No need to flash your high beams - just use you Trapster

Trapster® users share the location of police speed traps just by interacting with their mobile phones. The system uses the phone's GPS capabilities and wireless location, voice transcription, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and SMS, with a central database server. It communicates in real time, using the Internet to instantly alert other users as they approach the reported trap.

The Trapster® software and service is totally free and you can signup on there website for a free account and download this great piece of software.

Free Download: tms.jad and tmu.jad

Ever wanted to be a Mobile Phone Tester ?

Now you can. Fork Factory is putting the word out and they are looking for people like you to test phones, services and other mobile content for telecomunication carriers. As an incentive they are also offering cool prizes like an iPod Photo, a PSP, a Motorola RAZR phone, iTunes gift certificates and free mobile subscriptions to their new Fork site.

If you don't make it as a tester the site still sound like fun read the faq for deatails.

Toxin Sniffing Mobile Phone

Gentag, a company that specializes in mobile phone sensor technology, just patented a "method and apparatus for wide-area surveillance of a terrorist or personal threat." enabling the mobile phone to sense harmful chemicals, biohazards, gases and poisonous fumes in the air.

The image here is of a UV sensing mobile phone, and Gentag is also thinking of developing a WiFi sensor for those people trying to get a free ride on your WiFi connection.

Scream when your Mobile Phone is Stolen

A new service from security experts at Remote XT delivers a high-pitch earpiercing sound to your mobile phone when it is reported stolen and a meesage on the phones screen displaying "This phone is stolen".

The phone becomes automatically disabled, with contact numbers, texts, images and emails removed, even if the SIM card is removed rendering the phone useless.

The service works on all mobile carrriers which makes it easy to deploy anywhere.

Freeware English Dictionary for S60 3rd Edition

Updated version of Dictionary now available for free and works on Symbian S60 (Series 60) 3rd edition.
Features and specifications:
Websters English Dictionary.
Built-in indexes find words in a fraction of a second.
Includes parts of speech (noun, verb etc).
Uses 6Mb disk space for the program and data.
Installs to main memory or memory card (Memory card recommended)

Note:
On E Series phones, if you get the message, "Invalid certificate, cannot install", change the setting in App. Manager from "signed only" to "all software"

SMS a Condom

Another use for SMS on your mobile condomtext.com will then send your condoms in a plain envelope
straight to your address. No questions. No Que. No Hassle. Launching on October the 6th.

Powerful Symbian SIS file Packer / Unpacker

YAMGui Plus Is a very usefull handy piece of software for all symbian power users, this great software allows you to make sis files, un make sis files, preview themes and much more. Currently YamGUI Plus does not support 3rd edition sis files, this might be implemented in the future releases of YAMGui.

Main features:

• Create SIS Files
• create sis files
• grab UID from .sis and .app
• grab app name and version info from .sis
• add popup from textfile or type new one
• set type of popup
• choose position of popup (begin/end)
• preview popup
• embed sis in sis
• set default directories to easy the browsing
• save as .pkg file to process later
• process .pkg file
• Unpack/Rebuild SIS rebuild sis files, good for themes when you get Series60SkinSupport error
  files are rebuilt with same name, UID and target platform Series 60 v0.9 (all)

SIS Info/Extract features:

• view all info from sis file
• view appname for all languages
• view all languages
• view behavior of sis files with If, Else and Options
• extract all files
• choice to extract all languages or only one
• save the listing in txt file

Preview theme:

• preview a theme is sis format
• ability to show icons
• ability to save preview images

New features:

• added option to Unpack/Rebuild SIS files this is a very usefull option for those amongst us that are experiencing problems when installing themes (series60skinsupport messages)
• currently it will only show the Idle screen background of some themes
• expanded the theme preview feature, it will now show Idle screen
• Calendar background
• Menu background
• Favorites background
• Menupopup
• added the ability to show Signal and Battery level
• added the ability to show Icons if any exists
• added the ability to save the preview images
• you will be asked for a save path, the names will be like they are show preceding by the theme name ex.: Hitman_Calendar.bmp
• fixed a bug that caused runtime error 53
• created a proper installer

DivX Player for your Mobile Phone

This great little application runs plays divx video files on your mobile phone.
It runs on:
Symbian Devices (for Symbian version 6.0 and greater)
* Series 60: Nokia 3230, 3650, 6260, 6600, 6630, 6670, 6680, 7610, N-gage, N70, N90

Siemens SX1, Panasonic X700, X800

* S60 3rd edition: Nokia E60, E61, E70, N71, N80, N91, N92, 5500

* UIQ: Sony Ericsson P800, P900, P910, Motorola A920, A925, A1000, BenQ P30
Microsoft Devices (for Windows Mobile 2002 and greater)

* Windows Mobile SmartPhone: 2002/2003

* Microsoft Mobile Pocket PC: 2002/2003, Windows Mobile 5

For downloading to a PC and installing using ActiveSynch, use the following link:

* Windows Mobile Smartphone, PC installer

* Windows Mobile Pocket PC, PC installer

Palm Devices (version 5.0 or greater)

Download to PC first, unzip the file and load both files to the PalmOS device.

