Jan 22

Nokia has just announced the Nokia PC Phone. No, it's not a new smartphone, rather it's a software application that allows users to control their Nokia cell phones and smart phones through their home computer.

That's right. Now Nokia users can now view their call log and messages, manage their contacts, send SMS messages, even receive notifications of incoming calls and choose whether or not to answer it over their PC.

Easy to download and install, the software connects to the users' Nokia smartphone or cell phone via Bluetooth or data cables.

Currently the software in the beta stage of development, meaning that it does still have its bugs to iron out. For example, the Nokia PC Phone works well on Internet Explorer but not Mozilla Firefox yet. And the SMS text messaging features are still quite clunky and unresponsive.

There's little doubt, however, that a company with such a consistently impressive track record like Nokia has will sort through all of these minor problems soon enough and release another impeccable product in their later version Nokia PC Phone.

Download the Nokia PC Phone at BetaLabs.


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Jan 21

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On Tuesday, January 15, Apple's top exec Steve Jobs gave a keynote address at the Macworld 2008 convention. Key among his comments was that in the first 200 days on the market for the cutting-edge iPhone, Apple sold 4 million units.

With 20,000 more units shipped each day, the iPhone currently has just under 20% of the U.S. smartphone market share.

Jobs promised that the iPhone software development kit will be released within the next month, allowing programmers everywhere to start developing great new features to integrate into the iPhone.

In the meantime, Apple released Firmware version 1.1.3 and is soon to be introducing a whole bunch of new features into the product including:

  • Web Clips - a GPS-like update of GoogleMaps that allows user to triangulate their location
  • The ability to send an SMS out to multiple recipients
  • A customized home screen

Jobs also made mention of how many of the iPhone's features like mail, notes, weather, and stocks are now being made available in the iPod Touch.

Read more about it at BetaNews


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