Archive for June, 2009
Bolt Browser Beta3 Released: YouTube & Photobucket Upload & More
Ronen Halevy, BerryReview, 6/29/2009 Bolt has released the 3rd beta of their browser and this time it brings even more BlackBerry specific features. This time they have added the ability to upload to YouTube and Photobucket from the app which is pretty cool. Along with that they have added the ability to copy text along [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology
Verizon and T-Mobile plan to launch Android smart phones
Casey Johnston ArsTechnica 6/23/2009 The success of AT&T’s iPhone 3GS over the weekend has inspired its competitors to follow suit: two major U.S. wireless providers, Verizon and T-Mobile, each plan to release Android-based Motorola smartphones by the end of the year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The phones are intended to compete with the [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: 3G, AT&T, HTC, Motorola, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Adobe Flash Player 10 For Android Due In October
Chris Moor TalkAndroid 6/22/2009 During a recent earnings call, Adobe CEO Shantanu Naraye revealed to investors that a beta version of Flash Player 10 for mobiles will be released in October of this year. The new Flash player will support Android, Nokia Symbian, Palm Web OS, and Windows Mobile powered devices, and is expected to [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: Flash, Nokia
Wolfram|Alpha now has an iPhone portal
Steven Sande, TUAW, 6/15/2009 The knowledge engine at the heart of the recently launched Wolfram|Alpha site can answer queries that would baffle traditional search engines. It can make amazing comparisons, perform linguistic searches, and provides a way to do calculations that are impossible elsewhere other than in a copy of Mathematica. Now there’s a mobile [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology
Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It
Simon Crisp, Gizmodo, 6/15/2009 Palm have “politely” warned the Pre homebrewers behind the Pre Dev Wiki not to talk about hacking the handset for internet tethering on their site … because Sprint might complain. The caution from Palm suggests that ‘they’ don’t have a problem with someone figuring out a tethering solution for the easily [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Sprint, Tether
Ars Reviews the Palm Pre, part 1: the BlackBerry killer
Jon Stokes, ArsTechnia, 6/12/2009 Most of the gadget press is obsessing over whether the Palm Pre is an iPhone killer, but they’re asking the wrong question. We’ve been testing one for the past few days, and it’s clear to us that the real target of Palm’s new phone is the BlackBerry. Here’s how Palm will [...]
In: Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Cloud, IM, Push, SMS
Running Custom Firmware on the Palm Pre Is Rather Easy
Jason Chen, Gizmodo, 6/12/2009 Developer Steven Troughton-Smith seems to have discovered that running unsigned (custom) firmware—even firmware that bypasses the activation process—is super easy. Not only can you use the Konami code to get the phone into dev mode, you can hold the volume-up button while it’s booting in order to set it to restore [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: JailBreak
Palm Pre coming to Verizon in January?
Ian Paul, pcworld.com, 6/12/2009 We’ve already heard reports that the Palm Pre is coming to Verizon. Now it looks like we’re getting close to an official launch date. A source “familiar with the situation” between Palm and Verizon says the Pre will be on Verizon’s network as of January 2010, according to The Wall Street [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: AT&T, MMS, Sprint, Verizon
iPhone 3G S: What you need to know
Macworld Staff, Macworld.com 6/12/2009 If the calendar is about to flip over to summer, it must be time for Apple to roll out another smartphone. Just as summer 2007 saw the release of the original iPhone and last summer brought us the iPhone 3G, this year, we’ve got a new model to obsess over—the iPhone [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, API, AT&T, Bluetooth, EDGE, GPS, MMS
iPhone 3G S In Depth: Why the ‘S’ means more than ‘Speed’
Michael Jones, Tuaw, 6/11/2009 What makes up a rumor? The common recipe starts with some truth or factual information, adds a healthy dose of hearsay, and then gets topped off with a ‘pinch of this and a dash of that.’ Then someone else starts with that entire rumor as their ‘factual information’, and adds to [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: 3G, API, AT&T, MMS, Tether