Jay Garrett’s Gadget News

So, you have a Wi-Fi enabled mobile and you’re wanting to check up on what goodies this site has to offer before you get on the train or plane.
You open up your browser and select the airport or stations Wi-Fi only to be sent to a ‘Pay To Browse Page’ - NOOOOOOOoooooooooooo………..
Here’s a neat trick [...]

Nokia has finally announced that their much anticipated flagship (since February!) N96 has now started shipping so it’s likely to appear a month earlier than the previously thought October date.
If you need reminding it boasts a TV tuner, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, turn-by-turn voice navigation, 16GB of internal memory that can be increased [...]

The word on the interblogweb street is that Apple’s iPhone 3G is getting yet another software update this month, speeding up its operating system and ironing out security and GPS bugs.
According to AppleInsider, the handset’s lagging contacts list (something I’ve noticed but just put down to the many contacts I have) will be fixed by [...]

Those people over at Phone Report have listed all the specs of the upcoming HTC Dream and even popped their own comments afterwards.
They also seem to have got artist Neo Carlo Magno, from Neoworxspace to work on a ‘perhaps this is what it will look like’ rendering - looks kinda tasty if you ask me [...]

TheElectricPig have a very cool article and listed their favourite 5 iPhone applications for all you Londoners.
Some I’ve already mentioned before but there’s some other great gems.
They cover all from helping you select a restaurant, GPS tagging your ride so that you can find it again through to weather reports (how very British).
TubeStatus (£free)
Urban Spoon [...]

Not to be out done by the Korean in-car web browser Chrysler have decifef that we need a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot right in our ride!
According to Twice.com, Chrysler’s parts division will begin selling “a Mopar car cellular/Wi-Fi hot spot, expected to be the first of many Internet offerings from the car companies” starting August 25th.
It [...]

Those incredibly well informed people over at Crackberry have managed to get themselves some marketing pics of RIM’s new non-3G smartphone, the Blackberry Javelin!

It looks like the Javelin will be running a 512 MHz processor, coupled with 256 MB of onboard flash memory plus a hot-swappable microSD slot, a hi-res 460 x 360 HVGA+ display, [...]

Remember back in January I reported about Tri-bot and Rovio?
Well it looks like Rovio is available for pre-order from Red5! :0)
Just to remind you lot why you should get this bot - you can control it from anywhere in the world and keep an eye on your home via streaming video and audio through a built-in [...]

If you know about Orb Swarm and was kinda freaked out by it - hold onto your shorts because those spheres are even more clever and gone all autonomous!
They are now capable of navigating within a pre-defined GPS course. Besides navigation, these orbs feature an embedded processor, accelerometer and ZigBee wireless communication all of which [...]

Accoding to HTC’s chief financial officer, Hui-ming Cheng, the company is on track to launch Android-based handsets before the end of 2008!
Cheng has been quoted as saying the first Android phones from HTC are due to ship to “ODM” (that’s original design manufacturer according to Wikipedia) clients in the fourth quarter of this year.
Which ODM [...]

It’s time to outgeek those that think a GPS/DVD/CD/Mp3 player in the car is the height of in-car tech.
Check out the KNGT icom MK1 which gives you on-the-road multi-media web browsing a-go-go!
Granted, it will work better in its native home of Korea as they must have better wireless coverage than in the average British town [...]

Here’s a phone for you outdoorsy, living life to the max, extreme adrenaline junky types!
Alternatively it would suit those that buy diver’s watches and never go swimming or own 4×4’s and think off-roading is parking half on the pavement.
The G’zOne Boulder clamshell cell phone from Verizon Wireless will take pretty much everything you throw at it, or drop [...]

I’m a fan of Noks N95. 
I love the camera, I love the screen and I loved it as anyone would love their first smartphone.
Looking around the City I see that it is still a very popular phone.
I’ve had plenty of searches regarding the release of it’s heir and then saw this.
It looks like the N96 [...]

Did you do it?
Did you get one?
What do you reckon?
Does it live up to the hype?
Or are you waiting for the next run of stock to get one and make sure all the servers stay-up this time and the little niggles in the AppStore are sorted?
So far the feeling bout the 3G iPhone is that [...]

Oh Pants!
That was my exlaimation when the lovely and helpful lady from the Carphone Warehouse told me that I would not be able to upgrade to the 3G iPhone unless I paid the remainding 12 months of line rental (£420) with O2 through them to close the contract.
Or, I could lower my tarrif from £35, to £30 [...]

Word on the blogosphere is that Apple is a bit miffed at us here in Blighty and our propensity to unlock iPhones so they’re going to limit supplies of the iPhone 3G
Toys/Pram mean anything to ya?
ElectricPig reports that a source has said that ” Some are suspected of being sold abroad, while the majority are [...]

The long awaited arrival of the N96 (similar to the fabby N95 but one better) is almost coming to an end.
To remind us it now has its own special Flash-based web-tour.
You get all the dirt on things such as GPS, music playback, and Internet browsing.
Go on - indulge yourself and decide if you’re still going to get an iPhone.
Would you chose the N96 over [...]

Here we go!
Apple are treating us to a video walk through of their new baby.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Set mouth to drool.
Hop along and follow this link for iPhone loveliness :0)

Driving fast.
The main goal for me to pass my test back in ‘89!
Fortuantely I bought my own car as soon as I passed - then, unfortunately, crashed it 3 weeks afterwards.
Well, Tiwi is here for those who also use parental controls on the satellite channels to keep your kids nice and safe.
Using GPS and a smattering of cellular connectivity [...]

How badly do you need to be first?
How badly do you need to be the first to own one of the new, shiny, spanky 3G iPhones?
If that feeling of overwhelming smugness is too hard to resist then you need to go and get your hands on the world’s first iPhone 3G and here’s how!
All you [...]