Acer has long been known as Ferrari’s partner. The Taiwanese company released quite a few laptops branded with the famous prancing horse. Now, Acer (and Ferrari) announced the first Android-powered Ferrari smartphone – Acer Liquid E Ferrari Edition. The exact release date is unknown and the same goes for pricing. We, however, know that the…
Gameloft announces 7 new iPad games
Gameloft is taking advantage of the international iPad launch to announce 7 new games for Apple’s tablet. The titles announced are: Blokus, GT Racing: Motor Academy, Real Football 2010, Chess Classics, Brain Challenge, Gangstar: West Coast Hustle and Real Tennis — all of which will be available “early June” with prices ranging between 3.99 and…
LG Gossip Now Available on Fido
Just like we mentioned a few days back, the LG Gossip is now available on Fido. Available for free on a 2-year contract, or $90 outright (you can also run a $90 prepaid or month-to-month), the ‘quick messaging device’ packs quite a few features for a lower-end smartphone. Key features include: Full QWERTY keyboard 2.0…
iVdopia introduces Viper Ads, new mobile video ad format
iVdopia, the company that provides rich media advertising on mobile phones (and which we’ve covered in the past), unveiled its latest ad format called Viper Ad, featuring the new swipe effect “never before used in mobile ads.” Here’s how these ads work (from the press release): Rather than shake the iPhone to spur a performer…
AT&T launches WiFi “hotzone” in Times Square
AT&T has launched a WiFi “hotzone” in New York City’s Times Square, providing coverage for many of its customers with WiFi-enabled devices visiting and residing in New York. The new WiFi coverage zone is a pilot deployment to explore the use of WiFi to provide an additional mobile broadband option in areas with consistently high…
HTC EVO 4G keeps it real with official new, upgrade and no-contract pricing
We have to hand it to HTC for keeping it real with pricing options for the HTC EVO 4G. Rather than continue to confuse customers with different pricing options for picking up a Sprint HTC EVO 4G as a new purchase, upgrade purchase, or no-contract purchase, the Taiwanese manufacturer has posted their official retail prices…
Wind Mobile Launches U.S. Roaming, Vancouver Network This Week
Canada’s Wind Mobile has been eyeballing a Vancouver launch for some time, and it’s now ready to rock. The launch party is happening this Thursday, and buyers looking to sign up will be glad to hear Wind has extended their Everybody Winds promo until the end of June. As if that wasn’t enough to expand…
iPhone VoIP calls over 3G brought to you by Skype 2.0
In the latest confirmation that wireless carriers are becoming little more than dumb pipes tasked with ferrying our wireless data to and fro, Skype has just updated their iPhone app to allow you to make VoIP internet phone calls using a 3G data connection. The Skype 2.0 update is now available in the iPhone AppStore…
Opera Mini finds 2.6 million iPhone users in just a couple weeks
By now we’ve all come to terms with the iPhone AppStore opening its doors to a non-webkit browser like the Opera Mini web browser for iPhone. In the first couple weeks following the Opera Mini browser’s mid-April launch on the AppStore, we saw the default Safari Mobile web browser take a deep back seat to…
So THIS is how Steve Jobs decided on the Apple iPad name
With all the possible names available for an iPhone OS-powered tablet device from Apple, we’ve often wondered why Steve Jobs would have picked the easily-made-fun-of “iPad” moniker for its “magical” tablet. Well, this new video shows exactly what went on behind closed doors to lead Jobs (in puppet form, of course) to settle on iPad…