f you love listening to live music, there’s really no better place to do that than in a field in the British countryside. But as ever with Glastonbury there’s so much going on, it’s difficult to know what to do with yourself. Which is where this handy app comes in. Featuring customisable line-up, interactive map, festival news and information as it happens, it’s like a festival guru in your pocket. You’ll wonder how you ever got by without it.
The Glastonbury Festival app from Orange is free and acts as an interactive guide to the whole site. The app will show you who’s playing where and will give you the latest news in real time.
It’s available for iPhone, Android and Nokia. Once you have it installed her is a short video explaining how it will make your Glastonbury experience better.
With the nuclear reactor situation at the Fukushima power plants in Japan, everyone is concerned about nuclear radiation. Measuring the levels of radiation is possible with the Geiger Counter FJ-2000. It is easy to use, yet is sophisticated enough to accurately measure the radiation levels in your vicinity. If levels are too high (above 25µSv/H), a warning alarm sounds.
Geiger Counter FJ-2000
Radiation Measuring Range: 0.1µSv/H – 999.9µSv/H
Reaction energy: 50keV-1.3MeV (±30%)
Accuracy: ±20%
Usage environment: -10 to 50°C (95%RH and over)
Power: AAA batteries x2
Includes pouch, manual (Chinese)
Weight: 75g
Size: 55cm x 92cm x 18cm (21.7″ x 36.2″ x 7.1″)
Order the Geiger Counter FJ-2000 for $609 from Japan Trend Shop.
Is your Motorola Droidphone hungry for some Gingerbread? Well, the lucky little guy can now get its taste with the recently released Android 2.3 builds for Droid X and Droid 2 from My Droid World. Droid Life's got all the details, including a hands-on video (provided after the break) and complete instructions for rooting your device and downloading the OS. Gingerbread brings you the new blue Blur, a customizable dock, an app management shortcut, an overhauled camera app, and super fast navigation speeds, among other things.
So for you eager beavers who just can't wait for an official release, follow the source links below and feed your phone...
Enterprise mobile services vendor Good Technology reported a 64 percent increase in the iPad's share of all device activations over the past quarter among its more than 2,000 companies deploying mobile devices. The jump extended Apple's iOS lead over Android, with more than twice as many device activations over all of 2010.
Good provides push messaging, device management and security products for corporate mobile users, serving as an alternative to RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. As such, Good supports mobile platforms outside of RIM's own, including Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Symbian, and adding relatively new support for iPhone and Android in December of 2009.
After a full year of supporting its Good for Enterprise solution on both the iOS and Android platforms, Good now reports that iOS devices represent more than 65 percent of all new device activations in the winter quarter of 2010, up from 56 percent last quarter. iPad itself has grown from 14 to 22 percent of all device activations over the same period.
iPhone 4 was the most popular device being put into use by Good's enterprise clients, followed by the iPad, although the iPhone 3G and 3GS remained in the top five. The top ten devices were rounded out by Android models, with the most popular being Motorola's Droid X and Droid 2, both of which placed ahead of the now two and a half year old iPhone 3G but still remained behind the low end iPhone 3GS from 2009.
Windows Mobile and Symbian were pushed out of the top ten entirely in the third quarter by devices running iOS or Android, just one year after Good added support for those new mobile platforms.
Using Verizon's forthcoming iPhone as a mobile hot spot is going to cost subscribers $20 a month--that's on top of the required data and voice plans subscribers will already be paying for.
The fee, which is in line with what Verizon charges for mobile hot spot service on other smartphones, was confirmed today to Macworld by Brenda Raney, Verizon Wireless' executive director of corporate communications. The hot spot feature comes with a 2GB data allowance, but if users go over that limit, they will be charged $20 per gigabyte.
The personal hot spot allows up to five Wi-Fi devices at a time to connect to the Internet using the Verizon iPhone's 3G data connection as a wireless router. The feature was highlighted during Verizon's January 11 event announcing iPhone's imminent availability on its network, but pricing for the service was not revealed at the time.
Earlier today, Verizon announced it would keep its $30 unlimited data plan for the iPhone, but the plan will only be offered for a limited time before the company moves to a usage-based billing model.
The new Verizon iPhone is expected to be a hot seller when it goes on sale February 10. Verizon executives have not provided exact projections for iPhone sales, but they say that analyst estimates of 11 million new subscribers for the iPhone are likely accurate.
AT&T, the only other carrier offering the iPhone, currently allows only a single device to be tethered to the device via USB or Bluetooth. However, the hot spot feature will reportedly be available to all iPhones capable of running iOS 4.3, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, a beta of which was recently released to developers.
Perch is the name of this beautiful portable speaker that wirelessly connects to your favorite Bluetooth gadgets and also can be used as charger for smartphones.
Product Features
* Slim two-part speaker/dock design.
* Portable speaker runs off of internal rechargeable battery.
* Wirelessly connects to Bluetooth devices for playback.
* Integrated microphone for conference or video calls.
* Dock includes built-in digital clock with alarm function.
* Perfect for iPhones, iPods, Blackberries, Android devices, and other smart phones and multimedia devices.
The Perch speaker dock can be pre-ordered from the Quirky website for $179.99.
Well, would you look at what we found hanging around Toshiba's CES kick-off party. Okay, so Tosh's still unnamed tablet wasn't running Honeycomb like the final unit will, but Toshiba's loaded Android 2.2 on there to give us a better idea of how it will work when it's finally ready. There's really not much we can say that we didn't already say before -- it's still a very nicely made tablet and we're really digging that rubberized back. As for the screen, the viewing angles were quite wide and Toshiba showed off its Resolution +, which will enhance video or photos on the fly to make them look more HDish. If you're interested in seeing a bit more, hit the break for a short video...
The fee, which is in line with what Verizon charges for mobile hot spot service on other smartphones, was confirmed today to Macworld by Brenda Raney, Verizon Wireless' executive director of corporate communications. The hot spot feature comes with a 2GB data allowance, but if users go over that limit, they will be charged $20 per gigabyte.