* Palm OS: Treo 600, 650, Tungsten C, E, T3, T5, Zire 72, Samsung SGH-i530, Sony Clie, Tapwave Zodiac

There is also a sister application which allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds which publish new content named Discovery DivX Mobile (DDM).
DISCOVER DIVX MOBILE DOWNLOADS:

Symbian Devices

* Symbian Devices DDM (Nokia Series 60 and UIQ)

Microsoft Devices (for Windows Mobile 2002 and greater)

A Java Virtual Machine is requuired

* Windows Mobile SmartPhone DDM

* Windows Mobile Pocket PC DDM

Palm Devices (version 5.0 or greater)

A Java Virtual Machine is required

* Palm OS DDM

You can check out some movie trailers and music videos on their site.

McDonald's uses mobile phone readable QR codes for "nutrition" information

QR Codes are a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) used to store information which is more effiect than the traditional bar codes that we are used to. McDonald's Japan is now printing QR codes on all its food packaging so you'll know exactly what you're eating (if you want to know, that is). To read the info, you simply scan the QR code with your cellphone camera, which should automagically recognize it and direct you to a mobile website with the lowdown on the contents of your McFood, including any potential allergy warnings. For the two people in Japan that don't have a camera-equipped cellphone, McDonald's is also printing conveniently short URLs for the corresponding mobile website. Of course, all this info only is really more of a curiosity, since you've likely already bought the food by the time you're snapping pics of it with your cameraphone.
You can generate a QR code for your website, phone number, text or sms message Kaywa QR-Code Generator.

Fake Call To Look Cool

A new service that allows you to schedule a fake call at a specific time and date to your mobile number to make you look 'popular', or get you out of an uncomfortable situation.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.

With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you.

Mad Cow Disease Linked To Bovine Mobile Phone Users

Thats right, British scientists studying the disease claim to have discovered the main cause of Mad Cow when they accidentally came across a pack of Friesian Holsteins chatting away on mobile phones.

"We knew mobile phones were dangerous, and we knew cows were intrigued by wireless technology, but when we saw them using the mobiles, we made the connection right away," said lead researcher Kevin Barrington, who spotted the culprits at a dairy farm outside Kent.

With the already existing concern linking cell phones to brain cancer this will prove to be yet another headache for the mobile industry which has already dismissed the British claims. "To even insinuate that cell phones could somehow be the cause of this disease is as absurd as the notion that cows could use cell phones at all," said Nokia spokesperson Nigel Wanthorpe.

People don't know which phone they have!

This is an interesting news, 49% to 58% people do not know which model or brand of phone they have. So developers should not assume that the users of their application know anything about phones, J2ME, Symbian or Flash Lite.

What do you think ?

Ultra-Bling Bling !

Now it's getting beyond a joke. Moscow-based JSC Ancort Company has announced a smartphone designed by Peter Aloisson that features sections made of rose gold, along with 50 diamonds embedded in the case. The phone, which features additional encryption technology alongside the more usual SMS, MMS, e-mail, Internet access, WAP, Java and a media player, will set you back a cool US$1.3 million.

Of course, if it gets stolen, it won't be for the content of the phone, making the encryption aspects not that interesting - I'm sure the 40 white and 10 blue diamonds would be far more interesting to any potential thief...

TechEBlog's Top 5 Coolest Handsets

TechEBlog has posted a list of what they consider to be the top 5 coolest handsets they've come across recently. The list includes such gems as the NEC N908 credit-card sized phone and the safari green Music Porter X (pictured). An honourable mention is given to The Polygon, a dual screen concept design.

Also check out TechEBlog Top 10 Strangest mobile phones.

Micro-Mini Projector from Light Blue Optics

And we thought projectors were getting small when they were the size of a Mac mini! Light Blue Optics has created a micromini projector that's the size of—wait for it—a matchbox, and it s going to be used with a cellphone. Its secret is new PVPro technology, an automechanical process that is adept at scaling lower resolution images to higher resolutions. PVPro can also take care of pesky annoyances such as keystoning. These capabilities come in awfully handy when you're trying to project a video image onto a nearby wall with a cellphone.

Light Blue Optics is determined to make it easier for cellphone users to share photos with friends and comfortably watch movies on a screen that's considerably larger than a postage stamp.

Sony Ericsson Developer World

For developers, by developers

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Sony Ericsson Developer World helps professional developers get on the fast track from mind to market.

This ensures that a constant stream of fun, useful and innovative content and applications is continually available for Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

Tools of your trade
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• Documentation: white papers, special interest papers and developers' guidelines for Sony Ericsson phones and development resources
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