Mplayit.com Mobile Games Portal Launched
Mpowerplayer this week announced the launch of Mplayit.com, a new Web portal catering to online consumers interested in finding out more about mobile games. Mplayit features free mobile game demos, including popular titles such as Spore and Guitar Hero, along with the ability to learn about games and publishers, read reviews, purchase games and to add and share the Mplayit widget anywhere online.
“With the rapid adoption of App Stores fueling interest in mobile gaming, Mplayit provides consumers a place to discover, play and share the games they love, and then send them to their phones,” said Michael Powers, CEO of Mpowerplayer.
Consumers who visit Mplayit can play games on their PC to get a feel for the games. If you want to purchase you are currently directed to different merchant sites for fulfillment. There are about 60 games today with more coming soon.
We love to see new mobile game portals emerge because there still isn’t a great, comprehensive, portal to discover and buy mobile games, regardless of your specific device. Maybe Mplayit will take a leadership role here?
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We want customer feedback on your ScanFast Laptop Case
For those customers that already have used a Mobile Edge ScanFast Case, we want to hear from you! For sending in customer feedback, I will send you a Free Gift from Mobile Edge. With your permission we may post a portion of your comments on our website. If you have a photo of you and your ScanFast Laptop Case, send it in.
Tell us in your words:
• How was your traveling experience with your new ScanFast Laptop Bag?
• Did the TSA screener recognize your case was Checkpoint Friendly?
• Did you move through security faster by using the TSA compliant case?
• Anything else you would like to share with us…
Send your comments directly to me at mo@mobileedge.com
For customers who do not own a ScanFast Carrying Case yet, earlier this year the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced they will allow Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags to be used when traveling through airport security checkpoints. This means if you use a TSA compliant laptop bag you do not need to remove your laptop from the bag. This will help save you time and anguish when passing through security. Inevitably, by using these cases it will actually help move the security line faster for everyone.
As a leader in the laptop carrying case category, we (Mobile Edge) introduced several new Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags as part of our ScanFast™ Collection.
Just yesterday we sent out a press release announcing our new ScanFast for Her Collection of Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags, designed specifically for women. As the industry leader in women’s stylish laptop bag, it made sense that we would be the first manufacturer to offer Women’s Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags.
If you don’t already have one, I recommend getting one. Traveling through airport security has never been easier.
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The mobile phone that could save your life - the iCEphone is on its way
Here goes with the second of today’s concept mobile phones, courtesy of Engadget Mobile, with a new phone aimed not at the full-on gadget nuts like me, but at the medical and military services, and maybe backpackers. Oh, and First Responders and First Aiders.
It’s called the iCEphone, and as you can see from the pic, it doesn’t exactly follow a traditional design layout…
Based on a kind of Jacob’s ladder layout, what you get is a mobile phone with 3 separate body parts: one with a 3 inch screen, one with a full QWERTY keyboard, and one with gaming buttons and control keys. Whilst I’m not entirely sure of the usefulness of putting game controls on a mobile phone aimed at first aiders and soldiers (two groups of people who I’d really want to keep their minds on the job…), I can see the use of them if the iCEphone’s also going to be sold to consumers. Which it will be. But to backpackers and gap year students, who may well travel round the world with their phone, according to the official site for the iCEphone.
The big addition, though, has to be what’s inside the mobile phone. And no, I don’t mean the camera, or any built-in games, or music players, or whatever else has been added to sell it to consumers. It’s got all that stuff, but that’s not what’s important about it, so I’m not going to talk about it.
No, the most important and groundbreaking bit is the iCE Aid software. I suppose, at this point, I’d better tell anyone who doesn’t know what iCE means. In Case of Emergencies. So, what the iCEphone brings to the world of mobile phones is a full software solution designed with the express purpose of helping to save people’s lives. Approved by the British Red Cross, St Andrew’s Ambulance Association and the St John’s Ambulance Brigade, it has a full portfolio of guidelines based on the latest codes of practice, and could, quite possibly, make the difference between someone living and dying.
Not many mobile phones can make that claim, and this is one feature of a phone that only has to be used once for it to be the single most worthwhile thing to have built-in, ever.
That’s why, despite it not being a top-end super-gadget-phone that I want to own, I say get this thing made, get it out there, and get it out to the people who need to use it. First responders, first aiders, even troops who need to give emergency treatment to their mates in the field… every one of them could benefit from this.
And while I think mobile phones are brilliant gadgets, and should be about communication and stupidly pointless fun, I really can’t emphasise how good an idea I reckon the iCEphone is.
And as someone who’s had to call on the services of the local First Responder and Lincolnshire Ambulance Service (as I’ve said before, two groups of people I have an infinite amount of respect for), I say, to The Medical Phone Ltd, who are making it, “Get it made, and get it out for the people who need it to use, now!”
