Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. today announced the availability of Motorola DEVOUR in March. Motorola DEVOUR will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s unique Android-powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable.
MOTOBLUR is the first solution to sync contacts from work and personal e-mail services, including Gmail, with posts, messages, photos and more from popular sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. With MOTOBLUR, content is automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into easy-to-manage streams.
Key features:
Touch-sensitive navigation pad
3.1” capacitive touch screen
Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps with Google Maps Navigation.
Android Market gives users access to more than 20,000 applications.
Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response.
Back-Up and Security – Contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up automatically on the secure MOTOBLUR portal. The portal also allows customers to use the phone’s fully integrated aGPS to help locate the phone if misplaced. Remote wipe easily clears information from a lost device.
8 GB microSD card pre-installed
Bluetooth profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP
Service plans:
To get the most from Motorola DEVOUR, customers will need to subscribe to a Nationwide Talk or Nationwide Talk & Text plan and a Data Package for smartphones. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access, and Nationwide Talk & Text plans begin at $59.99 monthly access. A Data Package for smartphones is $29.99 for unlimited monthly access.
One app that is very popular on the iPhone platform is the restaurant finder, UrbanSpoon. Now us DROID users get to try it out. I just happened to check the “Just In” list in the Android Market and saw that UrbanSpoon now has an Android version available. It is limited to Motorola DROID and Nexus One users, not sure if it will be available for other devices soon or not. I gave it a quick test and it seems to work pretty well for me.
It’s a nice app to have when you’re looking for a place to eat and don’t know the area, or if your just looking for something new. Or maybe you don’t know what you want, just keep shaking it until something looks/sounds good! It’s easy to use, quick to customize, and loaded with features like quickly call or map the location and read customer reviews. It even has a built in voice search that will just search UrbanSpoon. For example I just tapped voice search, said Indian, and it came up with three lists, the top 10 most popular Indian restaurants, the 10 closest to my location listed in order, closest to furthest, and a list of neighborhoods with the number of Indian restaurants in each neighborhood. The lists show pricing guides and percentages of people who liked each restaurant.
In a move that is sure to make playboys everywhere nervous, Internet company PeopleFinders has created two iPhone applications that let users perform background checks on their potential dates.
The apps, known as “Stud or Dud?” and “Are They Really Single?”, utilize data culled from countless public records to give users a more complete picture of whom they’re going out with. PeopleFinders President and COO Bryce Lane says his company collects data from “thousands of sources” across the country from “federal governments to the very smallest city governments.” He says the company then uses algorithms to sort through the data and make comprehensive files that will give users a reliable picture of who the person is.
From there, the data is placed in PeopleFinders’ database and is put up for sale. While both of the applications the company debuted today cost a mere $0.99 to download, users can only access records by either paying $9.95 per record or by paying an annual subscription fee of $24.95. In the case of “Stud or Dud?” users have the option of using simply by a person’s first and last name, by their age and hometown, or by their phone number. From there, the program gives you a list of potential matches to choose from.
The Blackberry Curve 8530 has made it’s way to Verizon and is now available for purchase, $99 online after rebates. Available in Black or Smoky Lavendar, how many of you are picking up this first trackpad BB to hit VZW? Specifications
Dimensions: 4.29″ (H) x 2.36″ (W) x 0.55″ (D)
Weight: Approximately 3.7 oz. including Battery
Standard Lithium Battery (1150 mAh)
Usage: Up to 270 minutes of talk time OR
Standby: Up to 252 hours
Features
Dual–band 800/1900 MHz CDMA/EV–DO Rev 0 networks
256MB Flash Memory, 128MB RAM
BlackBerry® Device Software v5.0
Display: Clear, High Resolution, 2.5″ (dia.) color display TFT LCD (320×240 pixel). Supports over 65k colors
Full Backlit QWERTY Keyboard w/Trackpad Navigation
microSD™ memory card support: up to 16GB
2.0 Megapixel Camera, 5x Digital Zoom and Video Capture
AT&T just announced today that starting October 12 they’ll be expanding their unlimited prepaid GoPhone service beyond the cities that were serving as test markets for the last several months. For $60 prepaid monthly subscribers can now have a no contract phone that includes unlimited voice and SMS. This is slightly more expensive than Boost which went unlimited in January 2009 for $50 but AT&T is betting on the network and brand name for people to pay up $60 a month for the service.
