Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

OnLive Gaming Service Demonstrated On iPhone

OnLive has demonstrated an iPhone app in which users are able to play against gamers on a PC or on the company’s MicroConsole. OnLive CEO Steve Perlman demonstrated his company’s game streaming service simultaneously on two iPhones.
“While we only showed a tech demo today, it was great to give people in the audience a chance [...]

Verizon Motorola Droid Takes Aim at iPhone

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Verizon Wireless isn’t holding back to promote Droid, its upcoming Android handset aiming directly at the Apple iPhone. The No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier (Verizon) this weekend began a series of television ads designed to up the iPhone which operates on rival carrier AT&T. The “iDon’t/Droid Does” ads run down a list of [...]

Apple To Switch On FM Radio in iPhone, iPod Touch

Apple is just around the corner of releasing an FM radio application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and it will be for the current models. According to the rumor (9to5 Mac) Apple will awaken the FM transceiver already dormant within the devices, currently only used to talk to the Nike+ widget.
The holdup on this [...]

Adobe to Land Flash Apps For iPhone

Flash developers will soon be able to port their apps to the iPhone. Adobe said it would be releasing Flash for mobile platforms including Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm’s web OS and Google Android. Adobe is adding support to its Flash Professional CS5 developer kit to convert software written in Flash into standalone iPhone applications.
Flash [...]

AT&T Sets the Date for iPhone MMS – Sept. 25th

AT&T’s announced Thursday that MMS would finally be coming to the iPhone September 25th for U.S.-based iPhone 3G and 3GS.
Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a telecommunications standard for sending messages that include multimedia objects (images, audio, video, rich text).
AT&T said in a statement, “We’ve been working for the past several months to prepare [...]

Sprint’s First Google Android Phone – HTC Hero

Sprint has officially announced the HTC Hero for there network. The HTC Hero will be released on October 11th and will be priced at $179.99 after $50 instant savings, a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement.
Specs:
* Android with HTC Sense
* 112mm x 56.2mm x 14.35mm, [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 With WinMobile 6.5

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X2 is official and it is running Windows Mobile 6.5. The specs: 3.2-inch WVGA touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, 8.1 megapixel camera, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, TV-out, 4GB microSD card, and 13 pre-loaded “panels” in the reworked Windows Mobile skin like Skype, CNN, and Google. Should be available in select markets Q4 for 699 [...]