Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

According to the iPhone DEV-TEAM, iPhone users with a jailbroken device will have to wait to update to the new OS 3.1, since the device will not be able to revert the baseband firmware, required for the jailbreak to succeed. The PwnageTool will still work and allow you ... Full story

Apple announced today the iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update, which is mainly focused on user preferences and customization. The features include: Genius Recommendations for Apps Get recommendations for apps you might like based on apps you've already downloaded. Genius Mixes Have iTunes automatically create mixes based on what’s already in your library. You don’t even have to ... Full story

HTC unveiled today their new Android-based chinless mobile phone called Tattoo, sporting Sense UI, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 3.2MP camera and the usual microSD card slot. UPDATE Some more specs were announced, including a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU, 512MB/256MB ROM/RAM, a 2.8-inch 240×320 QVGA screen, GPS, 802.11b/g Wifi, digital compass and the usual Bluetooth 2.0. According ... Full story

According to AdMob Mobile Metrics, iPhone is responsible for around 50 percent of smartphone web traffic in the US, which is a big leap from Apple's latest numbers, back in August 2008, where the device held 10%. This of course means that other companies went down a bit, like Microsoft that went from ... Full story

Today Apple presented their new version of the iPhone Operating System. Some of the main features were already rumoured but, as usual, there was still a lot to be heard from Steve Jobs. So, in a nutshell, here are the new features: Push Bluetooth will be able to auto-discover ... Full story

Since last wednesday I'm officially an iPhone user and, being used to just use and develop for Windows Mobile devices, I must say this is definitly different! I'm loving the user interface, which is a feature that we've come to expect from Apple but one of the things that most annoys me ... Full story

I recently got a new work phone for development (*cof*fun!*cof*), an Apple iPhone 3G 16GB and naturally I started to get almost every free app I could get my hands on and googling everything I could about this device. Up until now I'm loving things definitely seem to be getting more interesting lately ... Full story

On March 17 Apple will host an event at its corporate campus in Cupertino, Californa, which will debut the new software version of the iPhone 3G with a pretty "sneak peek", along with information about the new SDK (software development kit) that third-party vendors use to create applications for the device. There are ... Full story

Twitter is a simple message-based system which is easy to use, practical, API-friendly, free and most of all: it asks the simplest of questions: What are you doing? - So, why do people hate it so much? I talked to some people about this service and the answers were basically these: I never heard about ... Full story

As I said before, Microsoft is about to launch Windows Marketplace for mobile, as you can see in the mobile-formatted page over at client.marketplace.windowsmobile.com. Unfortunately, marketplace.windowsmobile.com still redirects to the Windows Mobile Catalog. Microsoft was very quiet about it at ... Full story