We can only hope. The iPhone helped popularize the smartphone. The iPhone’s user-focused UI and more natural capacitance-based touchscreen has changed the mass-market’s expectation of what a smartphone should be. It’s just too bad Windows Mobile has yet to catch on – it’s still fully backing resistive touchscreens (you might know them as “squishy” touchscreens).…
Fennec Coming to Android?
Last week, the Android Native Development Kit was released, allowing developers to code their apps in C or C++, rather than using the Java virtual machine apps had been running on to date. This new tool has tickled Mozilla’s fancy, and they’re now considering bringing their in-development mobile browser, Fennec, to Android as a result.…
Palm issues WebOS 1.0.4 update, closes homebrew app exploit
Palm Pre users will be happy to hear that Palm has issued a point-update to the WebOS. The Palm Pre’s mobile operating system is now officially set at version 1.0.4, bringing with it a slew of security patches that should leave your Palm Pre at least a smidge more secure. Unfortunately, Palm has also closed…
Greystripe introduces guaranteed CPM for iPhone apps
Greystripe, the company behind the world’s largest network of free mobile apps and games, unveiled a new CPM Protection Program to “guarantee iPhone application publishers the revenue they deserve for their high quality applications.” The problem is that there is a growing number of mobile ad networks that target iPhone applications and their respective developers.…
iLime hosting service unveiled for iPhone developers
Chicago-based KeyLimeTie has recently unveiled iLime, the hosting service for developers who plan to adopt new push notification and in-app purchasing features of the iPhone OS 3.0. Here’s where the problem (according to KeyLimeTie’s press release): Apple’s gateway manages all notifications sent between application providers and individual devices. However, Apple has not expressed plans to…
Google AdSense Goes Mobile
I’m still dubious about the effectiveness of mobile advertising, but Google AdSense, a heavyweight in the online advertising ring, has announced support for iPhone and Android applications. The big key to AdSense is properly targeting the audience, and since Google has pretty much your whole search history on file, odds are they can usually feed…
Samsung Omnia Retrofitted with Android
Not that you’re hurting for a Samsung device running Android these days, but some clever hackers have shoehorned Google’s mobile OS into an Omnia i900. Before you get too excited, this is still very much in developement, and experiencing all sorts of touch glitches and missing hardware functionality. Still, a boot-up is progress, and if…
iPhone Dev Team releases ‘ultrasn0w’ unlock utility for iPhone OS 3.0
Those Dev Team guys, they’re a genius bunch. Following on the recent release of the iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak application, PwnageTool 3.0, the iPhone Dev Team has delivered on their promise of a simple software-unlock utility for the latest iPhone OS 3.0. The much-anticipated “ultrasn0w” utility is now live and ready to unlock any iPhone…
Palm Pre leads the WebOS homebrew revolution
The Palm Pre’s new WebOS has proven to be the touch-based mobile OS most capable of taking on the iPhone OS. The WebOS’s slick, finger-friendly interface makes for a truly rewarding experience to be sure. And, just like the iPhone, the Palm Pre can run unofficial third-party applications with ease. In fact, the regular Joe…
Apple apologizes for Push Notification delays?
iPhone OS 3.0 is here! iPhone OS 3.0 is here! Oh, wait. Where’s all the Background Push Notification goodness that we were promised? Shouldn’t we be seeing massive updates to most of our iPhone apps, enabling Push Notification support? Nope, not yet. Apple just may not be ready to go live on a large scale…