Bet you thought the 2.0-megapixel camera in your iPhone was little more than a barely decent shooter destined to take blurry shots forever. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. But, that doesn’t mean the iPhone camera can’t be improved. A bit of tooling around with the iPhone OS 3.0 has shown that the current iPhone hardware…
Microsoft posts Windows Mobile app guidelines, welcomes devs to Marketplace
Following in Apple’s AppStore-footsteps, Microsoft has taken a big step towards launching the Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Windows Mobile 6.5. The Software giant opened the Marketplace to developers over the weekend, and has posted guidelines for Windows Mobile application development. The new development “rules” aren’t really all that interesting of a read, but for…
Maemo 5 SDK reaches Beta stage!
Two month after the Alpha release, Maemo team is out with the beta version of the Maemo 5 SDK. The new version includes a first draft of the Development Manual, a new version of the Modest email client, as well as a frozen API and the basic information and tools developers need to get their…
Samsung i8910 DevPack released in Alpha version
Samsung Mobile Innovator, the Korean company’s mobile software development arm, has released the Alpha version of the Samsung i8910 DevPack to enable interested developers to start making apps for the soon-to-be-released OmniaHD smartphone. At the moment the DevPack contains: Emulator for testing and debugging applications. The Emulator includes Samsung i8910 bitmaps (skins), key mappings, and…
Google Location Services built into Firefox Mobile (Fennec)
Firefox Mobile, codenamed “Fennec,” is expected to bring all the browsing goodness of Mozilla’s desktop Firefox browser to the mobile space. Fennec is loaded with all kinds of new features that may just change the way we think about how a web browser will work. One of Firefox Mobile’s newly discovered features is its integration…
New iPhone OS 3.0 beta hints at ‘Find My iPhone’ MobileMe app
With the release of the latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, we’re getting confirmation that Apple will be building out a new MobileMe web-app to support the “Find My iPhone” location-tracking feature in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS. The “Find My iPhone” feature hasn’t yet been announced by Apple, but there’s little doubt that the…
Appled Sued for Censoring iPhone Hackers
Apple was none too happy when BlueWiki page OdioWorks hosted conversations on how to have your iPhone work with something other than iTunes, and had sent some legal muscle after the site, who claimed the parties in question violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA’s) prohibition on circumventing copy protection measures. Luckily, the Electronic Frontier…
Android 1.5 Cupcake now available for Android Dev Phone
The Android OS has come a long way since its original launch on the T-Mobile G1. Android fans can soon expect to see their Android smartphone getting down all sorts of crazy-cool features – things like an on-screen keyboard, homescreen widgets and speech recognition! Today, HTC and Google have taken the first step to making…
ComponentOne’s Studio for iPhone helps .NET developers make web apps for iPhone/iPod Touch
In an effort to bring .NET developers to the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch platform, ComponentOne has released a suite of Microsoft ASP.NET controls named Studio for iPhone. The application suite is designed to assist developers in making iPhone web (as opposed to native) apps, and it includes navigation lists, calendars, views, tab bars, cover flow, and…
PyS60 hits 1.9.4; Single runtime and full-screen support for S60 5th Edition included in the mix!
Python for S60, aka PyS60, keeps maturing. The latest version, released just in time developers can get their acts together and eventually submit their apps to Nokia’s Ovi Store, brings few important features: Single signed runtime Improved application packager Earier runtime deployment New APIs Full-screen mode support for S60 5th Edition (i.e. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic,…