Meanwhile, if you’re a normal user like me, and you want a Windows Mobile phone, get the best; get the Sony Ericsson X1 today!
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The 01Phone - Are we witnessing the future of mobile phones?
I’m a great lover of concept mobile phones, as should be readily apparent to anyone who reads this blog. I loves ‘em, and quite frankly, the more ludicrous the better. However… there are two flavours of ludicrous. First, there’s “this phone is completely daft” ludicrous; second, there’s “crikey, if they make this phone, it’ll change Earth’s orbit, it’s so good” ludicrous.
It’s safe to say that the new concept ‘01Phone’ falls very firmly into the second category.
A joint brainchild between gadget magazine T3 and design house The Alloy (whose concept phones I gushed about last year), this really is a mobile phone designed to fill the nation with the hollow, reverberating sound of people jaws hitting the floor. It could quite simply be, in other words, the single best mobile phone ever conceived by man.
Ah, but that’s an easy statement to make, so why is it so good?
Well, basically, mobile phones out there in the world do many different things, and give people a whole swathe of benefits. Mobile phones with top-end cameras, to give you perfect photos. Mobile phones with bags of memory and superb music players, so you can bin your old mp3 player. The internet. Sat-nav.
Well, the list goes on, but the idea posed by T3 is that no individual mobile phone has done everything perfectly, or given customers the perfect version of every single one of those benefits, in one phone (although I’d argue the HTC Touch HD comes close). So, they set out, with The Alloy, to rectify that, to make the perfect mobile phone… and the result is the 01Phone you see here.
And, oh dear god, is it stunning!
The looks are perfect, the features are incredible, and the feel of using it is better than any other mobile phones out there. Well, at least, it is if you believe T3, which, I hasten to add, I am inclined to do…
Imagine a combination between the Touch HD mentioned above, and the Sony Ericsson X1, and the iPhone, and the Blackberry Storm, that takes all the best bits of those mobile phones, makes them even better, and then adds in some new benefits that none of those phones have. So, the basics are two 5 megapixel cameras, front and back (yep, video calls will look as good as videos and photos from the main camera), a massive multitouch screen (with a multitouch stylus that look like a pair of sugar tongs and therefore rocks), 32Gb of built-in memory… all of those things are cool, but you could argue that they’ve been seen in other mobile phones before.
In which case, let’s look at the really cool stuff, the stuff that you just don’t see on any other mobile phones…
Mighty Morphin’ Power Keyboard
First up, the keyboard. As you can see, it’s a slide-out QWERTY affair, except it’s context sensitive, so whilst it is a proper keyboard with proper keys, different pictures or symbols are shown on the keyboard, depending on what feature of the mobile phone you’re using. So, camera controls for the camera, internet keys for the web browser, a choice of QWERTY or old school keypad mode for writing texts… Oh, and it changes colour, too, so you always know what mode the keyboard is in. That is bordering on impossibly awesome, and there are some pics, below, of it in action to show you just how frighteningly cool that idea is.
Wireless headphones hidden inside the phone
With 32Gb of memory built in, and what appear to be stereo speakers on the back of the 01Phone, it should be no surprise that it loves its music. So, how about if it includes wireless headphones that you stow away and store inside the phone itself? Which, presumably, will mean they get charged when the mobile phone does.
The word ‘genius’ comes to mind. And yes, there’s a piccie of that, below, as well.
Two mobile phones for the price of one
Ok, here we go. The coolest thing on the 01Phone, and in fact, the coolest thing I’ve seen on any mobile phones ever, is that black stripe on the back… because it’s not just a black stripe on the back, that, right there, is actually a second, miniaturised mobile phone that lives inside the big mobile phone! In effect, that means that you get two mobile phones instead of one; the hyper-turbo-nutter touchscreen phone for all the flashy, fancy, fun stuff, and a second, cut-down, mini-phone, to use as a simple phone on the go, while you keep the hyper-turbo-nutter shell in your pocket, or in your bag. Small, simple and discreet, that’s the ticket.
That. Is. Astonishing (although I will concede it’s very similar to the Modu concept of modular mobile phones).
Not only that, but you’re supposed to be able to wrap the mini-phone round your wrist, implying that it’s also got a bendy screen, which suggests e-paper (just like the Motorola F3, which means the battery on the mini-phone, when detached from the hyper-turbo-nutter shell, should last roughly, ooh, forever.
Here you go, as promised, some pictures of all that cool stuff:
So, the big question is… will the 01Phone ever get made, or is it just some kind of mad pipe-dream? Well, the problem with most concept mobile phones is that they never, ever see the light of day as real, over-the-counter products. Which is rather disappointing, and would be doubly so in this case. But the thing is… word on the street is that The Alloy are actually in the process of building a fully working prototype, taking it beyond the concept stage, and into the world of “oh blimey, this could actually happen now!”
