MSN Onit is a new mobile application for Windows Phone 7, made by Microsoft. Available as a free download, it’s designed as a guy’s guide, offering men’s lifestyle content from MSN and leading outlets like Esquire, Men’s Health and TheSmokingJacket.com. Here’s what you get: Cars – Content from MSN Autos, including reviews, first drives and…
Hands-on demo: SnapKeys key-less keyboard from CTIA 2011
We’re here at Orlando for the CTIA 2011 trade show and we’re popped by ShowStoppers and actually found something pretty interesting. SnapKeys is touting a key-less keyboard for Android and other platforms and, despite what you may think, it may just very well work. SnapKeys is billing this as II or Imaginary Interface – pronounced…
Poynt Launches on Nokia Qt Devices
Poynt, the location-based search app, has found its way onto Nokia’s Qt operating system today, following on successful BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7 products. Support geographies for the Qt app include Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia Poynt not only helps you find the lowest nearby gas prices, closest restaurant,…
Kyocera launches developer program for Echo Android device
Sprint and Kyocera announced the dual-screen Android Echo smartphone last month, and now the manufacturer is launching a developer program to help and entice developers to build apps for the new form factor. Sprint touted the Kyocera Echo as an industry first, and indeed it is the first and only Android device so far to…
Samsung Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab getting Sprint ID update
The Samsung Epic 4G and the Galaxy Tab Android tablet are getting an update soon, and it’s a big one for Epic owners as they’ll be getting Android 2.2 Froyo. For both Epic 4G owners and Galaxy Tab users, Sprint ID will be included in the update, too – for better or worse. Some users…
Google TV Remote goes iOS
Few months ago Google launched the Google TV Remote app for Android users and now they’re going for those of you (us) with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Using the application, you get to turn your iDevice into a remote control for Google TV and from there you get to bookmark channels and search…
La Pasta goes HD to bring Italian recipes to the iPad users
Back in December 2010, we talked about La Pasta, an iPhone app for the fans for pasta. It’s not longer an iPhone/iPod Touch “thing” only, with La Pasta HD being released in the AppStore. As you can imagine, the new application is made to take advantage of the larger screen the iPad and iPad 2…
iPhone app lets Swedes snap a picture of car’s license to check prices and specs
Swedish price comparison site for car shopping Bilpriser.se launched an awesome iPhone application, allowing users to snap a picture of car’s license plate to get specs and compare prices for that vehicle. This magic is done by querying the government registration database to locate the car’s make and model. Once that step is cleared, Bilpriser.se…
Telmap exceeds 5 million maps and navigation users
Mobile location-based services provider Telmap announced that its user base has exceeded 5 million users! Unsurprisingly, Android and iPhone device owners demonstrated fastest growth, with iPhone in particular being “responsible” for more than 600,000 downloads. Telmap provides white-label, managed mobile location-based services to mobile operators, and its application is available on more than 700 devices,…
research2guidance: UK mobile app download revenues reached 280 million GBP in 2010
According to a new study by research2guidance titled “UK Smartphone App Market Overview,” smartphone users in the UK downloaded over 860 million mobile applications in 2010 with 105 million downloads counting for paid apps. Revenue wise, that’s 280 million GBP for the UK’s total paid application downloads. The good news is that there is still…