With only lack luster update sent out that may or may not have fixed the GPS issue depending on who you ask, Samsung has officially spilled the beans on the Froyo update for their Samsung Galaxy S Devices. Looks like the folks across the pond will go first with a Froyo/Android 2.2 release in early … Read more
Few weeks ago we published a short poll trying to figure out how important is Flash to the readers of MobilityDigest and The Mobile Spoon.
The answers were a bit surprising as I knew many people will say they want it, but the numbers turned out to be really high.
So if you were waiting for Angry Birds to come to Android, your wait is over. Wait, you don’t care that it’s here? Really? Maybe you don’t know that everyone with an iAnything has at least two copies of this game and is mesmerized by it and that even Cut The Rope (which is now … Read more
For those of you who think that fragmentation is a fiction of the blogosphere, let’s take the words of the developer of Tweetdeck. “To date we’ve had 36,427 active beta testers and below you can see the massive variety of phones and Android OS versions everyone is running. We were really shocked to see the … Read more
Is Android making money for Google? On a call today they announced that “Mobile revenue is on an annualized run rate of over $1 billion” and also stated that mobile searches were up 5x from the last several years, mostly from Android phones. These are real numbers and if it continues, then they could literally … Read more
Captioned “The Future of Netbooks…is on Clearance.” I thought these guys were going to sell…well at least not go into clearance right away. Maybe they need some marketing and brand recognition. All I know is that ‘the Future of Netbooks’ is on hold for now…one day we’ll get there… Via Scott Hanselman
Even though the App is freely available from Amazon, Verizon has announced today that it will include Amazon’s Kindle Reading Software on the Motorola Droid 2, Droid x, and the Samsung Fascinate. There is no doubt that these devices are some of the best suited by Verizon to let the user enjoy their Smartphone reading … Read more
So we’ve been yelling at each other, back and forth, here at MobilityDigest.com through our email chaos about the merits of screen size. Doug Smith seems to think that unless you can kill a small child or a full grown adult if he accidentally drops it from his hands, then it doesn’t cut it, having been … Read more
Since releasing a beta two months ago, TweetDeck has gone through 11 versions and now…it’s ready for mass release. With the app you can view and post to Twitter, Facebook,Foursquare and Buzz. We’ve tried to innovate as much as possible to deliver a smooth, clean experience while offering more power than any other social mobile … Read more
A friend of mine sent me an invitation to preview Rdio back in July before it was released to the public. I reluctantly signed up and gave it a perfunctory once-over, thinking yeah, yeah another subscription-based streaming project with social media aspirations to languish in obscurity. Then, just a few days ago I noticed that … Read more
Got FiOS? Got Android, Windows Mobile 6.5 or a Blackberry device? Well Verizon has released FiOS on Demand that lets you buy, rent and watch “Flex View” movies on your phone. The show the following as an example of Flex View: Rent a movie from your mobile phone on your way home and watch it … Read more
Not many people had love for the original G1 like T-Mobile had hope they would, but there was a soft place in my heart for it. Many viewed it as a replacement for the side kick, which it obviously wasn’t. I always viewed it as what it was, Google’s grand entrance to the mobile world. … Read more