You knew it was only a matter of time before Apple’s favorite reviewer got a hold of the iPhone 4 and Walt Mossberg gives the latest iPhone quite a lot of praise. Uncle Walt has been toying the handset for the past week or so and he says Apple is still the head honcho in…
Apple iPhone 4 arrives at Wal-Mart, Best Buy
Woo hoo! The Apple iPhone 4 is already landing in some lucky owners’ homes but you can rest assured that the next Apple smartphone has arrived at big-box retailers like Best Buy (the photo above) and Wal-Mart. We all know that the preorder demand for the iPhone 4 was tremendous and it looks like the…
Nokia, ‘Heroes’ creator team for augmented reality game
Nokia is teaming up with “Heroes” creator Tim Kring to launch a mobile augmented reality game called “Conspiracy of Good.” Nokia has been talking about this for a while now (I remember sitting down at dinner with Kring last year) and it looks like the game/experience is ready to go. The concept is a bit…
Google Voice now open to all [Update: U.S. only]
Google had previously loosened the reigns on Google Voice for students but now the search giant is making its calling service free to everyone, no invite needed. If you’ve never used Google Voice before, it’s essentially a call-forwarding service that enables all your phones to be routed to a specific number. This means your cell…
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S could be the ‘Vibrant’
We know that Samsung will announce a cool Galaxy S phone for T-Mobile at the end of the month but now we’re hearing that the handset will be called the Vibrant. According to Cell Phone Signal, the Vibrant will be powered by Android 2.1 and it should rock that big, gorgeous 4-inch Super AMOLED screen…
Motorola Droid X coming July 2?
You may not have to wait long for the upcoming Android-powered Droid X, as some careful parsing of the teaser video reveals the massive handset may be coming out July 2. The folks over at Brief Mobile noticed that at the end of the trailer there’s a slight flickering when the “07.2010” graphic looks like…
$1,000 iPhone app profitable, going to expand
You know the iPhone app ecosystem is something special when a $1,000 app is thriving. That’s exactly what’s happening with BarMax, as the the $1,000 app is profitable and the creators plan to expand. The iPhone program helps California law students pass the state’s bar exams. According to TechCrunch, the program has already generated more…
WBA wants to bridge gap between WiFi, mobile data
The Wireless Broaband Alliance introduced a specification that could make it easier to seamlessly roam between mobile data networks and WiFi networks. The Wireless Internet Service Providers spec (WISPr 2.0) potentially could make it easy to roam from GSM, UMTS, WiMax and Long-Term Evolution networks to fixed ones. “Operators who create data plans across network…
Layar aims big – plans to be on 1 in 3 smartphones released this year
The augmented reality app maker Layar has some mighty large ambitions, as the company just announced on its blog that it will be preloaded on a third of the world’s new smartphone this year. With pride Layar announced that LG, the worlds #3 mobile phone manufacturer will pre-load Layar on new Android devices. In addition,…
Loopt to update iPhone app for iOS 4, includes background check-ins
While most people think of using Pandora in the background with iOS 4, the firmware’s ability to multitask will also be a big boon for location-based services like the Loopt. The company will update its iPhone app to including background processing and you will be able to check-in automagically. The latest version isn’t in the…