Chillingo, which has been recently acquired by EA, unveiled its line-up of Halloween games for the iPhone. Not all of the games are brand new – some of the existing titles got a Halloween-themed updated… Here’s what they got: Zombie Party – Where you can challenge your undead buddies to a match of Zombie Hockey,…
Archives for 2010
iDOS: a DOS emulator pulled from the App Store, now available in Cydia
iDOS hit the Apple app store late Monday night and was gone before it even got started thanks to Apple’s on again-off again policy for App Store approvals. The DOS emulator was chock full of goodies from the early days of computing including playable versions of Ms. PacMan and Dig Dug. Once news hit the…
The PlayStation Phone Gets Outed
For as long as I can remember, gaming nerds have been hoping for a PlayStation phone. After all, Windows Phone 7 is appeasing Xbox users, and the iPhone has a number of excellent games. Now, it looks like PlayStation fans are going to get a little loving, too. What you see above, as the controller…
Smartphones account for almost 20% of all shipped phones
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
Take your Android music anywhere with Skytunes
We have yet to see many compelling Android applications made with Adobe’s Air yet, but a new app called Skytunes might just change our perspective on that. Skytunes is a new Android app that allows you to listen to your home music collection from your PC to your phone from anywhere. There are a few…
Apple confirms that the white iPhone 4 is delayed until Spring 2011
According to a breaking report, Apple is delaying its white iPhone 4 until 2011. Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller confirmed this information to Reuters and issued an apology to customers “We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again.” Muller declined to comment when asked about the reasons for this delay. The white variant…
Barnes & Noble Nook Color rocks Android, color screen, apps
Barnes & Noble is bringing some flair to the normally boring e-reader space, as the Nook Color features a 7-inch color touchscreen, still runs the Android OS and it will be able to run a variety of apps. The Nook Color will cost $249 and it can be preordered here and it’s an interesting take…
New YouTube app ported to Android 2.1 OS
If you’re sporting an Android phone with version 2.1 on it, you may have been a little annoyed that the new YouTube application update didn’t initially make it to your particular version of Android OS. Luckily, the guys over at XDA have worked some magic and made the updated available to 2.1 devices! In order…
PayPal: Your phone will soon be your wallet – for real, this time
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but your mobile phone could soon become your wallet. This has been bandied about for nearly a decade but PayPal is taking some steps to actually make this happen within months, instead of years. I spoke with Laura Chambers, senior director at PayPal Mobile, at the X…
Pixelpipe for Android Updated with Upload Resume
The great picture-sharing application for Android, Pixelpipe, has had a small upgrade to version 2.2.2 which includes the ability to resume interrupted uploads. As soon as the app opens again, the upload will resume right where it left off. Wireless connections aren’t what you’d call a permanent or consistent thing, so this is a particularly…