Just in time for the appearance of the Verizon iPhone tomorrow, VoIP calling service Skype is updating its iPhone app to include support for the H.264 video format. H.264 is the most widely accepted encoding standard for high-definition video. In addition to boosting image quality, the enhancement means that Skype for iPhone users can place …
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If you’re struggling with languages at home or abroad, the new Google Translate app for iPhone is a faster way to untangle your tongue than the iPhone-optimized Web app that was previously your ticket out of confusion. The app has a handful of main features. First, you can speak into the app (in 15 languages) to translate words and phrases …
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We first glimpsed the Huawei Ideos X5 at CES and declared it a good-looking, midlevel Android phone. It runs the standard version of Android 2.2 (Froyo), which means that it doesn’t have any of the extra interface graphics that manufacturers sometimes add for visual flare and to differentiate their phones from rivals’. That’s sure to please those campaigning to let …
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Not every manufacturer enjoys the instant name recognition of Samsung and Motorola. But that doesn’t mean they don’t produce phones worth owning. We periodically gather up the latest handsets from manufacturers that tend to scoot below the radar. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that HTC was barely a speck on the map. Our latest batch of five cell …
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Who needs a TV remote when you have a smartphone or tablet? Samsung has released an app to the Android Market that turns your Android-powered Samsung smartphone (OS 2.1 or up) or Galaxy Tab tablet into a digital remote–so long as you use it with a compatible TV. The Samsung TV Remote uses Wi-Fi to form a connection with the …
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By now the Verizon iPhone is well-steeped in a potent mystique brewed of anticipation for an additional carrier on one hand and a bitter distaste for AT&T’s coverage shortfalls on the other. Tomorrow, the once-fabled Verizon-powered iPhone will land in the hands of existing Verizon subscribers before opening up to new customers next week. As wildly as the American populace …
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Faster, sexier, more reliable signal. That’s the hype propping up the Apple iPhone 4 for Verizon at the expense of rival carrier AT&T. But is the iPhone really that much better on Verizon than on AT&T? The answer so far: absolutely. To test the phones, CNET Senior Editor Kent German and I traipsed all over San Francisco to conduct our field …
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If you’re familiar with Shazam or SoundHound, then you’re already halfway to understanding IntoNow, a new Silicon Valley startup and iPhone app that launched today. Like the music-tagging apps, the new IntoNow app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch uses an algorithm to pattern-match a TV show’s audio output–its sound–to the right show. Unlike SoundHound and Shazam, chances are that …
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Will the HTC Thunderbolt get simultaneous voice and data? Phandroid Simultaneous voice and data won’t be available on Verizon until this spring, at least that’s the common knowledge shared by the CDMA Development Group. Yet we’ve been hearing rumors over the last several days–from Phandroid and Engadget, for instance–that the Android-powered HTC Thunderbolt will have this functionality on Verizon’s 3G …
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BlackBerry’s first tablet targets business types. Research In Motion RIM has taken a lot of flak from CNET and others for its decision to pair the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with a BlackBerry smartphone (via the BlackBerry Bridge software) to access native e-mail, contacts, and calendar features as well as a 3G data connection. Today, RIM released a video aimed at …
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