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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Windows Mobile Mobile Heist: 50% off Top 10 apps!
The Mobile Heist is back on in our Windows Mobile software stores and we are offering 50% off the top 10 Windows Mobile apps until 1st January. The links you need are below and so great titles are included such as Pocket Informant 9, PhatNotes and PhoneWeaver.
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Chop Chop Ninja for the iPhone
Chop Chop Ninja is a new release for the iPhone and one of the more original platform games to reach the platform so far- well priced too. “The Emperor’s daughter is in danger and needs your help! Face your enemies and explore the world to save your princess from a terrible curse! Use the ancestral ninja arts to fight hordes of enemies, destroy objects, avoid traps and many other dangers. Chop Chop Ninja is a fun and intuitive platformer specifically designed for the iPhone & iPod Touch!”
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Free flights with a Palm Pre, iPhone not doing well on Orange UK?
Carphone Warehouse in the UK is giving away free flights to anyone who buys the Palm Pre. A sobering article at The Guardian suggests the Pre is not selling well at all…
“Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January as speculation increases that sales of the mobile phone, seen as the closest competitor to Apple’s iPhone have fallen far short of expectations.
Mobile phone network O2, which offers the Palm Pre under an exclusive deal in the UK, is believed to have mountains of unsold phones.
News of the Carphone Warehouse offer comes amid rumours that the iPhone itself is not doing very well for one of its new network partners, Orange. Sources in the retail channel maintain that Orange sold a very creditable 90,000 devices in the first month of offering the handset, but roughly nine in ten of those handsets went to people who were already Orange customers, making the iPhone effectively an upgrade for them. Orange was unavailable for comment.
Orange started selling the iPhone on 10 November, ending O2′s two-year exclusive grip on the handset, and announced it had sold more than 30,000 iPhones within hours of it going on sale. Since then, however, Tesco has started selling the device while Vodafone will start to provide the iPhone to its customers from 14 January. The fact that the device is now available on four networks in the UK, however, has not led to a price war, partly because Apple is understood to demand a say in any pricing tariffs to maintain the cachet of iPhone’s “premium” image.”
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All you need is love from RIM
I forgot to mention this last week, but you can now download All You Need Is Love from RIM for free. It is the version used in recent TV commercials and is very good in my opinion. I’m fairly sure that someone else wrote it though…:)
“Visit www.blackberry.com/allyouneedislove from your smartphone to download. Alternatively, enter an email address that’s integrated with your BlackBerry smartphone below and click submit to have a download link sent to you.”
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Nokia requests ITC investigation into Apple patent infringement
Nokia and Apple are really starting to get on each other’s nerves now and Nokia has just hot back with the following- “Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced it has today filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers.
The seven Nokia patents in this complaint relate to Nokia’s pioneering innovations that are now being used by Apple to create key features in its products in the area of user interface, as well as camera, antenna and power management technologies. These patented technologies are important to Nokia’s success as they allow better user experience, lower manufacturing costs, smaller size and longer battery life for Nokia products.
“Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in small electronic devices” said Paul Melin, General Manager, Patent Licensing at Nokia. “This action is about protecting the results of such pioneering development. While our litigation in Delaware is about Apple’s attempt to free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case filed today is about Apple’s practice of building its business on Nokia’s proprietary innovation.”
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O2 apologises for snags in London network
From FT.com- The head of O2 has apologised to customers who could not make phone calls because the mobile operator’s London network was overwhelmed by bandwidth-hungry smartphones.
Ronan Dunne told the Financial Times he was disappointed with O2’s network performance in London since the summer. But the UK’s largest mobile phone operator was making good progress towards fixing the problems, he said.
O2 ran into significant network difficulties in the capital during the second half of 2009 as customers with smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone ramped up their use of applications that repeatedly pull data off the internet at short intervals.
Vodafone, the second-largest operator, is seizing on O2’s problems and claiming that its network will cope far better with the fast-growing number of smartphones. Network quality will be a key battleground for the operators next year.
