macandmobile http://www.macandmobile.com Your Mac and Your Mobile Phone Connected Sun, 16 May 2010 14:38:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nokia E5, C3 and C6 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=286 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=286#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 14:38:13 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=286 Nokia is launching some amazing new phones. Wonder why they hadn’t launched these before. I am definitely getting one for myself.

Nokia E5

Connectivity : WLAN, USB 2.0, Stereo Bluetooth, Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3rd Edition, Nokia Email, Quick Office Suite, AGPS

  • Messaging

  • Get work emails in real time through Mail for Exchange and IBM® Lotus Notes® Traveler.

  • Type messages quickly and comfortably using the full QWERTY keyboard.

  • Keep the conversation going in real time using the Nokia Messaging IM application.

  • Access up to 10 personal email accounts on your phone – including Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

  • Stay in touch with your friends and family through Ovi Mail – your free email account from Nokia.

  • Keep chatting while on the go. All your favorite IM communities—Windows Live Messenger,™ Yahoo!® Messenger, Google Talk™ and Ovi Chat—are available.

full details here

Nokia C3
USB 2.0, Bluetooth, Symbian OS S40
  • Easy access to your email accounts, including Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail™ and other popular POP/IMAP services
  • Easy Ovi Mail free email account creation directly from phone
  • Instant messaging through Windows Live Messenger™, Yahoo!® Messenger, Google Talk™ and Ovi Chat
  • Conversational SMS for chat-style text messages
  • SMS, MMS
  • Nokia Xpress audio messaging
more details here
Nokia C6
Nokia Symbian Series 60 5th Edition, supports WLAN, AGPS, Bluetooth, USB 2.0

Messaging

  • Get easy access to your email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail™, Yahoo!® Mail and Windows Live™.
  • Stay in touch with friends and family through Ovi Mail – your free email account from Nokia.
  • Write a message quickly and easily using the full QWERTY keyboard.
  • Say more with a picture – get your message across clearly by sending a multimedia message



]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=286 2 Blackberry Enterprise Server Express http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=282 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=282#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:50:58 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=282 Connect two people via BlackBerry® smartphones and ideas get bigger. Progress happens faster. Answers get smarter. So imagine what happens when you give a business the freedom to connect all its employees.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily get started with the BlackBerry® solution. It provides advanced BlackBerry smartphone features with no additional software or user license fees, and works with any Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan or a BlackBerry enterprise data plan.

Push Technology

Push technology

Push technology is designed to deliver messages and information to BlackBerry® smartphones in seconds. This helps ensure that the information on a user’s BlackBerry smartphone is automatically updated with the information on their computer.

Email, calendar entries, contacts, tasks and memos are all kept up-to-date.

Server software also optimize data before sending to BlackBerry smartphones, making it one of the most efficient smartphone solutions. It’s designed to provide quick delivery times, long battery life and low per-megabyte data charges – especially when roaming.

Email

Provide your mobile professionals with on-the-go email access on BlackBerry® smartphones. Email is delivered via push technology to the user’s smartphone and synchronizes with their desktop mail.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users

  • Flag for follow up – Flagging email messages for follow up is a great way to help users spot the ones they’re looking for when they need them. Apply different colors, assign due dates, set reminders and more.1
  • Remote email search – Users can search for emails that are no longer stored on their smartphone without returning to their desk.2
  • Set up out-of-office reply – Out-of-office notifications are updated easily from users’ BlackBerry smartphones.
  • HTML email – View emails with embedded HTML, including images, page layout, and text formatting.3
  • Sync email status – Reading an email on your BlackBerry® smartphone marks it as “read” on desktop as well. Deleting an email can optionally be reflected on the desktop.
  • Mail folder management – BlackBerry smartphone users can add, remove or rename folders right from their smartphone. Changes made on the BlackBerry smartphone will automatically be updated on the mail server.1
  • View email folders – View custom email folders created on the desktop. View emails moved into folders by custom email filters setup through desktop.1

Advanced calendaring

BlackBerry® smartphone users can send out, and respond to, meeting invitations easily. The calendar on the BlackBerry smartphone synchronizes with the desktop calendar to stay up-to-date automatically without having to connect to a computer.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users:

  • Free/busy lookup – Users can look at their colleagues’ availability and choose a meeting time that works for everyone.2
  • Forward appointments – Users can simply forward a calendar entry from the email message list or directly from the calendar.1
  • View and forward Calendar Attachments – Just as they would from an email message, users can open some of the most popular document and graphic attachments from calendar entries.1

