evernote’s web services. But, as is so often the reality of betas, Evernote is a touch slow and occasionally buggy.

Have a Microsoft Exchange account? Then you can sync your notes, so long as you’re willing to make them notes attached to your tasks. And we know what you’re thinking, it’s kind of hacky. And we agree, it is hacky, and we shouldn’t have to stoop to using applications Tasks to sync our memos. Palm, are you listening?

Lastly, there’s email. If you’re a Gmail user, you can send messages to yourself with the subject prefix of “Note:”, and then using Gmail’s filters and labels you can have your notes automatically sorted into folders on the Pre. It’s a great magical sync and lets you use the Pre’s fantastic email program, but like the aforementioned Tasks notes syncing, it’s a hacky work-around that we should have to deal with.

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Nokia N97 gets a 15% price cut from Amazon

Sure it hit the street less than a month ago but that’s plenty of time to rope in the early adopters when it comes to hot new high-end handsets. As such, Amazon.com has just dropped the price on Nokia’s new flagship handset to $599.99 with free shipping; still a bit high for some but definitely inching closer to attainability. While this isn’t the best advertised price we’ve seen thus far for the Nokia N97 — Nokia USA had it on sale for $594 late last month — it is the lowest total price including taxes so far. Any takers?

Also of note: Amazon.com dropped the price of the N79 to $300 lining it up with the 5800XM and E71, and the N85 is currently listed at $330. All are unlocked of course, including the N97, and waiting for your SIM card of choice.

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Congrats to Where's Free Palm Pre Winner!

PreCentral.com had there WIN A PALM PRE contest asking people to submit or Post your Love Letter or Video Ode. Here is your winner.

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry currently in the works

If you’re a Gmail user with a BlackBerry this is going to be a proud moment for you, no question. It’s ok to admit it — we’ve all shed a tear or two when thinking about just how poor Gmail integration is on the BlackBerry platform. Read status doesn’t sync, no access to folders/tags and so on. Dry those eyes though, BlackBerry fans, because it looks like RIM is finally planning to start cooking with gas. Rumor has it the Canadian company is hard at work on an “Enhanced Gmail Plug-in” that will add various functionality to Gmail integration. Rumored functions include:

• See your Gmail based emails in Conversation View for simple topic management


• Add and remove labels and stars to emails to keep inbox organized


• Archive and report as spam actions for mailbox management on the go


• Search your entire Gmail inbox

The plug-in is being beta tested right now internally and amongst a lucky few outside the company. Mmmmm.

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BlackBerry Loves U2 - Watch the Ad

RIM/BlackBerry is sponsoring U2's 360 tour, and they've updated their recently launched BlackBerry.com/u2 microsite to include a BlackBerry Loves U2 commercial.

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Samsung i7500 Galaxy hits UK this month

Sure, we might be a bit more anxious for the Hero, G1 v2 or the Morrison at this point, but let’s not forget Samsung’s first Android-powered handset — the Galaxy i7500 — has yet to see the light of day. Though it might not be the most exciting handset in the world, the i7500 certainly will be the best-spec’d Android handset when it launches. While we know it will be hitting T-Mobile at some point here in the US, it looks like our friends across the pond will be first to enjoy this sweet smartphone with an O2 release coming some time this month. Big bright touchscreen, 8GB of internal storage, 5 megapixel camera with flash, 3.5mm audio jack and Android 1.5 all wrapped in a 12mm-thin case… Fair enough.


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iPhone 3GS Video Recording Technical Breakdown

Automatic Filmmaker have put together a technical breakdown of what they think so far as well a comparison with the Flip MinoHD

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Orange to finally launch LG GD910 watch phone next month

More interesting news from the UK today as it looks like LG’s would-be-highly-anticipated-if-not-for-the-insanely-high-rumored-price-tag GD910 watch phone is set to become a reality next month. Orange has reportedly confirmed that LG’s Dick Tracy-esque wrist gear will hit store shelves some time in August as an exclusive, though Orange exclusivity will only be for “a limited time”. The carrier hasn’t yet pinned a price on the touchscreen GD910 watch phone and we don’t blame them considering it’s rumored to be in the £1,000 range (about $1,612 at today’s exchange rate) on a pay-as-you-go plan or SIM-only. And you thought the Nokia N97 was expensive. For the sake of our British friends’ wallets, let’s hope the rumored price is way high and this little HSDPA-ready wristwatch drops with a slightly less ridiculous price tag. As for availability on this side of the Atlantic — don’t hold your breath.

