In an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega talked about the crappy 3G coverage in key areas such as New York and San Francisco, which he admitted are “performing at levels below our standards.” According to de la Vega, the good news is AT&T is working on it.
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AT&T to Charge iPhone Users On A Pay-Per-Byte Model?
BerryWeather is a Weather Forecast app that helps you keep track the current weather conditions for over 72.000 locations worldwide. Keep up to 10 locations at the same time and switch between them with a flick of the trackball. Features Current conditions including “Feels like” temperature, wind, pressure, dew point, humidity.
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BerryWeather – Weather Application for BlackBerry
Webuzz is a free all in one instant messenger that helps chatting to your friends on Google Talk (GTalk), Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger (YM), AIM or ICQ. Features: One Contact List for all Buddies on all Accounts Multiple Profiles Email Notification for Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail Instant Translation WeBuzz IM supports sending and receiving offline messages. Send Messages to PC Works on the Background Buddy Management Chooe your current presence (Available, Away, Busy, Don’t Disturb, Invisible) You can open multiple chat sessions at the same time
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There are hundreds of Twitter apps for iPhone in the App Store but after weeding out those with useless features, bad UI and the such, it basically comes down to a handful of applications that deserve our attention. I’ve been asking people on Twitter what’s their favorite iPhone Twitter app and I’ve been keeping track of the results. I’ve also had a close look at these 2 polls to come up with what I think is the ultimate list of the best iPhone apps for Twitter .
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The Best Twitter App for iPhone
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) launched the Rihanna app for S60 touch phones (as far as I’ve understood) such as the Nokia N97, Nokia X6 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The exclusive application (as Nokia emphasizes) delivers news, music, photos and video content to Rihanna fans. That video content part is especially underlined, as it includes live performance clips from Rihanna’s album launch event
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Rihanna gets its own S60 touch app, compliments of Nokia
AT&T iPhone customers are more familiar than anyone with network problems ranging from spotty 3G coverage to dropped calls. To pin down the areas of network weaknesses, AT&T has released an iPhone app inviting customers to report issues directly from the problematic area. Called “Mark the Spot,” the free app allows you to choose from five issues: dropped calls, failed calls, no coverage, data failure or poor voice quality
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iPhone App Reports Dropped Calls, Poor Voice Quality to AT&T
It’s getting late in the day, but we’re happy to say that we’re making good on our promise of kicking off our Holiday Giveaway Blowout today. It’s been an incredible year in the mobile space, and we’re celebrating the end of 2009 by giving away more prizes than you can count on your fingers and toes! Starting today, you can enter in IntoMobile’s Holiday Giveaway Blowout for your chance to win.
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IntoMobile’s Holiday Giveaway Blowout – Free Stuff For All!
It’s so, so easy to hate on Wal-Mart, what with destroying this country’s mom and pop culture, importing cheap junk from China, and freaking out whenever employees mention the word “union.” But if you’re a gamer, you really ought to cast aside your prejudices, brave the crowds , and find the games you’ve always wanted for a good $10 less than what you’ll find elsewhere. That’s right: we’re having ourselves a good old fashioned price war . Wal-Mart has taken it upon itself to sell video games this holiday season (not sure if it’s a permanent thing or not) for $10 less than you’ll find at GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, etc
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Wal-Mart starts video game price war, cuts prices of games by $10
I would be sick of all of these Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) announcements if they weren’t all so unanimously cool. Google Maps for Android is getting a few extra goodies, starting with “What’s nearby?” As you might expect, it shows all of the Google Maps listings closest to your GPS location. Simple, and an effective way of knowing what’s nearby without actually having to look away from your phone (heaven forbid)
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Google Maps for Android Shows What’s Nearby, Plus New Maps Labs
Geez make us wait FOREVER, Pantone! You have no idea how excited I was to see amongst the near-endless list of press releases this morning that PANTONE HAS FINALLY ANNOUNCED THE COLOR OF THE YEAR FOR 2010!!! Without further ado, it’s #15-5519 Turquoise! According to the press release: “Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.” On behalf of everyone: I can’t wait! When I’ve got trouble on my mind, when my old lady’s done left me and my dog’s done left me too, I’m gonna pull out my Pantone color swatch and let it all… melt… away. And good riddance to 2009’s color of the year, am I right?! I mean, #14-0848 Mimosa?! Who are we kidding here
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Breathe easy, friends – Pantone has finally announced the 2010 color of the year
Touch Bionics, a U.K-based company, has created the world’s first powered bionic fingers that can be used by patients with missing fingers. ProDigits , as it is called, can help its users bend, touch, pick-up and point–reflecting almost all the key functions of a natural hand. The prosthetic fingers are for those who have a partial-hand, where the absence of fingers is either due to congenital anomalies or amputation, says Touch Bionics.
