I have to admit, when my blogger buddy Greg from MobileCrunch told me he had an iPhone game that was based on a single button that lights up every now and again, I was skeptical. But, I figured I owed it to him to check out the game – hell, it’s free. But, I’m glad…
Archives for August 2009
Did AT&T get the short end of the iPhone-stick?
If you thought AT&T has been taking their Apple iPhone exclusivity deal to the bank for the past couple years, you’d be wrong. But, it’s okay, AT&T was thinking the same thing. A new WSJ article points out that AT&T may have been getting the short end of the iPhone stick all this time. Apple,…
Android Market sales sadly pathetic
Just the other day, we reported on AdMob’s estimation that the AppStore moved some $2.4 billion every year in iPhone app purchases. Developers have since come out against that estimation, saying that the number is grossly inflated. But, then, AdMob’s numbers for the Android Market are also likely inflated. Turns out, Android developers are seeing…
Changes in store for Android Market?
The Android Market has been open for long enough that people have become used to its look and feel. But, that may soon change. New photos have popped up that show a refreshed Android Market design. The photos come from an Android user with access to one of Motorola’s unreleased Android-powered Motorola Sholes smarpthones. The…
Dell Mini 3 – iPhone’s brother from another mother?
A couple of years ago, any handset that looked like the Dell Mini 3 would have been derided as an iPhone clone or knockoff or rip(off). Today, we’re past all that iPhone look-a-like nonsense. The iPhone helped change the face of the smartphone market, and it makes sense that touchscreen slates with heavy app-emphasis look…
Sprint announces HTC Touch Pro2 for $349.99 on September 8th
CDMA customers are probably all too familiar with having to wait months for the hottest GSM devices to become available on Sprint or Verizon. Today, we learn that your wait is almost over. Sprint has gone official with the HTC Touch Pro2’s CDMA variant, announcing that the Pro2 will be available September 8th for $349.99.…
Apple bringing iPhone to other US carriers next summer?
iPhone hopefuls still waiting for Apple to bring the iconic smartphone to other US carriers may soon get their wish. With AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity agreement widely believed to end in 2010, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster believes that Apple will bring the iPhone to other US carriers in the summer of 2010. The move, says Munster,…
Surprise! Most Americans Support Texting While Driving Bans
Concern over motorists distracting themselves with text messages has grown over the past couple years. So much so that US senators have proposed a nationwide texting-while-driving ban. But, how does that sit with the American people? According to a new survey from Nationwide Insurance, 80% of surveyed Americans indicated that they would support legislation that…
iPhone accounts for nearly all handheld WiFi hotspot access in US!
Now here’s an interesting little factoid gleaned from a new research report from JiWire. It seems that, when it comes to connecting handheld mobile devices, cafe WiFi hostpots across the US serve darn near all of their wireless bits and bytes to the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS (which runs on the iPhone and iPod…
Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars & Beaterator iPhone Bound
Rockstar Games’ critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is heading for the iPhone / iPod Touch this fall. In GTA: CW, you play as Huang Lee, a spoiled son of a recently killed Triad boss who travels to Liberty City to deliver a sword that is considered a family heirloom to the new boss,…