Archive : Mobile

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK, the mobile [...]

If reports from Wall Street Journal are to be believed,Research in Motion (RIM)  could showcase the world its tablet as early as next week, at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. According to earlier rumors the Tablet PC is to be christened BlackPad, the rumors got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The touch screen tablet will measure 9.7 inches, akin to the iPad, and [...]

Google has updated the Gmail app for Android 2.2 Froyo, it now gets the ability to reveal more quoted text in the  email threads and introducing limited support for Priority Inbox. The Gmail app now has a “show quoted text” button,too view older parts of a conversation as needed.  Actions like reply, star, and archive now have a permanent place at the top of the screen, too.

An online report had  claimed that Facebook could be working on a phone of its own to compete in the fiercely competitive and lucrative Smartphone sector. Facebook was prompt is dismissing the report. “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook (Facebook) is not building a phone. Our approach has always been to make phones and apps more social. Current projects include [...]

Napster, the original Big Daddy of music sharing , is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on Apple’s App Store, Napster has joined rivals like Rhapsody, Thumbplay, Rdio and Mog on the Apple App Store. Napster on i-Devices offers 10 million full-length songs for a subscription of $10 a month, and you can even listen to those songs offline. You could create playlists, save songs, albums [...]

Yes, its happening – Apple obviously has buried its hatchet with Google Voice based apps. After allowing GV Connect, a  U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone yesterday GV Mobile + will now make it reappearance on App Store. Sean Kovacs, developer of GV Mobile + confirmed this good news on Twitter that the app is coming soon, and has promised to make it free for the night (EST)  if [...]

Image via CrunchBase Google Voice Apps are back – After getting kicked out  from Apple App Store and getting thoroughly banned from the iPhone last July, Google Voice-related apps are back on App Store. Apple has just approved GV Connect, a  U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone. This development is a definite surprise, because  last month, Google said that nothing had changed [...]

Nokia unveiled Foursquare application for mobile OS Symbian^3 based phones at Nokia World in London yesterday . The mobile app will debut at the revamped Ovi Store as a featured application early next week. Foursquare for Nokia is nicely integrated with Ovi Maps with the style and function similar to the Foursquare apps  on other mobile Operating Systems.

Nokia announced C6 and C7  running Symbian3 handsets at Nokia World event at London.  The Nokia C6-01 features an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology  touted to deliver better outdoor visibility.  The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body. Both handsets can record pixel-heavy 720p [...]

Over 70% of Android based Mobile phones are now running Android Eclair 2.1 or Froyo 2.2 according to a  latest report on fragmentation of its Android platform released by Google. There has recently been a surge in the number of devices running Android 2.2, it’s now running on 28.7% of handsets. The swift leap can be attributed to the wide number of handsets that have been updated to 2.2 Froyo [...]