R2D2 smartphones for Star Wars fans
September 29, 2010 in News Roundup
An American phone company is bringing out a special limited edition of Star Wars themed Motorola DROID (2) smartphones.
Going on sale on 30 September, the R2-D2 phones, which are being sold by Verizon Wireless, come with a Binoculars app and will be sold in a box resembling carbonite.
The themed phones come with a range of free add-ons. The buyers are pampered with a Star Wars-themed media dock, a wired stereo headset and exclusive content including R2-D2 ringtones and sounds.
Royal Mail is using Augmented Reality (AR) in its new special-issue stamps, calling them the ‘world’s first intelligent stamps’.
Credit company Visa is working together with Bank of America to launch a ‘digital wallet’, allowing customers to use their smartphones to pay in stores.
Radio apps are proving popular among smartphone users, Radio audience measurement body Rajar reveals.
Flash videos can finally be played on smartphones, the vice president of Adobe has revealed.
Google’s smartphone, Nexus One, has expectedly dominated digital news since its launch on 5 January. The frenzy leading to the actual launch was good old-fashioned Google style with leaked documents adding to the mystery.
The popularity of smartphones and their contribution to the increasing of data traffic is predicted to be one of the main issues for the wireless industry to tackle this year.
Google has again managed to become the talk of the technological world, this time with its plans to launch its own smartphone – rumored to have been named ‘Nexus One’ .
Swedish streaming software Spotify announced on Monday the launch of a music application for the Symbian platform, used by the world’s biggest mobile phone maker Nokia and other smartphones.
