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last updated on 10 Mar 2010 at 10:06 pm PST
- 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 (...)
- 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, how (...)
- 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 g (...)
- Casio?s ultra-tough G?zOne Brigade going on sale tomorrow?
10 Mar 2010 at 6:45 pm
WAAAAY back in November, Casio and Verizon showed off the G’zOne Brigade, an ultra-durable clamshell phone with a surprise QWERTY keyboard packed inside. “Push to talk!” they said. “It’s weatherproof!” they said. And t (...)
- Sony Ericsson unboxes the Xperia X10, stomps on toes
10 Mar 2010 at 6:12 pm
You know what weirds me right the hell out? Companies doing their own unboxing videos. That’s our job. I realize they’re probably proud of their work and are just itching to show it off, but a new handset getting its first video unboxing by t (...)
- XNA 4.0 games on Windows Phone 7 Series look awesome (but won?t be for Zune HD)
10 Mar 2010 at 02:27 am
A bundle of screenshots just hit the net showing off the latest Direct3D-based mobile games running on a WinPho7 device, adn they look pretty hot. We knew that the Tegra chipset in the Zune HD and likely in several upcoming WinPho handsets (Tegra 2, to b (...)
- Want to sleep with Android? Now you can.
09 Mar 2010 at 9:00 pm
Do you love Android? Like, really love Android? So much so that those Android action figures just don’t seem like enough? Well, now there’s a way for you to show the world how much you really care about your favorite OS: by bringing it to bed (...)
- Video: Samsung explains why their Super AMOLED screen is better than your normal AMOLED screen
09 Mar 2010 at 8:25 pm
Samsung's pretty proud of their Super AMOLED technology - and why shouldn't they be? With next to no fanfare, they managed to knock out the readability issues that plagued AMOLED handsets any time they were within view of the sun. And if vastly improved (...)
- Sprint Touch Pro 2 to finally get Windows Mobile 6.5 later this month?
09 Mar 2010 at 7:48 pm
Given that the HTC Touch Pro 2 saw upgrades to Windows Mobile 6.5 on just about every other carrier months ago, Sprint Touch Pro 2 owners might be feeling a wee bit rebuffed right now. On the brightside, chances are good that the upgrade is coming eventu (...)
- BlackBerry App World bumped up to version 1.1.0.33
09 Mar 2010 at 7:06 pm
If you've been messing with the App World on your favorite BlackBerry device lately only to be plagued by some nasty glitch, you might want to check out the brand-spankin'-new App World update that just went live -- it might have fixed it.
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- Palm launches PDK beta, brings C and C++ development to webOS
09 Mar 2010 at 6:46 pm
Good news, everyone! We’ve got another acronym for you to remember! Back at CES 2010, Palm announced that they’d be launching a “PDK” at some point in the future – and, well, it’s here, and it’s time to pay some (...)
- Never Ending Goldrush: Doodle Jump for iPhone Smashes Through 3 Million Sales
09 Mar 2010 at 06:40 am
Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer's fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they've got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling.
Tomor (...)
- Nokia files patent for kinetically-charging mobile phone battery
09 Mar 2010 at 03:33 am
Question: can you file a patent for something that’s existed for a long time? I guess the question is of implementation. While self-winding watches and shake-to-charge flashlights already harvest kinetic energy to store and later discharge, I suppo (...)
- Review: Case-mate Hug Wireless Charging Pad and Case for iPhone 3G/3GS
09 Mar 2010 at 03:00 am
Short Version: A bit of a twist on traditional induction chargers, Case-mate?s ?Hug Wireless Charging Pad and Case? attempts to offset its $100 price tag by adhering to the Wireless Power Consortium?s universal charging standard, which promises interopera (...)
- Oh no you didn?t: woman stabs man after looking at his call log
08 Mar 2010 at 11:02 pm
Such are the perils of technology. A Las Cruces woman is being charged with battery after stabbing her ex-husband repeatedly after looking at his cell phone’s call log.
No word on exactly what calls she was upset about, but I’m pretty sure it (...)
- Video: HTC Supersonic briefly caught on camera
08 Mar 2010 at 10:24 pm
We started drooling about the HTC Supersonic as soon as we heard the words "Android" and "WiMax" in the same sentence. Once "4.3 inch display" got thrown into the mix, our salivary glands just couldn't be stopped.
While HTC hasn't made even the smalles (...)
- Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta
08 Mar 2010 at 9:53 pm
Swype for Android’s finger-dragging input method goodness has been available to some extent through other means for a while now — some legit, some not quite as legit. Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available to (...)
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