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Don't upgrade to the Premium addition of Motorola's Media Link app

Rating: Technically it is a downgrade

When you purchase the Motorola Dext (aka Droid) handset from Orange UK, it comes with a PC Suite which is entitled 'Motorola media Link'. When Motorola Media Link offers you the chance to 'Upgrade to Premium', don't. The resulting download is actually an earlier version of the software.

I've developed a sudden interest in all things to do with ringback tones so if anybody has any pointers they'd be very much appreaciated.

ZTE to make smartphones mass market

Piggybacking on the announcement that it already has a commercially available Windows 6.5 handset available, China's ZTE  emphasized how it ends to make smartphones genuinely affordable.Figures like 22 per cent of all handsets in 2010 being smartphones and raising that to 40 per cent in 2012.

Bemoko claims easy web site 'mobilisation'

Rating:Get your mobile site going quickly

There've always been products which claim ease of conversion from full web (HTML) to mobile (WML & XHTML) but Mat Diss, co-founder with Bemoko, reckons to have cracked it. Developers write in HTML and his software does the rest.

Samsung S8000/Jet review - Part II

Rating: troubles tranfering phonebooks

Surely I'm not that unusual in having more than 200 entries in my handset's phonebook? So why was it so difficult to transfer my numbers from a Nokia to the Samsung S8000/Jet?

The Samsung S8000/Jet handset in depth

Rating: Critical review of an iconic handset - Part I

Rather reviewing Samsung's S8000 from the Press release, I've actually been putting the handset through its paces. Some interesting discoveries have resulted – including the fact that the GPS facility appears to be disabled in the UK version.

118800 in temp shutdown

UK mobile phone users up in arms

In an apparent response to the furore surrounding its mobile phone number directory, 118800 has decided to suspend what it called its 'beta service'.

Identifying data intensive culprits within mobile apps

Rating: Alcatel-Lucent has the black box to do it

It's no secret that mobile operators has little idea what apps their mobile data networks are actually carrying. Alcatel-Lucent, however, claims its  9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) device discover this in real time.

Mobile CRM is high priority says RIM

Rating: Mapping and presence improve its attraction

Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT strategy for 2009.

Be a network nastie from the pub

Rating: Use an iPhone and Meru's network console

It's a network manager from Hell's (NMFH's) dream come true. Dictate to your network users via that fashion icon – the Apple iPhone – without having to return to your desk.

MEX 2009 - what's up with the handset market

Rating: Forsyth says in a perfect world everybody would be Symbian - sort of

At yesterday's MEX meeting, John Forsyth - who is on the leadership team with the Symbian Foundation - maintained that in certain circumstances, the entirety of a handset vendor's software R&D budget is being wasted on maintaining such a physically large number of handset models. Yet he still appealed for handset diversity.