Mobile Phones
Science to the rescue! Can an iPhone 3GS burn us?
If your new iPhone 3GS has singed a burning great hole through your face, you're probably one of the most unlucky people in the world. But a small group of sympathisers are likely to lend their support as it seems numerous complaints are arising over the heat generated by Apple's speedy new phone.
A French user noted that when using the phone's 3G and GPS connections, the phone became so hot it caused discolouration of the white plastic casing. The Telegraph also notes a user whose phone became so hot after a 20-minute 3G call he was forced to use the speakerphone mode in order to keep talking. Continue reading...
Ghost Pigeon hides your secret identity
During the day, we're mild-mannered tech bloggers, wearing glasses and looking moody in our vast, yet innocuous, Crave penthouse. But at night, we fight crime. We take on the persona of a creature of the night, black, terrible, shadowy -- we become the Ghost Pigeon.
To protect our loved ones, we have to keep our secret identity super-duper seekrit. That means hiding our calls and texts to the police commissioner, especially when we send him MMS messages with videos of us collaring a miscreant.
Luckily, just for people like us there's Ghost Pigeon software, a secret-phone-within-a-phone, which will hide your texts, MMS messages and calls.
Ghost Pigeon is invisible on the phone -- there's no icon in the menu. Instead, you launch the application by typing in a password. We installed Ghost Pigeon on our Nokia N95 8GB, and although it's visible in the list of installed apps, its name is well disguised. Continue reading...
Cooliris for iPhone: Sexying up image search
The iPhone Safari browser has to be on the top three mobile Web browsers available today -- it's fast and it renders full-size pages perfectly. But if you want your Web with an extra whack of wow-factor, iPhone fans, you can't look past Cooliris.
Some of you may already be familiar with the Cooliris add-on for Firefox, IE and Safari desktop browsers. Simply put, Cooliris searches image sites, such as Google Images or Flickr, and returns results to your search in rows of images in a faux 3D space. Continue reading...
LG GT500 muscles in on the mid-range
Mid-range isn't a bad thing -- our favourite size of dog, for example, is medium-sized. Small enough to be practical in the city, but big enough that we're not tempted to carry it around in a handbag and call it our baby.
The new LG GT500 touchscreen phone looks as practical as a Labradoodle, boasting a good range of features and a medium-sized price. The GT500 is exclusive to T-Mobile, and although it's still yet to make it on to its Web site, T-Mob says it will cost from free on a £25-per-month contract.Continue reading...
Best iPhone office apps 
Sure, you got an iPhone to look cool on the train on to work, but don't forget that it does more collect face grease and make amusing fart noises. So whether it's from the patio of your Tuscan villa or from your sweaty commuter-packed carriage, this collection of iPhone apps will transform your iPhone into an office. Some are paid for, but many are free, and all links will take you direct to the iTunes App Store. Continue reading...
Sagem DTR 67500T: Never miss another paternity punch-up
On its various digital channels, ITV shows three hours of Jeremy Kyle every day. That means there are 15 hours worth of glorious chav-baiting each week that we can't watch because we're busy writing terrific stories here. So what we need is some sort of device that can store massive amounts of non-ironic velour tracksuits and chunky gold identity bracelets. Luckily, Sagem has come to the rescue with a 500GB, twin-tuner Freeview+ PVR.
The ability to record the very scrapings of society's barrel is just the start. Sagem claims the 67500T is also eco-friendly, which means we'll still have a planet for people to argue on in 100 years. Continue reading...
Explained: Mobile roaming charges slashed, data excluded
Today is the 37th anniversary of the first Gay Pride march in England. More relevantly to our concerns, it's also the day new EU regulations come into effect that could slash the cost of using your mobile phone while abroad by more than half. So, a good day to be gay and on holiday.
There's a short version and a long version, after the jump. Continue reading...
Updated Skype for iPhone, Windows and Windows Mobile
The coding monkeys at Skype have been hammering away all night on their tiny monkey keyboards to bring us three new versions of the voice-over-IP call-meister.
Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile is out of beta, bringing file transfer and SMS messages to our WinMo phones. It also sports a wizard for adding new contacts, the ability to block users from your search results, and a splash of paint over Skype 2.5's old look.Continue reading...
One plug to fuel them all: EU to standardise phone chargers
"Has anyone got a Nokia charger, I need one quick," you screamed across the office. "Only Samsungs here," came a reply. "Just Motorola, sorry!" came another. "BlackBerry here, hun," shouted that new chick in HR.
This type of call-and-response frustration, dear hearts, will soon be a thing of the past. It has been announced that from 2010 onwards, Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, RIM and other manufacturers have agreed to support one standard phone charger that uses the Micro-USB connector. Continue reading...
iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G real-world battery test: Over 45 per cent better
Sure, smart phones such as the iPhone can order your groceries and hail you a cab, but they eat batteries like a fat kid let loose on the pick-n-mix.
Apple promised that the new iPhone 3GS would improve things with better battery life, but we're the kind of rugged individualists who have to see things for ourselves, so we took an iPhone 3GS and and iPhone 3G into our hermetically sealed lab deep in the antarctic tundra -- okay, a desk in the corner -- and set them two gruelling tasks.Continue reading...
