Archive : Mobile

It’s been rumoured that iPhone 3.0 will have TV and Film Direct Downloads straight to the iPhone, similar to the iTunes desktop service. This news comes from Open Salon, where you can see screenshots of the iTunes iPhone app going through the motions of trying to download a movie. We at Sporkings are very interested in iPhone app development and as such have iPhone 3.0 already running, we noticed [...]

It looks like the rumours will indeed be confirmed true. According to the Guardian, o2 will be releasing the new Palm Pre by the end of the year. This means o2 outdid both Orange and Vodafone with this all-important exclusivity deal, which is surprising as Vodafone has a history with Palm, having been loyal to the Palm Treo Pro for the last few years. The American system of mobile phone network exclusivity [...]

Pictures of RIM’s new yet-to-be-released version of the Blackberry Storm 2 have been leaked onto the Internet. What we can gather from the pictures so far is that Surepress has been superseded with Truepress, which will surely please many Blackberry fans. Tactile buttons have been replaced by much cooler touch-style buttons. The 3.2mp camera remains in place, but we can see that WiFi has been [...]

[UPDATE] You can view an updated version of this thread here. So iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 is out … but before you go and upgrade, you may want to read on. MMS and Tethering are built into the current betas of OS 3.0, and we have discovered how to access them. Download the appropriate ipcc file for your operator; UK – o2 USA – AT&T USA – T-Mobile CA – Fido Open iTunes, [...]

Inspired by my article on überBusy, entitled 6 Reasons TwitterFon Is Better than Twitterrific which attracted the attention of Ged at the Iconfactory, who claims they are to be preparing for a major release, I started to think about what I would like to see in the next iPhone App, outside of the functionality that is already present in TwitterFon. Difficult question no doubt and technically [...]