Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:45:14 GMT

Free apps that save you money - who said "there is no such thing as a free lunch!". Well you understand the sentiment and while they won't get you a free lunch, they will make lunch

alot cheaper. They will also save you money on just about anything esle you can think of by providing price comparisons, reviews and locations. There are no longer any excuses for paying to much or buying the wrong stuff.

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:19 GMT

Today’s smart-phones struggle to get through a day on one battery charge. What can be done to extend their battery life?

1. Turn Off Bluetooth Bluetooth is continuous sending out a signal when switched on and this uses large quantities of battery power

2. Turn Off Wifi – Wifi also continues polling for Wifi points and if it is connected will poll the connected point all using battery life.

3. Turn off Location Services – Location services are constantly polling for your position

4. Turn off 3G – Yes your phone will still work and the battery will last a good time longer

5. Use a high capacity battery

6. Carry a USB charging cable (smaller and lighter than a charger this can be a life saver and honestly you're never far from a USB port)

7. Turn Vibrate Off

8. Get a timed profile app to turn them off during the night.

9. Close applications that you are not using. The HTC Hero for example can run 10 applications simultaneously and this will eat battery time

10. Turn down screen brightness

11. Turn off auto updates such as weather services

You don’t need to use all of the suggestions above. They will all aid in preserving battery life to some extent and you should start with the points that disable services that you rarely

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:26:51 GMT

Key Devour Features

• Shinny Sleek aluminum case design
• Touch Screen The Devour includes a 3.1 inch captive touch screen and a touch sensitive navigation pad which is accessed by sliding the screen up.
• Preloaded Apps The phone comes preloaded with apps including Gmail, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps.
• Lots of Apps You can also accessa further 20,000 apps through Android Market http://www.android.com/market/
• Remote Backups Motoblur comes with a helpful backup tool that securely backs up all your contacts, email, log-in info, home screen customizations and social networking messages on the motoblur portal.
• Remote Location and Destruction GPS functionality lets users locate a lost phone or remotely wipe it.
• Storage Further to this it comes with a 8GB microSD card.
• Fast High speed processor
• Continuous Use 6.5 hours
• Standby time 443 hours
• Camera 3 Mega pixel

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:37:36 GMT

Its been rumoured for a while and now Google's entry into the mobile phone market is here. Built by HTC, the Nexus one can be purchased from http://www.google.com/phone. The phone is $529 unlocked and $179 with T-Mobile contract).What you need to know about the hardware is:

• Large touch screen display (3.7 inch OLED)
• Super fast processor (1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset)
• 5 megapixel camera with flash
• 130g (slightly lighter than iPhone)
• 11.5mm (slightly thiner than iphone)
• Massive Stand By Time of upto 250 hours on 3G
• 20 hours of audio playback
• 7 hours of video playback
• 4GB Micro SD Card (expandable to 32GB)

What you need to know about the software:

• Google's open operating system (Android 2.1 OS)
• Voice-enabled keyboard
• Dynamic noise suppression (Audience Inc)
• Live wallpapers
• 3D photo gallery
• And all the google apps you can think of

All in all the package looks good and if Google can deliver the same quality it manges for search and online applications, then this is definitely worth a look. The open nature of the Android operating system and increased support by multiple manufactures, should ensure that there are soon has more apps available than for the iPhone.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:12:28 GMT

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:06:05 GMT