The day when iPhone users can use their beloved Apple phone to tap out long(ish) emails and blog posts using an external bluetooth keyboard seems to be coming fast. Last we saw, the iPhone and iPhone 3G had been hacked to accept text inputs from an external keyboard. This time around, Ralf Ackermann shows off…
Vodafone HTC Magic Skin Available for the Android Emulator
Want to see what Android looks like on the latest HTC Magic device? How about the Palm Treo Pro or the Motorola Q… or heck, even the Kogan Agora? You can do just that via Tea Vui Huang’s ‘No. 1 website for Google Android Emulator Skins‘. He’s got quite the selection available including the new…
Windows 3.1 and Nokia N95, together at last!
It looks like the Nokia N95 and Windows 3.1 have finally been united! Wait… what? You read correctly, what you’re seeing here is good ‘ole Windows 3.1 installing itself on a Nokia N95. Polish developer Marcin-PRV devoted a good day’s worth of hacking to get the so-ancient-it’s-extinct Windows 3.1 OS up and running on his…
Sync your desktop browser to Firefox Mobile (Fennec) with Mozilla Weave!
Talk about a cool little feature. Mozilla’s own entry into the mobile browser war, fittingly known as Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec), is shaping up to be quite a capable mobile browser. And, with today’s news that Fennec is now being developed with support for Mozilla’s Weave service, Firefox Mobile is looking like a great mobile…
TouchFLO 3D ported to Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 !
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has garnered a good deal of attention over the past few months as one of the highest-end Windows Mobile smartphones on market. And, with Sony Ericsson’s Panel UI working hard to cover up the Windows Mobile nastiness that invariably plagues smartphones based on the Microsoft mobile operating system, the Sony…
Research shows you neglect your iPhone apps like a bad mother
Like an unwanted child, your iPhone applications are probably languishing in an idle pool of non-use. Sound harsh? Well, research shows that we’re probably more on point than you’d like to admit. Thanks to iPhone application analytics provider Pinch Media, we now have compelling statistics on iPhone app-use that indicates most people are likely to…
Location logging coming to iPhone 3G?
The iPhone 3G may soon be updated to allow it to use its GPS receiver and cell-tower triangulation algorithms to log the location of the handset throughout the day. If true, the iPhone 3G would be able to store location data (geo-tags) throughout the day and transfer those geo-tags to pictures in iPhoto. The apparent…
BuzzCity opens its mobile social network to third parties with the launch of myGamma Developor Platform
So it was not just GyPSii that opened up its platform to the third parties. BuzzCity is doing the same with the launch of myGamma Developer Platform. As a result, interested developers can use the API provided to integrate their applications with the 3.2 million user-strong mobile social networking service – myGamma. From the official…
Android and Symbian Duke it Out Over Open Source
“Android is not open, it’s a marketing label. It’s controlled by Google. … [It’s] just another Linux effort with a popular consumer brand attached to them,” said Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams in a recent interview. Yow. Dem’s fightin’ words. In retort, Google VP of mobile Rich Miner took a stab at the Symbian Foundation:…
Forum Nokia announces winners of Calling All Innovators competition
Forum Nokia announced the final winners in its global “Calling All Innovators” contest for mobile applications and solutions to help improve the quality of life on the planet. Nearly 1,000 developers from 57 countries who submitted mobile applications were narrowed to 11 finalists in January: ECO-Challenge – apps and solutions designed to help minimize mobility’s…