Saturday, July 2, 2011

Tag Heuer unveils LINK: Luxury, Precision and Android (www.drmobiles.co.nz), Auckland, New Zealand


Not all phones are created equal and we don't just mean hardware or software here. There are those phones that market themselves to the 'elite', usually toting a mix of expensive materials, hand built and precision manufactured parts and a four to seven figure price tag (such as these fine examples) that would make your eyes water.
Tag Heuer have already stepped into the phone market with their Meridiist line of handsets, all precision engineered and designed to reflect Tag's strong design language, but now they're bringing a new device to market, one that actually offers more than just a platinum back plate or a sapphire screen. The Tag Heuer LINK smartphone is a premium/luxury handset that right off the bat proves that you can have a luxury and everyday functionality, strangely a combination that has been sorely lacking in this market so far (excluding custom built iPhone 4's and so on).
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The Tag Heuer LINK smartphone: Avant-garde communication
The LINK still ticks the boxes for the elite purchaser with material combinations that include steel, 18k rose gold or titanium paired with rubber, alligator skin or leather trim. As the video below shows the LINK also strongly maintains its watchmaker roots as well, with the SIM, USB and memory card ports hidden behind a hinged body panel locked in place by what appears to be a crown (the bit you would usually pull out to set your watch).

What makes the LINK so much more appealing than its luxurious brothers and sisters however is that it comes running a skinned version of Android Froyo 2.2, which although a little long in the tooth now still gives the LINK full access to the Android Market's 250,000+ apps as well as a lovely looking UI with lots of room for customization and improved functionality. The spec list itself is lengthy but promises more of that solid functionality previously lacking from such luxury phones. For a start the LINK has a 3.5" TFT LCM display, protected by Gorilla glass® outputting at a resolution of 800x480 pixels with 16 million colors and on the back you get a 5MP camera with auto focus and video as well. The internals are a mixed bunch with highlights being Stereo Bluetooth, AGPS, WiFi, EDGE and HSUPA 3G and an 8GB SD card but on the downside, internal memory clocks in at a measly 256MB which in this day and age just doesn't cut it.
Although the LINK gets Froyo out of the box, chances are that as long as Tag Heuer want to keep their clientele sweet, they'll throw in an update to Gingerbread further down the line. Of course as the video showed the Froyo on the LINK isn't stock, Tag Heuer have had it modified and it will most likely include exclusive apps, widgets, wallpapers and ringtones not available on any other device.
One other key issue that Tag Heuer have addressed is that such finely crafted phones usually lack the durability that they really require, after all they're still just as likely to get dropped on your gravel drive or whilst you walking across the runway to you private jet, so they need the be able to withstand the rigors of a busy 5-star lifestyle. The LINK promises a rugged, solid design and build quality that goes beyond the addition of the Gorilla glass®, not yet seen on a luxury device. But really what does this all mean? It's certainly a step in the right direction for luxury phones everywhere but one key aspect remains, how much? Tag Heuer state that prices start at a cool €4700 or $6700 but of course based on your choice of trim, materials and finish, that's only the start.


This post is sponsored by:Dr Mobiles Limited
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**BUYER BEWARE**  Dr Mobiles Limited is the only professional phone repair lab that DOES NOT charge inspection fee for checking up faulty or water damage phones!


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Monday, June 27, 2011

Using Firefox With Your Computer to Access iPhone Sites

The Issue: With a few steps you'll be able to turn your computer's Mozilla Firefox into an iPhone browser. This is similar to our post on turning your computer's Safari browser into an iPhone browser.
Why? To access iPhone only websites with your Firefox browser in order to preview them, or to obtain data from iPhone mobile-web targeted sites.
The Lesson:
1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser
2. In the URL bar, enter "about:config"
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3. Right click anywhere on the page, go down to New and over to String
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4. You will be prompted to enter the preference name. Enter: general.useragent.override
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5. You will next be prompted to enter a "string value". Enter: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)
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6. Once you have hit OK, you have morphed your Firefox into an iPhone mobile browser! Woo!
Here is a sample of what Google now looks like:
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Associated Press has made an iPhone only website: www.apnews.com
Without this configuration you would not have been able to access this page.
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To reverse this process and return to regular Firefox mode, you must go back into "about:config".
Then scroll down to the "general.useragent.override" and right click it. Select Reset.
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Your back to regular Firefox.

