Orange UK offers HTC Hero firmware update

Orange UK has just rolled out the ROM update for their HTC Hero, where it is touted to offer a boost in system speed, alongside touch-to-focus capability in the Hero’s camera. Orange has also tested the new software to make sure it is fully compatible with the network when released. As for T-Mobile, they claim that their update is more or less imminent, but nothing official has been heard from them yet as at press time.

Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users

This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it’s free and it’s fast.
Ping is designed to look like the SMS app, and behaves much the same way. The messages you send arrive at the recipient’s screen instantly—similar to IMs—but also pop up with a Push Notification if you’re not actively using the phone.

MetroPCS Lands Motorola VE440

Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS.
This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth,
and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but it has GPS. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel fixed-focus camera and support for MetroPCS’ chatLINK service. The VE440 costs $129 and is available online.

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Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60: AT&T Price Confirmed

The Garmin-Asus Nuvifone is vaporware no more! Boy Genius has unveiled some information about several upcoming AT&T smartphones, the G60 among them. The nuvifone G60 is a collaboration between the famed GPS manufacturer Garmin and PC-manufacturer Asus. It will cost $299 with a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. That’s a bit pricey for even a high-end smartphone. The G60 has a 3 megapixel camera, a 3.5″ touchscreen, a Linux-based OS, 3G capability, and a Garmin GPS. To be honest, the nuvifone doesn’t sound quite as awesome now as it did a year ago. That said, having a quality GPS built-in will save users the expense of a TomTom car set. No release date has yet been announced, but it’s expected out before the end of October.

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Apple with its navigation

Apple begins training for building your own navigation service, which will be used in devices running iOS.

The team of Steve Jobs Disney is in search of four engineer-programmer, with three years of experience in the development of the navigation SOFTWARE, applications, iOS and possess in-depth knowledge of computational geometry and graph theory. New employees will software for next generation iPhone, iPod and iPad.

It seems that Apple is going to develop your own navigation tools and integrate it into the operating system iOS. As you know, Apple currently uses the service Google Maps. To ensure the competitive advantages of Google gave Google Maps version of the application for Android OS enhancements, but are not implemented in versions for iOS. Naturally this state of affairs does not suit, so they set about developing your own navigation service.

iPhone merges the spammers

Browsers newspaper the Wall Street Journal carried out its own research and found that a number of applications for mobile operating system Android and iOS commingled personal data by third parties.

The experts reviewed 101 very well-known applications, including games. 56 of them send sensitive information about users without their knowledge advertising firms. Five programs to report on age, sex, name and other personal data of the owner of the Communicator.

In 2010 THE WSJ has yet another investigation into the application in the social network Facebook. Journalists learned that they transmit personal information about you to companies that are sending spam.