Archive for September, 2009
SuperPac Plan from M1 – Prepaid plan with post paid benefits
Sep 30th
M1 has just announced a new pre-paid card which has the benefits from post paid card.
The card will will be retailed at SGD25 and SGD38. And it comes with:
- Free incoming calls.
- Free local outgoing calls from 12am till next day 10am.
- Free local data surfing from 12am till next day 10am
- Per second billing
This is definitely good news for those people who want to control the cost of the phone bill and don’t mind making calls and checking emails from midnight till next morning.
Check the link.
Android 1.6 available now – Only for HTC Dev phone
Sep 30th
Android 1.6 (a.k.a. Donut) has been released – only to the developers with the unlocked HTC dream. The rest of us, please wait the official release.
Android 1.6 will bring quite a number of significant updates, namely:
- Supports for different screen sizes.
- CDMA support.
- Text to speech engine.
Well, some of you might not have to wait till the official release as hackers will be working hard to bring it to other devices before Google does.
SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 gets video review
Sep 30th
SPB Mobile shell has always been considered as one of the best user shell available for Windows Mobile platform. The interface is impressive and it has always been leading the market. Well, Mobile Shell version 3.5 has been released now and it is being sold for USD29.95. However, it is free upgrade for version 3.0 owners.
Pocketnow has a video review for it:
Nokia’s N900 Maemo 5 gets extensive review
Sep 30th
Before you buy a Nokia N900 Maemo 5 device when it hits the street, make sure you read this extremely detailed review from mobile-review. The review includes a big array of screenshots as well as covering most of the aspects of the device.
The device will look familiar to the owners of N800, N810. However, the Maemo platform has been under a major overhaul by Nokia, hoping to bring a good alternative smart device to the market.
Before enjoying the reading, there are some of the highlighted features you may want to note:
- Process management looks like webOS card view.
- It handles GSM and VoIP calls in a similar way and this make it a very VoIP friendly device.
- MMS isn’t supported.
- It support Exchange ActiveSync. With the Google Sync lately, you might be able to make it work with Google services.
- It uses Mozilla-based browser.
[via mobile-review]
Palm WebOS 1.2 is ready for download
Sep 29th
Palm WebOS 1.2 is ready for download. According to palm site, there isn’t new feature for the new version. However, there are quite a number of updates for the existing applications.
To name a few of more significant updates:
- User can download paid apps from App Catalog now
- LinkedIn is now supported for Contact Sync
Palm did not “fix” the syncing issue for iTune 9.01. I am just wondering whether Palm will still want to play the break-it-and-fix-it game with Apple.
[via palm]
2 billion download mark with Apple App Store
Sep 29th
What a number! 2 billion downloads. It took the App Store to have 1 billion apps to 1.5 billion apps in 3 months. And now, 1.5 billion to 2 billion in just 2 months plus.
According to the press, Apple has now over 85,000 apps in the App Store. Apple owns the number one web store at the moment. Palm, Microsoft, Google and others still have a long way to go to beat the numbers.
[via apple]
Singtelshop updated HTC Hero price, now SGD298 and more
Sep 28th
I just visted the Singtelshop web site and found out that the HTC Hero is back to the store but with a differebt price range. It is now S$298 for the high plan(S$82.93/month and above), S$498 for the low plan and S$598 for the super low plan (S$15/month).
Damn, should have ordered one when it was listed as S$98 for the high plan.
