World Mobile News

Miami, Florida – Mediaspree today is pleased to introduce when.me 1.0, a new Social-Local-Mobile (SoLoMo) app for planning events and forecasting future locations with friends. Users plug in their plans along with when they will occur and, if they choose, the location or place of the event. Friends on the when.me network are able to view their plans and join them as well. Along with the sharing on this new social network, users may also share their plans through Facebook or Twitter to let more friends know. when.me notifies users of their plans with helpful alerts according to the preset times, and users may always view a countdown until their next event occurs on the app. The app was designed from the ground up with the principles of Social-Local-Mobile in mind, connecting friends to the places they are going to be – when they are going to be there. Feature Highlights: * Easy to list events and timespan through the simple layout * Users may coordinate with friends and join other user...

In the last decade or so, TripAdvisor has grown from scratch to being the world’s largest travel website with over 75 million reviews to help plan your holiday. It makes you wonder, how we managed to plan holidays before the advent of the Internet. Is this a good hotel? Where is the best seafood restaurant? What else is worth seeing around here? TripAdvisor, if you are not familiar with it, uses reviews and opinions from ordinary travellers to rate places of interest, such as hotels and restaurants. More than 50 reviews are posted on the site every minute.  It has become an extremely useful, and powerful tool, that can make or break an establishment. That power is now at your fingertips, with the Windows Phone app now in the Nokia Collection, so you can discover the best recommendations on your Nokia Lumia even when you’re on the move.  The App The app opens up with an ‘explore’ screen that features four tiles: Hotels, Attractions, Restaurants and My Saves.  The app is really simple a...

San Francisco, California – Mobile developer radiantlabs announced today Living Earth HD 2.0, a major update to its highly acclaimed world clock and weather app for iOS devices. Living Earth HD 2.0 features a stunning 3D simulation of our planet with live cloud patterns, hurricanes, and tropical storms in addition to global weather forecasts, and world clock for millions of cities around the world. Named by The New York Times as a Top 10 iPad app for 2011, Living Earth HD 2.0 lets users visualize our planet in beautiful detail. Living Earth HD 2.0 for iOS builds upon radiantlabs’ philosophy of creating the most simple, elegant, and beautiful world clock and weather app for the iPhone and iPad. The latest 2.0 update brings seven new live and forecast color heat map overlays to supplement the existing live cloud map. Users can visualize a color heat map of temperature, humidity, and wind speed representing current conditions on Earth. Additional map overlays include 24 hour forecast map...

If you’ve carried around a Nokia phone over the last few years, the chances are that an app or game from Offscreen Technologies has been part of your toolkit. Well known for their polished and sublimely useful apps such as Grid Touch and Converter Touch, Offscreen are the latest developer to reach the milestone of 100 million downloads from the Nokia Store. We caught up with Offscreen’s CEO, Harri Myllynen, to find out how they did it. First of all, who is Offscreen? Offscreen is based in Helsinki, Finland, and was founded by the core team in 2005, when we saw great opportunities in developing software for the early Nokia smartphones at the time. We’re still a pretty small company, employing 20 people, most of whom are programmers. While we make money from our apps, our main line of business has been developing bespoke apps for clients.  Our success in Nokia store has proven to be a great way to promote our company and market our skills to potential clients. We’ve noticed that Offscre...

Storing people’s phone numbers, addresses and email details in our mobiles is something we now all take for granted, but sharing or adding new contacts can still be a convoluted process. Nokia’s Contact Share app, which is now available worldwide for your Nokia Lumia, makes the task of sharing and receiving contacts incredibly quick, straightforward and simple. Contact Share is not just more convenient but it also eliminates human error. For example, there is always the risk of inputting the wrong number into your phone or losing the all-important business card. Upon opening Contact Share, the first screen you will see is a list of all the contacts stored on your phone. Select the contact you wish to share and the next screen will give you a choice of which of their details that you wish to pass on. Perhaps you might want to share their phone number and work email, but not their home address. Confirm your choices by pressing the ‘Tick’ at the bottom of the screen and then you are give...

