EA Mobile has now announced that SCRABBLE on Apple’s App Store supports Facebook Connect from now onward. This new edition of the addictive game is available on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Users can start off on Facebook on iPhone and iPod touch to keep playing at any time at all, even join a public game with other users online. With easy scorekeeping and tracking, players can come to know how they are pitted against the other competitors.
Scrabble Facebook Connect
While playing SCRABBLE, users can also enjoy built-in chat, so that they can keep talking with the other users in real time. This game also offers in-game dictionaries. SCRABBLE is now available free at www.itunes.com/appstore and on Facebook for users in Canada and the US.
The latest rumor that surfaced on a Chinese forum is that a new smartphone, the Samsung B7300, is ready for release on China Mobile network. The slim smartphone is supposedly running on Windows Mobile 6.1 and also has the TouchWiz, similar to the Samsung Omnia i900. This gives the user the ability to customize the desktop with different widgets on the sidebar.
But unlike the Omnia, the Samsung B7300 uses a mini USB connector. Hence the user can charge the device either by connecting it to the adapter or even to the computer. The smartphone has a 4-way navigation button below the display screen, but we do not yet know if the center button is an optical sensor. Other specs include a 3MP camera, answer/end phone button, dedicated volume controls at the side and microSD slot.
PocketGames Japan has brought to light this amazing little piece of technology. Take a look at the picture below and you are bound to gasp in disbelief. The handset featured here is actually a retro-phone with a throwback on the 80s, now modified for use as a complete Bluetooth handset.
It offers everything your normal Bluetooth device gives you, including receiving calls from your mobile phone, plus the convenience of placing calls by spinning the dialer just as in a usual retro-phone. Fantastic, isn’t it? There is also a video at the end of this post. Watch it and enjoy! This phone was initially introduced in January by Sparkfun.com.
Verizon’s original Alias U740 dual-hinge mobile phone did not exactly take phonetown by storm, but one must admit that it had a nice design, providing both a QWERTY keypad and the usual clamshell number pad in one single device. Info on the Alias2 has leaked out now. The phone has obviously improved a lot and now features dynamically changing button labels to operate the mode switches.
We do not yet know what technology is used to switch layout, but rumor is that it is E-Ink display. We only hope this is not along the lines of a cheap segmented LCD often found in cheap universal remotes. Anyway, we will definitely know more at the CTIA. Meanwhile, take a look at the picture below.