That being the case, it’s entirely possible that one day soon, the world will see the 01Phone in the flesh. And if it does, then trust me, the world of mobile phones will never be the same again…
Don’t want to wait and see IF the 01Phone ever actually gets made? Grab one of the new breed of smartphones, like the HTC Touch HD, today!
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Samsung Pixon in stock now in all its 8 Megapixel glory!
That’s right, those of you yearning for an 8.0 Megapixel camera in a touchscreen mobile phone but not quite taken by the LG Renoir are in luck; the Samsung Pixon has arrived! The Samsung Pixon, also known as the M8800 and previously the Bresson, is the second 8 Megapixel camera …
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Top Ten Mobile Phone News Stories of the Week - 14th November
With just over 30 shopping days left until Christmas, things are starting to slow down everywhere as people prepare for their break. This hasn’t stopped an interesting Nokia document surfacing along with their rumoured E63 mobile phone however, plus Sony Ericsson show off a 12 megapixel sensor and a there’s a little ray of hope for Windows Mobile browser fans.
1. Nokia Release Schedule for Coming Year.
A roadmap detailing several forthcoming mobile phone releases from Nokia has surfaced on the Internet, with all of them being smartphones. Although there are no pictures, the list does whet our appetite with plenty of spec detail, including a handset codenamed Corolla which will send Nokia over the top into the 8 megapixel cameraphone war. Study the full list over at GSMarena.
2. Nokia E63 Officially Announced.
The E63 is a more competitively priced version of the E71 mobile email handset which was spotted back in (more…)
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New Nokia ‘Wahoo’ Flip Smartphone Spotted.
In addition to its name, which earns a spot in the years most ridiculous, the Nokia Wahoo is something of an enigma. The design looks lovely, but more than slightly reminiscent of the Motorola RAZR (a phone, remember, released quite a few years ago), and it sports something called a half-QWERTY keypad; we’re not quite sure what to make of it! Let’s take a closer look: (more…)
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Samsung i7110 - Special Release Report.
We took a brief look at the Samsung i7110 back at the beginning of September, when some early pictures found their way onto the Internet, however there was little in the way of feature information. Thankfully we haven’t had to wait long for Samsung to officially announce their new smartphone, which has turned out to be packed full of technology!
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3 to Increase the Speed of it’s HSDPA and HSUPA
3 have already completed a rollout to give more than 95 per cent of the UK’s population access to 3.6Mb/s HSDPA, but not one to sit on their laurels they have now vowed to increase the speed of HSDPA mobile broadband over the next couple of years, and claim that …
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Will Barack Obama have to give up his Blackberry mobile phone when he’s president?
Now, there’s an intriguing question, as posed by the New York Times. Will Barack Obama, who used the internet and blogosphere, and not forgetting mobile phones, so effectively in his election campaign, have to actually give up using email and his beloved Blackberry when he takes up residency in the White House?
Y’see, the United States have a law, the Presidential Records Act, which would put any emails he sent on the presidential record, and open to public viewing. So, presumably that would even include private emails.
All of that boils down to one conclusion: it’s easier for Obama, once in the White House, to just give up his Blackberry mobile phone (which, from pics I’ve seen, looks like a Blackberry Curve 8310). Or, theoretically, he could use it in a sort of read-only mode, reading emails, but not actually replying to them, or sending them. Aides have tentatively put that idea forward as a solution, but I’ll be honest, it just makes the phrase “what an almighty faff” pop into my head. Mind you, there are other concerns, such as email security, and when you’re leader of the free world, it could be argued that having someone nick your emails is more of a big deal than when some pleb like me gets their emails nicked. After all, if my identity gets stolen, as bad as that would be (and yes, I do think identity theft is a very serious crime, and my sympathies go to people who have been victims of it), you can’t use it to launch nukes at Russia…
Basically, what it all comes down to, at the end of the day, is subpoenas, as the New York Times points out, and once again, the lawsuit-happy world and people out to dig the dirt will keep the leader of the free world enmeshed in the 19th century and safely away from any o these newfangled ‘mobile phones‘.
However…
Obama has already stated that he’s going to have a crack at dragging the office into the modern world, and expected to be the first president to actually use a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.
So, will the law be changed? Will Barack Obama be allowed to keep using his Blackberry mobile phone when he’s in office? And if he does go into ‘read-only mode’ on his handset, will he, in fact, get himself a Blackberry Storm?
It’s important questions like that last one that need answering…
Want to beat the new president to the latest technology? Grab yourself the incredible Blackberry Storm today!
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