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TiniWiki places the entire world's information in your iPhone

Leonard Goh | Jun 17, 2009

TiniWiki on the iPhone. It can display information in other languages such as Thai and Chinese also. (Credit: Leonard Goh/CNET Asia)

The CommunicAsia 2009 tradeshow held at Singapore Expo is not just phones and gadgets. With the rising influence of the iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, software developers are churning out more applications for the consumers.

Nicta, an Australian research center for communications technology, was at the tradeshow to show off its latest iPhone app, the TiniWiki. This program uses a unique algorithm which not only compresses XML data, but it is able to read such information without uncompressing it. Hence, is also able to shrink the whole of Wikipedia (about 30GB) to approximately 6GB and this can be stored on the iPhone or iPod touch. By doing so, you can search for information offline as well. For some users, this may be a huge bonus. But with prices of mobile data plans dropping, some may wonder if the 6GB of space required can be put to better use.
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Huawei shows off Android phone (with video)

John Chan | Jun 17, 2009

China-based Huawei announced its first Android-based smartphone at Singapore's CommunicAsia, dubbed the U823X. One of its key features is the 3.5-inch display, which is larger than all the HTC Android devices released so far. It will also contain a 1,500mAh cell for longer battery life and connectivity features such as HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Huawei also mentioned that it will come with the "Chrome Lite" browser on its specs sheet. Google co-founder Sergey Brin mentioned last year that the Android browser could possibly bear the Chrome name, but the company has never done that officially. We checked this out with the product manager and confirmed that the U823X's browser is simply the default one that comes with Android.

The demo unit on display was not a working prototype, so we were not able to try it out. At least it wasn't in a glass case, and we managed to shoot a hands-on video that shows the physical features of this device. Like all other Huawei handsets, the U823X will be sold only through operators, so whether you will see it in your country will depend on the carriers. Watch our hands-on video after the jump.
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Bridgewater Systems gives you courage to roam

Darius Chang | Jun 17, 2009

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It's easy to keep track of your mobile phone data usage if you don't travel. After all, there are third-party tracking applications that can do that. Some service providers have also implemented price caps on their mobile broadband plans, so there are no surprises at the end of the month when customers receive their bills.

However, all that goes out the window when you travel, where your mobile data price caps don't apply and you are at the mercy of the local telco with regard to roaming charges. There have been horror stories of travelers getting bills in the thousands simply because they forgot to turn off an online background application. Bridgewater Systems, a Canadian service developer, has the solution.
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iPhone OS 3.0 wide release coming June 17

Erica Ogg | Jun 17, 2009

At long last, cut-copy-paste comes to the iPhone June 17, US time. (Credit: Apple)

Many of the iPhone's long-awaited features will finally become reality Wednesday when Apple rolls out iPhone OS 3.0.

Current iPhone owners can download the software from iTunes for free, and iPod touch users can get it as well, but for a fee of US$9.95, just like the last OS update. What time exactly, we don't know yet. Apple will only say iPhone OS 3.0 will come out some time Wednesday (June 17, US time).

The update includes many functions other phones have had for a while, including multimedia messaging (if supported by your carrier), voice recording, buying and renting movies and TV shows over the air, full system search, tethering (again, if your carrier allows it), and push notifications.
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Hands-on videos of the Garmin-Asus nuvifones

John Chan | Jun 16, 2009

Though the Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 and M20 have been announced previously, they are finally almost ready to hit the market--as early as August in some countries. We took a quick look at these two devices and found some similarities in the interface even though the G60 uses a Linux platform while the M20 runs on Windows Mobile.

Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60

Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20

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