It wasn’t too long ago that we were criticizing Apple for keeping Google’s friend-tracking Latitude service off the iPhone’s Maps application. While the rest of the smartphone world got updates to its Google Maps for Mobile application that allowed them to keep tabs on the location of friends and family, the iPhone was left to…
HTC HD2’s Windows Mobile 7 upgrade gets ‘unconfirmed’
Only in a world where Twitter is a legitimate breaking news source can a company “unconfirm” a previously confirmed rumor. Just the other day, HTC Russia got HTC HD2 owners and would-be owners all worked up with a tweet that seemd to confirm that a Windows Mobile 7 upgrade would be made available to the…
Droid’s Android 2.1 ROM ‘fully functional’ on G1
If you’ve got an HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, you’re probably green with enough envy for late model Android phones to give the Android robot some self-confidence issues. The Motorola Droid and its Android 2.1 OS, for example, are good enough to leave early Android adopters with a bitter taste in their…
Palm’s webOS App Catalog celebrates the New Year with 1,000th webOS app!
The iPhone’s AppStore and the Android Market have been growing fast in the past several months. The two mobile application stores boasts tens of thousands of apps for their respective smartphone platforms, offering users everything from games to medical diagnosis tools. The webOS’s App Catalog, on the other hand, has been slow to catch up.…
Google’s New Year 2010 Easter Egg
This isn’t strictly mobile-related, but seeing as how I stumbled upon Google’s New Year Easter Egg on my iPhone, it’s safe to say that this is loosely related. In celebration of the New Year 2010, Google has changed their logo into a festive fireworks graphic. We’re used to seeing Google changing their logo to celebrate…
Drum Kits ‘hits’ the App Store
Apple has approved the iPhone/iPod app ‘Drum Kits’, by Makayama. Drum Kits is the first programmable drum machine with 160 mixable tracks and a completely new approach to rhythm composition. It allows you to compose beats and patterns by touching dots on the screen. It turns your iPhone or iPod into a drum sequencer and…
Outside is your iPhone’s window into the weather
Apple’s native iPhone weather app is simple and fairly minimalistic, like the iPhone itself. That’s fine for some people, but if you want more eye candy from your weather app, you’ll need to look elsewhere. We did just that and we came across the new iPhone weather app Outside. With artsy graphics and detailed weather…
Pressure-sensitive capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch coming in 2010!
The holy grail of touchscreen technology, a display that allows both capacitive and resistive touch inputs, may soon be a reality. Startup company Touchco has developed their own touchscreen technology that’s not only cheaper than current capacitive touchscreens but also supports pressure-based inputs. Touchco today unveiled their Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) technology that melds the…
AT&T petitions FCC to abandon landline phone connections
In a world where 1 out of every 5 US homes have shunned landline phones in favor of a wireless-only lifestyle, it’s clear that wireline phone service is dying a slow death. Every year, more and more Americans are opting to use their mobile phones as their only means of communications. AT&T apparently wants to…
Obama’s ban on federal workers’ texting and driving starts today
Sending text messages while behind the wheel of a two-ton rolling death machine isn’t just dangerously distracting, it’s downright irresponsible. President Obama realized this back in October when he issued an executive order that would ban all federal employees from texting while driving. The ban goes as far as banning any government employee from sending…