Google has released reports about its Android platform. It seems Android wants to create a distinctly different space from the App Store. Space, because Google insists that though it will be similar in function to the App Store - i.e. allow users of Android-based devices to browse and install software -it will be a "Market", rather than a "Store":
“Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and Read More...
After Sir Alfred Nobel, Steve Jobs gets the dubious honor of having his obituary put up while he is still pretty much alive, though not exactly kicking. None other than the Bloomberg Financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today. And somehow managed to publish it as well. The obituary was "live" for a while over the web and then suddenly went back to the "limbo" of Bloomberg Financial's database where obituaries of persons not yet dead are kept, waiting to become updated and go "live" as soon as the person dies. Here is the most relevant excerpt Read More...
Category: Entertainment (Dev. Nicoteam) Price: Free
File Size: 0.9 MB Download (from iTunes)
This app does not pretend anything and does exactly what it professes to do:
It's just a simple 3D Animation of the Earth with the Moon and the Sun. You can rotate around the Earth by dragging with one figure. Touch more than one finger to stop and start the rotation of the camera.
And that's all you can do. Just move the earth in space and see it by putting it within the solar and lunar perspectives.
Absolutely nothing else. No information, nothing.
And yet this continues to appear of the Read More...
In a "roadmap" published in the Apple Insider, you can get a "look-in" to the future of Apple products. Buoyed by its staggering success with the iPhone 3G, it seems that, come September, Apple will be putting up a virtuoso display of gadget diversity.
In the next two months or so, riding on the iPhone 3G halo effect, Apple will be showcasing a wide range of products from their factory that churns out cutting edge electronic gadgets, quite at the rate of knots. Here are some expected ones that might come out of their September event:
1. Sleeker and cheaper iPod touch players.
2. iPod nanos.
3. Read More...
Confirmig reports and analysts' studies, Orange, iPhone's carrier in France has admitted that they have limited the speed for the iPhone 3G. They have reported that they have limited the speed for this 3rd generation phone to 384kbps while theoratically the iPhone is capable of reaching speeds of 700Kbps to 1.7 Mbps.
Not just the iPhone, every 3G device comes under this limit. (See here the story regarding same problems with the BlackBerry Bold ). However, come September, things might change for the better with Orange promising 1 Mb speed for the iPhone 3G latest by September 13th.
Diamond cases, diamond studded iPhones and now a gold dripped iPhone. Yes Coumputer Chopper brings you that, a golden iPhone. 24K of yellow gold housing and bezel. And it seems that the iPhone's finishing was not quality enough. It's plastic casing, it seems, made the iPhone a poor candidate for gold dipping.
Price? God knows. And off course the Computer choppers guys know.
Put the golden iPhone in the diamond case and show off.
"In a rather surprising move" suggests the tuaw.com, it seems that the media is pretty taken in with the iPhone smartness. What exactly has happened?
1. Smartphone & Pocket PC, the publishers of the top Windows Mobile monthly magazine have made a sudden announcement stating that they are suspending the publication of the WinMo:
After 11 years, we will be publishing a final 2008 issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and then suspend publication!
2. They will be launching a quarterly iPhone -oriented magazine, titled Smartphone magazine's iPhone Life. The initial plan is to continue it till at least 2010:
You can purchase a Read More...
The iPhone's biggest drawback is the camera. Agreed. But not quite so. In fact you can turn it into a camera witha super macro mode. All you need to do is just work your way around the iPhone's hardware a bit.
Rip open the iPhone. I mean, do that gently. Take the glue off the iPhone lens and roatet counterclockwise for making closer objects in focus, while rotating clockwise goes back out. The camera becomes ok enough to take neat shots of bar-codes and staffs like that.
The whole process takes a lot of dis-assembling and re-assembling. Not to forget that you Read More...
We have been covering everything about applications, the App Store, developers, even software updates. This is new; have you ever heard about "Appiphilia"? No? That's a very dangerous digital "app"arition and "app"arently that happened to Michelle Maltias. Read on from Michelle Maltais' blog in the LA Times Blog, published yesterday:
For the last few weeks, I've been staying up late glued to my screen, and frankly it has been wreaking havoc on my sleep patterns...I have been obsessively logging in to iTunes....It's all about the apps...I was so elated that the night the store opened I was there downloading applications I couldn't Read More...
Google's foray into the mobile (and may be hardware in future) was the much anticipated Android. However, two major missing features when the Android OS was launched -Bluetooth and GChat. Bluetooth will be supported for headsets, but will not be available for third-party developers right now. Regarding the Bluetooth issue, the Android developers have a strangely vague reason:
The reason is that we plain ran out of time. The Android Bluetooth API was pretty far along, but needs some clean-up before we can commit to it for the SDK.
Regarding GChat, the explanation is:
However, the idea of a Google Talk friend does Read More...