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iPhone App: Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone OS. Notifications from your Mac are sent to your iPhone or iPod Touch over push, with a full range of customization.

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• Push Notifications—When a Growl notification pops up on your Mac, it's sent to Prowl over push and displayed on your iPhone.

• History—Up to 30 days of notifications are kept on the server. You can delete notifications that you don't want to see any more, or remove all of your history.

• Customized notifications—Only events you want are sent to Prowl. Inside the Growl preferences, you can set what priority should be sent, or how long after your machine has been idle the events should begin sending.

• Send any message to your device—From the Prowl website, you can send any amount of text to your device: links and phone numbers are automatically linked, so you can easily navigate around without having to worry about typos.

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BlackBerry App World To Hit Italy, France, Germany and Spain This Month; Brazil and India Coming Soon

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, RIM's VP of Global Alliances, Jeff McDowell, went on record to say that App World would be launching later this month in Italy, France, Germany and Spain and that it will also provide access to countries such as Brazil and India in coming months.

App World's catalogue has doubled since its launch on April 1st, now offering over 2,000 apps, but that's still way behind Apple's App Store which hit the 50,000 app milestone. Though according to McDowell, RIM is "very happy" with the volume of app downloads generated by App World and went on to say, "I don't think it matters whether it's 40,000 or 2,000, you've still got a broad range of choice."

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iPhone App: Mobile Maps America - North - Turn-by-Turn Voice Guided GPS Navigation

Sygic GPS navigation software turns your iPhone into a real-time,
turn-by-turn voice guided navigation system.

Crystal-clear animated 3D maps, fast and intuitive address search,
precise route calculation, lane assistant, signpost information, notifications
about upcoming petrol stations and restaurants – Sygic Mobile Maps 2009
for iPhone is featuring all of these innovations to guide you precisely to
your destination.

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ALL MAPS INCLUDED
The package includes the latest maps from Tele Atlas, the leading map provider
There are no monthly fees or hidden charges.

SMOOTH REAL-TIME GUIDANCE
Since all maps are on your device, there is no need to download data from a
cellular network. The navigation is smooth and free of any interruptions.

LANDSCAPE OR PORTRAIT VIEW, DAY AND NIGHT VIEW
The application adapts to landscape or portrait view in real time. Colors change
when it gets dark.

CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION EASILY
Choose the address from history or search quickly, even with typos.

AVOID SURPRISES
Review the list of turn instructions. They provide you with detailed overview
about maneuvers on the route.

PICK YOUR LANGUAGE
Software and voice instructions are localized in more than 20 languages. Latin,
Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek and Thai text input methods are included.

MAKE A CALL
Click on the POI and call directly from the application. Reserving a table
at your favorite restaurant is now just a click away.

RECEIVE A CALL
No need for you to interact with the phone while driving. The navigation
resumes automatically after the call.

SAVE YOUR FAVORITE PLACES
Discovered new place you like? Save it to your custom points of interest and
navigate to it easily.

DRIVE, RIDE OR WALK
Either in your car or on your bicycle, Sygic navigation system will adapt route
calculation to fit your needs the best way.

NEVER GET LOST
Missed the turn? No worries, new route will be calculated in an instant.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR PROGRESS
Define what you want to see on the main information bar – 4 spaces are free
for you to choose from 10 info options, including journey time, length from or
to destination, distances, speed or signal.

FIND PARKING
Sygic Mobile Maps 2009 for iPhone will provide you with a list of nearby parking
areas. Select your favorite one and you’ll be guided to it.

STAY SAFE ALL THE TIME
The navigation system cares for your safety and provides you with information
about railway crossings and lane assistance.

RELEASE NOTES
The America edition of Sygic Mobile Maps 2009 for iPhone v7.71.2 includes the following
maps, instruction voices and user interface languages:

MAPS
US, Canada, Mexico

INSTRUCTION VOICES
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish.

USER INTERFACE LANGUAGES
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English UK, English US, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese BR, Portuguese PT, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish,
Swedish, Thai, Turkish.

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Dear customers,
We listen carefully to your feedback.
New application version has just been submitted to Apple for review.

