Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

Test Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian with Google Wave

The previous version of Opera Mobile I tried is 8.65 but I was not impressed by it. When I found there is Opera Mobile 10 beta available to download for free, I decided to give it another try.

Using the camera of your mobile phone to capture the word to be translated

Recently, there is a video published on internet that shows a new feature of the Youdao dictionary mobile version: Using the camera of your mobile phone to capture the word to be translated.

100th post: Changes in the world of mobile applications

As a blogger, I am not so productive: It takes me about 2 years to have the 100th post (about half of them are written within the past month). Look back at mobile applications I introduced in my blog, some of them have already disappeared, some of them become extremely popular and the rest also have signification changes.

Tips to read word, excel and pdf files on Java-enabled mobile phones

You may have been facing such kind of problem: You received a word, excel or PDF file on your mobile phone (It is already very common for today’s mobile phones to have built-in email clients), but your phone are just a Java-enabled phones that it doesn’t have software installed to read these kind of files like on smartphones. However, you want to read the file before you can have a PC to open it. Is there any solution?

First impression after upgrading my grandcentral account to google voice

I had GrandCentral account for quite a long time, but it is not so useful to me since I am living outside US. So when I received notification asking me to upgrade my GrandCentral account to Google Voice, I didn’t take action immediately. However, I am looking for VoIP solutions for Android phones like HTC [...]

Who need WiFi on their mobile phones

Nowadays, more and more users want to have WiFi on their mobile phones, I am also on of them. I bought 2 mobile phones recently, having WiFi is one of the facts my choice based on. I excluded Motorola Z8 at beginning though there was a promotion for it, just because it doesn’t have WiFi. [...]

Pros and cons, review of Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz is my backup choice of Mobile IM program after Fring. In fact, I started to use Nimbuzz even before Fring, since the initial version of Nimbuzz was based on Java ME and when I was still using my Motorola E680i, Fring didn’t has J2ME version yet. Though Nimbuzz has a shorter history than Fring especially on smartphones, it developed very quickly and make itself a serious competitor of Fring. Here is a brief summary of Nimbuzz’s advantage and disadvantage

Pros and cons, review of Fring

Fring is my favorite mobile IM client since I changed to Nokia S60 smartphone. It is the first really mobile VoIP software I used. Today, I received the notification that it is updated to version 3.40.28/29. This update just fix some bugs and there is no major improvement. So the Pros and cons of Fring remain the same.

PSPKVM, the best J2ME emulator on PSP, updated to v0.5.3

Features of PSPKVM v0.5.3: Emulate the display of today’s electronics devices- PSPKVM is not only a Java ME environment, but it also can emulate the display of today’s mainstream electronics devices such as mobile phones. For example, if you choose to emulate Nokia N73, the display on the screen of PSP will be the same [...]

Comparison of Gmail mobile and the built-in email client on Nokia phones

More and more people use their mobile phones to keep on tracking their emails. When I was still using my Motorola E680i, I had already tried different third party mobile email client based on J2ME, such as Morange, Flurry, Gmail mobile and so on. Among those third party mobile email software, I used Gmail mobile [...]