The big Apple iPhone 4 and iOS 4 reveal has come and gone and even though we know the ins and outs of Apple’s new precious, one thing that I found lacking was information regarding the new iOS 4 gaming service known as Game Center. Game Center, as you may recall, was announced at the…
Apple: iPhone 4 isn’t even on sale yet, and we already took 600,000 preorders [I’m rich, bitch!]
Apple just issued one of the most smug press releases I’ve ever read in my nearly 4 years of blogging. It’s pretty self explanatory: Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single…
BlackBerry App World 2.0 Getting Carrier Billing, QR Codes
BlackBerry’s official software portal, App World, is getting a big update to include carrier billing, as announced in November. That means when you buy an app, instead of having to go through PayPal, the charge will just be tacked on to your regular wireless bill. There’s also a new option to use credit card billing,…
FlyCast unveils appMobi open source HTML5 app gallery
FlyCast launched an open source library of demonstration mobile apps that were created with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The main idea, according to the press release, is to demonstrate how new web technologies can be used to create compelling mobile experiences. FlyCast touts the so called appMobi as a “cross-platform rapid mobile app development and…
Sprint HTC EVO 4G fully rooted!
Yes, we know that the Sprint HTC EVO 4G has been rooted already, but this time around the big-screened Android phone has been fully rooted, enabling users to write into the system partition. This latest root method is fully functional, compared to prior partial root solutions. One of the initial roots done earlier this month…
T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ unofficially gets Android 2.1 OS ‘Eclair’
If you have a T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ in your pocket, you might be a little upset to see many other Android devices getting much-needed updates to Android 2.1 OS when you’re still stuck using the Android 1.5 OS. Luckily, your wait is now over to experience Android 2.1 (Eclair) on your CLIQ. A handful of…
Flash works on iPhone in Early Developer Video
The wonderful mind behind the Spirit Jailbreak has been working hard to get Flash on the iPhone, and have some preliminary results to show. As you can see, Homestar Runner and All Your Base run relatively well, although the prior wasn’t exactly perfect. This video adds up against Apple’s claims that Adobe’s interactive multimedia standard…
Fortumo launches instant-activation in-app payments for Android
Mobile payments provider Fortumo has launched an easy to integrate in-app payments solution for Android developers that [solution] works in roughly 40 countries around the world. As a result, developers are able to monetize their app or premium features inside the application via carrier billing. On the other hand, end users do not have to…
Windows Phone 7 to Include Trial API for App Market
Although Windows Phone 7 will be lacking in copy and paste, they will have a few interesting features for developers at launch. In order to avoid a bunch of duplicate apps in their Marketplace, Microsoft is implementing at licensing API that allows developers to include free trial versions of their apps. I remember this used…
Adobe Flash 10.1 Player Beta 2 for Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ OS goes live
Good news for those Android users who have been able to update to the Android 2.2 OS “Froyo“, Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 has been released into the Android Market. Though there does seem to have a decent performance boost with the new beta, some things we were hoping for remain to be seen.…