If you’re a regular reader of IntoMobile and my game reviews, you’ll know that I’m a fan of twin-stick shooters. I’ve played my share of twin-stick shooters on both console & on the iPhone. Some of my favorites so far have been Predators, Geometry Wars, and Guerrilla Bob. Halfbrick has been pitching a perfect game…
Plants Vs. Zombies Goes on Sale for Both the iPhone & iPad
Ever since PopCap Games’ Plants vs. Zombies hit the App Store back in February, it’s fair to say it’s been a hit. I personally have played Plants vs. Zombies so many times on every platform imaginable, and yet I still haven’t completed the entire game on any of them. That’s besides the point here as…
Apple lauches App Store in China
Apple is making a big push in China and the maker of the popular iPhone has launched an online shopping store and a version of the App Store for the country with the world’s largest population. China is potentially a huge market for smartphones and apps. How huge? Well, the country’s largest carrier has more…
The iPhone Soap that Smells Like Grilled Sausages (Seriously)
I bet you’ve often asked yourself, ‘I wonder when someone is going to make a bar of soap that looks like an iPhone and smells like grilled sausage?’ Admit it, you’ve asked yourself that very question to yourself, haven’t you? It’s OK, you can confess! I won’t tell! Etsy user twoeggplants had obviously pondered the…
Apple, Unisys team for corporate iPhone, iPad
Apple is reportedly teaming with Unisys to make its iPhone and iPad lineup more attractive to corporate clients. Should Research In Motion be quaking in its boots? According to BusinessWeek, Unisys will do the maintenance and other back-end services for governments, education entities and other big businesses which want to use the iPhone or iPad…
White iPhone 4 Makes a Cameo in Apple Store App
If you’ve been waiting patiently to get your hands on the white iPhone 4, you’re not alone. The delay of Cupertino’s white model have been a major disappointment for me personally, as I hoped to nab one way back at launch. That said, there is hope on the horizon. Recently, we spotted a white iPhone…
Video: iPhone App: Twario makes reading your Twitter stream as fun as playing Super Mario Brothers
When the graphical user interface was invented, there were people who thought it was a huge waste of system resources, and that people should simply learn how to interact with their computers via the command line. Those old men, relics of the past, were of course wrong, and both Apple and Microsoft “wasted” system resources…
Getting around an iPhone’s security features is easy as pie thanks to a new discovery
You’ve got your computer password protected, or at least I hope you do, so why don’t you do the same to your mobile phone? It never ceases to amaze me how few people I know actually use the security features on their mobile devices. You arguably spend more time poking and prodding at that piece…
Adobe AIR SDK 2.5 Launches for BlackBerry PlayBook, Android and iOS
When RIM announced their first tablet a few weeks ago, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Flash support was one of the big selling points. To that end, today at the Adobe MAX conference Adobe has launched a set of AIR development tools that work with the tablet’s new operating system, Neutrino by QNX. BlackBerry wasn’t the only…
Square Credit Card Reader is Now a Go
You may already be familiar with Square, the mobile credit card reader for your iOS or Android device, but here’s a quick run down of how it works. You download the Square application and the company sends out a small dongle which allows you to receive payments via credit cards. Pretty simple. Now it’s open…