Tag Archive for 'Makayama'

iPhone-style touchscreen web browser for Windows Mobile

Don’t pretend, WinMo users. You know you want some iPhone-style touch browsing in your life. And now you can have it without crossing to the dark side, courtesy of Makayama.

It’s developed something called TouchBrowser, a scrollable web browser for WinMo Pocket PCs (as long as they have VGA or QVGA screens, and aren’t a Treo or Windows Mobile Classic device). It automatically hides menus and scrollbars, letting you use the whole screen to scroll.

It also switches between mobile and normal views, to enable no-frills viewing of sites designed for mobile devices. Oh, and there’s a pretty nifty on-screen keyboard too. Check the promo video out above, then check it out via the link.

(via Engadget)



Makayama adds (expensive) voice recognition to (jailbroken) iPhone

screenshot_014.jpgConsidering the iPhone SDK is just around the corner, it seems logical that the days of the jailbroken iPhone are numbered. Why hack your iPhone to run illegal apps when perfectly legal versions that do the same things will be available soon (actually, don’t answer that)?

Even so, Makayama is not only still churning out applications for the device at a rate of naughts, it is also charging for the things too. Still that is not to say that the applications, pricey though they are ($28 for this particular one), are not worthy.

The latest for example adds voice recognition functionality to the device, a feature that many thought would be a no-brainer but was nowhere to be seen at launch. Voice Dial 1.0 allows you to voice dial (duh) and use voice prompts to open applications or bookmarked sites in Safari. Clever stuff though likely to be available for free/cheaper and legally within the next few months. If you are just too impatient however, your solution has just landed.

(Via The Boy Genius Report)