WakeMate, an application and wristband for use with your phone, tracks your nightly sleeping patterns, and recommends a perfect time for you to wake up depending on how your body’s sleep cycle.
You simply snap the wristband on before you go to bed, tell your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Android and others) the latest time you’d like to wake up, and the WakeMate application will set off your alarm someone within 20 minutes before that latest time.
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With the advent of smartphones like the iPhone, Android and WebOS handsets, it seems that anything that can be an app is an app. But that’s not all, the ports on these phones also allow for accessories to be plugged in to extend their functionality.
Take this 6x telescoping lens for the iPhone 4G for example. It looks unwieldly, but this is a real life optical zoom lens for your phone, and you may not care if you’re into photography. Let me repeat that – for your phone! Also crazy is that it’s under $20. I’m a little skeptical about how well this works as it’s from one of those sites that sells just about anything that anyone can dream up but for another $3 in shipping, you could find out yourself!
Buy now!
Price: $18.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Here’s another service that backs up your mobile/smartphone data to the cloud. CyberSynchs supports the majority of platforms out there: Android, Blackberry, iOS (iPhone), Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java handsets.
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With the recent launch of the new Windows 7 smartphones, this article courtesy of Retrevo.com comparing the iPhone to a Win7 phone is timely.
By Sarah Martin of Retrevo.com
With this week’s North American debut of the Windows Phone 7 we decided to dive into the Microsoft vs Apple fray and see how Windows Phone 7 is going to stack up with iOS 4. (Full disclosure: Retrevo was selected by Microsoft to be a BizSpark One partner.) Since its 2007 release the iPhone has dominated the smartphone market recently its supremacy has been challenged by the Android OS, and now Microsoft is going to do its best to snatch some of that market-share as well. To have any hope of doing so however, Microsoft has to be able to offer something new or innovative to consumers. In that vein, here are a few things WP7 does that the iPhone does not. …
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Just a quick note: If you’re interested in a Motorola Droid smartphone running Android, Amazon Wireless is selling them for $0.01. Yep, you read that right, 1 cent, 1 penny.
Of couse you’ll have to sign up for a 2-year contract with Verizon, but that’s no different than if you bought the phone directly from Verizon. You will have to be a new customer though.
We’ve covered NFC tech in the past, notably the work done by Nokia and tititag (now touchtag). Now a vendor with a lot more marketplace clout is adding NFC support to one of its products, namely Google to its Android mobile OS.
The next version of Android, v2.3 (Gingerbread) will include support for the industry standard of NFC (Near Field Communications). So how will this benefit you? Well NFC will allow you to interact with other NFC and RFID-tagged devices to perform acts such as transferring money (think credit card payments), ‘beaming’ data, reading info, all by simply coming within range of those devices and with few button presses.
This is welcome news for NFC enthusiasts as it will probably (hopefully) give it a welcome boost in uptake.
YouMail is one of the many visual voicemail providers that you can sign up for and redirect your phone’s voice-mail through. They have a number of transcription plans and claim a voicemail-to-text transcription accuracy of 95%. Their boast is that it’s much better than Google Voice which comes in at 80%.
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This is interesting and appropriate for the info junkies amongst us. App developer T-Minus 5 has just released an app called Eye Web to help you speed read at over 600 words per minute (the average adult reads about 250 words per minute).
Built for iPhone or iPod Touch (where’s the iPad version?), Eye Web claims to rewire your brain to read at higher speeds using some scanning techniques.
Best of all, it’s free.
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OtterBox released two new color options for the iPhone 4 Defender Series (review to be released shortly) in white and black as well as pink and black. Not only does the iPhone case provide the standard drop and shock as well as water and dust protection, but the OtterBox cases protect in style.
