An updated look for one of mobile’s killer applications.
Just in case, like us, your iPhone didn’t automatically update you to the current version of the Facebook app for your iPhone you can download it here right now. Or just manually update it directly on your iPhone.
You’ll find the native application is much faster than the website, giving you more reliable access to your Friends, photos, and inbox, and it brings one important new feature to the iPhone: Facebook Chat.
Facebook 3.0 is already one of the most useful apps on the iPhone to date. Some of the new 3.0 app features include:
Full News Feed Interaction (with Likes and Comments)
Full Support for Facebook Pages
New Home Page Navigation
See Upcoming Events and RSVP
Video Uploading, Complete Photo Management
Write and Read Your Friends’ Notes
If you are still reading this, that means you’re not sure if you should upgrade (it is free BTW) then have a look at this 59-second video that should get you clicking over to the iTunes App store now:
When your regular senses aren’t enough, turn on your mobile!
If you’re looking at the HTC Magic or the HTC Hero and wonder what’s so special about these phones next to the iPhone, this new Android app called Layar could push you to HTC’s side.
Layar brings Social Networks, Google Maps and Wikipedia together in an amazing combustion of usefulness and Minority Report reality. Here’s what you do: You turn on the Layar app on one of the 3 current Android phones, the G1, Magic or the Hero, and the camera starts displaying what is going on around you, except you see little boxes where others have left comments about the exact same locations you’re at now.
Let’s say you’re looking at a dai pai dong through your mobile phone, you’ll see if others have tagged it as having the best 港式奶茶 in the area. Saving you grief and the bother of even typing Openrice.com in the phone’s browser.
In addition to this, let’s say you need directions to said dai pai dong, simply search Google Maps and Layar will display a graphic layer over what you’re currently viewing to give you directions! While you’re walking that way, you can check out what others have said in the mean-time and maybe find out some cool factoids that you never knew about.
It seems as if others have heard of this platform and now Flickr, Wikipedia, Yelp, Google local search, Qype, Britekite, Twitter are all jumping on the bandwagon. The best part? The augmented reality browser is now available globally on the Android OS and will ship pre-installed on the SamSung Galaxy when its launched (hopefully including Hong Kong).
Yes, we know what you just read sounds like science fiction, how about you watch this video to help us sum it all up:
The developers have promised an iPhone version as well, so you have another “pro” to weigh when deciding on a new smartphone. Read more
The hottie from HK goes from Die Hard to Die Vampires!
Maggie Q (for Quigley) 李美琪, has come along way in her career since her Hong Kong beginnings, and now she has been cast in the movie Priest – based on the Korean comic series that also stars Paul Bettany (the albino monk in The Da Vinci Code, but more envious as Mr. Jennifer Connelly).
We’ve watched as she started in crazy Hong Kong movies like Gen Y Cops and Naked Weapon, and then we turn around and she is helping Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3 and giving Bruce Willis a “hard” time in Die Hard 4.0. While we loved Balls of Fury, it seems that movie might have slowed Maggie’s winning streak, but she’s back next year in the movie version of King of Fighters (yes, Hollywood still hasn’t learned yet) and an interesting spy-versus-spy movie called Rogue’s Gallery.
Good luck Maggie, we’re following you from HK. You can follow more of her photos below:
See yourself shoot yourself…oh, you know what we mean!
Isn’t it a pain when you’re with your friends and you want to make some self-photo memories but just can’t frame it right? Samsung has a solution for your shaky-hand woes.
The new TL220 & TL225 support not one, but two screens on their 12.1Megapixel selves. The TL220 sports a 3″ screen while the TL225 has a 3.5″ screen and both have a 1.5″ touch-screen on the front of the camera. This allows the users to see how they are framed and it also sports animations to keep the kids happy and entertained as opposed to screaming at them.
Another key feature is the touch-screen on the front-facing camera which allows for you to do some basic functions without flipping the camera back and forth. A very cool feature. This combined with HD video and output seems like a pretty decent Camera which will be out in September.
Is this the phone that can possibly stand-up against the iPhone!
By now you’ve seen the hype around Hong Kong for the HTC Hero. Smartone-Vodafone has it right now for $0 down and HK$398 a month! HTC Hong Kong has has announced its standalone price for Hong Kong. The HTC Hero is coming in early September at HK$4,4980.
The other big news is that if you bought the HTC Magic just a couple of short months ago you will be able to upgrade to the new HTC Sense OS, which is a much slicker version of the Android OS specifically developed by HTC for their Android phones and which you’ve seen on past Neonpunch posts. Magic owners can do this in October 2009 and there will be news at www.htc.com around that time. But we’ll tell you as soon as we hear from HTC Hong Kong.
More photos from the launch event follow with more models showing off the new phone, plus more tech details about the HTC Hero are below:
Hot Toys takes their 1/6th on the Tim Burton rocket to Mars!
Hot Toys is bringing Tim Burton’s 1996 movie Mars Attacks to life in their 1/6th MMS line. The Martian Ambassador and Martian Soldier are the 2 main figures they are doing:
Standing approximately 10 inches tall
Bendable figure body with over 13 points of articulation
Movie accurate costumes
Movable eyes and jaw
Extendable tongue Ray gun
Collectible figure stand featuring Mars Attacks! movie logo
Both have a suggested retail price of HK$ 780.00 and both will be available in Hong Kong in November and are available for pre-order now from Clark’s Comics. For those too young to remember, a brief trailer recap:
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