applications
Kindle for BlackBerry e-reader app now available
Feb 19th
Amazon now add BlackBerrys in the list of Kindle-compatible devices, while reminding us that it works on Mac and iPad versions of the software. The application is a free download for the Americans and offers the same features as the PC and iPhone versions.
There is also a can-app bookstore and create bookmarks and annotations from the perspective of other portable reader Kindle. Better go download and get your reading on your digital readers.
via engadget
Pianist app lets you play piano on iPhone or iPod Touch
Dec 29th
By now you’ve seen, probably the Apple commercial where the man playing a song on a piano that will make the iPhone (or iPod touch, I’m not) so sure. But this man really just an app that needed the ivory tickling as the pianist.
Granted, you need to learn any new to the piano for this application, as the screen play to keep only one octave value of keys. The arrows are presumably so you can travel up and down the keyboard, so you can hit high and low tones. Click to view the source, videos of many popular tunes played on this app.
via techeblog
Two new Android app stores on the way?
Dec 25th
Apparently Motorola will not be the only one to save an alternative to Android. Looks like Sony Ericsson and General Mobile are also planning their own Android stores. Sony Ericsson has already announced that they are accepted, will review applications and games for Android devices.
Meanwhile, General Mobile Storeoid already working on their own Android App Store. How this will affect the Android Market and Apple’s AppStore, we do not know. But competition is good, right? 2010 foresees very interesting.
via ubergizmo
HTC develops own Widgets for its Eris/Hero smartphones
Dec 21st
Handset manufacturer HTC has four widgets they shared in-house developed for the Android operating system. The applications are only with their own hero and Eris HTC Smartphone twins, however. The four low-key applications include a tip calculator, to throw a dice app, a day-to-app history and a battery utility.
The latter two are the only applications that require any form of explanation, with the former users facts about milestones that has happened in recent years on the current date, while the battery is about giving the user detailed information about their state of charge of battery time, the nature and uniform temperature.
It is expected that HTC will release more of its own applications soon, but whether it is compatible with Android phones from other manufacturers is unknown at this time.
via AndroidCentral
Simpsons arcade game from EA for the iPhone
Dec 18th
The last Simpsons game I played was developed on the Wii, two years ago by EA.
EA has now released another Simpsons game based on an older Simpsons Game for the iPhone.
I must confess that I never played this arcade game before, but I’ve stopped playing stand-up arcade games officially began in the nineties.
The gameplay looks like a side-scroller like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game.
via techeblog
Nokia and Rihanna release exclusive content
Dec 17th
Nokia today launched the exclusive Rihanna App. Brings the fans closer to Rihanna, the new app will provide news, music, photos and exclusive video content directly to Nokia’s entertainment-rich mobile phones including Nokia N97, Nokia X6 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
Video content through the app will live videos of Rihanna’s album launch event. In addition, fans can sample music, a Rihanna biography and photo library to get, and, where available, information on Rihanna’s upcoming 2010 tour. The App content is available elsewhere and will be updated regularly for fans.
On 16 November performed songs from her new Rihanna album exclusively with Nokia. With a set list including former Number Ones Umbrella and Disturbia, Rihanna’s performance was streamed live globally, and optimized for their fans on every continent. The show includes live commentary by Twitter music fans around the world.
Orange UK launches its own App Shop
Dec 17th
With more than 5,000 applications, games, ringtones and wallpapers, Orange has its own application store for multi-platform release on a wide range of mobile phones. Everything in the workshop can be downloaded and purchased on an Orange mobile phone bill, so you do not need to pre-register and use their personal credit cards.
Yves Tyrode, Executive Vice President of Orange Techno Center says: “We give customers a tailor-made showcase for the mobile phone that makes it easier to detect, download, utilize, and manage content. Whether it’s a smartphone user, or someone with a simpler device, we know the demand for content is there – it’s just a matter of experience to the right. That is why we want to provide them all with a phone in the hands of the easiest access to personal content, the most appropriate device and rate them help you take the parts of the mobile Internet, which they know and love, wherever they go. ”
The service is already available, initially to provide the Orange App Store over-the-air to more than one million customers in France and the United Kingdom. In the coming January, Orange devices like the Nokia 6700, Sony Ericsson W995 and Sony Ericsson Yari U100i France only) (to be sold at the App Store will be loaded and the United Kingdom and France. Later, also Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola and RIM phones.
By the year 2010, Orange continues to roll out in the App Store service through its presence, its extension to Spain, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Moldova and Portugal. In each country, Orange makes the App Store by providing localized content relevant to the catalog that best meets specific needs of the market.
Mobile users want Google and Facebook on their phones
Dec 16th
Indicates a new report from Strategy Analytics, Google and Facebook, the two functions were among mobile phone users by 2009.
Users are “clearly more interested” in having mobile access to Google, not Microsoft’s search engine Bing – but that’s not really a surprise because, Bing was launched recently to life.
With this knowledge, (Google’s own phone number of the Nexus One, should be released in January 2010) is probably a hit – even if this amounts to starting (and not only).
Like on Facebook, it seems mobile users, more than like MySpace and Twitter (although, you know, Twitter is not exactly the sites in the same league as the other two social networking). Samsung does a good job in providing direct access to these three categories of services through its TouchWiz UI (this is certainly one of the reasons why the touchscreen phones are so popular), and it will probably do it on the new bada OS.
Moving on to TV channels, mobile users in the United States wants to FOX, Comedy Central and HBO can see on their phones while in the UK prefer to BBC 1 and Sky Movies.
Skype for Symbian now available
Dec 14th
Skype has announced that a new version of its software for the Symbian operating system known as Skype for Symbian Beta.
As you can imagine, this version of Skype supports the usual features such as free Skype-to-Skype calling, group, send and receive files, and there is also the possibility to make calls via Skype on loans.
If you are interested, this version of Skype for Symbian beta works with some selected Sybiam S60 3rd Edition devices like the E71, E63, E51 and the N96, N95, N81, N79 and 6220 Classic Navigator.
Ghosts Attack for iPhones Now Available
Dec 13th
Tarver Games offers a sharp new application for people who love playing role-playing story mode. Ghosts Attack game app for the iPhoneis an RPG game that takes adventurers back to the 1960s, where thirteen scientists disappeared due to a non teleportation experiment.
Rather than sending people (remote-controlled rover is controlled by you) sent to investigate and battle various creatures in the other dimension.
Ghosts Attack game is for players who are fast shooting action coupled with some clever strategies recommended and love exciting game. Ghosts are Attack for the iPhone and iPod Touch available now through the Apple App Store