13
Jun
2010
Orange Provides Live Football: Anytime, Anywhere
Sure, we all know how easy it is to grab all the hottest news bit and video clips on a mobile phone. With all the apps that feature the World Cup, staying on top of the match results is a breeze.
But that is not the issue if you are stuck under the sun. For one reason or another, most people find themselves under direct sunlight, and when this happens at a time when you would want to be watching the live streaming match on your smart phone –the glare will keep you from seeing anything at all.
Most iPhone and iPad owners have already accepted the fact that their devices are completely worthless under direct sunlight. Most of the technology that is used for the surface of touch screens is simply not made to handle direct sunlight.
This is where Orange Mobile’s visor comes in. Yes, the mobile network operator has decided to come out with its own anti-glare visor that would provide users with a way to keep the sun’s glare from their mobile phone while still allowing people to see the screen comfortably. Best of all, the visor is completely free.
Anyone interested in the visor just needs to go to the Orange official website and download the PDF of the visor. There are also instructions for anyone who needs extra help figuring it out. After getting the PDF simply print it and cut out the visor. Assembling it is simply a matter of folding and cutting properly –afterwards, it is ready to be mounted on a mobile phone.
According to Orange, this visor is the perfect add on to their Mobile TV promos that would give subscribers access to all the live game feeds from the World Cup. Alternatively, Orange users can also download the free Orange Football Live application.
7
Jun
2010
Castrol’s World Cup App Keeps You Updated with All Stats
Well, someone had to do it. With all the big excitement over the upcoming World Cup, it comes as to no surprise that someone finally made an app that would give you statistics and a projected outcome of matches.
After all, it has been proven time and time again that people in general just love number crunching. While the actual calculations are a pain to process, being able to compare cold hard numbers is actually entertaining –as weird as the idea sounds on paper. Anyway, Castrol has released an iPhone app that will get you connected with all the big numbers of the upcoming World Cup.
From the specs of the teams as a whole to individual player performances, Castrol’s database reaches deep into the history of football and gathers data from all the relevant matches that players participated in the past. Using this data, the app will even give users a predicted match outcome. And while it would not be wise making any bets based on the results of an App, it does take the thinking out of those arguments about which team would win based on the players’ histories.
The prediction system does not only offer stats on which team is likely to win, it also provides behavioral pattern results –giving you a heads up on the most likely plays to be executed by players and in shoot-outs, where a goalie would be positioning.
In other World Cup related news, UK residents are being advised to be careful of using their smart phones outside of the country –especially those planning to attend the World Cup in South Africa. People are advised to contact their mobile network operators in to know about the various roaming and data charges that would apply once a user is outside of UK territory.
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