Upgrade to Gmail 2.0 on your mobile phone
Google has released an update to it’s Gmail client for mobile phones. The new version, which is now 2.0, offers some very useful features.
PulsarBox, latest entrant to mobile social networking, enters beta
PulsarBox™ a service that caters to the growing mobile social networking market has entered into beta stage. The mobile application is available as a J2ME / mobile Java application that you can download from their web site.
Control your Open Office presentations using bluetooth
You can now control your Open Office 2.3 presentations using your bluetooth enabled mobile phone using a simple java midlet / J2ME software.
Currency conversion for your mobile phone
If you’re someone who needs to regularly check for currency conversions, here’s a Java mobile application that will allow you to do currency conversion on your mobile phone. And it even has a currency conversion table update feature to allow you to get updated conversion rates.
Yahoo Go! 3.0 Beta is now available
A while back I wrote about my wishlist for Yahoo Go! version 3. Looks like I won’t wait any longer, just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Yahoo has made Go! 3.0 beta available for download. Yahoo Go! is also being opened up to mobile developers. I downloaded a copy to take it for a spin.
Minor update for java mobile version of Gmail
Quick info guys: If you’re using the Java mobile version of Gmail on your mobile phone, Google has an update. I was using version 1.5.0.1132 before. Gmail version 1.5.0.1187 is now available. Couldn’t find any changelog yet. I’ve also installed it on my mobile phone but didn’t find any obvious differences.
Look guys no GPS!
GPS or Global Positioning System equipped mobile phones has been slowly coming up in the market. This will steadily increase over time and people will be able to use these in a lot of applications. For instance, if you find yourself in a city and want to find out where you can stay for the night. It would be a great convenience if you can look at a map on your mobile phone and search for a hotel near you. You would think that you need GPS for this, well that’s not entirely true.
Opera Mini 4 is now available
Opera, creator of the web browser of the same name, has just released Opera Mini version 4.0 mobile phone browser. Opera Mini 4 enables you to take your full Web experience and digital lifestyle with you — everywhere you go.
Yahoo! Go version 3.0
A lot of you have probably used or tried Yahoo! Go 1.0 on their mobile phone. Version 1 of Yahoo’s mobile application isn’t Java but it was cool to use on my Nokia N80 mobile phone. A while back, I received an email from Yahoo saying they have to discontinue Yahoo Go v1 (I was actually using 1.5 on my cell phone) and that I should download Yahoo Go v2.0
Irc on your mobile phone
There was a time when I can spend some moments on the irc networks. I’ve made some friends back then. I have lost contact since and began to wonder what happened to them so I decided to do some googling and see if I can find a Java midlet that does irc.
