NAVIGON MobileNavigator 7 North America

This application turns your smart phone into a navigation device that rivals dedicated navigation hardware. It offers such features as text to speech instructions, “go home” setting and route planning as well as 2-D/3-D map views.

Handy Weather for S60 7.0

This application provides continuously updated five day weather information for over 40,000 cities. Other features include maps, customised views and hourly forecasts.

TrackyPro (online Google Maps with GPS)

This is essentially an off-road navigation application. You can use it for such diverse purposes as hiking or mountain biking, skiing, driving or sailing. If you have ever driven your car in the woods, your built-in GPS navigation device in the car is not very useful since it depends on the existence of roads. You have access to a large compass as well as speed, altitude and slope devices. Whether you are driving or sailing or just hiking, you will have access to voice assisted navigation. Finally, you have access to online Google maps.

You should remember that not all of these applications work on all smart phones so you should check the compatibility which the particular smart phone that you are using. There are hundreds of applications available; go online and check out other applications that suit your personal requirements.

Furthermore, remember to travel smart and check out cheap flights so that you can make the most of your travel budget.

The Twitter app has been designed by Alex Morris with the aim of making the management and viewing of Twitter lists on the iPhone very simple. Something that iPhone twitterers have been crying out for.

The iPhone Twitter app enables:

Twitter lists help to organise ever-expanding follow lists into easily manageable groups. Keep separate lists for friends, celebrities, colleagues or whomever else – making sure those important tweets are never missed.

View a single stream of tweets from lists created, or quickly jump straight to an individual’s tweet to see everything they’ve tweeted.

Innercircle allows users to create and maintain Twitter lists wherever they are with a super efficient list manager. Adding a user to a list is as simple as touching their name in their main follow list.

Easily add new lists or build on existing lists that are viewable inside Innercircle and on Twitter.com.

 Lists can be private and just for the user, or left open to share with the world.

Innercircle supports multiple twitter accounts, the ability to author tweets, RT and follow/unfollow members, yfrog image upload and inline webpage viewing.

The elegant user interface makes full use of familiar iPhone design patterns to provide a familiar and efficient user experience and one of the most seamless integrations with twitter lists on any platform.

Enable Interactive’s Twitter iPhone app is available to download at the Apple store

iBabe from Rapid Mobile

With the latest creation from Rapid Mobile, iPhone and iTouch users can control the Babe of their dreams from the palm of their hand, guaranteeing hours of entertainment whether on the move or down the pub with mates!

Armed with a gorgeous model and a stunningly produced professional video, users can ask iBabe to dress up in skimpy outfits, dance to different styles of music and sweat and pant in daily exercise routines.

Using advanced software techniques with carefully captured video – and the acting skills of gorgeous model Funda Onal, who has starred in some of legendary dance label Ministry Of Sound’s sexiest music videos – iBabe includes the following features:

•    Control the babe of your dreams in the palm of your hand;
•    Ask iBabe anything you want.
•    A collection of high quality sexy videos – you ask, she reacts.
•    Dress her up in sexy lingerie, skimpy outfits or your wildest fantasy.
•    See her sweating and panting in her daily exercise routines.
•    Watch her show off her sexy dance moves to different styles of music.
•    Click on shuffle to uncover iBabe’s sexy secrets.
•    Save your favourites and check out iBabe’s highlights.
•    BONUS CONTENT – Exclusive gallery of iBabe’s hottest pictures.

iBabe producer Des Paul said: “From a production perspective iBabe was a very exciting project, designing all the possible sequences, styling the model and making sure the transitions from scene to scene worked. We now have an App that is fun, a little bit cheeky and will put a smile on your face.”

iBabe is available now through the Apple App Store, further details available at iBabe.co.uk.

tapulous

iPhone application developer Tapulous says that its Tap Tap Revenge game series has been installed on over twenty million phones and has been played more than 600 million times, with sales approaching $1 million per month.

Tapulous, who employ just twenty staff, provide all the evidence needed to see the growing demand for applications for the iPhone and clearly demonstrate the growing success of start-up companies designing programs for Apples iPhone and other mobile devices.

Apple have over 50 million users of iPhones and iPod touches, which is a massive market to tap into and experts are predicting growth in mobile apps in the next two years will match that recently seen by gaming sites such as Zynga, Playfish and Playdom.

Tapulous generates income from the sale of some games and selling advertising and songs through its games, the company is funded by an input of  $2.8million through investors and venture capital groups.

rihanna

Following their tie up with the R&B singer, Nokia have launched a Rihanna app, which promises to bring fans closer to the star by delivering the latest news, music, photos and exclusive video content to Nokia’s entertainment rich handsets N97, X6 and 5800 Xpress Music.

Video content includes live footage from the recent Rihanna album launch event that saw the singer launch her latest release globally via Nokia technology.

Additionally, fans can access music samples, a Rihanna biography and photo library, and, when available, information on Rihanna’s forthcoming 2010 tour. The App content will be unavailable elsewhere and will be regularly updated for fans.

The App also provides a direct link to the Nokia Music Store where fans can download exclusive album content including a Nokia bonus track, Hole In My Head, written and produced by Justin Timberlake.

In addition, an exclusive Donni Hotwheels remix of Rihanna’s smash single, Russian Roulette, is also available to those who download her album, Rated R, exclusively via the Nokia Music Store.