New in the update:
- enabled making calls to points of interest
- voice instructions volume tuned up
- music playback not being interrupted by voice instructions
- GPS signal information improved
- added low battery status information
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Sygic. The best choice for your iPhone.
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BlackBerry OS 5.0 - Some More Screencaps of New Features

OS 5.0. It's the next incremental evolution in BlackBerry device software and it's "officially" coming to a BlackBerry smartphone near you hopefully soon. We were told at WES we should see it hit late summer / early fall (the rollout is expected to be for all devices that are getting it at once, which means it'll likely take a bit longer to get here as they need the green light across the board before they release it).

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I meant to get this posted a couple weeks back, but newer versions of 5.0 (.110 and more recent) show even further tweaks to the feature offering, like the ability to submit feedback on applications, choose your default mapping application, choose to enable/disable data while on a call (3G devices), the addition of Sounds and Ringtones to Options as well as a dedicated homescreen icon and more options when doing a handheld wipe. You can check out the screencaps below for a first and hand look and follow the links for more OS 5.0 related content.

 

Some Further incremental OS Improvements from OS 5.0

OS 5.0.0.110 for the BlackBerry Bold - still in development

 

Submitting feedback to RIM

 

Select Default Mapping Service

 

Ring Tones Icon

Media Memory utility gets updated further

 

Control data usage during calls

 

Sounds and Ring Tones (I prefer to spell it Ringtones!)

 

a more refined handheld wipe

 

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iPhone 3.1 Beta Walkthrough

iPhone 3.1 Beta 1 has just been released, and unlike the major new version that was iPhone 3.0, it’s still unclear how many features — compared with bug fixes — will be added. However, enterprising developers have already discovered at least a few things we can all look forward too.

So, here’s a iPhone 3.1 Beta Walkthrough, and we’ll keep it updated as/if Apple releases future betas.

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Home Screen

The jigglies — what Dieter lovingly calls the little dance icons do when you hold them down long enough to make them moveable and rearrangeable — now make the iPhone vibrate once to further indicate the change of state. Whether or not this will somehow factor in to the iPhone 3GS accessibility features is uncertain.

Voice Control

Voice Control, after holding down the Home button for several seconds, let you speak simple commands to place calls and control music. In iPhone 3.1, it will also work over Bluetooth.

The exact process isn’t clear yet, but it’s hard to imagine anything other than holding down the call button on a Bluetooth headset function similarly to how the Home button currently works.

Messages

After being present in iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 through Beta 4, before being stripped out in Beta 5, AT&T users will again find MMS functionality restored to the interface. However, it’s not functional without hacking the carrier file, and it’s unknown if it will survive until release or be stripped out again if AT&T still isn’t ready for the feature to go live.

Calendar

Calendar gets a minor tweak in iPhone 3.1. Now event alerts also display the location of the event in the popup. Presumably, this is now considered important glance-able information.

Photos

Video trimming is now non-destructive. Previously, if you trimmed a video, it was automatically saved over the original, meaning you could never undo or go back to the full clip. Now, a Save As… dialog gives you the option of preserving the original and creating as many version copies as you want (an short clip to email, a longer one to share to YouTube, and the full clip to sync and bring into iMovie, for example).

Phone

Copy and Paste comes to the Phone Keypad. Just tap and hold and the input area will change from dark blue to light blue, and the Copy Paste menu will pop up.

Reportedly, the iPhone Paste feature is “smart” enough to change alphanumeric phone numbers to pure numbers (i.e. 1-800-FLOWERS to 1-800-356-9377).

When Will it Ship?

If history is any indication, iPhone 2.0 was released on July 11, 2008, and iPhone 2.1 followed some two months and 4 betas later on September 12, 2008 hot on the heels of Apple’s Let’s Rock introduction of the 2nd generation iPod touch. Will we have to wait for another new iPod and music event before we see 3.1?

Our guess is Apple will try to get 3.1 out earlier to fix a few of the more onerous bugs, but as always, only Jobs knows for sure…

Note on Using Beta Software

Unlike iPhone 2.0 Betas, where access seemed much more limited and leaks were few and far between, 3.1 like 3.0 seems to be on every iPhone users want-now list. Also, unlike 2.0 when many devs were seasoned pros, now Apple is touting thousands upon thousands in the program, some seemingly happy enough to enable 3.0 access for the general user base.

However, betas are intended for developers to test and report back on. They’re not as stable, not as snappy, not as feature-complete and anyone trying to use them as a production OS on their main (or worse, only) device is likely to have something less than an ideal experience. People trying to use it as such may wish they could go back to iPhone 3.0 almost as much as they wished for 3.1. Think thrice before taking the plunge.

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