Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I’m a big fan of the Telegraph and Sky news iPhone apps, both offer a great breadth of coverage for free. But they have a new rival in the guide of the Guardian’s new paid-for app (asking price £2.39) which launched today.

Two great new apps have found their way to my iPhone in recent days. First up is an updated version of the Telegraph newspaper’s app which now boasts access to photo galleries, Twitter trending keywords and, most importantly, a faster user interface.

Rummaging around in my drawers a few days ago I stumbled upon what has to be the ultimate ‘nearly’ gadget, my seldom used T-Mobile Ameo (or the HTC Advantage or HTC Athena, take your pick).

As an owner of a T-Mobile G1 I can share some of Google’s suggested (by others) disappointment with the relatively low-specced phones currently available but to start competing with manufacturers who have spent considerable sums adopting your operating system doesn’t really make much sense – it’s like Microsoft suddenly deciding to start selling their own range of desktop and laptop PCs while expecting Dell and HP to continue buying OEM licences for Windows.

With neither the new white unibody MacBooks and MacBook Air not including firewire ports and the 13” MacBook Pro’s £899 price tag being just £100 more than its polycarbonate sibling it wasn’t too hard to decide which model to buy.

’ve recently moved from my white MacBook to a 13” MacBook Pro and – as many people warned me beforehand – I encountered a bit of hassle installing my drivers for my T-Mobile 3G stick (the black and pink plastic model) under the new machine’s Snow Leopard.

European browser developer Opera today unveiled the beta of their Opera Mobile 10 software for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 powered devices.

I don’t understand is why a respected, groundbreaking manufacturer such as RIM would decide to play ‘me too’ with a handset designed for just about anybody but RIMs high level corporate users.

The HTC Hero is coming to UK mobile network 3 as the network announces a three way partnership with music service Spotify and Hero manufacturer HTC.

T-Mobile’s pre-pay ‘Pulse’ handset – the UK’s first pre-pay Android mobile – goes on sale in T-Mobile stores across the UK today .