Shoot 1Up Ported to Windows Phone 7

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Man this whole XBox XNA = Windows Phone 7 thing will never get old Mommy’s Best Games has posted a YouTube video showing a smoke test of the XBox game Shoot 1UP in the WP7 emulator. It’s a classic space shooter like Raiden. Here’s the smoke test: Here’s what the game looks like on Xbox … Read more

AT&T: You Lie!

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Got a fresh anecdote for you. It involves AT&T and failure. Ready? All right so I found myself in midtown Manhattan today around 4pm needing to make a call real bad, a call that had dropped a half hour earlier, as it was business-related, you dig? I had a full array of bars yet there … Read more

iPhone 4 hands on.. or, how I drank the Kool-Aid, and lived to tell it

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Yep.  It’s here.  The new ‘Jesus phone’.  The 4th Generation iPhone from Apple.  I tossed in a few bucks on a pre-order at BestBuy, and then picked it up bright and early on Thursday morning, spending about 10-15 minutes on the entire affair (pre-order included).   This is the first non-HTC phone I’ve owned in a very long time, and I couldn’t pass it up.  I was finally upgradable at a time that the iphone was getting a new version.  Something that had never happened before for me (since I’m a phone whore and – believe it or not – have already chosen my next phone, which will be here next MONTH) and I planned on taking advantage of this fact.

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LG Ally Camera

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Ok, so today we’ll take a look at another camera, this one is on the Verizon Wireless LG Ally. it’s an Android 2.1 phone with a 3.2MP camera with autofocus and flash. The LG Ally features a nice 3.2” touch screen and a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard with number line to make typing that much easier. It’s not  a bad phone overall, I gave it a 9 out of 10 total score. I did run into some issues with it slowing down for odd reasons, and the the built in speaker isn’t that great along with the fact that it’s rather large and kinda clunky phone really. On the bright side though it has a decent battery life, the keyboard is excellent and of course call quality it very good as well. I did play some games on it, and they ran and looked just beautiful on this phone, even like 3d racing games with everything just moving fast, the phone handled them well. Anyway we’re here to take a brief look at the camera itself so let’s just jump into it..

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Towers of Hanoi For Windows Phone 7

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If you don’t recall, Towers of Hanoi is a puzzle game where you need to move the entire stack in order to the third spot and when using the other spots you can only put smaller discs on top of larger ones. In fact, it’s available for WM 6.5 for some time. Well in comes … Read more

Verizon: Get your Android terminology straight for your customer’s sake.

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Hello everyone.  This will be an Adventures at Best Buy kind of thing for you.  Guy calls in (cause I answer phones for the entire store) and says “Do you guys have the new Droid?”  So I assumed what every English speaking person does when the term “new” is used and default to the most recent … Read more

WP7 is Microsoft’s Union Station

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  Every 7 seconds a Windows 7 license is sold.  23 Million Paid Subscribers to Xbox Live.  96% of Netbooks sold today have Windows as their OS.  73% of the Enterprise Server Market share.  360 Million Hotmail users (Gmail has 173 by comparison).  299 Million Live Messenger IM users (more than Skype and AOL).  Take … Read more

Pantech Breeze II Camera

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Ok, so let’s take a look at the 1.3mp camera of the Pantech BreEZe II. The phone itself isn’t bad, it’s for AT&T and it’s one of you basic type phones and it’s a flip phone. I get a lot of phones and I thought making a small series of these types of things, I mean taking a look at just the cameras on the phones.. So here we go.. These aren’t meant to be huge in-depth articles, but just more of a quick look at the interface and some sample pictures.

Here’s some info about the phone:

A classic just gets better with age. Pantechs breEZe II is faster and gives users flexibility to browse the Web or manage email in addition to making calls and sending messages, thanks to AT&T’s high-speed 3G network. The front cover has three lighted indicators to quickly let you know if you have a new text, voice mail, have missed a call, or are running low on battery. As with the original breEZe, ease of use is key. Unique quick call keys make it EZ to access numbers you use most. The bright display, streamlined menus, and large keys are EZ to read. Use the Say a Command feature to make calls, address text messages, and look up contacts without scrolling through menus.

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Consumer Reports: First Look: The iPhone 4 exceeds even its high expectations

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I think we all know who Consumer Reports is and they sent this to me about the new iPhone 4, it’s basically their first impressions of it.. Good read for sure.. What’s below isn’t exactly the whole article, hit the link a the very bottom for the whole thing including video… There’s two links actually at the bottom, one is directly to the article and other is to their other iPhone related things. So if you want to know more about what Consumer Reports thinks of the iPhone hit the links…

“The iPhone 4 appears to offer an exception to the rule that successful franchises typically run out of excitement and creativity after several sequels. Based on the first few hours of using this fourth-generation Apple smart phone, it’s the best iPhone yet.

That said, the utility of its most dazzling innovations are somewhat limited, at least for the time being. Also, many of its other improvements derive from a new operating system that’s available free for most older iPhones, too.

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Samsung’s First Android-Powered Mobile Phone for U.S. Cellular Customers is Called the Acclaim

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Yes it’s for US cellular and it’s called the Acclaim… Samsung seems to have been busy this week with four phones being announced, I’ve got three of them on my desk right now actually!

Anyway, here’s the PR for the Acclaim:

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No.1 mobile phone provider in the U.S., and U.S. Cellular, today announced the availability of the Samsung Acclaim (SCH-r880). The Acclaim is equipped with a 3.2-inch touch screen, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and innovative 2.1 Android™ platform with Google mobile services.

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