Mr Dunne said O2’s network difficulties had been caused by an “explosion” of demand for data services on smartphones but insisted the problems were largely confined to London.
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webOS 1.3.5 comes to Palm Pre Sprint users
Palm has released webOS 1.3.5 for Sprint Palm Pre users which offers a huge number of improvements including changes to the App Catalog experience, calendar, email and many other changes. More details are here.
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QOTD: Would you buy the iSlate?
Does the potential of the iSlate appeal to you enough to buy it as soon as it is out? I have to say it’s a yes for me if the price is right.
The iSlate: conquering all mobile markets (part one- eBooks)
Apple’s rumoured iSlate (will use that name purely for convenience) which is set to appear in January is expected to be built around a 7″ touch sensitive screen which will come with a revolutionary way of allowing the user to interact with it. We can expect the legendary Apple design to create an object which millions of people will want to own from the moment it is announced. The iPhone created lust around the world when it was first demoed, but the iSlate could be a game changer the like of which even Apple has not managed to create before.
eBook readers are big business at the moment and new manufacturers are popping up every week with new tricks to entice bookworms to the digital age. The iSlate sounds to me like the kind of device which would fit well in this market, but with Apple behind it the marketing machine could well bring eBooks to the wider market which even Amazon has failed to truly conquer with the Kindle. The iSlate will have the extra advantage of doing so much more yet could still dominate the eBook market by utilising its multi-use abilities.
If Apple manages to offer an experience which makes eBooks feel like paper, or even close, that will be all that is needed for a device like the iSlate to conquer the market and make ‘eBook’ a standard word in the vocabulary of the masses. With the power of iTunes behind the device and the potential to sell millions of titles the sky is the limit for the iSlate and eBook publishers once the format has been accepted by the buying public.
What else will the iSlate conquer? More tomorrow…
Smart To Do for BlackBerry
Smart To Do is a new alternative task management program for BlackBerry devices and looks graphically better than most of the competition. “Smart To Do turns your Blackberry Task to a powerful task manager. Smart To Do helps you organize your tasks in smart lists automatically, customize focus lists using multiple categories, and add unlimited projects/subprojects. It is very simple and intuitive to use. It also flexible enough to let you work with popular GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology, or your own system. You can keep things simple, or you can have multiple complex projects as you want.”
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Windows on an iPhone
Wind OS is a new emaulator for the iPhone which is more of a novelty than a genuine app. Still, it will have appeal and could sell quite well, but not to Apple fans of course.
“Wind OS will blow in a feeling of good old Windows times to your iPhone! Something you believe you have known from the very childhood, something which is so intuitive and habitual. Download it and you will again have a chance to listen to old-hat noises of a humming cooler, and see that classic desktop screen.
With Wind OS you will have a notepad for text editing, a browser for surfing and, of course, a world-famous Minesweeper. So keep cool, think fast, guess right – and find ‘em all!
Is the cooler’s sound getting louder? No worries! A bit of shake of your iPhone should fix it. But don’t shake it too much, or… well, try yourself and see what happens.
Managed with the rebellious cooler? There is a more complicated task for you. Hidden somewhere within the app are 46 Bill Gates’ quotations. So if you think you are smart enough, go find and decipher!”
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OnTV v1.31 for Windows Mobile
Gavin pointed me to OnTV v1.31 which offers TV listings for the UK and Scandanavian countries. It looks quite useful which is what you would expect of anything from XDA Developers.
“OnTV is an application that brings you todays tv schedule right into your Windows Mobile device. It will show you listings for a number of channels of your choice, as well as information about each tv show! To make sure you don’t miss that important fotball game or tonights exciting movie, you can add a reminder about the show into the calender by the push of a button!
OnTV uses any existing internet connection to download the listing. To avoid downloading to much data, it downloads each channel only once you click on it to watch the listing. So a little wait might be apparent before the tvshows pops up on the screen, depending on how fast your connection is.
