15 Ağustos 2008 Cuma

Sprint readying a red HTC Touch Diamond?


We won't even front with you -- we have some serious doubts about this one, but with all those other red handsets that have emerged on Sprint over the years, we suppose that image above has a sliver of credence. We've no details whatever outside of two more shots of the red HTC Touch Diamond (or Victor, to be proper) in the read link, but these could very well be someone's best shot at using Photoshop to gain 15 minutes of internet fame. What say you, dear readers? Real or fake?

Multilingual Talking Dictionaries Available for iPhone/iPod Touch

Paragon Software Group has launched a series of multilingual dictionaries for iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring the PONS Advanced English, PONS Advanced French and PONS Advanced Italian dictionaries, the underlying SlovoEd engine allows users to take advantage of the iPhone's user interface to increase look-up speed and use over other electronic and paper dictionary options.

The dictionaries contain over 111,000 entries, and are compressed to take up as little space as possible while still remaining quick and easy to use. An audio module option contains over 40,000 entries spoken in native dialects to aid in learning native languages.

The PONS dictionaries are compatible with version 2.0 and later of the iPhone operating system. The series is available from the iTunes App Store for $24.99 (19.99 EUR).

12 Ağustos 2008 Salı

Motorola Atila gets leaked: think Alexander sans QWERTY


While legend has it that the Alexander possesses a beauty that only a mother could see, Motorola's Atila looks pretty sharp from here. The codenamed handset is said to be Alexander's non-QWERTY counterpart, boasting quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE, tri-band UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA, a 2.8-inch QVGA (320 x 240) display, 802.11b/g WiFi, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and a Qualcomm 7201A chipset. Mum's the word on a price or release date, but we'll be sure to keep you in the loop.

iPhone experiencing GPS problems after 2.0.1 update?


While some complaints after any firmware update are to be expected, there seems to be a decided uptick in the number of reports of problems with the iPhone's GPS (ranging from general wonkiness to all out failure) after the most recent 2.0.1 update. As the responses on the MacRumors forums indicate, however, the problems are far from across the board (or confined to the iPhone 3G), and GPS problems haven't exactly been that rare of an occurrence before this latest update either. So, we'll open it up to you, dear readers -- have you had any newfound iPhone GPS problems?

HTC Touch Pro hands-on


After spending a few minutes with it, there's no question to us that the Touch Pro is HTC's most impressive handset to date (even if you count the Xperia X1). Okay, the phone is still a bit thick (roughly the same as a Tilt), and there's no 3.5mm headphone jack, but it's got a very small footprint and a very comfortably proportioned keyboard. We can also really definitely appreciate the lengths HTC is going to trying to make Windows Mobile a bit less doggish these days -- but were they to spice up the Touch Pro with a capacitive touchscreen and Android, HTC might just have a game-changer on their hands.