Archive for November, 2007
Check your carbon footprint — on your mobile phone
Do you have a big carbon footprint? Get out your mobile phone and check. Reuters India reports how.
“European scientists have devised an online application to measure how much greenhouse gas people emit from the way they travel, light their homes, choose dinner or watch television.
“The idea is to help people be aware of the impact that their personal behaviour can have,” said Antonia Mochan, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, whose scientists came up with the new application.
“Climate change seems such a big story, people think ‘Where can I start?’ This can help,” she said.
The application, which requires users to input information on their behaviour, is available via the mobgas Web site and is free of charge.
Sony Ericsson K800i- £64.99 delivered @ Play.com !!
Sony Ericsson K800i : A Cyber-shot digital camera and a small and sophisticated feature-packed 3G phone all in one. Bring the K800i with you and you have a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, image and video stabilizer and built-in Xenon flash ready for any moment, anytime. BestPic technology lets you capture several images in quick succession with one press of the camera key. When youve taken a photo, you can share it straight away using Bluetooth, multimedia messaging or blog it.
- Discount: £5
- Minimum Spend: £50.00
- Promotional Code: GOODHOUSE94XT1
Nokia 1600 on T-Mobile - £14.99 delivered
The new candybar 1600 has a sleek, smooth design with chrome details and a 65,536 colour screen. It sounds great, too, with 20 polyphonic ringtones of MP3-grade. Plus with its speaking alarm and clock, you’ll never miss a thing!
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Sony Ericsson W710i on Vodafone @ Play.com - £49.99
An active lifestyle needs an active phone, and this one’s got it all: music, communications, imaging and all the essential active accessories.
Be Fully Equipped
Work out to the music you like best. The kit includes an active stereo headset and an armband - attach it to your phone, snap it round your arm and go.
Measure Your Performance
When you’re out for a run, accurately measure your speed and distance with in-phone applications. There’s also an all-day step counter and a calorie counter.
Capture Your Success
Snap quality images with the integrated digital camera. Zoom right in, and when you want to catch some action, record a video clip.
Main Features
- Camera: 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QCIF)
- Browser: WAP 2.0/HTML(NetFront), RSS reader
- Bluetooth
- Infrared port
- 512 MB card included
- Weight: 101 g
- Dimensions: 88 x 48 x 24.5 mm
- Stand-by: Up to 350 h
- Talk time: Up to 10 h
iPhone buyers on the Champs Elysées
French Journal du Geek has posted some good pictures from lat night’s first iPhone sales on the Champs Elysée. [via I4U]
We feel so left out here in Switzerland where there has been no official news at all as to when the iPhone will be available and which operator will be offering it (probably Swiscom). It’s available unlocked though here, at a retail price of Sfr 960 ($858/£540ish) but there are so many posts on updates and on what not to do or the phone will be blocked, it seems safer to wait for an official channel.
Employer fined $17,000 after worker sacked via SMS
A NSW (in the USA) childcare provider has been fined nearly 17 thousand dollars for underpaying an employee for 15 months and then sacking her via a phone-text message.
[via Live News]
Links to other fired by SMS stories.
3G Apple IPhone to be Faster
Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told reporters at a recent meeting that a 3G version of the Apple iPhone will be available in 2008. He said he could not verify exactly when the 3G version of the iPhone will be available, or how much it will cost, only that it will be available sometime next year.
Bank of America Claims Half a Million Mobile Banking Customers
Six months after rolling out its Mobile Banking service to consumers in the USA, Bank of America says that it has reached a record 500,000 active mobile customers. According to a recent Tower Group report, that’s more than all other U.S. banks combined.
[via Cellular News]
Google maps gives location on your phone without GPS
Google is updating its Google Maps for Mobile with a new location finder feature that enables users to find their location even though they don’t have a GPS chip in their device. The My Location feature, which is available as a beta, helps the more than 85 percent of handsets that don’t have GPS functionality.
[via San Francisco Chronicle]
PM’s texts ‘insult’ to Queen
According to the The New Zealand Herald, Prime Minister Helen Clark has been accused of insulting the Queen by text messaging while the monarch was making a speech.
Daily Express newspaper in England reported that Helen Clark was seen texting during the Queen’s opening address to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda last Friday.”
… The Republican Movement of Aotearoa NZ says the incident shows Helen Clark is “clearly half-hearted” about the monarchy.