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World’s First Bionic Fingers Make it Easy to Poke and Prod
Motorola will soon be pushing their Android wares in China. According to a new report from IDG, Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) will soon send the Motorola MT710 Android smartphone to China as a keyboard-less variant of Verizon ( NYSE: VZ )’s Motorola DROID. Starting December 28th, China Mobile ( NYSE: CHL ) will offer the Motorola MT710 as part of their OPhone Android lineup, which offers Android phones running a special version of Android customized by China Mobile
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Motorola’s DROID-ish MT710 Android phone headed to China soon
I like Microsoft’s Bing search engine, so it’s great to see them continuing to develop it for the mobile space. This week we’ll note a new version of Bing for Windows Mobile, as well as a new version of Google Maps for Mobile
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Bing Mobile, Google Maps for Mobile, Omnia Pro, iPAQ Glisten
The Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) N900, which started shipping recently , doesn’t come with built in support to view office documents. DataViz, makers of the awesome Documents To Go software, has just announced that you’ll be able to download a free 30 day trial of their viewer software, or purchase the program outright for $10
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DataViz Documents To Go Viewer available for Maemo now, 30 day free trial, $10 after that
Shapeways are at it again, with an assortment of custom fabricated gifts available for Christmas. They ran a little contest recently, and the top three entrants are available for purchase now, including the cute “ Punk Angel ” pictured above, a snowflake ornament with custom message, and a snowflake candle holder . Each of these is under $30, so they’re sure to please without breaking the bank!
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New customized Christmas gifts available from Shapeways
In the flurry of Google announcements yesterday, one story made it through the cracks: real-time search results for Android and iPhone. In short, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is including a little ticker in searches for hot, current topics that includes super-recent content from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca. This can be great for breaking news that will come from on-the-scene sources before it gets chewed through bigger media and eventually indexed
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Google Real-Time Search Results Coming to Android and iPhone
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) has just announced a new version of the 13 month old 5800, the new Navigation Edition, and it will go on sale in the USA immediately for $299 at nokiausa.com and various other online shops. Way down, at the very bottom of the press release , they sneak in this nugget of gold: “Through December 31, Nokia is offering a 50 USD Visa prepaid gift card for customers who buy the device and activate an account with Ovi Store, Nokia’s marketplace for mobile applications, videos, games and more.” That’s right, Nokia will give you $50 to sign up for Ovi.
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Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition: Please sign up for Ovi, we’ll give you $50 if you do!
Min-Kyu Choi’s redesign of the frankly over-protective, nannying design of the UK power-plug first popped up back in April, and we posted the video of the concept renderings and test models. More than half a year later and Choi’s design, the Folding Plug System , has become a svelte plastic product with a few new twists, both literal and figurative. The problem with the UK’s three-pronged monster is its unwieldiness.
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Folding Plug System: An Antidote to Britain’s Power Paranoia
Namco is bringing its successful Pac-Man Championship Edition to the iPhone / iPod Touch this Thursday. Pac-Man Championship Edition was originally released Summer 2007 on the Xbox Live Arcade with a positive response from reviewers. In Pac-Man Championship Edition, Namco takes the classic gameplay mechanics of Pac-Man and adds a fresh coat of updated graphics and two game modes, Mission & Championship, with an additional Challenge mode that can be purchased through an expansion pack. Mission mode challenges players to complete a specific task such as collecting 3 pieces of fruit, or eating a specific number of ghosts in order to complete the mission. Players can revisit a mission to attempt to complete it at a different difficulty level. Championship mode feels more like the traditional Pac-Man game, but instead of progressing by way of eating all the pellets in a level, this mode requires you to beat the top score within a time limit. There are four different control schemes to play Pac-Man Championship Edition so anyone should be able to find a way to play comfortably. The only thing I wish Namco would have included were leaderboards so I can compare my score with my friends. Hopefully Namco offers something in the future (might i suggest Facebook integration?) because as of now, Pac-Man Championship Edition has a lot going for it. There’s no word on pricing, but the XBLA retails for $10.
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Pac-Man Championship Edition for iPhone Will Cure Your Pac-Man Fever on Thursday
The Nook saga continues as demo units are reportable showing up in brick and mortar locations. Too bad there will not be any available for purchase until next month , but at least you can actually spend sometime with the dual-screen ebook reader before you pre-order now. Speaking of pre-orders, the website still lists January 15 as the expected ship date.
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Nook demo units showing up in stores, use this locator to find one near you
LG announced today that the massively popular LG Cookie (LG KP500) touchphone has shipped more than 10-million units since its launch in November 2008. The LG Cookie has been popular across a broad group of consumers since its debut, selling over five million units in Europe, two million in Latin America and two million in Asia. The phone has sold at a rate of over one million units every month this year and LG is expecting demand to increase approaching the holidays
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Over 10-Million LG Cookie Phones Consumed Worldwide
AT&T today announced the launch of AT&T Mark the Spot, an iPhone app that enables customers to quickly and easily provide feedback on AT&T network performance in a specific location. The new AT&T Mark the Spot app will add to AT&T’s existing network performance data to further fine-tune network investment planning and prioritization moving forward. The app, available today as a free download via the iTunes App Store, enables users to provide valuable feedback with as little as two button clicks
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AT&T Creates iPhone Applications to Collect its Customer Feedback