Looking at the picture I can’t help but wonder if that would actually be useful to me. What I mean is that I am so used to a QWERTY keyboard that I’d have a hard time adjusting to any other kind. However it seems a cool idea and it might be just the next thing for certain mobile applications. Imagine switching back and forth from portrait to landscape. Wouldn’t a vertical keyboard suit your needs? Sure it might slow you down at first but once you get used to it, it will be just another clever idea.


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GooSync with Google is in beta test apparently. Unfortunately it’s a closed beta so we’ll have to wait and see the results. What GooSync does is simple. It syncs your Google contacts with your phone’s contacts.

The beta will run for about a month and we’ll see what the conclusions are. GooSync was the first online service to offer synchronization for your phone with Google Calendar. This doesn’t seem that simple to achieve with Gmail too, although you’d assume Google thought of everything when they developed this simple mailing platform. Google’s Gmail has a contacts system that gathers all the information on all your contacts whether you input it manually or not.


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Microsoft launched today new features to Live Search for all those devices running on Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1.

With Live Search you can google, if you mind my joke, anything you could be interested in while on the move. Search for maps, driving directions, events, people, you name it. If you are a good English speaker, you can simply state what you are looking for instead of typing it. If you are still interested in weather, you can get that searched too, but this new version of Live Search also goes deeper intop user generated PC contente and web search
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The WheatherBug Widget is ready to be downloaded and installed on your S60v3 handsets. This widget, announced long before it was actually available, will let you check the weather around the world for free. It includes support for more than 50,000 locations and it has a multiple language support.


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We keep talking about Windows Mobile and Symbian, about Android or Mac OS, so imagine my not-quite-so-big surprise when I heard Verizon Wireless is thinking outside the box. They are thinking about changing their preferred OS. They have just joined Limo Foundation which, and I quote, is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices end quote.


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How big is your wallet? I am not asking if you keep a lot of cash or if you have a $100,000+/year salary? I am referring to anything else that’s in there and you’d like to remove but can’t. All those coupons and memberships, discounts and incredible saves, all those pieces of paper or plastic with your name on them and a barcode to be scanned with every purchase or attendance.


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Are you always working on the go, both from your PC and your smartphone? Do you crave for WiFi hotspots and 3G coverage to be able to stay on top of your projects? Do you need wireless access to your MySQL databases.


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