If there’s one card Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) could play to make Windows Mobile relevant again, it’s the Xbox card. A recent job posting pretty much spells out the plans for Windows phones in black and white: “We need a Principle Program Manager who can help drive the platform and bring Xbox LIVE enabled games to Windows Mobile
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Xbox LIVE to Integrate with Windows Mobile
Yesterday I touched on the rumored ‘ Palm Pre Plus ‘ which was spotted in the WiFi Certification Database . Rumors have been making the rounds about said device for some time now, due to launch on Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) in the new year.
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Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Coming to Verizon in the New Year?
It seems Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) or its carrier partners are not super enthused about the Pixi prospects. The once famous Treo maker has revised its order from Compal Communications, bringing the total number of units ordered from 800,000 to 600,000
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Compal to ship 600,000 Palm Pixi phones in Q4 2009
LG has just announced the launch of its new LG Pastel SU410 handset in Korea. This new LG is sports a simple clamshell design that is sure to attract a majority fashionable individuals. Features of the SU410 are nothing to boast of as it comes with just regular goodies like a 2.8-inch WVGA internal display, an external LED display for notifications, a 2-megapixel camera, DMB TV tuner support , motion sensor, 2GB of internal memory, and an expandable microSD card slot that can hold up to 16GB
There’s an interesting post on Nielsen’s blog , showing which phones, sites and brands U.S. mobile users prefer. And the big winners are… (drums please)… Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) (along with YouTube), Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) and Yahoo
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Nielsen ranks top phones, sites and brands in the U.S. for 2009
Distimo and Skyhook Wireless have teamed up for a new report to show how location-based apps perform across mobile application stores. Without further ado, here are the highlights for November: Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s AppStore has the largest proportion of paid location-based applications (57%) with Blackberry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) second (49%) and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s Android Market third (21%).
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Distimo partners with Skyhook Wireless for location-based apps report; Launches appstores.info
junaio augmented reality client for the iPhone 3GS recently got a major update. Version 1.5 brings tons of improvements, including: Enhanced live overlay and local search features, relying on Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Local Search to display POIs around you. New social features: rating and commenting on scenes generated by other users; scene sorting by popularity; share to Twitter via Twitpic; tagging of links, messages and notes; ability to publish content to multiple social networks.
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junaio 1.5 for iPhone brings better data search and overlay, new social capabilities and improved UI
The Samsung M5650 Lindy is actually a music-centric device, and there’s absolutely no doubt about it especially when you notice the music dedicated keys just below its display. The phone will also feature 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3-megapixel camera, front video calling camera, FM radio, music player, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, and 50MB of internal storage memory with a microSD card expansion
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Samsung M5650 Lindy
Sony Ericsson’s Elm is now officially a part of the Greenheart line, which popularly is the company’s “project to make handsets from recycled plastics and free from hazardous chemicals to help reduce CO2 emissions.” On the green side the Elm will have E-manuals, and EP300 Greenheart wall charger, a WalkMate application that allows its users to “compare the steps they take with the equivalent journey by car”, and also a Green calculator, which calculates how much CO2 they save through walking. As a phone the Elm is a candybar device and has a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, Google Maps, social networking integration for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, push e-mail, and 280MB of internal memory with microSD card support
Those with a flair for high-end touchscreened devices may not find it appealing, but then for those who travel a lot and don’t want to get lost will surely find the new Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition quite handy. Nokia has introduced the 2710 Navigation Edition and they claim it to be their most affordable device with Navigation
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Nokia 2710 Is Definitely The Most Affordable Phone with Navigation
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer has presented himself this new luxury device, saying that it’s “the most fashionable phone he’s ever had a chance to talk about.” This phone strongly resembles the Samsung Armani W820/W8200 feature phone, but doesn’t infact seem to have a name yet. Anyhow, apart from the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, it sports a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a GPS, 5MP camera, 8GB of internal memory, a MicroSD card slot, and a full QWERTY keyboard.