DailyMobile forum member has just managed to update his Nokia 5800 to v31. No improvements to be noted as such but the touch sensitivity seems to have increased. Currently, there is no changelog available but if it is released, it shall be posted.Note: This firmware is still unconfirmed, it might also be a rumour, or probably fake. but until then, you can continue the discussion over at DailyMobile forum here
LaterDude, which is free and the premium version LaterDude Pro. With the Pro version, you can also create Email and SMS reminders. Now you’ll never forget to respond to the people who are the most important to you. If you find that you are continuously multi-tasking, or are quite forgetful, you should definitely have a look at either version. Fabian, the man behind the solution, let us know that he has made some important updates to LaterDude Pro. “So what’s new?” I’m glad you asked.
What’s new in Version 2.1.06?
Set Events not only to the Calendar App, but also to the Task App
Set the due-date of the Task Event as well
You are now able to set the standard length of an Event
Option to show the whole Email body or just the subject in the Notes field
Free Trial Version, where you can start the app 10 times
Help Text included in the Application
More pre-set reminder times added to select from
Menu now only visible in the following Menus: Call Log, Messages, Text Messages, Contacts
Many bugs fixed
LaterDude Pro is still available for only $2.95 at the CrackBerry App Store!
AT&T has announced that they will be launching a new program called A-List that is probably intended to be the answer to T-Mobile’s myFave, which allows subscribers to call up to five different numbers without using any minutes. Maybe they can hire Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan to do their commercials since Dwayne Wade and Charles Barkley are already taken?
“This is an incredible value for many of our customers that essentially lets them ‘double dip’,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “Not only will they not use minutes from their monthly plan when they call their A-List numbers, but our unique Rollover feature means they can keep those minutes for use in future months. Nobody else is going this far in letting customers stretch their minutes. Others may let you save minutes, but only AT&T lets you keep them.”
The A-List program has a few stipulations, however. To qualify, you must have an individual Nation plan of $59.99 or higher, which will allow you to select up to five domestic numbers, or a FamilyTalk plan of $89.99 or higher, which will allow you to select up to 10 domestic numbers. The numbers must be domestic, but can include landlines and wireless numbers from any network. You will also be able to receive calls from these numbers without using minutes.Phone numbers will be able to be added and modified on September 20th via AT&T’s online account management tool. You will be able to change the numbers at any time, although you should allow up to 24 hours for the changes to take effect. More information can be found at AT&T’s website.
To prepare for the big day on September 20th, make sure you are enrolled in AT&T’s online account management program. Then, check out your recent bill to see who you call the most often outside of your network and get ready to watch those rollover minutes start piling up.
Firstly, this should be noted that this application is not running in the background on your iPhone. It’s a server-to-server agreement between AT&T and Loopt, so that you can always have location-based services working, and so people always know where you are. If you’re into that kind of thing, then this is the application for you. We’re sure that most of you out there are already using Loopt, so perhaps this is exactly the update you’ve been waiting for.
Loopt has announced the availability of the “Always-On” feature, which allows for Loopt to keep track of you while you are in motion, and to constantly update the information to the users who are following you on Loopt. The service is always optional, and you can turn it on or off at will. There are Push Notifications, so that you can get updated when something changes, but the Loopt application is not running in the background on your iPhone. Hence the reason Loopt is also mentioning that the service works while the application is not running on your iPhone.
The service is a test-run right now, and Loopt is offering it with a 14-day free trial. After that trial expires, users will have to pay $3.99 per month, plus any standard data and messaging rates you may incur on your bill. Once you sign up for the program, if you do not cancel on your own, you will be automatically billed for the service, so keep an eye on it if you try it, and it’s not something you want to keep.
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