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Garmin Mobile XT is priced competitively at around £50 for the full version and boasts compatibility with many mobile platforms, alongside some impressive features such as ‘PeerPoints’, ‘Traffic’ and ‘Weather’ reports. All of this sounds great, but does it do the job as well as the competition? Let’s find out-

My first task was to get it off the included microSD card and install it on my 4GB card. I managed it by copying all of the files to my desktop, copying them back to my 4GB card and then inserting the original card back in. You need the original card to do the first installation, but after that it will run from your own card, albeit with a warning every time you launch it. After installation I lost almost 10MB of internal memory on my Centro so it is not exactly memory efficient, especially when you consider that TomTom Navigator takes almost no internal memory.

On the first launch there was very little to set up and it was rather painless, although it does take a long time to launch each time. Be prepared for at least an 8 second wait each time you start it up. After start up though, it does plod along at a good rate and seems to be more efficient on the Centro than TomTom Navigator is.

My first task was to set it up and see how well it coped with re-routing and complex roundabouts and this was a positive experience initially. A window popped up advising that a traffic problem had been spotted before I set off and that a new route was available. This gave me reassurance and I duly opted for the new route. I then discovered that the traffic system will look for problems ‘before’ you set off, but not during the trip! Now, I don’t want to be negative, but what is the point of a system that is so limited as to not offer real time traffic management? If I was driving up to Scotland which takes about 7 hours, it is highly unlikely that there would be no problems during this trip. Because of this, I have to write off the traffic feature and have to question this wording from Garmin- “Receive real-time traffic information from traffic.com about traffic tie-ups and road construction that lie ahead on your route and navigate around congestion.”

Now, I may well be wrong about the traffic service, because some more information has come to light suggesting that it does indeed provide real time traffic information. If this is the case, why did I get stuck in an hour tailback with the so called traffic service enabled? I picked up my TyTN II and TomTom Traffic advised to avoid the route...

So far, I am struggling with the traffic service and do find the interface and options available to be slightly limiting compared to the likes of CoPilot and TomTom. I am going to persevere with Garmin Mobile and will finalise the review next week.

Available from www.clove.co.uk for £49.98.

Stefano has spotted an Italian article which alludes to a new patent filing from RIM which would detect if you’re holding your BlackBerry in landscape or portrait orientation. Sound familiar? This patent would allow phone functions to appear when in portrait mode, and multimedia functions when in landscape. With all the talk about touchscreens as is, it feels like RIM’s researchers are clinging to Apple’s coattails, let alone with rumors of an accelerometer patent. In any case, nothing has been found after rooting through the FCC database, but if you find anything, be sure to drop a comment.

“For a long time it is spoken about “iPhone” about Rim, a device similar for conception and target of market to the telephone of Apple. To signal it there are various sensitive indications that head for screen to the tact and Blackberry with functions consumer. Between the elements it means has joined some days before a new licence to you that, if put in practical, could very approach to the devices you of the producer of Waterloo Cupertino. More at BackberryCool. Thanks to Luca.

Wye Valley UK, 18 March, 2008 - - Electric Pocket, developer of mobile media and media applications for Smartphones, today introduces FindMe for Windows Mobile(r) and BlackBerry(r) devices. FindMe enables users, their friends, family and colleagues to share their current locations automatically and securely through their BlackBerry or Windows Mobile Smartphones without needing GPS. FindMe offers the opportunity to "tag" commonly visited locations, such as home, office, soccer field or favorite bars and restaurants, and post those locations on their Facebook profiles.

Unlike many location-sharing programs, FindMe doesn't broadcast geographic location information. Only the names of locations that the user has tagged will be shared on their FaceBook profiles. Since FindMe uses cell tower location rather than GPS, it will work with any Smartphone. The first release works with all GSM Windows Mobile smartphones and all CDMA and GSM BlackBerry devices with trackballs-chiefly the popular Pearl and Curve models.

FindMe puts the users in complete control of when where and how they share their locations, not only by letting them tag the locations they wish to share, but also by giving them the ability to "Go Dark" when they do not want their location to be broadcast. Only their last-named position and the time they were there will be displayed, and no information about the user's location history is stored or recorded. Further, when users are in a non-tagged area, their Facebook profiles will show their location as "Unknown."

For those who may wish to organize impromptu get-togethers with friends, FindMe allows them to add additional location information, such as a favorite place's postal code, enabling the application to offer a map or directions to their current location.

"Social networking sites such as Facebook are removing geographic barriers to keeping friends connected, and FindMe adds a great new dimension by sharing locations among friends when and how they want to be seen," said Steve Bennett, Electric Pocket's Chief Executive Officer. "With our innovative approach to tagging cell tower locations rather than using GPS, it opens up this capability to anyone with a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile Smartphone and a free Facebook account."

FindMe is available for all BlackBerry Smartphones with trackballs, including 81xx series (Pearl) , 83xx series (Curve) and the 88xx series, plus all GSM Windows Mobile phones, at http://www.electricpocket.com/findme

Dallas, Texas, March 18, 2008 – Quickoffice, the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software and services, today announced the availability of its award-winning software, Quickoffice Premier 4.0, for UIQ 3 devices. The latest version offers complete editing support for Microsoft Office Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® files, without compromising data integrity or formatting.

