Back in January Google announced that they were going to give $10 million out to the developers that create the most interesting applicatiosn for Google’s Android, the deadline was April 14 and the results were tallied up: 1788 applications were submitted! Of those 50 finalists will get $25,000 to contine development when handsets become available…
Save images to your iPhone, contacts search, iCal meeting invitations – More iPhone OS 2.0 firmware improvements
As we get closer to the official release of the iPhone v2.0 OS firmware, we’re getting more juicy tidbits about the next iPhone firmware’s features. Apparently, Apple has finally seen the light and allowed the iPhone to save images from the web directly to the iPhone’s photo album. The iPhone v2.0 firmware also features the…
HTC TyTN II can run Android
Few days ago we posted a screenshot of Nokia N810 Internet Tablet running Google’s Android OS. No big deal, even before Android, the N810 used Linux as an operating system. And now, the folks of XDA-Dev community managed to make Google’s OS singing along HTC TyTN II. Best of all, Android runs as an .EXE…
Java comes to iPhone with alcheMo
It’s not exactly the same as having full Java support on the iPhone, but it’s the next best thing. New Zealand-based Innaworks has announced their beta-stage “alcheMo” application that will port Java-based games and applications to work on the iPhone and iPod Touch. alcheMo allows developers to convert their standard Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java…
Apple iPhone SDK Beta 3 is out!
Apple just released the iPhone SDK Beta 3. Included in the new version is a new tutorial, various bug fixes and “support for the latest iPhone OS.” Beta 2.0 firmware is extended, as well. Hop over to developer.apple.com/iphone, grab the SDK and start wrapping up the apps you’ve been working on. 😉 Kudos for the…
UIQ Developer Fast Track events hitting Boston, San Francisco this May
U.S. based developers who want to expand to the Symbian UIQ smartphone market will be glad to know that UIQ Technologies’ event is hitting both east and west coast this May. The UIQ Developer Fast Track will be held in Boston, 15-16 and in San Francisco, 19-20 May. The UIQ Developer Fast Track is an…
New Nokia N82 firmware available – 20.0.062 enables geotagging, Flash Lite 3, Web Runtime
Remember that Nokia N82 firmware that Stefan mentioned a little while ago? Astute reader Tariq has noticed that the new N82 firmware is now live. Firmware version 20.0.062 is now available for all N82 owners to boost their already capable N82 with some geotagging, Flash Lite 3 (FL3), and Web Runtime Widget (WRT) features. The…
Simba – another GPS solution for the iPhone
It’d be great if the 3G iPhone hit the scene with a legit GPS receiver in tow. But, should the 3G iPhone fail to materialize and GPS hardware, it would be nice get GPS functionality via a hardware add-on. The latest iPhone developer to get cozy with GPS, Simba, is showing off their beta-stage GPS…
iPhone Dev Team releases PwnageTool Application – Install custom iPhone firmware .ipsw bundles
Remember that cool video we showed you a while back that had an iPhone getting “pwned” by and iTunes-installed firmware? The clever iPhone hackers out there showed off how to make your iTunes application install a pre-jailbroken firmware onto your iPhone. Now, the iPhone Dev Team has released their iPhone PwnageTool Application that puts the…
iPhone OS 2.0 firmware sports YouTube plug-in – possible Flash future for iPhone?
Full-featured Flash support on the iPhone is just too enticing to ignore. With Steve Jobs’ declaration that the desktop version of Flash was too slow for iPhone use and Flash Lite not up to snuff for “real” Flash viewing, Adobe was getting ready to make their own iPhone SDK-based solution for bringing Flash to the…