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Apple has just unveiled it new iPhone with 3G wireless technology, GPS and new store applications letting users buy a lot of software ranging from games to business, from entertainment to health. “Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “ iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year.” The new iPhone sports a new integrated software (iPhone 2.0) whoch gives user a bunch of new features including Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide push email, calendar, and contacts sync. “iPhone 3G delivers an amazing 10 hours of talk time on 2G networks and 5 hours using 3G, with up to 5 to 6 hours of web browsing, up to 7 hours for video playback and up to 24 hours for audio playback,” according to the company. “iPhone 3G takes advantage of MobileMe, a new Internet service that pushes email, contacts, and calendars from an online “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. With MobileMe email, messages are pushed instantly to iPhone, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads, and push keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically updated on other devices. With iPhone, you can even snap a photo and post it directly to a MobileMe Gallery to share with friends and family.” The new 3G iPhone’s features include Continue reading »

A new version of iPhone software (named 2.0 beta) has recently been released to a small group of enterprise partners in order to test its new features. The most important ones are the new “Location Services” which let iPhone take advantage of its camera and Internet connection to use GPS-based Google Mapping along with Geotagging…but what the heck does it mean? Basically “geo-tagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to media files such as latitude and longitude coordinates — or even names of places — so that those files can later be referenced, searched, and grouped based on their origin.” Furthermore , rumors report that The new iPhone software adds a new function to the general Preferences pane to enable/disable Location Services letting users decide if they want to get advantage of this new function in their camera application and want to send data over the Web. This service is not a novelty among cellphones, since a lot of them have already used it successfully for a lot of years. Anyway as the old saying goes…better late than never! So, well done iPhone!

Source: Appleinsider.com

RIM has unveiled the new BlackBerry Bold/9000. If you are curious about its wonderful specs, here is something you can play with. The upcoming Blackberry cellphone doesn’t have any release day nor any price yet. As usual, stay tuned!

• The cellphone runs the new operative system BlackBerry OS, 4.6.
• The screen has got a higer resolution at 320 by 480.
• 624-Mhz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor, 1GB internal flash memory.
• HSDPA or EVDO networking.
• Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g) and GPS. ( yes, you got that right, GPS!)
  
• Support for up to 16GB MicroSD cards.
• HSDPA modem.
• Built-in 1500 mAh battery (4 hours’ talk and 13 days of standby)
• Bluetooth, of course

If you want to read an very comprehensive review of the new Blackberry cellphone, click here.

Some time ago I wrote about how to download Garmin Mapsource, just in case you screwed up your Garmin device and you needed to install this important piece of software in the GPS unit again. Since I feel to have written the whole procedure a little too hastily, today I still want to speak about it, but I want to write the whole procedure in detail. Here is what you have to do:

1. Download Garmin Mapsource installer from:http://www8.garmin.com/software/MapSource_6137.exe
2. Download and install Winrar here.
3. Run WinRAR, and open “MapSource_6137.exe” (select “All files” at “Files of type”, to view other than normally supported extensions).
4. Click “Extract to” on the Winrar window and put the whole content into a folder located on your desktop preferably.
5. Browse and point to the downloaded “MapSource_6137.exe”, right-click and select “Open with WinRAR” (this will open “MapSource_6137.exe” in WinRAR as above).
6. Click “Extract to” on the Winrar window and put the whole content into a folder located on your desktop preferably.
7. Browse the folder that contains the extracted files and folders, and continue with the above instructions with “MAIN.msi” and “Setup.exe”.

If, after the whole procedure, your get an error like this: “There is a problem with the MapSource installation. Please re-install MapSource and start it again” you have to fully uninstall MapSource, as well as delete any remnant of Mapsource registry entry. Then only re-install MapSource using the method in the first post. If you don’t know how to delete the registry entry, follow these simple steps:

• Click The Start Icon on your desktop
• Type Regedit on Run…
• Find this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –> Garmin
• Delete the whole Garmin folder

Source: malsingmaps.com

If you own one of the Garmin GPS devices you know pretty well that all of them come with a pre-installed software called MapSource. This software is the heart of Garmin products, since it provides to its users uploads and downloads of lots of files such as: maps, POI, tracks, routes, waypoints etc. Without the program your nice gadget is completely useless. The fact is this: if you screw-up the device or something goes wrong, the only way for you to install MapSource is to use the CD. Luckily for us there is a wonderful hack that avoids a lot of pain and sleepless nights, and that let us download MapSource through the software updater without use the CD (just in case you lost it). Here is the full step-by-step procedure. Continue reading »

Have you ever wondered if your brand new TomTom One can read Mp3? The first thought would be to reply “No” since just from TomTom Go 720 the option to make a play-list is available. But all this is going to change. In fact a group of independent developers has created a software called Open MP3 Player that, as you may guess, lets you play your favorite Mp3s on your TomTom One. Go here and grab the software.

According to the Partfoundry company the module to integrate Gps on the iPhone it’s on its way to the market and it will be availabe around Febraury for a price of 89$. The module should allow iPhone to use Google maps. Here is the video.