Dont put an ‘upgrade’ button in your iOS app or you will get sued Yes, this is so messed up that it has to go into the WTF? file and be added to the Rant list. What a clue that the current patent system is woefully behind the times and relies on an approval system designed by 5th graders? Have a look at this story from PCMag.com. Seems that… Read More
AppHub fails. Why should I build Windows mobile again? Caution! Arrgg.. This will be a total rant post. <rant> WTF Microsoft?? I was asked to build a simple application for windows mobile 7. No prob. Its been out long enough that I would think all the bugs are out. Its a simple enough app, whip this guy out in 2 weeks top. Right.. So… Read More
Auto edit your movie on your phone, as your filming! This is a really good idea and I’m kind of surprised no has done this yet. The basic premise is to detect drastic scene changes in your video and mark that change as a break or a chapter in the over all video. Then you would have a list of breaks, replete with thumbnails, that… Read More
Should I develop for Apple iOS or Android? (Note: this post is a living document) As recently as 6 months ago, this would be a silly question. The general rule is that you always build on Apples iOS first then Android second, then other OS’s later. Assuming you have the skills or people to choose what to build for, the common thinking is… Read More
The WebOS TouchPad is Great! And I dont Care! I want an iPad2 We have the first look at the HP TouchPad running WebOS and from what I heard (no I was not there) it’s great! Snappy! Well designed! Great Multitasking! Works seamlessly with the new Pre 3 and other WebOS phones! … I dont care. We not ‘ME’; I’m actually dieing to get my hands on one… Read More
Ebay is getting ready for lots of buying and selling of iPhones This is pretty interesting. Ebay has a new feature to make buying and seeing of used (and new ) iPhone easier. You basically select the phone you want to buy its condition, and the carrier and you can buy if someone has placed a advert for that phone. Now what is different is the filtering… Read More
T-Mobile to offer free phone on the 10th and 11th. Talk about an epic day. Seems this coming weekend will be a battle between not Only AT&T (to stop the bleeding) Verizon to speed it up, but also T-Mobile to get in to some of the blood bath as well. Some of the details are not clear, like do you have to pay first and… Read More
GPS based security for your iphone, Smartphone So many press releases before MacWorld. This is pretty cool. You can secure your phone to only allow access behind a firewall if the phone is at pre approved locations. Nice. Check out the release.. Mobile Active Defense (M.A.D. Partners, LLC) announces the release of its patent-pending mobile firewall and contents filtering mechanisms that enforce… Read More
How to connect, tether, your ipad to your iphone Just got an iPad eh? But did not get the 3G version? Thats ok right? Just connect to WIFI. But if you do have has WIFI when your travel? Well, there’s an iPhone app for that. Jailbroken of course. I wrote about using GPS on your ipad a few months back. To use GPS you… Read More
Verizon is playing the same games as AT&T with exclusivity. Apple gets richer Verizon is looking to have an exclusive deal with Apple just as AT&T does. From a business perspective, this is pretty smart for Verizon because they can claim the first 4G phone. Verizon is feeling the slip on Android and has little faith in Blackberry to really content with iphone popularity.… Read More
The Palm Pre is dead. Your Epic Failure is now Complete So today Sprint has taken the Pre out of the store. Yes you can still find them in the Verizon store, but for $50 and $30 respectively with a two year plan. Not exactly getting the big demand. And what killed the Pre? Not the OS. The WebOS is actually pretty good and HP paid BIG bucks for it thinking it could be used for tablets, or slates. The hardware was not all that great, but not that bad either. No what killed it is no one wants to write apps for it.… Read More
3 New Windows Phone 7 OS phones come out via RadioShack Ok, so we know Windows is going to push Phone 7 and looks like RadioShack is on board pushing the Samsung Focus, HTC, HD7 and the LG Quantum. The Samsung and the LG are running AT&T while the HTC is running T-Mobile. Its far to early to know about rooting the phone to swap cards… Read More
Low sales of the Windows Phone 7 does not mean much We all saw the report yesterday that windows phone 7 sales on release day were not that great. around 45,000 of not that great. But it does not really matter. When I was looking at the phone I was not too impressed. And in fact amused that it still, 30 days before launch, had bugs… Read More
The biggest working iphone EVER!! Iphone Table! Its called the iphone Table (table.connect), pretty logical, and basically you connect your iphone to a cable and (for now) pull up a dedicated app and them boom! You have your iphone on this monster table! And the table responds to touch. … Read More
Free CES application fees to 3 mobile app developers Got a cool iphone / Android / Palm / Windows / Apple Newton app? Have a cool idea for an app but need a reason to get off your rear and finish it? Well check this out.. FREE ENTRY FOR 3 DEVELOPERS As of today we just launched a Twitter competition offering waived application fees to 3 talented… Read More
Microsoft to spend $1B to pimp Kinect and Mobile 7, so where is my free phone? $1 Billions Dollars!!! Great, so where is my phone? This really surprised me that there is not a whole stream of developer phones out there yet to coincide with the push to get developers to start building for the windows 7 mobile platform. Google put out free phone and people started messing with it right… Read More
Updating the samsung 8500l wave phone, not likely for the US I got the new samsung 8500 wave phone running the bada OS a few months back and have been playing with it off and on. Now that the galaxy s is out, I feel like I have been given an early release. And I like the phone. The screen is just as great as advertised,… Read More
MicroSoft Kin is dead to no surprise, not even MS The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it. It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone. You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at MS mobile knew this was… Read More
Samsung Wave given out at the Samsung dev conference Today we got the Samsung wave test unit phone using the bada OS. So far, the phone OS worked pretty well, very responsive touch screen. Now there are more things I still need to check more things out, but not bad, not bad at all. However, the GPS does not work right off. Took a… Read More
Want 4G speed iphone or iPad? Now you can use the iphone iPad on Sprint The news has already swept across the interwebs a few days back, but I only just now started looking into it. So sprint has this device that will let you connect your iphone or iPad to the Sprint 4G network without jailbreaking your iphone. Yea, no jailbreak this time. 🙂 So how does it work?… Read More