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App review: MailTones

12 March 2010, 8:30 am by: Scott Merrill
So you've been using your iPhone for a couple months or years now. You might be addicted to your iPhone. Even if you're not addicted, chances are that you have a stock of applications on which you rely heavily. Without a doubt, the single most useful...

Verizon Nexus One to rock HTC’s Sense UI?

12 March 2010, 7:57 am by: Greg Kumparak
Well, well, well -- lookie here. See that screenshot over there? (Click through for the embiggened version) That's allegedly a screen shot of the Verizon Nexus One spec sheet, right off of Verizon's Intranet Equipment Guide. Now, look a bit closer....

57% of workers use their smartphones in the bathroom. Also, 57% of workers are nasty.

11 March 2010, 2:15 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Are you mysophobic? Oh, you don’t know what “mysophobic” is? It’s a fancy way of saying “germaphobe”, which, according to scientists or linguists or some other group of academics, isn’t actually a word. Go fi...

iPhone OS 4.0 Looms, But When Will We See It?

11 March 2010, 1:25 pm by: MG Siegler
Apple has set the standard that once every year they will release a new version of the iPhone. It stands to reason that this year will be no different, with a new model likely coming sometime this summer. But arguably just as important as Apple's har...

Leaked: HTC Incredible caught in its Verizon colors, specs confirmed

11 March 2010, 12:14 pm by: Greg Kumparak
HTC Incredible shown above with battery cover removed. Verizon’s not going to be too happy about this one. From everyone we’ve spoken to, they really wanted to keep details surrounding the Android-powered HTC Incredible underwraps for a w...

Video: Android hacked in place of Windows Mobile on a Touch Pro2

11 March 2010, 10:55 am by: Greg Kumparak
While a lot of people are pretty pumped about Windows Phone 7, there's are some people who definitely are not: everyone stuck on a now antiquated Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. Microsoft has already confirmed that if your phones running 6.5, it's not go...

Totally Unreal: Palm and Epic Games bring Unreal Engine 3 to webOS

11 March 2010, 10:27 am by: Greg Kumparak
Only yesterday we were drooling over the idea that Epic Games had managed to port their draw-droppingly beautiful game engine, Unreal Engine 3, to the iPhone. As it turns out, the iPhone isn’t alone – it’s heading to webOS, too! Det...

App Store who? Android Market what? Qualcomm’s BREW Platform has Transacted over $3 Billion in App...

11 March 2010, 10:11 am by: Gagan Biyani
It’s been around for 9 years, is on over 1,200 handset models, used by over 65 OEM’s, available in 25 countries, and has over 250M potential users. Yet you may never have heard of it. It is BREW, a mobile operating system developed by Qua...

Motorola to replace Google with Bing on Chinese Android phones

11 March 2010, 5:29 am by: John Biggs
Imagine this with Bing inside. It’s easy if you try. If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Goog...

New technology heats up cell phones when callers get agitated

11 March 2010, 3:24 am by: Serkan Toto
I can't think of too many use cases for this, but they did it: A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo (Japan's MIT if you will) has developed a technology that makes it possible to "physically" convey emotions from cell phone to cell phon...

Verizon officially launches the rugged, text-friendly Casio G’zOne Brigade

10 March 2010, 11:58 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Just yesterday we were saying that Casio’s built-to-be-beaten G’zOne Brigade would be launching today — and sure enough, it just went live on Verizon’s web site. As a rugged phone, it’s flagship feature is that it’...

Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android

10 March 2010, 11:00 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world — but why stop there? Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 for Android into pu...

Your smartphone: future air-quality data point

10 March 2010, 4:00 pm by: Devin Coldewey
You know the good feeling you get when you think about how your computer is running Folding@home all the time, or that you’ve been careful to clip six-pack rings all your life? Well, soon you might have one more warm fuzzy feeling, if this proj...

Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets

10 March 2010, 3:02 pm by: Devin Coldewey
Take a break from reading our hard-hitting news coverage and take a look at these cute little things. Perfect stocking stuffer (I know, a little early) for your favorite app developer and/or iPhone fanatic. What with these things, those Android pillo...

Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap

10 March 2010, 12:57 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Tired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe. Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to developers...

Surprise! HTC Legend pre-orders delivered a bit early

10 March 2010, 12:37 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Handset manufacturers are usually pretty good about holding their tongue about specific release dates until the launch date is a sure thing, so it’s not too often that we see delays in the mobile world. What’s even more rare than a delay,...

Bravo to Epic Games for porting Unreal Engine 3 to the iPhone

10 March 2010, 11:00 am by: Nicholas Deleon
Don't get mad at me—I wanted to go to GDC, but The Man said no. So now we're relying on CNET to bring us word of Epic Games' efforts to bring the Unreal Engine to the iPhone. You may not have even played Unreal for several years, but plenty of...

Casio’s ultra-tough G’zOne Brigade going on sale tomorrow?

10 March 2010, 10:45 am by: Greg Kumparak
WAAAAY back in November, Casio and Verizon showed off the G’zOne Brigade, an ultra-durable clamshell phone with a surprise QWERTY keyboard packed inside. “Push to talk!” they said. “It’s weatherproof!” they said. A...

Sony Ericsson unboxes the Xperia X10, stomps on toes

10 March 2010, 10:12 am by: Greg Kumparak
You know what weirds me right the hell out? Companies doing their own unboxing videos. That’s our job. I realize they’re probably proud of their work and are just itching to show it off, but a new handset getting its first video unboxing...

XNA 4.0 games on Windows Phone 7 Series look awesome (but won’t be for Zune HD)

9 March 2010, 6:27 pm by: Devin Coldewey
A bundle of screenshots just hit the net showing off the latest Direct3D-based mobile games running on a WinPho7 device, adn they look pretty hot. We knew that the Tegra chipset in the Zune HD and likely in several upcoming WinPho handsets (Tegra 2,...

Want to sleep with Android? Now you can.

9 March 2010, 1:00 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Do you love Android? Like, really love Android? So much so that those Android action figures just don’t seem like enough? Well, now there’s a way for you to show the world how much you really care about your favorite OS: by bringing it to...

Video: Samsung explains why their Super AMOLED screen is better than your normal AMOLED screen

9 March 2010, 12:25 pm by: Greg Kumparak
Samsung's pretty proud of their Super AMOLED technology - and why shouldn't they be? With next to no fanfare, they managed to knock out the readability issues that plagued AMOLED handsets any time they were within view of the sun. And if vastly impro...

Sprint Touch Pro 2 to finally get Windows Mobile 6.5 later this month?

9 March 2010, 11:48 am by: Greg Kumparak
Given that the HTC Touch Pro 2 saw upgrades to Windows Mobile 6.5 on just about every other carrier months ago, Sprint Touch Pro 2 owners might be feeling a wee bit rebuffed right now. On the brightside, chances are good that the upgrade is coming ev...

BlackBerry App World bumped up to version 1.1.0.33

9 March 2010, 11:06 am by: Greg Kumparak
If you've been messing with the App World on your favorite BlackBerry device lately only to be plagued by some nasty glitch, you might want to check out the brand-spankin'-new App World update that just went live -- it might have fixed it.

Palm launches PDK beta, brings C and C++ development to webOS

9 March 2010, 10:46 am by: Greg Kumparak
Good news, everyone! We’ve got another acronym for you to remember! Back at CES 2010, Palm announced that they’d be launching a “PDK” at some point in the future – and, well, it’s here, and it’s time to pay s...