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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Installation instructions are available at , please follow them when setting up Prowl. Remember, the Growl plugin is required.
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Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
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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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Hot New Official Wordpress Blogging Application for BlackBerry Smartphones Released In Beta Form!

Some time is still needed for the application to be all the way polished but even now it looks, works and feels great on my device. Many good things look to be coming from this application and truth be told it is on par with the iPhone application when it comes to functionality, but here's to hoping Automattic bumps it up to make it an even better client then that of the one on the iPhone.


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