Fring’s two-way iPhone video calls (photos) See Gallery See all photos LAS VEGAS–It wasn’t too long ago that VoIP calling and chat app Fring became imbued with the ability to make video calls on iPhone over 3G and Wi-Fi. There was one major problem with that version (the current version, in fact) of Fring for …
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There’s no shortage of e-mail utilities for BlackBerry phones, and a new one entered the market this week. Like Gwabbit (review) and Xobni, Bccthis began as an Outlook add-on and migrated to the next most popular intersection of business users–the BlackBerry. At CTIA, we got a hands-on demo of the free Bccthis for BlackBerry. Bccthis adds a private message on …
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If you’re Yahoo, looking at a landscape where Google Search and Microsoft’s Bing app pretty much have search sewn up, how do you get noticed? You try something a little eccentric. The free Yahoo Sketch-a-Search app does what the name implies, letting your fingertip inscribe a shape on the map that will become your searching area. Maybe you want to …
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LAS VEGAS–Android and BlackBerry users envious of the new “bump” feature in PayPal’s iPhone app should sit tight. Versions for their platforms are coming soon. PayPal’s slick new feature lets virtual money change virtual hands when two iPhones are tapped together (gently, now). The integration of Bump, which has heretofore let users exchange social information on Android phones and the …
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Skype Mobile will arrive on select Android and BlackBerry phones this Thursday. Skype Back in February, we read between the lines of a joint Skype and Verizon announcement to deduce that a much-coveted Skype app for BlackBerry was in the works. On Tuesday at CTIA 2010, the two companies took the podium again with a hard release date to share. …
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Just to get it out of the way, Mozilla had no official news to share at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas. That didn’t stop us from catching up with Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s vice president of mobile, to lay a finger on the pulse of Firefox’s browser for mobile phones. (After all, why should Opera have all the fun?) Mozilla continues …
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We admit it: when we first heard that Opera was creating a browser for iPhone, we wondered if the browser company was bluffing to prove a point, namely, to pressure Apple into accepting a browser to compete with Safari. Yet Opera followed through on Tuesday, submitting Opera Mini 5 to the iPhone App Store. Before Opera submitted, we got a …
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Google’s default browser is just fine to get you started on your new Android smartphone. It’s got some Grade-A tools, but style-wise it’s a little bland and we have a bone to pick with its so-called tabbed browsing. Thanks to a bustling Android Market, you have options when it comes to mobile browsing experiences. We present you with three alternatives …
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There’s something to be said for instant gratification, and if you’re the sort who wants to know where you are without pausing to open a map app, one of the handful of changes to Google Maps for Android (version 4.1) has your name on it. To turn your wallpaper into a live, real-time map that tracks your location, press and …
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Earlier this week, Opera Software released Opera Mini 5 beta for Android, a vast improvement to the version 4.2 browser that had previously been available for Android. Opera Mini 5 beta isn’t new to the scene–it’s been out for some months on Java phones, BlackBerry, and interestingly, it just hopped on board Windows phones. In this First Look video, we …
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