RedFiveLabs announced a new version of its .NET framework for Symbian S60 – Net60 2.1. The single most important feature included in the latest release is the support for touch-enabled S60 5th Edition devices, such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the upcoming Nokia N97. Other improvements include: Improved stability More polished look and feel…
iPhone OS 3.0 Announcements
iPhone OS 3.0 has clearly got a lot of people excited, especially with all the talk about cut and paste, MMS, and even maybe tethering. Here’s what Apple went public with today – we’ll be updating it as more gets announced. It’s interesting to note that Apple explained away background processes as gobbling up too…
RIM Releases Plazmic Content Development Kit Version 4.7
BlackBerry Theme developers, this is a great day for you. RIM has released the Plazmic CDK version 4.7 which allows for legit creation of themes for the BlackBerry Curve 8350i, Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Storm. If you’ve been eagerly awaiting this release to start pumping out the themes for these newer handsets, it’s time to…
Latest Cupcake Improvements Caught on Video
An on-screen keyboard is the biggest change we’re waiting for from Android Cupcake development, but there are plenty of smaller changes here that developer Joey Sochacki runs down. This will hopefully be the first of many weekly updates on what’s new with Cupcake, but I wonder if there will actually be enough changes between builds…
PhoneGap Helps Web Developers Build Apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone Simultaneously
Facebook Connect goes iPhone; Social games and apps are here!
Facebook unveiled Facebook Connect for iPhone, enabling developers to easily make their apps more social with “just a few lines of Objective-C code.” As a result, we’ll see iPhone apps that allow users to login to Facebook from within an app, find their friends, and then share what they do. Developers using Facebook Connect for…
Forum Nokia releases Solitaire for Symbian S60 5th Edition
Forum Nokia has recently released classic card game, Solitaire for S60 5th Edition, as an example application to demonstrate the touch features of the platform. In that sense, in addition to tapping the cards, users can also drag and drop them around, just like they would do on a desktop computer with a mouse. Also…
Developer Frustration: Android Market Blocking Some New Merchant Applications
The latest news out of the Android Community is that developers are experiencing some real problems linking their merchant accounts to their Android Developer accounts. What’s the big deal about this? Well, when you can’t link these accounts together, you can’t list paid apps on the Android Market. Kind of a biggy if you’re a…
Full Bluetooth stack coming to a jailbroken iPhone near you!
While we keep waiting for Apple to update Bluetooth stack on the iPhone and let us use stereo Bluetooth headsets, wireless keyboards and other goodies, hackers aren’t sleeping. Today, we spotted a new application in Cydia, designed to bring one of the most desired features to the iPhone – proper Bluetooth support. The so called…
Inject some Diamond2 goodness into your HTC Touch Diamond!
You’re going to have to shell out some cold, hard cash to get HTC’s upcoming HTC Touch Diamond2 smartphone in your pocket, but you can get some of the Diamond2’s software goodies without spending a single dime. The updated Diamond-successor sports nothing less than a 5-megapixel camera (with autofocus), GPS, WiFi, and 3G data connectivity.…