It wasn’t too long ago that we were criticizing Apple for keeping Google’s friend-tracking Latitude service off the iPhone’s Maps application. While the rest of the smartphone world got updates to its Google Maps for Mobile application that allowed them to keep tabs on the location of friends and family, the iPhone was left to…
New Year 2010 resolutions from our fave mobile phone makers
A new year is a time to reflect on our achievements in the past dozen months and to set goals for the coming 12 months. That goes for regular folks and multi-national corporations alike. In the spirit of fixing what’s wrong with their mobile phone businesses this year, our favorite cellphone manufacturers have submitted to…
HTC HD2’s Windows Mobile 7 upgrade gets ‘unconfirmed’
Only in a world where Twitter is a legitimate breaking news source can a company “unconfirm” a previously confirmed rumor. Just the other day, HTC Russia got HTC HD2 owners and would-be owners all worked up with a tweet that seemd to confirm that a Windows Mobile 7 upgrade would be made available to the…
Droid’s Android 2.1 ROM ‘fully functional’ on G1
If you’ve got an HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, you’re probably green with enough envy for late model Android phones to give the Android robot some self-confidence issues. The Motorola Droid and its Android 2.1 OS, for example, are good enough to leave early Android adopters with a bitter taste in their…
Palm’s webOS App Catalog celebrates the New Year with 1,000th webOS app!
The iPhone’s AppStore and the Android Market have been growing fast in the past several months. The two mobile application stores boasts tens of thousands of apps for their respective smartphone platforms, offering users everything from games to medical diagnosis tools. The webOS’s App Catalog, on the other hand, has been slow to catch up.…
Google’s New Year 2010 Easter Egg
This isn’t strictly mobile-related, but seeing as how I stumbled upon Google’s New Year Easter Egg on my iPhone, it’s safe to say that this is loosely related. In celebration of the New Year 2010, Google has changed their logo into a festive fireworks graphic. We’re used to seeing Google changing their logo to celebrate…
Nexus One walk-through video shows the Google Phone in action!
By now it’s obvious that Google will be announcing the Nexus One at their Jan. 5 Android press conference in Mountain View, CA. And, as expected, Nexus One leaks are coming fast and hard as we close in on that launch date. Following on rumors of the Nexus One’s pricing and T-Mobile rates plans, a…
Swype keyboard leaked for Motorola Droid – Typing without the tapping
It looks like the Samsung Omnia II isn’t the only Android phone to be blessed with Swype’s revolutionary swipe-based keyboard. DroidMuff.in (that’s one helluva domain name) managed to get their hands on a beta release of the Swype keyboard for Android, giving WVGA Android phones like the Motorola Droid an alternative to the traditional on-screen…
Outside is your iPhone’s window into the weather
Apple’s native iPhone weather app is simple and fairly minimalistic, like the iPhone itself. That’s fine for some people, but if you want more eye candy from your weather app, you’ll need to look elsewhere. We did just that and we came across the new iPhone weather app Outside. With artsy graphics and detailed weather…
Pressure-sensitive capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch coming in 2010!
The holy grail of touchscreen technology, a display that allows both capacitive and resistive touch inputs, may soon be a reality. Startup company Touchco has developed their own touchscreen technology that’s not only cheaper than current capacitive touchscreens but also supports pressure-based inputs. Touchco today unveiled their Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) technology that melds the…