TuneWiki volition manipulation the new money to expand and enhance its product offerings. The idea is to yield further reward of chopine capabilities and new features found in latest smartphones, including stronger CPUs, larger displays and high-resolution screens. In addition, the company volition continue to focusing on the manipulation of strain lyrics “in new and exciting shipway” that connect medicine fans around the worldly concern with new products, including an upcoming mobile biz.

Commenting on the investment in TuneWiki, Motorola Ventures’ Reese Schroeder said: “Music is rapidly emerging as a key lineament for smartphones, and TuneWiki is changing the experience of hearing to music from a hermit experience to a sociable one. We believe that TuneWiki has developed an innovative interactive sociable media player that tin dramatically change the way people volition listen to and interact with music.”

In other words, we could expect to see TuneWiki being integrated in the future tense versions of MOTOBLUR UI, or at least me thinks/hopes so.

Well here’s a more unusual one for you …

Indaba Music (which offers ‘offers the leading suite of online tools enabling artists all over the world to create music together online’) has emailed me to let me know about the ‘Phone Wars’ that rich person been going on amongst its employees – specifically those that own the iPhone, versus those that own the Moto Droid!

For days, the iPhone has been the gimmick of choice for nearly one-half of the Indaba Music employees. Meanwhile, unwilling to switch mobile carriers to get an iPhone, the other one-half of the Indaba Music team waited for a comparable phone to be available through their overhaul. On November 6th, Motorola (NYSE: MOT test) Droid arrived and was immediately procured by many others of the Indaba Music team. The staff gathered, comparison and contrasting it to the iPhone. Sides were taken. To settee the ongoing (and seemed like never-ending) interoffice smack talking, they put it to their biotic community of 325,000. To participate members were to create an original ringtone exploitation (or covering) at least 1 audio sample distribution from their elect phone’s audio frequency files.  The winning earphone will be the phone whose ringtones get the most votes.

And here ar a few of the results of those wars…

Droid Tones

Ringtone 1 Ringtone 2 Ringtone 3

iPhone Tones

Ringtone 1 Ringtone 2 Ringtone 3

Obviously the point of all this is to promo the troupe itself – but, in some ways, it is a cool way of doing it, and something that will temper the interest of those that like to customise their phones.

Fascinatingly, quite a few Professionals in the medicine manufacture manipulation Indaba, check this lot out: The Roots, Yo-Yo Ma, Mariah Carey, Crystal Method, Gospel According to John Legend, Weezer, Alkaline Trio!

If it is something that interests you, you can find out more here.

To further step-up usability and maximize base hit, the F4 also offers automatic part dialing and redial functionality when supported by the user’s mobile phone. Stereo medicine cyclosis is another keystone lineament of the F4 allowing riders to listen to music from their A2DP Bluetooth headphone and music players.

The F4 will pair with up to eight Bluetooth devices and multipoint technology allows the F4 to connect to two phones at once. Additionally, bikers can listen to twist-by-turn directions from “motorcycle-friendly” Bluetooth Global Positioning System devices and enjoy up to 10 hours talk-meter and up to 700 hours of standby time.

Spotify for Android has just hit variant 0.3.24 and with it comes:

URI support – Open/Share Spotify URI’s to or from SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter apps, etc. An udated player with covering fire art swipe documentation (similar to the iPhone version). Android 2.0/Eclair documentation – Spotify tin now run on the Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) Droid earphone, which has just started shipping in European Economic Community. Home Screen appliance – Control Spotify from the dwelling house blind, pictured above.

To download it simply go to m.spotify.com in your mobile web browser and download the diligence. Note that the diligence is also available for the iPhone and Symbian devices.

[Hat tip to @munkimatt for the photograph above]

The Samsung Omnia HD earns its name thanks to the fact that it features HD video recording enabling you to gaining control precious moments in 720p HD caliber at 24 frames per second base and enjoy HD content on an HD TV via DLNA technology. This isn’t the only rise from the original Omnia, the Omnia HD is a complete re-imagining of the i900 Omnia. The new i8910 Omnia HD features an 8.0 Megapixel photographic camera which incorporates premium digital photographic camera ingredients such as Face and Smile detection, Wide Dynamic Range and Geo-tagging. Both photographic camera and video recording transcription ar sure to look stunning on the incredible 3.7 in OLED capacitive touchscreen capable of displaying up to 16m colors putting it as a strong rival to the stream best in class, the HTC Touch HD (and the Omnia actually earns its HD title).

Ok so surely that’s the end of the new whatchamacallit, right? Wrong! The Omnia HD discards Windows Mobile (seen on the master) in favour of the new touching based Symbian series 60 user port currently seen on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the upcoming N97. Rather than being a carbon copy of the 5800 though, the Omnia HD does bring some Samsung dash to the party. TouchWiz makes an show on the homescreen giving you customisable widgets that you tin relocation around and add to with new shortcuts. The photographic camera interface is also presumption a Samsung inspection and repair for a far more user friendly experience than that found on the 5800.

To round up the ease of the features, the Omnia HD includes HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity for high speed vane browse and downloads, Global Positioning System SatNav with support for A-Global Positioning System, a proximity detector for auto screen rotary motion, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, video player with support for DivX and XviD, a 3.5mm audio frequency jack and an FM radio. The Omnia HD volition launch with two different internal computer memory capacities; 8GB and 16GB. Don River’t worry as which ever you choose, both tin be expanded by a further 16GB thanks to a microSD memory circuit board slot.

The Samsung Omnia HD was definitely one of the most exciting announcements at this years Mobile World Congress consequence and looks exercise set to return the mobile phone worldly concern by violent storm when it launches later this class. Expected to arrive in June, click here to keep updated.

I’m happy to tell you that IK Multimedia has announced its GrooveMaker range of remixing apps for the iPad. Usually I’m not so overboard with congratulations for things, but these Apps are ‘da bomb calorimeter’ for those of you into ‘casual productiveness’ – that is, playing with Apps, but having something to show for your efforts at the remainder of it!

Groovemaker for the iPhone has been insanely popular (and with goodness reason I think) – they cleverly seeded the marketplace with a free app, and since then have racked up 600K downloads across their free and paid apps. There are now 11 apps in the family, and each unity is awesome!

GrooveMaker for the new iPad offers the same smart features and streamlined work flow as the iPhone/iPod variant for devising music with loops, but also takes advantage of the new larger multi-touch surface to provide enhanced operation with an integrated, advanced controller.

Also, [there is] even more controller when working with loops, providing a new floor of creative flexibility.  Users tin now switch “snapped” grooves with a unity touching, plus control the number of loops that ar automatically combined during a random mixing. GrooveMaker iPad is the perfective summation to a DJ set, providing unlimited creative tractability in live remixing and DJ applications.

There ar 4 packs for the iPad available now:

Free (a 120-loop face pack with a mix of House and Hip-Hop)HouseHip-HopD’n’B (Drum &ere; Bass)

GrooveMaker House, Hip-Hop and D’n’B contain over 300 loops each and are only $9.99/Ђ7.99/Ј5.99 from the iTunes App Store.

Groovemaker Apps ($9.99/Ђ7.99/Ј5.99) [iTunes link]