Storm Chasers Video Using The Samsung Omnia II

Saw this on Samsung Mobile’s Twitter and thought it was a pretty cool video for a very cool device. The Samsung Omnia II for Verizon sports a beautiful 480×800 AMOLED screen, 800mhz processor, 5mp Camera, 720x480px video capture, 8GB of internal storage, and a microSD Card Slot. And while many people are left underwhelmed with … Read more

Reprogram Your Spouse…The App

What happens when Bbonzz and Herm get together? They try to take over your mind!:) MindRemote is a remote control for your phone. Just point it at the person who needs a little change and voila. So guys, you can finally get a beer, some home cooking, a message or a striptease with the press … Read more

Caller ID Even When Blocked or Unknown

As reported by wmpoweruser.com, “TrueCaller is an application that makes it possible to know who is calling you, even if that person is not in your phone book. The video at wmpoweruser shows it in action.  The software supports 25 countries and can take around 2-3 rings to look up the information about a caller … Read more

2010 Is The Power Revolution

There was a subtheme to this years CES event. With everyone focusing on devices there’s a greater need to keep them powered and two noteworthy bits of news were shown. The first involves charging your devices without plugging it in and the second doesn’t even need a wall outlet to keep you going. The first … Read more

Buzzword Baby…Now With More Buzz Words

If you’ll recall, the Auri Group released Buzzword Baby a short while ago on Marketplace. Every time you press the softkey you get a new buzzword and thus another opportunity to show off how much you know (little do they know your secret weapon). Except now you get 50% more buzzwords and it’s still the … Read more

WM Wins The Browser Battle

What happens if you pits the browsers on the iPhone 3Gs, HTC HD2, Droid, Nokia N900, Nokia N97, Palm Pre and the Blackberry Storm 2? Well Windows Mobile comes out on top…but we all knew it was the best:) AreaMobile states (in slightly broken translated text) “Because of the excellent speed, the completely fluent scrolling … Read more

TouchXperience Is Just A Month Away

For those of you who have used TouchXperience in the past you’ve been awaiting a major overhaul. Well the developer sent out an email today confirming that it’s just one month off from a public release. He notes “There were a lot of changes and improvements since last update, and above all a fresh new … Read more

Galatea Game Engine Previewed On Android

We’ve talked about the Galatea game engine in the past and its ability to produce some shockingly high frame rates in 3D as well as a preview of a few games from the guys behind it (which received a bronze medal from Samsung for its development). Well as development of the engine continues there’s some … Read more

Smartphones Council: Roundup #2

Smartphones-Council

Council meeting number #2 opens up and this week the council reviews Google’s Nexus One, HTC’s Touch HD2, FunkyBall Worlds for iPhone, a bunch of new Windows Mobile applications and more. 

Joining us this week is PocketNow.com with some great stuff directly from CES.

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Wine Sound Ported

Mase1980 has provided us with another little toy. This time it’s a freeware app called Wine Sound that was intended for the Omnia II. It’s a simple app that makes music by tapping the wine glasses so you can just ding away at the wine glasses and  hear them. It runs fine on HTC WVGA … Read more

Palm Introduces 3D Games for webOS

We just let all you all know that OtterBox has just released a new Tandem Series of cases for the Palm Pre and today we have a Press Release from Palm stating that they will be bringing several “graphic intensive game titles to webOS.” Seven 3D games were introduced today in the Palm App Catalog for Palm Pre customers:

  • “Need for Speed™ Undercover” (EA Mobile)
  • “The Sims™ 3” (EA Mobile)
  • “MONOPOLY™” (EA Mobile)
  • “Asphalt 5: Elite Racing” (Gameloft)
  • “Let’s Golf!” (Gameloft)
  • “Glyder 2” (Glu Mobile)
  • “X-Plane” (Laminar Research)

Five other mobile games were also introduced: EA Mobile’s “Tetris®,” “Sudoku,” and “SCRABBLE®,” and Gameloft’s “The Oregon Trail” and “Brain Challenge.”

 

These new games now brings the Palm webOS Catalog to over 1000 applications. Palm also says that a plugin for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to be posted in the coming months for free.

To check out the Full Palm 3D webOS Game Press Release, just jump after the break!

Do you have a Palm Pre or other Palm device and want to help Mobility Digest bring our community the latest Palm news and reviews? Let us know, we are looking for writers in all the different device platforms to spice up the community with different conversation! Let us know or drop me an email if you are interested to:

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