How many times have you found yourself frustrated by an iPad game’s touch-screen controls? My personal answer: lots. Take the awesome sci-fi/horror shooter Dead Space. As I noted in my review, “If there’s a problem with Dead Space, it’s the controls. They’re about as good as they can be, but I usually end up fighting …
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The Samsung Suede is attuned to music, that we know. In fact, its bundling with Cricket Wireless’ Muve Music service is what made us nominate it as a Best of CES contender, and makes the Suede one of the best music phones around. In terms of offering all-inclusive music for a great monthly deal, the Suede and Muve Music deliver. …
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In case you haven’t heard, tonight is the start of the second annual “National Day of Unplugging”–a grassroots effort to get people to shut off our precious mobile devices, if only for a day. The 2-year-old project encourages all of us iPhone addicts and CrackBerry enthusiasts to turn off our cell phones for 24 hours in an effort to reconnect …
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BlackBerry Messenger on an iPhone or Android handset? Unthinkable! Yet that’s what one online report is claiming, with the suggestion that Research In Motion wants to take its BBM messaging app to rival smart phones to beat off competition from services like WhatsApp and Kik Messenger. Boy Genius Report published the rumour last night, citing “multiple trusted sources”. It was …
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Motorola has decided to pull back on plans to update its Charm (T-Mobile) and Flipout (AT&T) handsets with Android 2.2 Froyo. Of course, that means that the smartphones, which were released with Android 2.1 back in the fall, will remain on Eclair indefinitely. The handsets join a growing list of Motorola phones being left behind on older versions of Android. …
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Apple’s iPad 2 is thinner, lighter, and faster than the original, but is it different enough from last year’s model to entice new customers? That’s the big question. Apple sold more than 15 million iPads in 2010. But this week, when Apple introduced the new iPad 2, some people are disappointed that latest version was still missing key features and …
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Got Twitter’s official app for iPhone or iPad? If so, there’s a new update to download that introduces a bunch of new features, including a redesigned tweet screen, a tool to find people to follow based on your phone contacts, and a swipeable ‘Quick Bar’ to show currently trending topics at the top of your homescreen. Twitter says its iPhone …
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Phew! We picked a good week to pick up our semiweekly blogs on the happenings at the Federal Communications Commission. The agency certified a hefty load of big-name devices this week, including the iPad 2 and the HTC Merge. The feds also gave the thumbs up to many of the gadgets we saw last month at Mobile World Congress, including …
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS has been justifiably praised for being designed for a phone from the ground-up, rather than squashed down from a computer. Now the company is reportedly looking to do the same thing for tablets, but the first devices are not expected to go on sale until mid-2012. Bloomberg has the report, citing “people with knowledge of …
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Microsoft has resumed pushing out its first Windows Phone 7 update to Samsung Omnia 7 handsets, having squashed the bug that laid waste to a number of the phones last month, when their owners tried to install the patch. “Starting today, we plan to resume rolling out the February update to Samsung phones,” writes Microsoft’s Michael Stroh on the official …
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Handmark iPhone users now have another Twitter app to consider. Developed by Handmark, TweetCaster offers a free ad-supported version and a non-ad $4.99 professional version. Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users, the app made its debut in the App Store this week following its one-year anniversary in the Android Market. Opening the app initially displays a screen where …
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Just how many subscribers have ditched AT&T since the carrier lost its exclusive hold on the iPhone to Verizon? AT&T is mum on specific numbers, but a top executive has offered this hazy assessment: the company isn’t surprised by the level of defections. Speaking yesterday at a Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco, Ralph de la Vega, head of …
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In the wake of the iPad 2 announcement, how can Android tablet manufacturers compete? Antuan gets closer to winning his Android form factor bet with Justin and the world’s most exclusive messaging platform may be coming to Android OS. All that and more on this week’s episode of Android Atlas Weekly. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 38: Xoom and Doom …
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I’ve always been a fan of the Fight Night series of console games, so I couldn’t wait to strap on the virtual mitts for EA’s new Fight Night Champion for iPhone. After going a few rounds with Ali, Tyson, and 18 other boxing legends, I can safely say this: the game lives up to the Fight Night name. Which is …
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Looking to get your hands on an HTC Desire S, Wildfire S or ChaCha on a friendly unlimited-data tariff? Three has confirmed when it expects to start selling all three Android smart phones here in the UK. On its Coming Soon page, the operator says it will start selling the Desire S in April, the Wildfire S in May and …
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