Shout About Mobiles

In everyday situations we come across the need to streamline our business and of course the economic climate means we also have to consider costs. So it comes to no surprise that the general office based environment is moving towards the virtual office arena.

The first step towards this is using a Blackberry as they are the market leaders in mobile email solutions. Costing as little as £15 per month, they enable you to receive email as soon as it arrives at the server. It’s excellent for increasing productivity as you don’t have to actively check emails, which is a plus as you can do more with your time.

The second step is using a virtual office. These offer an address with a mail forwarding service and telephone number with call and message forwarding provided by a dedicated team of trained professionals. Virtual offices negate the need to actual rent a physical office as you can work from home or on the road. These are really useful for new businesses as the costs are much lower and enables resources to applied else where.

What mobile do you use for business? Do you make use of virtual offices or do you still rely on that physical office? Let us know.

So you have bought that new iPhone with the amazing user interface that is easy to use. You also have weather, stock reports, sports, and pretty much anything else you want at your fingertips. You have a phone with 3 main functions a PDA, an MP3 player and digital camera, so it’s ideal for novice users and professionals.

Whats next for your iPhone? Customisation and accessories, thats what. You can buy a case to keep you phone in. This also keeps it scratch and dust free. If you’re always on the move there’s a Bluetooth headset for hand free driving. If you are a fitness fanatic then you can get an armband that attaches the iPhone to your arm, so you can still keep in touch whilst exercising. Wallpapers for the background of the iPhone can really add that personal touch as you can swap and change them to reflect your mood.

The ultimate way to customise your iPhone is to use a company that speciliase in laser engraving. With this you can have pretty much any design you want. It comes in really useful if you are buying the iPhone as a gift.

How do you add your personal touch to your iPhone? Let us know and we’ll add to the list.

Today, Shout About Mobiles wants to know what mobile phone do you use. How easy do you find the features are to use? What do you primarily use the phone for?

What we also want is a list of features you would want or would look for in a new phone. Would it be 3G or a touch screen interface? What do you think about the state of the mobile phone market? Are we sold phones with features we would never use in this lifetime?

What would be good to have is a list of prefered networks you use. We want to know do you use your phone network supplier for the choice of phone or simply for the value you get from the tariff. Personally i use my provider simply because of the tariff on offer.

Please leave us your comments below.

For all those Blackberry addicts, we can reveal that the latest handset from RIM, the Blackberry Bold 9000 is not far from reaching us.

The phone is a high end device with a fantastic array of features such as a 624 MHz processor, 128Mb Ram and 1Gb of internal memory. All more than enough for your computing everyday needs. On the multimedia side theres a 480×320 colour LCD, a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash and 5x digital zoom.

The other useful features are:

•Quad-band EDGE and tri-band HSDPA
•Integrated GPS
•Built-in Wi-Fi
•Bluetooth 2.0
•Speaker Independent Voice Recognition

More details will be posted here soon. What are your initial opinions on the new Blackberry?

The ultimate cameraphone has been spotted. Its been kept under wraps for a while now but the details have finally emerged. The Sony Ericsson C905, codenamed, Shiho is an 8 Megapixel beast.

With features like auto focus, face detection, image stabilsation, xenon and photo flash and a new feature called Smart Contrast to start, it has the makings of a great phone. Photos taken with the Sony can be geotagged courtesy of the built in GPS receiver. The accelerometer allows works very similar to the iPhone. There is a TV-out port for viewing content on your TV.

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Well its not completely gone, but Apple have announced the new harder, better, faster and stronger version of the iPhone. Introducing the iPhone 3G.

No doubt it will cost a fortune but will be worth the financial ruin it brings, much like its predecessor.
The new unit has the same display as the old iPhone and has HSDPA support allowing faster data transfer rates. There is however no secondary camera for video calling though.

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Shout About Mobiles has come up with a list of the best phones to come out of June 2008.
Please feel free to let us know your thoughts or if you feel that we have missed a contender for the best phone, please comment.

1. Samsung Instinct
2. HTC Touch Diamond
3. Sony Ericsson G900
4. Sony Ericsson C902
5. Nokia N78
6. Sony Ericsson W760
7. Motorola MOTO Z10
8. Sony Ericsson Z780

Following in the footsteps of the HTC Touch Diamond, T-Mobile have announced two new models that are based on HTCs new addition.

Introducing the MDA Vario IV and the MDA Compact IV.

The Compact IV is the T-Mobile equivalent of the HTC Touch Diamond but with a larger design and more rounded edges. Interestingly it is considerably lighter too, weighing in at 98g compared with the Diamonds’ 110g. Being T-Mobile they have customised the interface to reflect their brand and the total RAM is only 128MB rather than the 192MB included with the diamond.

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