Archive for the ‘Mobile Software’ Category
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
It’s a relatively quiet period for the mobile world. CTIA in Las Vegas is over, with few major announcements. We are still waiting for the Palm Pre to come out, and right now iPhone speculations are in overdrive. We won’t know for sure about the next generation iPhone until at least Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in June. In the meantime, we have heard rumours of faster wireless (802.11n, maybe HSPA), Macbook-style unibody casing, better camera (3 or 5 megapixels) and more memory (32GB).
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
It’s an interesting time for Apple. They’ve sold over 30 million units of the iPhone and iPod touch combined. They have also had 800 million applications downloaded from the App Store. This is mighty impressive considering the entire iPhone/touch platform is only about 2 years old. Lately several challengers have emerged, the most compelling of which is Palm’s Pre with their webOS. Well, Apple hasn’t sat still. Yesterday, they had a preview of their latest iPhone 3.0 software. And yes, they did answer (almost) all prayers.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
One of the most talked-about developments this week is the updated Google application for iPhone. The Google app previously did not do much more than the mobile search, except adding the ability to search through your iPhone contacts list. The new update has a new key feature : Voice Search.
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
When firmware 2.0 came around for the iPhone, it wasn’t such an easy decision for me or most of my colleagues to upgrade. Part of the reason was that we would lose the ability to send and receive MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) via a jailbroken app called SwirlyMMS.
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