Address Book

BlackBerry® smartphone users can enjoy mobile access to the corporate contact information they need while on the go.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users

  • Contact sync – Contact information on users’ BlackBerry smartphones automatically stays up-to-date with the information on their computers.
  • Address lookup – Users can look up colleagues in the corporate address book from their smartphone.
  • Synchronization of multiple contact folders and more – Users can synchronize multiple contact folders, personal distribution lists and public/shared folders to their smartphone.1

Document and file access

Empower your employees to be more productive while on the go by giving them access to the documents they need on their BlackBerry® smartphones.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users:

  • Remote File Access – Users can find local and remote files, and open, view, save, or email JPEG, Adobe® PDF, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel® and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files directly from their BlackBerry® smartphone.1
  • Ability to download, edit, save and attach documents – Users can edit and save changes to Microsoft® Word and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files, then send them as email attachments to colleagues and customers while on the go.2
  • Native file attachments – Users can download and save full-size email attachments in their native file formats.2

Messaging

Take your instant messaging (IM) mobile. With presence status, your employees can see who is online and ready for a message and their preferred method of contact. BlackBerry® smartphones support a variety of web-based and enterprise IM applications:

Collaboration and networking

Networking extends the reach of your employees, allowing them to tap into the expertise of coworkers. Social networking applications are available for BlackBerry® smartphones that provide access to Facebook®, Flickr™ or MySpace® on the go. Plus with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, you can provide employees with secure access to enterprise collaboration applications.

Get the full details here

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=282 0 GooSync Free account back by popular demand http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=278 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=278#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:40:42 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=278 Since discontinuing the free GooSync service back in October 2009, GooSync guys have received overwhelming demand to bring it back. Finally conceding to the masses, they have announced the re-release of the ever popular GooSync free subscription. As of today (Wednesday 14th April 2010), you will once again be able to sign up to the basic GooSync account absolutely FREE.

Open your FREE GooSync account today at: www.GooSync.com

GooSync is The simplest way to sync google calendars, contacts and tasks on your mobile

GOOSYNC LITE:

- Extended calendar sync range of 45 days (14 days for free users)
- Multiple device support for up to 2 devices
- Additional sync modes
- Priority helpdesk support

GOOSYNC PREMIUM:

- Extended calendar sync range of 365 days (14 days for free users)
- Multiple device support for up to 4 devices
- Contacts sync support
- Tasks sync support

For a full list of Free, Lite and Premium account features see: http://www.goosync.com/Features.aspx

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=278 0 Opera Mini for iPhone http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=273 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=273#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:40:17 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=273 Opera Mini for iPhone has been approved by Apple and will be soon available at the App Store.

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=273 0 Opera Mobile 10 is here (beta) and it rocks! http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=267 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=267#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:02:32 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=267 Opera has released their mobile brower version 10. You can download it from here on your mobile’s browser.

or on your phone’s default browser go to m.opera.com/mobile

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=267 0 Facebook App for Nokia E71/E72 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=262 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=262#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:49:57 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=262 Not many would know it, but there is an original Facebook App for Nokia E71/E72 at the Nokia Ovi Store here.

You will need a free Nokia Ovi store login to be able to download it. The app itself is free too.

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=262 1 Reliance Broadband Connect+ USB Modem and Mac OSX Snow Leopard http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=258 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=258#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:30:05 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=258 I just got myself a Reliance Huawei EC1260 3G USB data modem.

The good thing is when you connect, it shows a disc image of a Mac installer. The bad thing is, the Mac installer is for a 32 bit OS, and Snow Leopard is 64 bit. Of course you can boot in 32 bit mode by pressing 3+2 when booting, but that isnt a good solution.

Fortunately Huawei has released a 64 bit driver which sadly the Reliance customer care don’t know about yet.

You can download the Huawei driver here. I downloaded the MobileConnectDriver (4.16.00.00).

Make sure you get your modem ‘activated’ by the folks at Reliance when you buy it. Activation can ONLY be done on a Wondows PC. Unless activated the modem wont work.
Double click to go through the standard installation procedure.

Once installed and with the modem connected, go to System Preferences -> Network

Location: Create New (You can call it Reliance Broadband)

On the left hand panel see three Huawei things come up. I selected the one called Huawei Modem

You can enter the settings as:

Configuration: Default

Telephone Number: #777
Account Name: Your 10 digit Reliance number
Password: Same as above

Now move to Advanced

Click Modem -> Vendor -> Other

automatically the Model will appear as Huawei Mobile Connect 3G Modem

Error Correction and Compression in Modem is ON
Dial Mode: Ignore dial tone when dialling
Dianlling: Tone
Sound: off

There.That should do it and you should be ready to go!


