Archive : Mobile

The red carpet has been rolled out by Mplayit to announce the top mobile games in its collection. Mplayit is the maker of the immensely popular Mobile App Catalog that powers Facebook and lets users recommend and rate its games and apps through Twitter and Facebook. Though an official report with the list of winners is expected later, the winners include Tetris, The Sims 3, Wheel of Fortune, Tap Tap [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Palm Pre is by far Palm’s most popular smartphone based on the webOS platform, well ahead of its siblings – Palm Pixi and Palm Treo. The Pre rates very high for being a user friendly phone and the gestures work amazingly well for all taps and swipes on its screen. It offers an easy way to switch apps courtesy the innovative Activity Card System. [...]

Image by cogdogblog via Flickr There’s no doubt that convergence is the future and it’s a matter of time before tripleplay and quadplay services become the norm of our daily lives. For the uninformed, quadplay refers to a mix of Broadband, TV, Home Phone and Mobile Phone Services bundled all together for the subscriber as a single service. The latest company to join the quadplay bandwagon [...]

If like us, you’re too impatient to wait for Google to roll-out the latest Nexus One patch to your phone, you can install the update manually. It’s quite a simple process (you don’t need to ‘root’ your phone), and all the instructions can be found below: Download the official patch from google. Rename the downloaded file to update.zip Plug in phone via USB and Mount the [...]

Image by ToastyKen via Flickr After categorically denying any involvement in the recent cyber attacks on Google, China has signalled its intent to improve its deteriorating relations with Google. In a recent press release, China has indicated that it would welcome Google Android without any restrictions. Google had postponed its smartphone launch in China after its announcement that it would [...]

Image via Wikipedia Apple has just declared its first quarter results for the 2010 fiscal year and they are ‘Very Impressive’ to say the least. Apple sold a phenomenal 8.7 million iPhones, 3.36 million iMacs and 21 million iPods during the last quarter and is now a 50+ Billion Dollar Technology giant. Clearly, the iPhone sales figures are the most impressive of the lot and represent an astonishing [...]

Image via Wikipedia The war is well and truly on for the Numero Uno’ spot in location based gaming – Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown being the contenders for the coveted title. While Foursquare and Gowalla have drawn huge media attention, it’s MyTown which looks to have taken the lead with a mammoth user base of nearly 500,000 users. MyTown traces its origin to another game, Booyah written [...]

If industry analysts are to be believed, Apple might launch the new version of the very popular iPhone series in June this year. Amongst the top of the chart features for the new iPhone would be a 5 Megapixel camera and perhaps a touch sensitive casing similar to Magic Mouse. Though Apple has declined either confirming or denying this speculation, there is no denial that the company is under severe [...]

We all know God is a Geek [shameless plug] but is it high time that God learns to use (and bless) a smartphone? Well that’s what I’d believe if I were to follow the words of David Parrott, a London Clergyman who sought blessings for laptops and smartphones on the altar of 17th century St. Lawrence Jewry Church yesterday. Parrott is adamant to modernize the traditional Plough Monday church service [...]

With so much hype over the new Google phone, does it have a chance of living up to the expectations? I promised myself I wouldn’t use the term “iPhone killer” in this article, but with so people asking this question, I have to at least consider it. The answer is this; Yes, the Google Nexus One offers a huge competition to Apple’s iPhone. Will it destroy it? I doubt that. [...]