mobile phones
Communicate
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Grey Market Phones Might Be A 000 Risk
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More » 
Work
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
Optus Mobile Application Store Lets You Buy With Your Bill
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
Design
Photoshop.com Mobile Fixes Photos On Smartphones
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | iPhone/Android/Windows Mobile: Photoshop.com, the online home of Adobe’s market-leading image editor, has released a native photo editor and photo uploader for Android phones, and it’s a fairly versatile solution for fixing or offloading images while you’re out and about. More »
Money
1:00PM Angus Kidman | The print edition of the Trading Post is dead and buried, so Telstra is focusing all its attention on making the online version profitable. Next step in that process? Letting people place advertisements directly from their mobile phones. More »
Trading Post To Allow Ad Submissions Via Mobile
1:00PM Angus Kidman | The print edition of the Trading Post is dead and buried, so Telstra is focusing all its attention on making the online version profitable. Next step in that process? Letting people place advertisements directly from their mobile phones. More »
Organise
AddressBook Connects Contacts To Social Networks
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android: If you dig the idea of Motorola’s socially integrated interface but aren’t planning on rushing out to get a new phone, Asurion’s AddressBook can match up contacts with their service profiles, letting you quickly contact someone across multiple channels. More »
Work
CyanogenMOD Hits Stable 4.2.1 Release, Reduces Home Screen Lag
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | One month after Google’s cease-and-desist action, the popular custom CyanogenMOD Android firmware has hit a stable, presumably legal release point. It’s as up-to-date as you can get on an Android phone, and it nearly fixes a seriously annoying slowdown issue. More »
Money
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Optus subsidiary Boost Mobile is offering 5-cent texts to any network as part of a prepaid plan. That offer might be appealing to teenagers, but does it really make financial sense? More »
Are 5-Cent Texts The Best Deal?
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Optus subsidiary Boost Mobile is offering 5-cent texts to any network as part of a prepaid plan. That offer might be appealing to teenagers, but does it really make financial sense? More »
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Get Back Your Lost Gadget With Contact Information Wallpaper
8:00AM Whitson Gordon | No matter how conscious you are of your phone, things get lost. If you’ve lost your phone or other gadget, here’s an easy way to ensure the (hopefully) good-natured soul that finds it can get it back to you. More »
Work
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Iconic Aussie short film festival Tropfest is now open, with entries being accepted up until January 7. To enter, your film needs to be previously unseen, no longer than seven minutes and must feature the Tropfest Signature Item, which this year is dice. More »
Tropfest 2010 Now Accepting Entries
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Iconic Aussie short film festival Tropfest is now open, with entries being accepted up until January 7. To enter, your film needs to be previously unseen, no longer than seven minutes and must feature the Tropfest Signature Item, which this year is dice. More »
Travel
8:30AM Angus Kidman | If there’s one thing that can be said about the rules surrounding whether you can use a mobile phone GPS in your car, it’s this: they’re not at all clear. More »
Mobile Phone GPS Rules Still Highly Confusing
8:30AM Angus Kidman | If there’s one thing that can be said about the rules surrounding whether you can use a mobile phone GPS in your car, it’s this: they’re not at all clear. More » 