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Did you know that the Sony PS3 and PSP have built-in networking capabilities enabling you to enjoy your PS3 games and multimedia content from any where, home and away, using the PS3 Remote Play feature. This means you can enjoy your PS3 games, digital photos, video and music anywhere in the world via the PSP and a WiFi connection.

Minimum system software requirement: PS3 Version 2.10 and PSP version 3.80.

So you ask, how?

Connect and register the PS3 and PSP using a USB cable and select Register Device and wait for the settings to configure.

Then navigate to the Settings menu on the PSP, select USB Connection, and verify that the PSP display reads “USB Mode.”

Now access the settings menu on the PS3, select the Remote Play Settings option, and choose Register Device. When the PS3 displays the “Register completed” message, select OK and head over to the Network menu.

Disconnect the PSP from the PS3 if you haven’t already done so, and cancel USB mode by pressing the circle button.

In the PSP Network menu select Remote Play and you’ll see a text screen indicating the PS3 is ready to be accessed remotely letting you enjoy games, Photo, Music, and Video menus to access content stored either on the PS3, an external storage device like a USB Flash drive, or a media server such as your PC on you PSP whenever you can find a Wi-Fi hotspot. When you put the PS3 into Remote Play mode, it sets itself up as an access point and broadcasts its own WPA-encrypted Wi-Fi connection.

The PSP, a multimedia magic wand

Over the recent year or so, manufactures have been concentrating on the smart phones. All you hear about is either the Google Android, RMI’s Blackberry, the Apple iPhone or now the latest favourite the Palm Pre.

However, we haven’t forgotten that there are millions out there who are happy with a mobile phone which is simply a mobile phone.

The Nokia 6300 Classic has to be our favourite. A high quality device in every aspect, a sleek slim design finished in stainless steel. Elegant and easy to use even for the techno phobics. While this isn’t the most advanced handset out there, it is very reasonably priced, has decent all-round features, easy to use and an elegant, straightforward design.

Nokia’s slogan for the 6300 is

Simply beautiful – beautifully simple

and we could not agree more.

The Nokia 6300 Classic includes the a 2 megapixel camera, a built-in MP3 player, memory expandable to 2 Gb and Bluetooth. While this isn’t the most advanced handset out there, it has a strong casing, a decent all-round feature set and an elegant, straightforward design.

Key Features:

• Compact modern design featuring sophisticated stainless-steel covers, glossy black finish, and rounded edges
• Catch and keep those treasured moments with the 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
• Get entertainment when you want it with the music player, FM stereo radio, and video player
• See more at a glance with the 240 x 320 resolution screen with up to 16 million true colors
• Access your email on the go and send messages with attachments
• Store music, videos, and photos with up to 2GB expandable memory

The new iPhone OS version 3.0 software arrives on 17 June. Get it and your iPhone will have over 100 new features.
Like:

• Cut. Copy. Paste
  text, numbers and email addresses between applications
• Search
  Find contacts, apps, phone numbers, email addresses and more. Anywhere on your iPhone.
• Landscape
  Read and write texts, emails and picture messaging holding your iPhone sideways.
• Longer battery life

And for existing iPhone 3G customers, available from 19 June:

• Picture Messaging (MMS)
  Send photos, contacts, sound files and location with MMS messages.
• Internet tethering
  Get your PC or Mac online using your iPhone 3G as a modem, (This is not free by the way).

source: o2.co.uk

Also read the facts and rumours posted earlier.

Once a market leader in personal data devices, Palm all but disappeared from the market. But now are they are back to take their rightful place in the market or are they being naïve. With the advancement of technology and the successes of Apple’s iPhone, Google Android and RMI’s Blackberry, are Palm placing all their hopes of survival in one basket?

Palm have recruited many of Apple’s ex-iPhone workforce to come up with a serious challenger for the iPhone. ‘The Palm Pre’ is born.

