The coolest things for the coolest phones
Losing your phone is one of the minor traumas of the 21st century. At least, you probably haven’t dropped it into the toilet.
When it comes to your BlackBerry however there is an app to help to you find it.
Called Where’s My Phone, it enables you to send an email to your phone, triggering the application [...]
While the average amount of revenue per Android user lags quite some way behind the App Store, Google released statistics this week that showed the overall number of apps available had increased significantly over the past three months.
Back in December there were 16,000 apps available on the Android Market, a number that has risen to [...]
Microsoft has released a beta version of a Silverlight interpreter for S60 5th Edition phones.
Silverlight is (essentially) Microsoft’s answer to Flash. A cross-platform application framework that lets programmers write apps that can run anywhere there is a working Silverlight runtime. This can be used to add simple stylistic flourishes to websites or to create full-blown [...]
A report by Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment LLC (FADE) has revealed that paid downloads made up a miserly 1% of the total downloaded on the Android Market during February.
This averages out as only 6.1 cents on gaming and $0.50 on applications per Android owner. These figures compare poorly to the iPhone’s average revenue [...]
Nokia is conducting trials that could see Hollywood blockbusters downloadable straight from the Ovi Store to your mobile phone.
It is certainly possible to watch movies on your mobile, but at the moment the simplest way of doping so is still an almighty faff – ripping a DVD (or otherwise ‘acquiring’ a copy of a movie [...]
It seems nowadays a week can’t go by without one of the major mobile phone manufacturers involved in a law suit, and this week is no exception.
Despite currently battling multiple big technology companies including Nokia and Kodak, Apple has now set its sights on Android smartphone pioneers HTC.
Citing 20 copyright infringements ‘related to the iPhone’s [...]
While there haven’t been many instant-millionaire stories associated with the Android Market (actually, there’s been none), reports are starting to emerge of independent developers finding success on Google’s mobile distribution platform.
One such developer is Edward Kim, creator of the Car Locator application currently featured on the front page of the store.
According to his blog, after [...]
Fancy running Windows 7 Phone Series on your mobile? Don’t count on being able to upgrade.
Microsoft has announced that the current crop of Windows Mobiles won’t be able to upgrade to the next generation of WinMo operating system, Windows 7 Phone Series. “Because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series the current [...]
We are quite fond of the Nokia N97, but even we have to admit that its not the all-sing, all-dancing smartphone extravaganza that Nokia implied it would be. That feeling of disappointment seems to have spread all the way up to the Nokia board room.
Nokia’s VP of markets, Anssi Vanjoki has told Mobile Industry Review [...]
Now this is impressive. Last month we brought you news that a wily hacker had managed to get the Nokia N900 to run Android alongside its more usual Maemo operating system.
Not to be outdone, another hacker on the XDA Developers Forum has been hard at work squeezing a copy of Ubuntu Linux onto a Sony [...]
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