Palo Alto, California – Ahiku Corp today is proud to introduce the outstanding product, Recood Pro to make happy, joyful and precious memories beautifully more than its remembrance. At the beginning of this year, Recood close beta has been released and more than 60% women loved to use it. Adding ‘gold’ system, updating more simple design, improving speed and focusing on making distinctive video effects, such as Bubble Shine, Aurora April, Soda Spring and Crazy Glass Recood Pro has been launched. Also exceptional feature, named ‘FX Trigger’ will give more energy to videos. People don’t want long ordinary boring videos to make. And they don’t like complicated & professional features either. Then what users really want? They want just beautiful memories! Recood is Perfect for this purpose. In addition to the basic feature – recording videos, there are: * A variety of sharing options (Facebook, Twitter, email, text message, and more) * Automatic upload to YouTube * Recording location ...

Los Angeles, California – GG Filmz today is pleased to announce Jazz 1.1 for iOS, an update to their powerful photo editor that easily generates a limitless number of looks for your photos. Developed by award-winning visual effects director, Ray Giarratana, Jazz improvises on any photo, offering four new interpretations at a time, at the touch of a button. With its 16 powerful filters, users can tweak any image-processed photo to achieve nearly any desired look, save their own style presets, quickly compare examples of before and after, and share or save photos. Jazz is an infinitely flexible image processor/photo editor app that offers completely automatic and manual control of 16 artistic photo filters. Unlike other photo apps, Jazz has a huge range of possible looks and styles from extreme grunge and psychedelic effects, to clean and sophisticated. Jazz easily appeals to beginning photo editors as well as power users thanks to its two modes of operation: Quartet mode for quick, end...

Posted in: Android, Mobile phones, Mobile software 19 hours ago by Ian Yesterday, Google added live traffic to a host of new locations including some 130 smaller US cities and several South American capitals. Besides the capitals of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama, live traffic has been improved and expanded in a host of countries in Europe and America. The new updates are, of course, available across both mobile and browser-based Google Maps platforms, and Google has implemented a feature which allows you to check typical traffic trends for a given location. This is great if you’re going to a new city, and want to see what kind of traffic you can expect while you’re there. Check out the feature in action here: Here’s to hoping we’ll see Google Maps with traffic in even more areas soon! Source View the original article here

The white Sony Xperia Go smartphone is currently shipping in the UK. Clove, the British retailer, is selling the white version of Xperia Go for £210 (VAT incl.) SIM-free. As noted, the black version of Sony Xperia Go has already arrived in the UK since few days ago. So, the white color case and unlocked version is just available in this country. Customers can also get free copy of Norton Mobile Security app. This white handset is Sony‘s latest IP67 certified rugged Android smartphone, which has same features as the black model. New Sony Xperia Go white edition boasts a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display with 320 x 480 resolutions and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. This dust- and water-proof handset brings 512MB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, a 5 megapixel rear camera, and a 1,305 mAh battery. View the original article here

Nokia was at the ESPY Awards, which honors the top performances in the world of sports, rubbing elbows with the world’s top athletes and celebrities. Of course, the Nokia Lumia 900 was front and center, turning heads and attracting attention. To celebrate some of the amazing people who make sure Lumia customers are happy, Nokia selected two ambassadors to travel to Los Angeles and take part in all the ESPY activity. Nathan Richards and Micah Jakoblich were selected in part because of their contributions to Nokia Inner Circle, Nokia’s ambassador program for retail service professionals. To get a feeling of what the experience was like for them, we interviewed Nathan and Micah, who are sales professionals for AT&T and T-Mobile, respectively. Micah: I’ve been in ExpertZone for a few years and through my involvement, I’ve reached Advisor status (there are only about 200 Advisers in the US and UK). Nokia held an essay contest and when Lindsay from Nokia contacted me with the news I was...