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Samsung Giorgio Armani Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone unveiled
Urban Rivals — an online trading card game where users discover, collect and play with over 500 trading cards — is going iPhone, allowing existing and potential new community members to join the community, which at the moment counts more than 7 million users. I’m not a big card game fan, hence I’m passing along an excerpt from the press release: Each character belongs to a specific clan, including pirates, gangsters, and military types, and building your deck to harness their different powers is half the fun! Players build experience to unlock more powerful abilities, and enjoy new looks as the characters blast through different levels
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Urban Rivals expands into iPhone
India’s Infosys has prepared a mobile application platform for carriers called Flypp, to allow them to launch their own app stores. In a world, where we already have quite a few similar offerings from major operators, handset makers and platform providers – we ask will anyone use this? Something tells me there is a market for Flypp
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India’s Infosys unveils Flypp mobile app platform for carriers
Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless has a new desktop software called V CAST Media Manager, which is designed to help their customers manage/transfer photos, videos, and music between phones and PCs.
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Verizon Wireless unveils desktop application V CAST Media Manager to help users manage their media
Another big win for Obopay as they push to conquer the African market. Their “partners in crime” are local telecommunications service provider Essar Telecom Kenya Limited’s yu branded mobile network and Equity Bank, who have a large countrywide network. The service is branded “yuCash by Obopay” and it’s “positioned to change the landscape of mobile money transfer” in Kenya
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Kenya’s yu unveils mobile money transfer service – yuCash by Obopay
The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global startup competition in the mobile industry. Mobile startups from around the world are invited to participate for free. All they/you have to do is create a company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they/you want to compete in
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Submit your mobile startup to DotOpen to win a Mobile Premier Award
The rumoured update to Sprint ( NYSE: S )’s BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) Tour (code-named Essex) which was to include Wi-Fi and a trackpad has shown its face. This is certainly not the first time we’ve seen the 9650 , and the CEO was already pretty open about an updated Tour , but it’s the first concrete sign of a device that was definitely built for Sprint. This particular model was running OS 5.0.0.385, and was apparently being sold privately from someone within RIM
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BlackBerry Essex 9650 Spotted With Sprint Branding
There are already a few iPhone apps that use Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )’s Bing search engine to scour the web, so it only makes sense that Microsoft launch a proper Bing iPhone app in the AppStore – nevermind the fact that Microsoft is developing mobile applications for its arch-rival’s mobile operating system. Today, Microsoft is making it easier to wade through search engine “noise” with an iPhone app that delivers relevant search results to your iPhone
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Bing goes iPhone with location-aware voice search
If you’re like me, you’re addicted to the Discovery Channel. Also, you don’t live in New York City (Manhattan). That’s a shame because neither of us will probably ever have a chance to take a ride on the Cash Cab and become the next contestant in the taxi-based quiz show
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Cash Cab for iPhone – Because we can’t all live in NYC
David White, the current Chief Financial Officer for nVidia, gave a talk at Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference. You can listen to the whole thing here , but the gist of it is that during CES nVidia will announce a new Tegra product. Netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and tablets such as this 15 inch model running Android , built on the new Tegra will be hitting the market in the first half of 2010, smartphones based on the new Tegra will hit the market in the second half
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Ultrabrief: nVidia CFO: We will be making a major Tegra announcement in 3 weeks
PayPal is launching a new application that lets you send cash from your account to whoever you want right from your BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ). It integrates with the native contact list for added convenience, and also has access to your account balance and transaction history. These two companies have been cozy ever since the BlackBerry App World launched, since RIM chose PayPal as the exclusive payment method (although carrier billing is apparently on the way)
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PayPal Announces “Send Money” BlackBerry App
If I asked a wide range of people what they they think the best user interface is, most would respond Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )’s Windows 7, some will say Mac OS X 10.6, the people who spend their entire day glued to their laptop will say either Firefox, Chrome or Safari, but what if I told you that this was the best interface today, the one everyone uses multiple times a day, and may not even realize it even fits into the category of “user interface”, is Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s search box? Take a look at Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s iPhone, and then take a look at any user interface created in the past two decades, and you’ll realize that a cluster of icons representing applications that do different things is the one thing that has remained consistent and has not evolved over all these years. The same can be said about Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Symbian
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Mission Impossible: Creating the perfect smartphone: Episode 03: It’s time for applications to die