It is here, finally!  Google has just made Google StreetView available in Singapore.  You can now view the streets of Singapore using Google Map on your PC or on your mobile device.  First launched in May 2007, Street View is hugely popular worldwide and is available in more than 100 metropolitan areas around the world. Singapore is the first country in Southeast Asia to get Street View and the fourth country in Asia Pacific after [...]

Fring, the first company to bring VoIP to iPhone, has release a new version of the software that support video calls on iPhone.  However, due to the lack of a front mounted viewcam on iPhone, the video can only be done one way.  The video calls are done via the wifi network with IP connection.  If the next release of iPhone comes with a front mounted viewcam, a full featured video call will be a [...]

HTC is famous of not using a proper video drivers for their Windows Mobile phones and it has caused a lot of complaints regarding video performance from the users around the world. And it is the same case for their latest HD2.  There have been complaints that some of the 3D games and applications are not working properly on the HD2.  According to the author of the patch: “For many Leo users several OpenGL games [...]

I have just posted the unofficial screenshots of Android 2.1 for HTC Hero 2 days ago, and now XDA-Developers have gotten it to run and released for everybody to download. According to post on XDA-Developers, it is still being worked on and bugs are being ironed out from time to time.  However, it is definitely working on your GSM version of HTC Hero. By looking at the progress, the official release of Android 2.1 for [...]

ZiiLABS, the wholly owned subsidary of Creative Technology Limited (a Singapore owned multimedia hardware company), has announced TRINITY, a concept phone based on their StemCell Computing technology. The heart of the phone is the ZMS-05 and ZMS-03 StemCell CPU from ZiiLABS which are highly optimized to run multimedia applications, with low power consumption and flexible processing power allocations.  The concept phone is capable of processing HD media of 1080i format. Features of the Zii TRINITY [...]

Gizmodo has posted another article regarding the rumour of Google phone.  And they say “the Google phone is a certainty”. We do not know how true it is, but according to Gozmodo, they have a reliable source that the prototype phones are coming to Google campus within the next few weeks. So the Android handsets we are havig in the market now like HTC Hero and Motorola DROID may not be the real Android phones.  [...]

The results of the Android Developer Challenge 2 have been published by Google. Among the winners, “SweetDreams”, “What the Doodles!?” and “WaveSecure” are the overall winners.  Congratulations!! If you are an Android phone owner and are wondering what are the good applications to install to your phone due to the messiness of Android Market, the results of ADC2 can give you ideas of what to install. You can find the official web site of the [...]

For some of the iPhone users, unable to run multiple applications on iPhone is quite annoying.  Many have gone for jailbreak solution to add unofficial functionalities to their iPhones and some add multitasking capability to them.  Multifl0w, yet another multitask hack for jailbroken iPhone with a beautiful and very usable coverflow liked interface, can give Apple ideas of how to implement multitasking on iPhone should they finally decide to add that to iPhone. Enjoy the [...]

After successfully launching its first Android phone, Liquid, Acer is targeting to have more Android phones to the market next year. Acer is currently having around 10 models of Windows Mobile phones in the market and only 1 for Android phone.  However, Acer sees the potential of Android phone and has committed to have a balance of Windows Mobile based phones and Android based phone next year.  And they are targetting to have a round [...]