]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=258 5 SyncMate syncs your Mac with many devices http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=253 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=253#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:05:40 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=253 sm_picture
Synchronizing your Mac with multiple devices is now possible with SyncMate! And you can sync all your devices at the very same moment.
With SyncMate you can sync data in your Mac with other Mac computers as well as with other PC (!!!) computers. No need to look for exhausting data transfer methods. All you need is one SyncMate!
Keep your Mac in sync with your mobile phone! Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones are supported.
Can’t imagine your everyday life without Google account? SyncMate will sync your Google Contacts and Calendars with your Mac for FREE!
SyncMate also syncs your Mac with USB drives or Sony PSP. With SyncMate you can backup PSP or USB drive files and folders at your Mac and restore them in couple of clicks when needed.
Eltima also offers special online storage to SyncMate users. Store your important data there and access it from any spot on the globe easily.

With SyncMate you can:

Synchronize your Mac with multiple devices:
SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive). No need to purchase several sync solutions in order to sync your Mac with each device – just download SyncMate and all supported devices will be synced within one application.

Store your stuff online:
With SyncMate you can easily backup your data online and access it from any spot on the globe in a few clicks. Store your Contacts, Calendar, Firefox and Safari bookmarks, ToDos, Entourage notes, Mail notes and even more online.

SyncMate Free Edition:
SyncMate enables you to sync your most vital data absolutely for FREE! Sync your Contacts and Calendars among your Mac and all devices supported and never miss any important event or lose any contact. Google Contacts & Calendar synchronization is available in FREE Edition.

SyncMate Expert Edition:
Sync iTunes & Video, iPhoto, bookmarks, folders, mail, notes and even more to all your devices at once with Expert Edition plus all the features you already tried in free version.
With Expert Edition you can easily create, send or delete your SMS messages on your Mac not even touching the phone.

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=253 0 Motorola Droid http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=250 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=250#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:26:04 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=250

The web is richer. Photos are sharper. Videos pop. It has the most advanced browser and Android 2.0 software with a blazing-fast processor and 3G speed for faster search. It has the world’s thinnest QWERTY slider at 13.7mm. It can help you navigate turn-by-turn. It has a 5MP camera with a flash, plus loads of great camera features and a DVD-quality recorder to capture all the richer, bigger, wider experiences you’re going to have.
It’s the phone with the “Hi” IQ.

droid

Runs on Android, has a 5MP Camera, email with attachment support and various other features:

Email:
EMAIL3
Corporate (Exchange 2003 and 2007), Gmail™, IMAP, POP3, Attachment and browser document viewer (Microsoft Office® and pdf)
MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING (MMS)3
PREDICTIVE TEXT
TEXT MESSAGING (SMS)3
Yes
INSTANT MESSAGING (IM)3
Google Talk™
IMAGE FILE FORMATS
BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG
VOICE MAIL3
Standard voice mail, Verizon Visual Voice Mail™ (capable)

Connectivity
BLUETOOTH® TECHNOLOGY4
Stereo Bluetooth® technology v2.1 + EDR (profiles supported: HFP, HSP, A2DP, AVRCP, PBAP, and OPP for video/still images)
SYNCHRONIZATION
Support for Corporate calendar, email and contacts (Exchange 2003 and 2007), Google contacts, calendar and Gmail™, Facebook™ contacts
WIFI
802.11 b,g
DATA ACCESS5
Yes
CONNECTOR TYPE
Micro USB
DATA TRANSMISSION RATE5
USB 2.0 High Speed

GPS AND LOCATION SERVICES1
aGPS (assisted), sGPS (simultaneous), Google Maps™, Google Maps™ Navigation (BETA), Google Latitude™, Google Maps Street View, eCompass

WEB BROWSER
Webkit HTML5 with geo location and multiple windows, Adobe with Flash Player 10.1(TM) Ready (for release date see Adobe.com)
WEB ACCESS

HEADSET JACK
3.5 mm
HEARING AID COMPATIBLE
Rated for M3, T3; TalkBack, KickBack and SoundBack menu readout
TEXT TELEPHONE (TTY) COMPATIBILITY

