HTC Desire – Review
Having just celebrated its 2nd year on the market the HTC Desire still manages to impress. At the time Techradar listed this phone as number 1 in its ‘Top 15 Phones in the World’ taking the title from the then flagship phone of Google, the Nexus One. This was due to its ability to please both casual and hardcore fans alike.
Is My Phone Safe From Viruses?
Virus is a scary word, you certainly don’t want to be infected by one so why would you want your phone to catch one. With smartphones being considered by many to be pocket computers, it’s a sensible suggestion that phones may be prone to the same infections that PCs are famous for. How likely is this and how useful are these ‘Anti-Virus’ apps you see for your phone?
The Cliff Theory; ‘What is Nokia doing these days!?’
Unless you are in charge of PR at Nokia you can’t help but notice that unlike in the late 90s, not everyone is carrying a Nokia phone these days. Nokia isn't alone in this respect, look at Blackberry, Palm and Motorola; all of whom very recently had significant market shares in the mobile handset market.
Casio G-Shock GB-6900 Bluetooth Watch Review
It has been a long time coming with the natural disasters in Japan and Thailand but the first Bluetooth 4.0 watch has arrived at Freedom Mobiles Towers. And... it's a G-Shock. Has the first smartwatch truly landed?
LG Optimus 2X – Review
The LG Optimus 2X was the birth of the dual-core era of today. Released in early 2011 it was the world’s first dual-core mobile phone heralding in today’s current high end generation.
The ‘Free’ Market
How would you react if you were told that you could only shop at Tesco? Although Tesco may stock thousands of items, they may not stock the item you want or the item you want is actually cheaper elsewhere. You find out that Asda has the item you want but you are not allowed in as you are only allowed in Tesco! This is a basic analogy of the problems facing mobile phone users and their respective App Stores or Markets; it is expected that you can only use the store permitted by the phone manufacturer.
HTC Sensation – Review
Released into the UK market in May 2011 the HTC Sensation was the world’s fastest phone and also premiered the latest iteration of HTC’s unique UI, HTC Sense 3.0. It runs Gingerbread, however HTC have announced that the phone will be getting an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich, this update has already began for many users.
The Future That is 4G
With the release of ‘The New iPad’ (A silly name if you ask us here at Freedom-Mobiles) the idea of a 4G phone connection has crept into the public mindset, many of whom have only just got their heads around 3G. But what is 4G? Many may ask what 3G was all about! Let’s find out.
Magento Amazon Integration Solution
An off the wall specialist post here for anyone who runs a Magento site like Freedom Mobiles and wants to port over their stock to Amazon.
Here at Freedom Mobiles we're not shy about doing our research and the final solution we have is pretty reasonable. If anyone has any better ideas feel free to shout about them here in the comments!
The main tool you need is Camiloo Amazon Module. Its a fairly well established tool but if like us you have one of a kind items with variations in condition then you'll need a little help from the Magento inbuilt features. Unfortunately while advanced the Camiloo module does have one glaring weakness. When you select your items to list, there is the assumption that all items in the same category will have the same condition and condition note (the longer description you can customise for your amazon listing). For us this was a sticking point of course because we stock used items. there is a bulk editor built into the Amazon module but sadly its not quite able to do everything you need, partly because it has problems accessing the internal Magento product ID and partly because the Magento data flow feature is far superior and more flexible.
If you have Magento 1.6 or better then take a look at "data flow" exports; its very easy to create a CSV file which can be plugged directly into Amazon upload file page. So we use data flow to create your stock listings and then use Camiloo to deal with order importing and stock syncing.
2 words of warning.
1) You need to manually select any new products in the Amazon module and set to "allow to upload" in order to sync and import orders for that product. That applies every time you create a new product.
2) If an item is set to "pending" on Amazon, then Camiloo will automatically restock the item immediately on Amazon (it doesn't have a complete order with which to reduce the stock quantity) so you are in danger of double selling. Amazon may hammer you for this if it happens regularly. Best bet is to check your pending orders regularly and manually remove anything thats at risk of double selling. Either company can stop this happening with very simple adjustments but for some reason its not on the cards at the moment.
Thats about it, thought we would share some knowledge in the spirit of open source tools. If we' have been of any help then feel free to leave a comment (or buy a phone!)
Nokia N8 – Review
The Nokia N8 is a quad band phone released in 2010 that whilst runs on Symbian (upgradeable to Nokia Belle) boasts some very impressive specs. It has all the usual bells and whistles of the smartphones of today such as Wifi, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS with built in navigation software but also contains some of the features we are only just seeing on phones released in 2012!