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Palm’s App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloads

March 11th, 2010 3:59pm mike s No comments

Palm App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloadsAfter checking the data in their webOS App Gallery, Palm-lovin’ website PreCentral has calculated that there’s been over thirty million downloads from the App Catalog.

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Dell Mini 5 ‘Streak’ Android tablet serves up colours galore

March 10th, 2010 10:43am mike s 1 comment

Dell Mini 5/ Dell Streak tablet - details surfaceWe’ve been teased by a video clip of Dell boss Michael Dell strutting around with a pre-production Dell Mini 5 tablet, but with the release date looming, the company are prepping their promotional material for what seems set to be called the ‘Dell Streak’.

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Palm releases webOS PDK Beta – hot games to follow?

March 9th, 2010 4:10pm Pete Railton No comments

Palm releases webOS PDK Beta - hot games to followPalm have released their Plug-in Development Kit Beta for developers and is hopeful that a veritable torrent of top notch 3D games and other native Linux apps for webOS will follow in its wake.

Now available for your downloading pleasure at the Developer Centre, Palm is giving this one a mighty push, keen to promote their webOS as a gamers’ platform, and releasing it at the Game Developer’s Conference.

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Case-Mate’s Hug wireless iPhone charger – another bolt on beast

March 9th, 2010 1:59pm mike s No comments

Case-Mate's Hug wireless iPhone charger - another bolt on beast

We loved the Touchstone wireless charger for our Palm Pre, and expected to see similar solutions breaking out for other handsets, but it seems manufacturers are still struggling to come up with anything as discrete and as elegant.

So far, all of the ‘wireless charging solutions’ we’ve seen require users to strap on ugly backs to their phones, adding unnecessary bulk and weight.

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Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods – review

March 9th, 2010 12:27pm mike s No comments

Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods - reviewIf you’re less than chuffed with the distinctly average sound of the bundled iPhone headphones,  or you’re fed up being a mugger-attracting, walking advert for Apple products with those ‘iconic’ white headphones, then a headphone upgrade is always a good call.

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iPhone games ported to Palm’s webOS ‘in a matter of days’

March 5th, 2010 4:54pm Pete Railton No comments

iPhone games ported to Palm's webOS 'in a matter of days'

Palm will be strutting their stuff at the Game Developer’s Conference next week and their presentation will focus on their Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) – a set of tools designed to help developers create graphics-intensive games for Palm’s webOS.

The PDK is said to let developers rewrite mobile apps designed for other platforms in double quick-time, with iPhone apps reputedly ported over in “a matter of days,” with no degradation in performance.

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Arcam irDock high-end audiophile dock for iPod/iPhone

March 5th, 2010 2:26pm mike s No comments

Arcam irDock high-end audiophile dock for iPod/iPhoneThere’s all sorts of snazzy docks available for iPod/iPhones, but music-mad users looking to squeeze the last drops of sonic goodness out of their MP3 collections should perhaps take a peek at Arcam’s irDock.

Replacing their earlier rDock, Arcam’s shiny new high-end audiophile dock sports a die-cast aluminium anti-vibration enclosure with a damped rubber base offering RF shielding, and comes with a bundled remote for full loafing-on-the-sofa control.

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Restore your scratchy iPhone into a gleaming thing of beauty

March 5th, 2010 11:10am mike s No comments

Restore your scratchy iPhone into a gleaming thing of beauty

If – like us – you can’t be arsed with poncey protective cases, rubbery skins, plastic covers, Invisi-Shields, OtterBoxes or nobby leather wallets to safeguard your iPhone, it may be looking a little worse for wear right now.

After all, months of making an iPhone rough it in your pockets with your keys, cash, Allen keys, small torches and other assembled bits of mobile man-junk can soon leave Apple’s finest looking a little battle-scarred, so thank ‘eavens for a certain Shenaniganz08.

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Facebook for webOS updated – video review

March 4th, 2010 10:39am mike s No comments

Facebook for webOS updatedThe original Facebook app for the Palm Pre was a seriously underwhelming affair, so Palm webOS users so should be whooping with social networking-related joy at the news of a substantial update.

The slick new app offers an enhanced Inbox and the ability to view photo albums from all your friends, not just the photos in their news feeds.

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Buzie Google Buzz iPhone app hits town

March 3rd, 2010 7:05pm Tony Fletcher No comments

Buzie Google Buzz iPhone app hits townAlthough Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild.

Called Buzie, the app lets users check out Buzz conversations in their local area without logging into the service.

Once signed in, they can then start conversations, or join in with their followers, or just indulge in a good ol’ bout of stalking.

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BlackBerry gets the official BBC iPlayer. Finally

March 2nd, 2010 10:47am Pete Railton No comments

BlackBerry gets the official BBC iPlayer. FinallyPerhaps they’ve been so busy blasting out business missives that they haven’t realised what they’ve been missing out on, but BlackBerry users can now get the BBC iPlayer on their mobiles

The new iPlayer on BlackBerry does exactly what it says on the tin, and streams video-on-demand from the BBC’s new BlackBerry-optimised BBC iPlayer page.

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Fart stocks collapse as Apple reject Duck App for ‘Minimum User Functionality’ [update]

March 2nd, 2010 9:30am Lee J. 1 comment

Fart stocks collapse as Apple reject Duck App for 'Minimum User Functionality'

Vast legions of iPhone fart app developers may be be quaking in their parping shoes today at the news that Apple has just turned down an app because it only offered, “minimal user functionality.”

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iPhone and Gmail problem: emails not coming through (update)

March 1st, 2010 5:58pm mike s 8 comments

iPhone and Gmail problem with emails not coming through?We’re not getting any emails pushed through to our iPhone at the moment (we’re in the UK on the o2 network) and a quick look on Twitter shows that other people seem to be suffering the same problem.

We’ve been getting delays in mails arriving all day – at the moment our GMail account has at least 15 emails dating back three hours that are yet to turn up on the iPhone.

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Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 released

March 1st, 2010 11:28am Lee J. No comments

Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 releasedIt’s been lagging behind mobile versions on Facebook on other platforms, but Microsoft’s updated Facebook app for Windows Mobile finally adds a sorely missed feature: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.

The updated app – now hitting v1.2 – also lets users “like” their friends’ posts.

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Palm webOS 1.4 hits the UK, Flash and video support added

February 27th, 2010 12:36pm mike s No comments

Palm webOS 1.4 hits the UK, Flash and video support added

Finally, Brit Palm Pre users can enjoy having their phone as up to date as their American cousins, with the v1.4 webOS update being rolled out across Europe and the US.

The update adds adds video capture to the Pre handset with the ability for  users to edit and upload them directly to YouTube, Facebook, or share them via an e-mail or an MMS message.

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