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Multimedia iPhone notes: YouNote and Evernote
Jessica Dolcourt | Aug 04, 2008
Evernote for iPhone creates audio, text, and photo notes.
Evernote for iPhone
Evernote has been a real hit with CNET editors since its March beta, and with good reason. The service lets you add, access, and synchronize notes from just about everywhere--your Windows or Mac desktop, Web browser, Outlook calendar, Windows Mobile phone, and now your iPhone or iPod touch.
Evernote ushers your text, doodles, voice notes, and photos into your account, which is stored on Evernote's servers. In addition to accessing all your synchronized notes from the iPhone, you'll be able to write new notes. You won't be able to doodle from the attractive iPhone application, but you can compose text, audio, and photo notes from scratch, and can also annotate the pictures in your Camera Roll.
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Nokia Tube appears in The Dark Knight?
Nicole Lee | Aug 04, 2008
Nokia Tube makes an appearance in the Dark Knight.
It is both a curse and a blessing that as an editor who reviews cell phones here at CNET, I have a tendency to notice mobile gadgets in almost every TV show and every movie I come across. And so it was with the recent Batman flick, the Dark Knight, that I noticed a very intriguing touchscreen handset that I've never seen before. Lucius Fox (played by Morgan Freeman) showed this slick-looking Nokia cell phone that was able to send sonar waves in 3D, letting him pull up a 3D sonar map of its location. Other blogs have noticed this phone as well, and have identified it as the yet-to-be-released Nokia Tube, which we have blogged about on Crave before. Of course, Nokia has mentioned that the phone seen in the film is not available commercially, but we can't help but speculate it's a taste of what's to come.
Some recent rumored spec lists have surfaced, hinting that the Nokia Tube will have a 3.2-megapixel camera, a wide-screen display, GPS, a 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, HSDPA, haptic feedback, and more. From what I could tell from its brief moments in the movie, the Nokia Tube looks like quite the slender device, and perhaps even smaller than the current iPhone. Of course, I can't tell a whole lot more from that, but perhaps this recent bout of fame means Nokia will spill the beans on the Tube sooner rather than later.
Via CNET Crave
Report: iPhone nano to ring in the holidays
Steven Musil | Aug 04, 2008
You can expect an iPhone nano to be on the shelves in time for the holiday shopping season, according to a report on the UK's Daily Mail Web site Sunday. The report, which cited "an industry source", said the product will launch in the UK by mobile phone operator O2 for the pay-as-you-go market, but offered no clue when or if it would be launched in the US.
The report seems to indicate the iPhone nano would be a dumb-down version of the current iPhone 3G.
"The iPhone 3G has been the fastest-selling phone ever in the UK, but it is too expensive to be a realistic proposition in the pay-as-you-go market," the source told the newspaper. "However, a cut-down version, with the candybar shape of iPod nano music players, would be a huge hit as a Christmas gift."
The newspaper suggests that the new iPhone nano could have a touch wheel interface on one side and a screen on the other, meaning that calls would be dialed from behind and lack full Internet browsing functionality.
If this all sounds a bit familiar, it's because this rumor was floating around last year. Considering the wild success of the iPhone and Apple's plans for a family of iPhones, a move like this certainly makes sense. Whether Apple is ready to do it soon seems to be a bigger question.
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World's thinnest Bluetooth headset
John Chan | Aug 01, 2008
Because it's not enough that mobile phones are getting thinner, the accessories that go with them must slim down, too. To be available in Asia later this month, the Bluetrek Metal Bluetooth headset has a thickness of just 4mm. This, according to the company, makes it the thinnest Bluetooth headset on earth.
Available in black or white, it costs S$88 and, interestingly, can be charged via USB. All you have to do is attach the USB adapter and then stick it into a computer. That makes it very convenient as you won't need separate chargers for home and office. Its price and availability may vary depending on which country you are in, so check with your local distributor (listed on the Bluetrek site) for more details.
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Samsung gets in on the Olympics with several phones
Damian Koh | Aug 01, 2008
As one of the worldwide Olympic partners, you didn't think Samsung would pass over the opportunity to run endorsements on its products, right? Some of the highlighted handsets include the F480 (known as the F488e in China), G618, F268 and M128. These will come with Olympic logos on the back covers, animated startup/shutdown screens, countdown timer, games, subway maps, wallpapers and Fuwa caller ID graphics. For the uninitiated, Fuwa is the official mascot of the Games and there are four characters, namely Beibei, Jingjing, Nini, Hwanhwan and Yingying. Together, it reads "Beijing welcomes you".
According to Samsung, the G618, F268 and M128 are available only in China. The G618 comes with a touchscreen display and a 3-megapixel autofocus camera. The F268 and M128, on the other hand, have lesser specs such as a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera and a VGA camera, respectively. All three phones come with onboard FM radio.
Pictured is the Samsung SGH-F480
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