http://blog.barablu.com Latest update from barablu Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:24:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have released a new barablu version for PC, Windows Mobile and Symbian. It is now available from our download page. We have carried out some generel bug fixes and optimizations to voice and performance. Check it out and let us know what you think! You may also notice a few changes to ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/11/new-barablu-version/ I read sometime last year in a survey from SimplySwitch that 855.000 handsets are flushed away each year in Britain alone. How this happens, I guess I will never know... I admit that I have once dropped my phone in a cup of coffee and, on a few occasions, spilt some water or juice on it, ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/10/ever-dropped-your-phone-in-the-toilet/ Nokia has introduced automated kiosks across the Central Klang Valley of Malaysia in order to encourage more people to recycle their handsets.  According to a study carried out by the company 44 percent of users left their old devices unused at home. Only 3 percent of the respondents recycled their phones and 50% were unaware that their devices ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/09/nokia-kiosks-collect-phones-for-recycling/ Most of us have probably done it before. Seen or heard of a new interesting phone. And to learn more we have entered our preferred search engine and typed in the name or model number of the phone, followed by key words like “review”, “test”, “rate”, “feedback” etc. and then ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/09/test-drive-mobile-phones-with-tryphone/ We have just released a new barablu version for PC, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Please go to our download page to get your hands on it. The new releases contain some generel bug fixes and some optimization to voice quality while also reducing the bandwidth slightly.  We have also integrated AIM and ICQ and our new barablu skin on windows mobile and ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/08/new-barablu-release-is-out/ Last week the market analysis company Canalys published a report about the trends of the smart phone market in Europe. Amongst other things the report stated that 38% of phones shipped in Europe had GPS and 58% had Wi-Fi. There were quite a few other interesting discoveries in their research ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/08/can-zpower-solve-users-demand-for-longer-battery-life/ Did you know that you can enable Auto-roaming in barablu for Nokia?     What it does? Auto-roaming enables you to roam freely between 3G and Wi-Fi. For example, if you are connected to Wi-Fi and you leave the hotspot, then barablu can automatically connect again using GPRS, Edge or 3G. This way you can make ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/08/tip-of-the-day-auto-roaming/ We have had some enquiries about our barablu personal numbers. On the website we refer to this number as 8088... but lately we have changed the format, so when you sign up to barablu, the number you are given actually starts with 5600...   This has caused a little bit of ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/08/barablu-numbers-change-format/ I like to start the day with a good laugh so I have subscribed to Wulffmorgenthaler’s comic strip for quite some time now. A while back I received the comic strip that you can see below (click it to enlarge), and it got me wondering if this scenario really was as far ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/07/web-archaeology/ Being a very satisfied Firefox user I would normally not pay too much attention to other players on the browser market, but an article from Computerworld about a Japanese browser maker, caught my interest.   I might as well be honest; Words like Fenrir(name of the company) and Sleipnir(name of the browser) taken from ... http://blog.barablu.com/2008/07/sleipnir-to-compete-with-ie-and-firefox/