Mobile 'muting' is on.
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Earlier this month, Google ingratiated itself with mobile users by refurbishing Gmail.com for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android devices. On Wednesday, Google followed up its initial redo with a small new feature that helps trim fat–or rather, keep …
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Make your home screen all business.
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I’m no cheerleader for most Windows Mobile interfaces, and that goes double for phones like the Samsung Omnia, with its widgety sidebar of management tools that rubs me the wrong way. A decently designed theme is typically …
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Everybody chuckled when Tellme, a mobile voice company snapped up by Microsoft almost two years ago, released its smartphone voice search application for BlackBerry, instead of for Windows Mobile. Thanks to a new native application that will be released on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones this coming fall, the ribbing …
Originally posted at The Download Blog
The latest version of Facebook for BlackBerry released earlier this week with a handful of practical, if not flashy, feature enhancements to partially merge your Facebook profile pictures with your BlackBerry address book, …
Originally posted at The Download Blog
It seems that the fellas over at The Boy Genius Report got their hands on leaked screenshots of an alpha version of Skyfire’s mobile browser for BlackBerry. Their source has proclaimed it “already being the best BlackBerry browser ever.”
The BlackBerry version of Skyfire looks a lot like the …
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Updated: April 24, 2009, at 1:10 p.m. PT with a comment from Google.
Last week Google tantalized Android developers with an early version of its software developer kit for Android 1.5, the upcoming version of its mobile operating system. Included with it is a laundry list of …
Originally posted at News - Wireless
With products like the Outlook add-on Xobni relying on Facebook to give Outlook contacts a Facebook face to go with the name, it was only a matter of time before a mobile app started doing the same.
(Credit: Research in Motion)On Tuesday, RIM released the latest edition of Facebook for BlackBerry, …
Originally posted at News - Wireless
385 development hours, 3.5 median hours of sleep per night, 265 pounds of food, and roughly 4,000 cups of coffee. That’s what it took for five teams to compete in last week’s Microsoft’s Mobile Incubation Week, an intense five-day hustle to create the best Windows Mobile application, from concept to finished product.
In the dark auditorium at Microsoft’s modest Mountain View offices last Friday, the breakneck development rate showed. Two bleary-eyed developers stepped onto a dark stage before a smattering of peers, press, and judges to present their showing: a Windows Mobile version of Brightkite, a location-based social network that lets you create a photo journal of your day that friends can track.
Gokivo Navigator will feature turn-by-turn directions and a Facebook tie-in.
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While Brightkite founder Martin May and his co-developer, Brady Becker, were the only team to take the stage without a finished application to demo, their mobile social networking application has two distinct real-world advantages over most of the other competitors–Brightkite’s established user base and existing applications for iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry, and the Web. All that’s missing from the Brightkite lineup, May freely admitted, is a Windows Mobile app–even more essentially, the know-how to develop for Windows Mobile. Although Brightkite’s Windows Mobile presentation consisted largely of prototype slides, the team is hoping they’ll have a Windows Mobile client ready by the time Microsoft launches its Marketplace for Windows Mobile in the second half of 2009.
The cohort
Brightkite wasn’t the only established company in the field. Networks in Motion, the brawn behind Verizon’s VZ Navigator, AAA Mobile, and Yellowpages.com, was also there, introducing a first peek at Gokivo Navigator for Windows Mobile, its first NIM-branded turn-by-turn navigator that is already available for a subscription fee on AT&T phones, including the BlackBerry Bold.
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Originally posted at The Download Blog
Believe it or not, the way to help us get out of this recession is to shop as often as you can manage. And Amazon just made it even easier for you to do that, if you have a BlackBerry.
(Credit: Amazon)Amazon’s iPhone app launched in December, and …
Originally posted at Crave
Mobile browsing was one hot trend at CTIA 2009, and will continue to gain both attention and momentum as the technology develops. In this First Look video, take a peek at Bolt mobile browser, …
Originally posted at The Download Blog