Apple’s forthcoming iOS 4 will be ready to update iPhones and iPod Touches in two weeks. It will turbocharge existing iPhones without a doubt, but how does the new operating system stack up to Android’s 2.2 (Froyo) release? It’s true that Apple’s iOS 4 is a far more dramatic update from iPhone OS 3.0 than …
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As time ticked on in Steve Jobs’ keynote at Monday’s WWDC conference, we kept waiting for the Apple chief to showcase the iPhone 4’s front-facing camera. When he finally did, it wasn’t a Skype video conferencing app that many expected, but Apple’s own software, called FaceTime. FaceTime is built into the version 4 operating system that Apple is now calling …
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Since Apple gave us a sneak peek back in April of what’s new on the iPhone’s latest OS, CEO Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote speech (live blog) failed to blow us away. However, Jobs did claim 1,500 incremental improvements to the new operating system, including a new name: iOS 4. New name: Apple is calling its new OS “iOS 4,” since …
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iPhone 4: Photos! +4 more See all photos What’s new in the iPhone 4? A flatter, squarer, far more waifish form factor, front-facing camera, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash–the list goes on. As delicious as they are, reading specs pales in comparison to getting the iPhone 4 in hand. Here are bonafide shots of Apple’s latest smartphone, set to hit …
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The DoubleTwist Player for Android that debuted in the Android Market this week is a good-looking alternative to Android’s default media player. The Android app is the mobile arm of the DoubleTwist media library for Windows and Mac, itself an iTunes alternative focused on managing media for a variety of smartphone platforms. As such, the mobile player is tasked with …
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Quickoffice and Documents To Go have long been in lock-step as the productivity apps to beat on the iPhone. As soon as the feature set of one pulls ahead, the other is sure to leapfrog its way ahead–for a while, anyway. A few hours after Data Viz updated its Documents To Go app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, …
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Android owners who use the IM and VoiP app Fring on their smartphones will now be able to place two-way video calls like their iPhone and Symbian S60 counterparts. A Thursday update to Fring for Android 2.1 adds free video chatting as a method for reaching out. You’ll recognize it by the blue icon of a camcorder now sitting alongside …
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Updated: 5/27/2010 at 10:10am PT with a few more details that redirect some of our speculation. CNET/CBS Interactive Well, this is interesting. On Wednesday, Mozilla gave us a heads-up that it was releasing an iPhone app that would “let Firefox users open their favorite Web sites on their iPhones.” We assumed this mystery app would be similar to the Opera …
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If you’re the kind of person who likes to trace your own footprints, you may be interested in the new experimental feature that Google introduced Wednesday for mobile phones. When you opt into the Latitude location feature on Google Maps and enable Location History, you’ll find a brand-new beta dashboard view that doesn’t just report your meanderings in a linear, …
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Vlingo‘s voice search app has long had a strong presence on BlackBerry and iPhone. Now it’s laying claim to Android phones, too. While many smartphones have some measure of voice commands baked in, Vlingo’s premium offering ($9.99) adds the capability to launch apps, update your Twitter status, and send e-mail and text messages when you bark orders at it. (We’d …
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