As the name implies, the navigation interface is a cube: spin it up or down to browse by album covers or twirl it left and right for quick alphabetical searches. If you’re not into the cube thing, 3 offers two other views. The wall option shows a scrollable grid with two columns of album covers, while the boring view is just a plain text listing. Actually, it may be called boring, but the large artist name with smaller album title has a little Microsoft ZuneHD feel. Each view still shows music controls, making it easy to play, shuffle and skip around.Overall, the free download offers a far better visual interface than the standard Music app found in Android. I’ve included the QR code above for Android handset owners, so happy listening and don’t get too mesmerized by the addictive cube!
Archive for May, 2010
Cubed For Android: A Mesmerizing Music Player
May 30th, 2010Toshiba launches world’s fastest mobile phone
May 16th, 2010
The device is available on a 24-month, £39.15 per month plan from Orange as of today.
Unfortunately the phone is let down by its OS – Windows 6.1. The INQ had a fumble with the handset at the launch event last night, but even the Tosh and Orange demonstrators found it a tad cumbersome to navigate at times.
General
Announced January 2009
Network (2G) GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
Network (3G) HSDPA 2100
Size
Dimensions 5.10 x 2.80 x 0.38 in
Processor
CPU Type Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD2850
CPU Frequency 1000 MHz
3D Features Yes
Graphics 3D Features Yes
Display
Display Type TFT
Size 4.1 in
Backlight Yes
Coloured Yes, 262K colors (65K colours (24BPP)
Resolution 480×800 px
– Touch-sensitive navigation controls
– Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
– 3D user interface
– Shake control
NETWORKS 2G: GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
3G: HSDPA 2100
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Mobile PocketPC
(Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional)
Xun Chi 138 – World’s Smallest Phone
May 8th, 2010
This cute little Chinese phone is 67mm long, making it arguably the smallest phone available anywhere. But – somehow it crams in a VGA camera with video recording, a video player, photo editor, MP3 player w/EQ settings, voice recorder, 121 MB of memory, a 260,000-color touchscreen, handwriting recognition, multimedia messaging, web browser, GPRS, calendar with multiple alarms, handsfree speakerphone, vibrating alert, games, calculator and unit converter! Despite its amazingly small size, it’s still usable…SMS addicts, however, will quickly get frustrated trying to peck out long messages with the tiny onscreen keyboard, or with handwriting recognition.As well as the ability to make calls, the Xun Chi 138 has 128MB of storage, audio playback software, GPRS and some sort of camera. It’s labelled ‘1.3 MEGA PLIX’, but we’ve never actually heard of a ‘PLIX’, so we aren’t making any promises.
