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- 57% of workers use their smartphones in the bathroom. Also, 57% of workers are nasty.
11 Mar 2010 at 10:15 pm
Are you mysophobic? Oh, you don’t know what “mysophobic” is? It’s a fancy way of saying “germaphobe”, which, according to scientists or linguists or some other group of academics, isn’t actually a word. Go figure.
Now, I ask again: Are you mysophobic? No? Well, you might be after reading this. Because it’s naaasty.
CareerBuilders did a [...]
- iPhone OS 4.0 Looms, But When Will We See It?
11 Mar 2010 at 9:25 pm
Apple has set the standard that once every year they will release a new version of the iPhone. It stands to reason that this year will be no different, with a new model likely coming sometime this summer. But arguably just as important as Apple's hardware refresh is the accompanying software refresh that comes with it as well. And that's why it shouldn't be surprising at all that whispers of iPhone OS 4.0 are starting to grow. But this year, the timeline appears a bit off.
As AppleInsider reported today, iPhone OS 4.0 is likely to deliver multitasking support. If true, that will make it perhaps the most important OS upgrade for the platform yet. However, in reporting the news, AppleInsider also notes that the software, "remains under development and reportedly has a quite 'way to go' before it's ready for prime time." Looking back at the iPhone OS SDK history you'll notice a constant: Apple has released the beta builds in March the past two years. We're already well into March this year, and so far, no word about Apple being close to doing the same.
- Leaked: HTC Incredible caught in its Verizon colors, specs confirmed
11 Mar 2010 at 8:14 pm
HTC Incredible shown above with battery cover removed.
Verizon’s not going to be too happy about this one. From everyone we’ve spoken to, they really wanted to keep details surrounding the Android-powered HTC Incredible underwraps for a while longer. That’s understandable, given that the Incredible blows their current flagship Android device, the Motorola Droid, to smithereens [...]
- Video: Android hacked in place of Windows Mobile on a Touch Pro2
11 Mar 2010 at 6:55 pm
While a lot of people are pretty pumped about Windows Phone 7, there's are some people who definitely are not: everyone stuck on a now antiquated Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. Microsoft has already confirmed that if your phones running 6.5, it's not going to be running 7 any time soon.
If you can't join'em, beat'em, right? There's a new project in the works which aims to breath new life into old Windows Mobile 6.5 phones.. by replacing the whole OS with Android.
- Totally Unreal: Palm and Epic Games bring Unreal Engine 3 to webOS
11 Mar 2010 at 6:27 pm
Only yesterday we were drooling over the idea that Epic Games had managed to port their draw-droppingly beautiful game engine, Unreal Engine 3, to the iPhone. As it turns out, the iPhone isn’t alone – it’s heading to webOS, too!
Details are still a bit slim at the moment, but Palm just announced the deal with [...]
- App Store who? Android Market what? Qualcomm?s BREW Platform has Transacted over $3 Billion in App Sales
11 Mar 2010 at 6:11 pm
It’s been around for 9 years, is on over 1,200 handset models, used by over 65 OEM’s, available in 25 countries, and has over 250M potential users. Yet you may never have heard of it. It is BREW, a mobile operating system developed by Qualcomm that powers anything from feature phones to low-cost smartphones. For [...]
- Motorola to replace Google with Bing on Chinese Android phones
11 Mar 2010 at 1:29 pm
Imagine this with Bing inside. It’s easy if you try.
If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn’t meanness on Motorola’s part although [...]
- New technology heats up cell phones when callers get agitated
11 Mar 2010 at 11:24 am
I can't think of too many use cases for this, but they did it: A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo (Japan's MIT if you will) has developed a technology that makes it possible to "physically" convey emotions from cell phone to cell phone. The key elements of the technology are a sensor and a Peltier device that's attached to the back of the phones.
Read the rest on CrunchGear.
- Verizon officially launches the rugged, text-friendly Casio G?zOne Brigade
11 Mar 2010 at 07:58 am
Just yesterday we were saying that Casio’s built-to-be-beaten G’zOne Brigade would be launching today — and sure enough, it just went live on Verizon’s web site.
As a rugged phone, it’s flagship feature is that it’s.. well, a rugged phone. These things usually don’t pack much functionality beyond that. This one, however, sneaks a full QWERTY [...]
- Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android
11 Mar 2010 at 07:00 am
Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world — but why stop there? Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 for Android into public beta.
The jump from version 4 to version [...]
- Your smartphone: future air-quality data point
11 Mar 2010 at 12:00 am
You know the good feeling you get when you think about how your computer is running Folding@home all the time, or that you’ve been careful to clip six-pack rings all your life? Well, soon you might have one more warm fuzzy feeling, if this project underway at Intel Labs Berkeley comes through. They’re designing portable [...]
- Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets
10 Mar 2010 at 11:02 pm
Take a break from reading our hard-hitting news coverage and take a look at these cute little things. Perfect stocking stuffer (I know, a little early) for your favorite app developer and/or iPhone fanatic. What with these things, those Android pillows, and all the other tech knickknacks I’ve been seeing, it seems that pretty soon [...]
- Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap
10 Mar 2010 at 8:57 pm
Tired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe.
Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to developers. As is par for the course at this point, people almost instantly began [...]
- Surprise! HTC Legend pre-orders delivered a bit early
10 Mar 2010 at 8:37 pm
Handset manufacturers are usually pretty good about holding their tongue about specific release dates until the launch date is a sure thing, so it’s not too often that we see delays in the mobile world. What’s even more rare than a delay, however, is something shipping way earlier than expected.
And yet, that seems to be [...]
- Bravo to Epic Games for porting Unreal Engine 3 to the iPhone
10 Mar 2010 at 7:00 pm
Don't get mad at me—I wanted to go to GDC, but The Man said no. So now we're relying on CNET to bring us word of Epic Games' efforts to bring the Unreal Engine to the iPhone. You may not have even played Unreal for several years, but plenty of big games are based on the engine. Mass Effect and BioShock are based on versions of the engine, as is EA's upcoming Medal of Honor. Just think: playing Unreal on your iPhone. It's almost... unreal.
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