This post is sponsored by:
Dr Mobiles Limited
1 Huron Street, Takapuna, North Shore 0622Tel: (09) 551-5344 and Mob: (021) 264-0000Web - Map - Email - Posterous - Twitter - Blogger - Flickr

**** BUYER BEWARE ****

Please note that Dr Mobiles Limited is the only professional mobile phone repair centre that DOES NOT CHARGE inspection to look at your faulty phones.  Besides that, other charge up to $85 to produce a damage report for insurance claims; Dr Mobiles Limited will NOT charge your even a single dime to produce such report!  Terms and conditions apply, see www.drmobiles.co.nz

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Playboy and Penthouse Free On Your iPhone!!

Zinio has released an optimized iPhone magazine reader which allows you to view full popular magazines for free.

And hurry up - this might not last long.

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We heard about Zinio releasing an iPhone version of it's super-popular online magazine reader, so we decided to do a little investigation.
On their regular website Zinio.com offers a single issue for $4.99 - and allows you to preview the first 20 pages (which are 75% ads anyway)
The iPhone version - however - allows you to view the entire magazine - from start to finish - for free.
To access this site go to:  www.zinio.com/iphone from your iPhone
If you don't own an iPhone but want to view these magazines anyway:
Simply change your user agent to iPhone on your Safari browser by following these super simpleinstructions.
Or
Do the same on your Mozilla Firefox browser by following these quick and easy instructions.

It's worth it.

Pictures are not scrambled on Zinio.
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They offer tons of popular magazine titles:
US News
Playboy
Mens Health
MacWorld
Car and Drive
Penthouse
ELLE
Viv
PC Magazine
Kiplingers
Esquire
Technology Review
Popular Photography
...and more are constantly being updated

This post is sponsored by:
Dr Mobiles Limited
1 Huron Street, Takapuna, North Shore 0622Tel: (09) 551-5344 and Mob: (021) 264-0000Web - Map - Email - Posterous - Twitter - Blogger - Flickr

**** BUYER BEWARE ****

Please note that Dr Mobiles Limited is the only professional mobile phone repair centre that DOES NOT CHARGE inspection to look at your faulty phones.  Besides that, other charge up to $85 to produce a damage report for insurance claims; Dr Mobiles Limited will NOT charge your even a single dime to produce such report!  Terms and conditions apply, see www.drmobiles.co.nz

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Sony Announces PlayStation iPhone and Android Apps


The Official PlayStation App for the iPhone
The Official PlayStation App for the iPhone
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) recently announced the that they will be releasing a their official PlayStation App for the iPhone and for the Android (1.6 and up) operating systems.

The App is basically a way for PlayStation owners to keep up with everything on PSN, such as the following:
- Check out your PlayStation Network trophies and keep up to date with your friends’ games and online status.
- Discover all the latest games, news and hardware for your PS3, PSP and PS2.
- Read all the announcements on the European PlayStation.Blog
- Share your favourite products or news with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or via e-mail.
Version 1.0 will launch in the following counties: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands.
SCEE says they are working on the next version already, which will support even more countries, and they will be adding new features in the next few months.
This is something like the Xbox LIVE feature Windows Phone 7, which lets users manage their friends and more. Because both the Xbox and Windows Phone 7 are Microsoft products, they have stepped up the level of integration and allowed users to play some games on their phone over the LIVE network as well.
This sort of integration is a given for the all-but-confirmed PSP Phone which is a separate device from the PSP2.

This post is sponsored by:
Dr Mobiles Limited
1 Huron Street, Takapuna, North Shore 0622Tel: (09) 551-5344 and Mob: (021) 264-0000Web - Map - Email - Posterous - Twitter - Blogger - Flickr

**** BUYER BEWARE ****

Please note that Dr Mobiles Limited is the only professional mobile phone repair centre that DOES NOT CHARGE inspection to look at your faulty phones.  Besides that, other charge up to $85 to produce a damage report for insurance claims; Dr Mobiles Limited will NOT charge your even a single dime to produce such report!  Terms and conditions apply, see www.drmobiles.co.nz

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