The free Rihanna app is available on Ovi Store.

Smirnoff & Time Out iPhone app

Smirnoff have joined up with the London publication Time Out magazine to introduce a brand new iPhone app that is set to transform Londoner’s social lives.

The Smirnoff & Time Out iPhone app is launched on December 14th and features up to the minute Time Out content on one-of-a-kind events and experiences in London. The information will include the best nightlife, culture and dining out experiences in the capital as picked out by Time Out’s expert team of editors.

Every month Smirnoff & Time Out will offer the chance to explore exceptional nightlife and entertainment around the world through competitions that can be entered either through the iPhone app or the microsite, beginning in December 2009 with the chance to win a trip to New York.

Lovers of unique nightlife and culture without iPhones can also access the information at www.timeout.com/smirnoff. Content will include the ‘Smirnoff Hot Picks’ round-up of the weeks can’t miss events, a ‘booking ahead’ service and a unique library featuring some of London’s most iconic past events.

The Smirnoff & Time Out app features:

Geo-location technology that allows users to view Time Out & Smirnoff recommended activities around their exact position within seconds, complete with event previews.

Up-to-the-minute recommendations and event information, with functionality to send preferred event picks to friends.

Functionality to  add favourite cinemas, restaurants, venues and areas, allowing users to keep-up-to-date with what’s on in their favourite places.

The Smirnoff & Time Out iPhone app can be downloaded free here.

In fact Broadband Expert say that one, perhaps over zealous provider is rejecting 75% of sales after running the necessary credit checks.

Many mobile providers are offering the mobile broadband and free laptop deals over a contract period of 18 to 24 months with a typical monthly cost of  £25 to£40. These contracts require no down payment from the customer and represent a significant risk to the retailer.

Rob Webber Commercial Director at Broadband Expert said;

“Companies are spending huge amounts on advertising campaigns promoting these offers yet when the consumer comes to sign up, there is a strong chance they will be refused based on a credit check. The stringency of credit checks is an interesting barometer of the confidence retailers have in consumers meeting repayments with many only unwilling to extend these deals to those without a very good credit rating.”

Webber also adds that the mobile deals are “particularly popular with students and those on lower incomes who can not afford the upfront costs of a new laptop, yet these are the people most likely to be excluded from these offers.” He also notes that the “rejection rates demonstrate a different strategy with some companies prepared to take a more of a gamble to fill their order books and others choosing to play it safe by only targeting better off consumers they perceive as being low risk.”

three generations of iPhone

Supermarket giant Tesco are the latest in a line of companies that have announced they will be offering Apple’s iPhone for sale in the UK, the superstore says that it is hoping to offer the phone “in time for Christmas.”

In September it was announced that O2 would no longer be the exclusive sales agent in the UK for the iPhone, despite having sole rights since the introduction of the smartphone in 2007.

Other service providers Orange and Vodafone quickly signed deals to allow them to sell the mobiles through their own networks, although Vodafone will not be offering the product until early 2010. Orange, who have  already started selling the touchscreen, said it sold more than 30,000 handsets on the first day of offering the phone.

Tesco Mobile is a joint venture with O2 and offers both pay as you go and contract phones via its retail outlets and online, they have around 2 million existing customers. Tesco has yet to announce tariff details for the phone, but said that its prices would be competitive.

Nokia X6

It has been announced that Nokia’s latest phone the Nokia X6, is to arrive in the UK this week and is the mobile to have if you’re a lover of music.

The phone pack has a standard 6GB of memory, 32GB internal, 4GB on a microSD card, fantastic for all of you who want more music on the move.

The mobile features a 3.2 inch reactive interface and 16:9 touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera with a dual flash and a Carl Zeiss lens and includes full access to the Ovi Application Store.

The phone can be pre-ordered at a price of around £449 SIM-free or it is to be available at Phones4U stores from Friday 27 November.  The handset will be free, costing around £25 a month or if you trade in an N-Series handset on the Orange Network, costing around £35 a month.

Nokia E72

The Nokia E72 is a device tailor made for business and personal messaging that builds on the company’s most successful full QWERTY keyboard device the E71.

The E72 adds full functionality such as desktop-like email and chat experiences, where the E71 stopped short, and the new model comes complete with the latest version of Ovi Maps with A-GPS navigation and compass, an optical navi key and 5 megapixel camera are all packed into the sleek, beautifully-designed handset.

The Nokia E72 also comes with Nokia’s push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging, and now for the first time people can set up instant messaging (IM) directly from the homescreen, accessing communities such as Windows Live(TM) Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat. Just like chatting via the desktop, people can respond to friends and colleagues across multiple communities in real-time.

The Nokia E72 can also accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, allows people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to.

Nokia have also revealed search results that show that more people rely on e mails than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information.

Nokia vice president Ukko Lappalainen said;

“The research shows that people are spending an average of five full days per year – equivalent to a full work week – responding to emails. Half of us (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information. The Nokia E72 was designed exactly with this kind of person in mind – it allows the owner to be more responsive and communicate how they want, whenever they want and wherever they are.”

However business managers should be aware that according to the Nokia survey 49% of us prioritise e mails from our partners, ahead of our bosses or managers (29%), colleagues (23%) and surprisingly customers (31%).