John Gruber is a well known advocate of apple’s much loved iOS platform, some even say fan boy. No matter what you call him, his thoughts in the mobile world carries a great deal of weight. John spoke about his impressions with Windows Phone 7 on his Podcast. Much to everyone’s surprise, he had very … Read more
If you have Android and know what Wolfram Alpha is get ready to part with $2 since the app is now available for Android users (1.6 and higher) and it even includes voice search. “The app puts Wolfram|Alpha’s growing repository of curated data, including over ten trillion data elements, and its library of tens of … Read more
Here’s a Google Voice application for Windows Phone 7 that we can see on video. And from the looks of it, it’s pretty full featured. The developer states that he’s working on push and multiple logins but otherwise this app is going to be ready when you are. Here’s the video:
Ok let’s go through some new games/apps that appeared for Windows Phone 7 today. And let’s start with bouncing cows to get them across a river. Yeah, you heard me. It actually looks fun but I hope that there are levels so the game progresses (like a wolf falls and you don’t want to save … Read more
If you’re looking to get a USB data card for AT&T then make sure you get one of these guys. AT&T has announced the release of both an LTE and HSPA+ device. Remember, that this is a piece of hardware that (assuming you don’t break or lose it) you’ll likely keep for a while so … Read more
Cnet was at CTIA today and received a private hands on tour of the streaming music apps that will be available at launch for Windows Phone 7. Slacker will not permit offline caching (so you need to be connected to play) and the apps are otherwise said to be similar to other platforms except they … Read more
I saw the press release and just kept doing a double take. Yup, that’s a full QWERTY keyboard right there and it’s not sliding out. I sort of appreciate it after seeing such an extreme move away from physical keyboards. So what does it offer? 3.1” screen; 1ghz processor; 4gb memory (2gb internal, 2gb removable) … Read more
Popular Mechanic gives out awards for cell phones? Go figure. Anyway, today they’ve announced that a (there’s more than one winner for different categories) Breakthrough Award was given to the HTC EVO. “Breakthrough Awards recognizing the innovators and products poised to change the world in the fields of technology, medicine, aviation, environmental engineering and more. … Read more
We’ve seen a trailer for this in the past, but how about some actual gameplay on a real device? Yes, it’s a tower defense style game, but you can view the screen from any angle – whether you be at ground level or look from above, just pinch to zoom and move and build towers. … Read more
Hot off of the update wire. The Google Mobile App has been updated to add Google’s Goggles functionality. Now it requires an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 to use because of the auto focus camera. Now you may be asking just what is Google Goggles. Well you open up the app and click on the … Read more
Sometimes pictures say it all: Now these elements can be view as unrelated events (IE lost market share because of the EU’s antitrust actions for example). But I’ll leave it to you. Is this the start of a trend or a short term anomaly as MS retools its consumer lineup?
We know the WP7 minimum specs, and assuming that’s all this phone has, I still like the looks of it a lot. Something about it’s squareness oddly draws me in plus the super-black blacks. Tell me if I’m crazy. Here’s a video of it: OK buddy, now swim over to America… via PocketNow