CALLER ID3
On main display, Picture ID, Ringer ID
SPEAKERPHONE
ADVANCED SPEECH RECOGNITION
AUTOMATIC REDIAL
CALL WAITING
CONFERENCE CALLING3
Group call
EMERGENCY DIAL
MUTE CALL
NOISE REDUCTION
Dual microphone noise reduction

PHONE BOOK
Unified contact list (Gmail™, Exchange, Facebook™)
SPEED DIAL
Direct dial shortcut, direct message shortcut
VIBRACALL
VOICE DIALING
WAIT AND PAUSE DIALING

Google Mobile Services
ANDROID MARKET™
GMAIL™
GOOGLE CALENDAR™
GOOGLE CONTACT SYNC™
GOOGLE LATITUDE™
GOOGLE MAPS STREET VIEW
GOOGLE MAPS™
GOOGLE MAPS™ NAVIGATION BETA
GOOGLE QUICK SEARCH BOX™
GOOGLE SEARCH™ BY VOICE
GOOGLE TALK™
YOUTUBE™

Included Applications
ENTERTAINMENT6
YouTube™, Amazon MP3 Store™
LIFESTYLE6
Google Search™ by Voice
MAPS AND GPS6
Google Maps™ Navigation (BETA)
SOCIAL NETWORKING6
Facebook™

Interface
NAVIGATION TOOL
Directional key with center select
OPERATING SYSTEM
Android™ 2.0
BACKLIGHT
Yes
CUSTOM NAVIGATION
Multiple, customizable home screens (three)
DEDICATED KEYS
Volume control, Camera, Back, Search, Menu, Power/Lock, Home
HAPTIC FEEDBACK
KEYPAD LOCK
LIGHT-RESPONSIVE DISPLAY
QWERTY KEYBOARD
TOUCH SCREEN
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
VOICE COMMANDS

Personalisation
RINGTONE FORMATS
AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+, MP3, OGG
RINGTONES3
Preloaded and downloadable
WALLPAPERS3
Preloaded and downloadable

Physical Details
DISPLAY TYPE
TFT
COLORS
Licorice w/brown sugar accents
DISPLAY SIZE
3.7″; WVGA (480 x 854 pixels); 16:9 widescreen
WEIGHT
6 oz.; 169 grams
SIZE (H X W X D)
2.4 x 4.6 x .5 in.; 60.00 x 115.80 x 13.70 mm
ANTENNA TYPE
Internal
FORM FACTOR
Slider

Productivity
CALCULATOR
CALENDAR
Calendar, Corporate (Exchange) calendar
CLOCK
Alarm clock
FLIGHT MODE

Technology
CCELEROMETER
Yes
NETWORKS3
CDMA 1X 800/1900, EVDO rev A
PROCESSOR SPEED
Arm® Cortex™ A8 processor 550 mHz
REMOVABLE MEMORY7
16 GB microSD pre-installed; supports up to 32 GB microSD expandable
SENSORS
Proximity, ambient light and eCompass

1. Network dependent feature, not available in all areas. Airtime, data charges, and/or additional charges may apply. Photo ID and ring tone assignment to the Address Book entries, must be saved on the phone and not the SIM card.
2. All talk and standby times are quoted in Digital Mode, and are approximate. Battery performance depends on network configuration, signal strength, operating temperature, features selected, and voice, data and other application usage patterns.
3. Network and/or SIM card dependent feature, not available in all areas. Airtime, data charges, and/or additional charges may apply. Wireless email functionality requires an email account with wireless server capabilities.

]]> http://www.macandmobile.com/?feed=rss2&p=250 0 Sony Ericsson Aino http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=247 http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=247#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:47:13 +0000 admin http://www.macandmobile.com/?p=247 aino-dont-touch

The Sony Ericsson Aino supports an 8.1 MP Camera with Flash and Clear Audio. The handset has the best of two worlds with the keypad combined with an intuitive touch UI in media mode. Users can control and access media content on their PlayStation 3 using Remote Play. The Aino also introduces Media Home, an application that pulls media content on a PC over Wi-Fi to the phone automatically

It has a slide out keypad as well as an intuitive touchscreen UI. It can control and access media on the PlayStation 3 using the Remote Play. It can also pull media content on a PC over Wi-FI to itself. The Aino supports drag and drop media transfer between itself and your PC.

The phone supports J2ME which means access to a whole lot of amazing software like Gmail app, Opera Mini browser etc. Aino also has built in AGPS with Google Maps.

Aino officially supports Apple iSync via this download. Full Aino specs are here.

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