You won't be able to buy Roman Tubl's gorgeous Egg concept but it's okay just to dream
It's the weekly Pocket Picks round-up
The weekly tango between news about exciting handsets and exciting software continued apace this week over on our sister site Pocket Picks.
It was a definitely a period in which software took the lead though. Of course, there were continuing rumours about the shape, colour and features of the 3G iPhone (as there have been for almost every week since the first iPhone was announced). Another cunning rumourmill surrounded the Nokia E71, details of which may or may not have been gained from the Exchangeable image file format (Exif) info listed on images uploaded to Flickr. Although presumably this would have only provided details about its camera and would suggest Flickr's backend contained enough details to characterise the yet-to-be-released device?
At least we know Roman Tubl's concept Egg touchscreen phone will never go into production. We'd kinda wish the same fate on Mobiado's Camo phone and Playboy's underwhelming branded-Alcatel brick.
But here's something a little more interesting. BT is continuing its convergence telecomms play with the ToGo mobile internet device. It may not look like much but as part of the Total Broadband Anywhere package, the Windows Mobile 6 device lets you switch between your home landline, a Vodafone 3G connection or Wi-Fi to access the internet.
But let's get onto some software. Social butterfly Stuart Dredge was pleased to see his fave mobile aggregator of social networking applications ShoZu had added support for eight new sites, including Twitter and Photobucket. We just hope Stu's online friends and relations are similarly enthusiastic.
Mobile users of Twitter might also find it worthwhile to check out Twit Today. No, not a dating application for the hard of thinking but a simple freeware Twitter client. Or if, in contrast, you want something much more fully featured, Nokia rolled out its Communication Center, which brings its Phone Browser, Text Message Editor, Contacts Editor, and Multimedia Factory into one package.
Still, our favourite post of the week was the one about a robotic glove lets your phone vocalise your gestures. Thought up by the brainiacs at Carnegie Mellon University, it's supposedly designed to help deaf people communicate with anyone who doesn't know American Sign Language.
And that's a thumbs-up and goodbye wave from us for another week.
