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A lot has changed in just the last five years of mobile technology. The world has shifted from using basic feature phones to powerful smartphones with dual or even quad-core processors. The iPhone came out in 2007 and whether you love or hate it, you have to admit it jump started the smartphone revolution. Android…
Again and again I respond to questions my friends have about mobile technology. One of them is “what is the iPhone 2?”. That’s somewhat tricky. On one hand, you could think that’s the original iPhone which didn’t support 3G connectivity. In that sense some folks referred to it as iPhone 2G, hinting it’s different than…
You’ve probably already heard this before – iPhone 4S hasn’t met our expectations (and expectations of many other bloggers for that matter), despite the success Apple and its carrier partners are experiencing as we speak. The problem is on our side – simply put, we’ve set the bar so high, and we “forgot” Apple’s way…
Another day, another lawsuit. Today we have the case of Openwave against Apple and RIM. Openwave is effectively filing a lawsuit against these two companies to defend its intellectual property for mobile Internet access. In a statement, Openwave CEO Ken Denman said: “Openwave invented technologies that became foundational to the mobile Internet. We believe that…
NOTE: Make sure to click on red links. After two years of work in progress, Apple unveiled its first iPhone on January 9, 2007. Boom Bingo – most people liked the idea though some folks (select media included) didn’t see how the Cupertino-based company can succeed in this market. Arguments were made from both sides,…
Apple has gone a long way from January 9, 2007 when the first iPhone was officially announced. During the years, the Cupertino-based company introduced updated versions of its smartphone and at the time I’m writing this, the iPhone 4 is still selling pretty darn well. Not in huge volumes, but the reason is that the…
Movie tie-in games have had an ongoing track record of not being good. There have been a few exceptions in the long history of video games, but more often than not, movie tie-in games will be bad. Avatar was released almost two weeks week ago and it’s already made it to ‘Best Films of the…
Zombies will soon be walking all over our virtual lawns as PopCap Games announced Plants vs. Zombies will be making its way to the iPhone / iPod Touch in late January. The news came from an unlikely source, namely a follow-up comment on PopCap’s Facebook page. If you still haven’t played PopCap’s addictive, yet simple…
EA Mobile announced today they’ll be bringing the classic The Simpsons Arcade experience to the iPhone & iPod Touch this month. The iPhone / iPod Touch version of The Simpsons Arcade will allow players to play as Homer as he sets out to find his precious doughnut. Players will use on-screen controls to control Homer…