The Pre has received a very positive reaction from many Smartphone critics and has generated a huge amount of interest since its announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the beginning of this year.

A first look at the specifications and the new Palm webOS, the Palm Pre certainly looks like a very impressive smartphone.

The main focus has been Palm’s new webOS platform, focused on people on the move. The phone automatically recognises when the owner connects to websites, social networks or e-mail services and builds up a global list of contacts and login details as it is used.

The phone has an innovative interface based around its touch screen and a “gesture area” below the display. And unlike many other smart phones, the Pre also allows users to have several applications running at once and easily switch between them. It has built in 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera with an LED flash and 8GB of flash memory, there is also a wireless charger.

Finally, not much is known about the availability of an App store which is becoming ever more popular with smart phone companies and users led by the iPhone App store.

Three years ago, Microsoft, the producers of the world’s most popular operating systems had a disastrous launch of Vista. Now, Microsoft will be hoping it can avoid the negative press on launching Windows 7, on October 22nd.

Unlike Vista, where many users expressed frustration that the operating system required new hardware, peripherals and software. Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista and Vista compatibility hardware and programmes. Customers buying a new PC or Laptop with Microsoft Vista will be offered upgrades to Windows 7.

The system requirements to run Windows 7 will be comparable to the system requirements of Vista, which in theory means that if your PC or Laptop is capable of running Vista it will also run Windows 7, so no upgrade required.

Beta testers of Windows 7 have reported that it is faster than Vista. and a major improvement on usability. Lets hope its not as complicated as Vista when it comes down to security measures.

The world’s first 12-mega pixel camera phone has arrives with Samsung officially announcing the new Pixion 12 (M810) Camera Phone.

I guess it started life as a camera with a phone added on or was it the other way round!!! The Samsung Pixon 12 (M810) has 12-mega pixels and a full AMOLED 3.1-inch touch screen with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an FM tuner as standard. The camera or should I say phone delivers superior high resolution images with its Xenon power LED flash and a 28mm wide-angle lens .

Using the 3.1-inch touch screen in camera mode you can tell the auto focus where to focus in framed shots, this camera phone is better than most digital cameras available on the market today. Moreover, the camera phone can records stunning full motion videos at 30fps at a resolution of 720 x 480 and has a huge 150MB internal storage and supports MicroSD card. The Pixon 12 operates on HSPA 900/2100MHz and GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz networks.

If you’re a happy snapper and just need a phone for emergencies, this is the camera phone for you. Stylish, amazing picture quality and practical with all the standard features we have come to expect from mobile phones (Apple iPhone an exception, lets hope the iPhone Version 3.0 holds up to all the hype and expectations).

The long awaited iPhone software OS overhaul is nearing completion with suggestions that it could be available after the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco later on this month. The new version software fills some of the basic holes in the iPhone functionality also adding some significant features for developers. The ability to plug into Google Maps and the option to sell content through apps will have a significatent impact.

Here are some facts on the new software upgrade and hardware rumours:

1. Free upgrade on the iPhone 3G, £10 on the iPod Touch
2. Picture messaging and SMS forwarding
   • Expected as standard on Mobile Phones since 2002, come on Apple you should have known better!!!
3. Youtube upgrade
   • This will allow you to enter your subscription, rate videos and much more
4. Copy and Paste
   • A 21st Centuary essential, copy, cut and paste how can a business run without this option!!!
5. Upgraded QWERTY keyboard
   • Hopefully resolving current issues on responsiveness
6. Spotlight
   • Search your iPhone of all its content. Also new search features to be added to Mail, ipod and notes.
7. 32GB version
   • Not impossible with the price of memory feeling the crunch!!!
8. iPhone Nano
   • If this is true, I want one. Well, I found copies in Hong Kong when on my hols in 2008 also, found fully functional bluetooth mobile phone watch compatible in the UK.

Let us have your feedback on the iPhone v3 software upgrade…