Quickoffice Premier 4.0 contains many enhancements that improve usability, including performance optimizations for handling documents of all sizes, support for complex spreadsheet formulas and new, advanced editing capabilities. Users can now enjoy more control over formatting, graphics and text when revising documents on their UIQ smartphones. Also included in this release are powerful, user-friendly options to make graphical changes within presentations, such as inserting, deleting, moving and rotating objects. Mobile professionals also have the option of customizing the display of documents in each application with the new ZoomView™ feature, allowing for the easiest and fastest selection of the optimal zoom level for each document.

The new version also includes Quickoffice’s on-device, e-commerce portal, Quickmanager™. This new feature enables over-the-air software upgrades, allowing customers to quickly and easily receive the latest versions of leading mobile productivity applications.

"Professionals are increasingly dependent on their smartphones to perform every necessary function outside the office," said Paul Moreton, vice president of product development. "UIQ customers want and need a mobile office suite that builds upon and takes advantage of UIQ 3’s next-generation innovations. With this in mind, we leveraged our extensive experience and dedication to creating user-friendly software to deliver an office suite that transforms the UIQ smartphone into a powerful mobile office."

Quickoffice greatly enhances a professional’s lifestyle away from work by eliminating the need to travel with a bulky laptop, as all Office content is easily and instantly accessible directly from a smartphone. Quickoffice Premier 4.0 is available immediately and customers can purchase the software online at www.quickoffice.com.

For many years video games have been all about the hard core player.

These people, typically young men, have the time, budget and patience to spend hours crafting an empire or honing their skills on a first-person shooter. But that focus is shifting dramatically thanks to a very simple game that involves creating rows of matching jewels.

When it first appeared in 2001 the game was known as Diamond Mine but is best known as Bejeweled.

Since then creator Popcap has sold more than 10 million copies of Bejeweled and the game has been downloaded more than 150 million times. More at BBCi.

The Nokia N82 Camera Comparison article over at Symbian in Motion highlights just how good some camera phones really are these days- "After my initial post on the Nokia N82 it has been a while since my promised update and my comparison of the camera capabilities of the N82 versus the N95. Apologies as I have been very busy with a few matters. I’m sure you’ve all read and have been keeping update with the crazy Stavros and his mission to create the greatest art ever. Now have you asked yourselves why he is doing it using the Nokia N82? I mean why not the N95? It also has a 5 Mega Pixel camera and as most of his journey is during daylight, the Xenon flash will not be factor. So why the N82? Is it a Nokia PR stunt? Yes, it would seem at face value, it is to promote the N82’s capabilities and good reason to.

You have to realise on paper yes the only difference between the N95’s and the N82’s camera is the flash, but in reality and looking into it in more detail there some other differences between the handsets that make the N82 ideal and on the whole a lot better than the N95. For one the GPS seems to lock on a lot quicker than the N95, the camera is quicker to respond and adjust to light and the scene quicker than the N95, in lowlight the N95 obviously doesn’t compare against the N95, but there are also other issues to consider when taking a picture; colour, saturation, white balance and exposure all these are not mentioned anywhere in the specs sheets. Hence this is why I always insist on hand testing a device before making judgement on it, obviously there are handsets which are just plainly not good enough and don’t deserve the time, but when comparing fine details like these it is essential. So the N82 does all these things better than the N95 but you wouldn’t know about it unless someone told you or you found out by trialling the devices themselves."

Today's free eBook is Alistair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders by Mike Resnick- "Gold and Silver—that’s us. We’ve been a team since major league baseball ended at the Mississippi River and the flag only had forty-eight stars. (Looked a lot nicer back then. More regular, sort of, with six rows of eight—or maybe it was eight rows of six. I suppose it depends on whether you were standing or lying down.) Between us we’ve outlived three wives (one of them his, two of them mine) and two kids (both his), we’ve stayed friends for more than three-quarters of a century (seventy-eight years to be exact), and we’ve been living together at the Hector McPherson Retirement Home since . . . well, since we couldn’t live on our own anymore.

He’s Gold—Maury Gold. Me, I’m Nate Silver. I think it was Silverstein until my grandfather changed it back when Teddy Roosevelt was still president. Maury’s dad changed his right after World War I, from Goldberg or Goldman or Gold-something-else. Makes no difference what they used to be. We’re Gold and Silver now.

We met seventy-eight years ago, like I said. We’ve always lived in Chicago. It was pretty safe when we were kids. The cops had cleaned up Al Capone and his friends, and the place wasn’t crawling with junkies and panhandlers yet, so we were each allowed to take the subway down to the Loop by ourselves, me from Rogers Park on the North Side, Maury from South Shore a couple of miles beyond the University of Chicago, which was overflowing with geniuses and Communists—frequently the same people—back in those days.

One of the things I loved to do was go to the Palmer House, the ritziest hotel in town. The guest rooms started on the third or fourth floor, but the ground floor and the mezzanine were filled with shops that carried the most fascinating things: clocks that glowed in the dark, pianos that played by themselves, clothes and jewels imported from exotic-sounding places like Constantinople and Hong Kong and Bombay."