OnTV is available in VGA and WVGA.”
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Want to know how Symbian is built? Thought not.
A Symbian developer page has been put up showing how Symbian is built and it will be of interest to about 1% of you. Still, we serve everyone here and hopefully you will get something out of it.
“The Foundation build machines are on 2 locations. A small number of machines are physically located in the Foundation building (1BR). The majority of the machines are located off-site in a hosted environment. These 2 sites are linked by a VPN which makes them appear as one network.
Full platform builds require a lot of processing cycles so to minimise the build time these are typically performed on powerful dedicated servers, currently 16 Core machines. For package builds and for other services processing power is not so critical. To provide flexible support for these services a pool of virtual machines are provided. These can be a mix of Linux and Windows machines, though currently the builds are primarily on windows. Currently all windows servers are running Windows Server 2003…”
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No iPhone in New York, no HD2 on Voda UK
The iPhone is currently unavailable online in New York for AT&T customers. The official reasons are unclear at the moment, despite being blindingly obvious to the rest of us, but it is a strange move which does little for the reputation of AT&T. More at BGR.
Vodafone recently put paid to rumours that it was ditching the HTC HD2 ahead of the iPhone launch and now it seems as though an about turn has taken place and it will no longer stock the HD2 despite good sales figures. From IntoMobile- “We are not re-stocking the HTC HD2 for general consumer sales once current stock runs out. We have had a massive amount of interest in it, and our initial stock sold out quickly. Subsequent deliveries have been used to fulfil backorders, but we are not looking to re-stock the device.”
For a provider that does not have a huge range of smartphones anyway this is a retrospective move, but likely a neccessary one for two reasons that I can think of.
BlackBerry Mobile Heist – Dec 25th to Jan 1st !!!
Just received a new BlackBerry? If so, it’s time to jump on board our Mobile Heist bandwagon and save some big money on essential apps for your new smartphone. Check out the following links and see which offers are best for you- details of all the offers are listed below.
Beyond 160 from Cannon Software
When 160 just isn’t enough.
Retail $6.99 sale $3.48
Fierce Towers from Nickel Buddy
Control the field to stop the invaders by using your unique towers for defense!
Retail $4.99 sale $2.50
BerryBuzz 2.1 from Bellshare GmbH
The essential alert tool for every BlackBerry. Customize LED colors and audible reminders for E-mail/SMS/MMS/BBM/Facebook/Calendar/Tasks/Missed Phone Calls/Coverage Indicator and more…
Retail $5.95 sale $2.98
Calx – Mord from Calx Design
A clear and bright theme with dock, “today” area, and a slot for a weather app.
Retail $4.99 sale $2.48
BerryWeather from Bellshare GmbH
The essential weather application for your BlackBerry. See your weather in style.
Retail $9.95 sale $4.98
MemoryUp Pro from eMobiStudio
MemoryUp Pro is a powerful BlackBerry RAM boosting tool and Java virtual machine (JVM) management application specially designed for BlackBerry users.
Retail $16.99 sale $8.50
AddOnis from Twinkler Software
The All-In-One Super Utility
Retail $9.95 sale $4.98
QuickLaunch from NikkiSoft
App Shortcuts, Bluetooth Toggle, Memory Cleaner, Weather, Email, Stay Lit, Music, Vids, Pics, Device Info, Camera, App Switcher and much more from a scrollable popup menu from any screen!
Retail $4.99 sale $2.98
SmrtGuard for BlackBerry – Yearly Servcie by SHAPE Services
Secure your BlackBerry smartphone and data with OTA backup/restore and remote tracking and remote data wiping
Retail $44.99 sale $22.50
IM+ from SHAPE Services
Chat in AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, MySpaceIM, Facebook & Skype, no cost per message! Now with Twitter support! #1 multi-service mobile instant messenger!
Retail $39.95 sale price $19.98
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