Tap Tap Revenge. Even if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ve probably heard the name tossed around here or there. The popular Tap Tap Revenge franchise comes from iPhone game developer Tapulous, and it’s proven to be one helluva cash cow for the smallish start-up from Palo Alto, CA. Following the release…
HTC Desire, Legend and HD Mini slated to hit UK April 1?
HTC may not have announced an official launch window for their latest and greatest smartphones – the HTC Desire, Legend, and HD Mini – the folks over at Amazon UK have posted their own expected launch date. According to the online retailer, the Legend and Desire headliners are “expected” to go live in the UK…
Olive’s new FrvrOn ditches vowels, picks up AAA batteries in India
The thought of low-cost mobile phones sweeping through the US makes us cringe. For India, though, cheap cellphones are big business – big enough that mobile phone maker Olive has just released their vowel-shunning FrvrOn phone as the country’s first handset to supplement its battery pack with a removable AAA battery. The FrvrOn, which we…
iPhone gets Google Goggles, but it’s called oMoby
iPhone users, your day of visual search reckoning has arrived! While Android users have been prancing around town with the Google Goggles app primed to identify objects by snapping a quick picture, the iPhone camp has been left without a viable visual search app to call their own. That is, until today. A new iPhone…
AT&T requires handset makers go eco-friendly, adopt green retail packaging
These days, if you’re not going green, you’re not going anywhere. AT&T knows this and is embracing the eco-friendly movement with a new initiative to reduce the size of their wireless accessories’ retail packaging. And, to help further their “green” cause, AT&T will also be requiring their mobile phone manufacturers to embrace new packaging guidelines…
WiFi detector iPhone apps pulled from Apple AppStore
Surprise! Apple has pulled yet another app from the shelves of its iPhone AppStore. As part of their apparent push to clean up the AppStore for the sake of wholesomeness and compatibility, Apple has suddenly and inexplicably given WiFi-detecting apps the boot from the largest and most prolific mobile app store on planet Earth. These…
T-Mobile bests the rest in JD Power wireless retail satisfaction survey
Say what you want about T-Mobile’s less than ideal indoor wireless reception or their spotty 3G coverage, the fourth-largest US wireless carrier continues to prove that it really knows how to treat its customers. T-Mobile USA has, once again, topped a J.D. Power & Associates survey. This time around, the consumer survey firm is awarding…
AT&T CEO expects Apple iPad to be mostly a WiFi affair
AT&T’s 3G network has traditionally been hard-pressed to keep up with all the data-hungry iPhones hammering for some sweet wireless data on the daily, but that might not be an issue when the Apple iPad comes online. Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, has gone on record with the assertion that the iPad will be used mostly…
HTC responds to Apple lawsuit, cites own patent portfolio
We live in an age where intellectual property can easily be worth more than any physical asset, and that situation has spawned an entire business based on suing companies for dubiously infringing on particular patents. Companies these days wage patent-warfare on each other for the sake of protecting unique and innovative technology or just to…
Google: FREE Nexus One or Motorola Droid phones for all (eligible Android devs)!
When you have the kind of bankroll that Google carries around in their back pocket, it’s not hard to seed the entire free world with gratis smartphones like the Google Nexus One or Motorola Droid. Granted, Google isn’t about to hand out free high-end Google phones to the entire world, but they’re going to do…