Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I love Qik on my N95. I shoot videos fairly often with it, and it's a superb little tool. Today, Qik announced that a version is coming out for the iPhone!
According to Mashable, the alpha version is expected next week, presumably only for jailbroken iPhones. It's assumed that they're making ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Thanks to some sharp eyes at iClarified, it appears that the 2.0 firmware could be coming out on June 27th. Apple's Australian iPod touch page had some text that read "Shop for hundreds of applications made for iPod touch. Available June 27."
The text has been removed, but you can see ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
TomTom has announced that they have a software solution for the 3G iPhone that "runs on the iPhone already", though they haven't given a specific release date.
This could certain cause some headaches at Garmin. Their Nuvifone looks pretty neat, but will reportedly cost $500 with a contract, which suddenly looks ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
There's been a ton of news today about the new iPhone, so I thought I'd try to give a brief summary:
The good
July 11 release
3G, as expected.
GPS. There are already some great looking applications to take advantage of it.
$199 for the 8 gig model, $299 for the 16 gig. They both ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
We thought it would be sometime next month, but the updated firmware for the N95-3 has been released today. Version 20.2.011 brings us:
Demand paging
Flash Lite 3 (in the browser!)
Web Run Time
Idle Screen Nokia Search
"Significant performace improvements"
I've played with it for a few minutes, and I can certainly vouch for the ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
(via Digital Earth Blog)
The Google Earth Blog has a great story today about a Google Earth-like product that is in the works for the iPhone. The company is called Earthscape. They have a desktop product which is in beta that they hope will compete with Google Earth. However, the iPhone ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's amazing how tiny advancements in the iPhone make for big news, but I guess that's how it is.
The latest beta version of the 2.0 firmware apparently now has contact search, a much-requested feature. In addition, there is now a "meeting invite" feature in the calendar.
I still haven't heard if ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
According to the N-Gage Blog, N-Gage has officially gone live! The software is now available to download, and works on the Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95-1, N95 8GB and (according to The Symbian Blog) N95-3.
The current games include:
System Rush: Evolution
Asphalt 3: Street Rules
Brain Challenge
World Series of Poker Pro ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The beta version of Opera Mini 4.1 has been released, with a handful of new features:
50% faster than 4.0
Autocomplete URLs
Save full pages
Download and upload files from within the browser
You can get it at operamini.com/beta
(via AllAboutSymbian)
Posted in Browsers, Software | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.1, along with an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile. In a similar move, Sony officially announced that the XPERIA X1 will be running Windows Mobile 6.1, news which was already assumed but not yet verified.
The X1 will have WM 6.1 behind the scenes, but ...
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