At Mobile World Congress this weeks, Vodafone have launched a new phone based on Google’s Android operating system. Built by Taiwan’s HTC, the Magic feature a sophisticated browser, a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The first “Google phone”, called the G1, was launched in September by HTC and is exclusive to T-mobile.
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones reviews this phone, as well as the latest offering from Palm and Nokia.
Over the last year Twitter has slowly been crawling towards that tipping point, where things become such a huge phenomena we start wondering what we ever did without them.
At Cite HQ we don’t often get excited about new kit, but this week I must confess to feeling a bit tingly after playing around on my new iPhone. This platform is awesome – every details has been properly considered. Central to the browsing experience is Safari – a custom version of OS X’s default browser.
The user is able to use iPhone’s innovative ‘pinch and twist’ features to effortless move around the site and of course more and more sites and blogs have iPhone specific style sheets to customise the experience in the first place.
Stay tuned, we say – more to come
Social media site, Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today. It’s hard to believe that the social networking medium that has infiltrated most of our lives has only been around for five years.
Unlike some of its competitors Facebook has refrained from selling out to the big boys in the playground, hoping to make it on its own. How does it do this? By selling advertising. Whether being bombarded by adverts is your bag of tricks or not, especially when you consider Facebook is a network for socialising, as a marketeer it’s a fantastic way of reaching a highly targeted audience. After all, what other sorts of sites do we willingly divulge our personal information, our likes and dislikes, our interests?
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