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Those of you longing for a better mobile gaming experience will be pleased to know that Nokia have now made the new N-Gage gaming service live on their web site. Currently only of any use for owners of Nokia N81, N82, and N95 phones, the N-Gage service will be rolled out to N73 and N93 owners in the coming months.

N-Gage, of course, used to be a phone in its own right, but after performing dismally, it was pulled by Nokia. The new N-Gage platform seeks to resurrect the concept of mobile gaming, but on existing phones, rather than on a dedicated gaming phone.

More details of the new N-Gage platform after the jump.

RFID is converging with mobile phones at a rapid pace, and new applications are emerging that begin to show the potential of this convergence. Korea’s KTF, for example, has announced the new ‘GREEN TAXI’ service, which enables pasengers to get information on the taxi by scanning an RFID tag embedded within the cab’s seats.

Good news for UK telly addicts: BBC One, ITV1 and E4 programmes will be broadcast to mobile TV phones by BT’s new BT Movio service, and all for just £5 a month.

The service will be broadcast via the DAB digital radio network, which, unlike similar 3G mobile TV services, is a broadcast technology, meaning there’s no limit to the number of devices accessing the TV programmes. DAB operates in a similar way to your TV signal in that it’s broadcast via a transmitter, and thus doesn’t use any of the mobile network’s precious bandwidth.

In contrast, 3G is limited by the available bandwdith, as it requires streaming the video as data over the existing 3G network.

T-Mobile have announced that their Web ‘n Walk mobile Internet service will cost no more than £1 a day and will offer unlimited Internet access on your mobile. Each kilobyte of data costs just 1p initially, but once you’ve hit £1’s worth in 24 hours, well…you just keep on using the Internet, and T-Mobile stops charging you! Very generous of them!

The downside of this service is that it’s curently only available on the Motorola V3 RAZR and Nokia 6131, but T-Mobile promise it will be available on more handsets before Christmas. Oh, and you can’t use VoIP, streaming video, or your laptop with it.

[Source: The Register]

Orange have revealed that 40% of the broadband traffic on their network comes from their mobile TV service, which is being used by 50% of its users.

Orange also revealed the success of their Orange Blog web site, with which users can upload videos and photos from a mobile phone. According to Orange CEO Sanjay Ahuja, OrangeBlog has resulted in 65,000 blogs being created, comprising 1.2 million articles with 4.3 million comments — which, all told, has led to more than 140 million page views.

“One of the things discovered in this is, people want a chance to express themselves,” Ahuja said.

Well, duh! Maybe now Orange and the other operators will open up their services and lower their data charges.

[Source: LightReading]

Orange have gone mad and announced a new quadruple play package, offering customers a mobile connection, fixed line connection, broadband and IPTV service in one package with one bill. Starting in France to begin with, the company is rebranding its Wannadoo broadband package, and offering 8Mbps broadband connection, high-def IPTV, VoIP, and an unlimited mobile TV service.

The service also allows calls to be made over the mobile phone, or switched over to a customer’s broadband connection via WiFi when at home.

Toshiba have developed mobile phone technology that lets you see what other people think of a product just by scanning its barcode. Simply take a picture of a product’s barcode (a DVD, say, or a book) with your mobile phone’s camera, and the Toshiba software will read the barcode and send its information wirelessly to a server that constantly watches blogs and web-sites that discuss and review your chosen product. The server software infers whether the blog buzz is positive or negative, rates the product, and returns the rating back to the user, complete with a few links of the more popular blogs discussing the product. Genius!

Read more on Toshiba’s new mobile product review technology after the jump.

[Source: WirelessNewsFactor]

Mobile phones have longed to be full members of the Internet ever since the advent of WAP. As the computing horsepower, memory, display capabilities and browser software of mobile phones has improved, so has the browsing experience for users. But mobile phones have always been web clients: that is, the mobile user always requests information from the Internet. You can never serve it directly form your mobile phone.

• 4GB of memory
• 3.23 megapixel camera
• 2.4 inch QVGA screen
• Bluetooth
• FM radio
• GPS
• CDMA-EVDO

[Source: Akihabara News]