Research In Motion (RIM) has seen impressive growth in the enterprise-oriented smartphone market during recent quarters. The BlackBerry maker’s bullish performance on Wall Street underpins the firm’s 70% smartphone share on AT&T and 107% year-on-year growth as of Q1 2008. But, Credit Suisse analyst Kulbinder Garcha believes RIM’s stock price is significantly over-valued. Why? RIM…
Quake founder John Carmack: iPhone better than dedicated gaming systems
If you have an iPhone or, better yet, an iPhone 3G, you’re probably well aware of how powerful the iPhone is as a media, web surfing, and gaming platform. Pairing a powerful set of processors and graphics acceleration technologies with the huge multi-touch display has made for a mobile gaming platform unlike any other currently…
NetShare for iPhone 2.0 OS – iPhone EDGE / 3G tethering made easy
For all you out there willing to shell out a few bucks for the convenience of hassle-free iPhone tethering (”tethering” is a method that allows your laptop to use your mobile phone’s wireless data connection to surf the web, check email, etc.), a new iPhone application has hit the AppStore… again. NetShare, the iPhone application…
Use your iPhone as car performance meter – G-tac and Dynolicious for performance tracking
Proud of that hot, new ride you just bought yourself? Sure you are. But, whether you’re just mashing the throttle in a straight line or carving up the twisties, sawing the wheel back and forth in search of grip, you’re probably wondering just how fast you’re actually moving. Well, iPhone owners need wonder no more.…
New iPhone 2.1 OS SDK beta brings background notification tools to developers – Push background notification coming soon
Forget multi-tasking, push background notification is where it’s at. With the limited resources available to mobile devices, running multiple applications in the background can tax the CPU, drain the battery faster, and lead to system instability as multiple applications fight for memory allottment and CPU cycles. Apple has seeded a new iPhone 2.1 OS SDK…
AT&T rolls out Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for iPhone 3G
It’s happening all over again. Just as we saw with the original iPhone, AT&T is offering their hard-of-hearing customers the option to use their new iPhone 3G as a text-messaging communications device with none of the voice-call costs. The Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) has come to the iPhone 3G. AT&T isn’t going to make their…
Apple announces MobileMe Mail fixed, lost emails restored
Apple has announced, through its dedicated MobileMe Status blog, that they’ve completed restoring MobileMe Mail service and that they’ve managed to recover lost emails from the 1% of unlucky MobileMe Mail user accounts that have been out of commission since the service’s launch a few weeks ago. MobileMe users still experiencing problems are encourage to…
White iPhone 3G fleet plagued with cracked cases
Wouldn’t you know it? Apple’s hottest (which is debatable) new iPhone color, White, has proven to be the most problematic. Sure, it hides finger-smudges that the Black variant so deftly emphasis, but what good is a fingerprint-free casing if it starts to crack? Scattered reports are coming in that point to some White iPhone 3Gs…
AppStore boasts 1,001 iPhone applications – Buying iPhone apps isn’t too painful
Steve Jobs seems to think that the AppStore “is a grand slam,” and we can’t find any reason to not agree. With unrivaled platform integration and third-party applications that readily take advantage of the iPhone’s multi-touch interface and various sensors, the AppStore has proven to be a boon for iPhone, iPhone 3G, and even iPod…
Flixwagon goes live with iPhone!
Ever since Flixwagon posted their video demonstrating their application running on a jailbroken iPhone last month, iPhoners around the world have been eagerly awaiting the day Flixwagon finally goes live with their iPhone application. That day… is today! Flixwagon beat Qik to the iPhone-punch in their announcement that they’ve gone live with their Flixwagon iPhone…