Hey, fuck the system. That’s the main premise behind Android and it’s open nature full of extremely talented hackers and developers, right? This is one of those moments that perfectly captures that — Skype for Android was exclusive to VZW handsets only. Finally, someone loosened their grip and allowed Skype for non-VZW Android-powered handsets with one big feature missing — 3G calling. Likely due to some stupid exclusive agreement which helps no...
WebOS users, get ready. After today, your beloved webOS device is going to be a lot more useful thanks to the 1.4 update that is set to go live any time. Besides your typical bug fixes and performance tweaks, the biggest talking point of this latest update is the inclusion of Flash 10, bringing a richer mobile experience to the mobile internet junkies. Worried about battery life? Don’t. As we saw yesterday, a Nexus One stress tested with Flash web pages and...
As fun, exciting, and simply cool as learning a second language is, some people just don’t have enough time or money to do so. Learning another language later in life after you’ve already spent an entire lifetime with one language is a pretty daunting task. The internet and digital devices in general have helped curb that learning curve and reduce the amount of time needed to learn another language. But the same problem exists — we are still having to...
For as popular and mainstream as it is, iTunes isn’t necessarily the “best” desktop music program more as it is the most widely supported. It’s worth pointing out that popularity and actual feature list/usefulness/design do not always go hand in hand. An easy example is can be seen in a couple of Nokia’s more recent handsets such as the N97 — chock full of features, but none of them are executed too perfectly. But that’s neither...
Back in November, Verizon spent a truckload of money on marketing their new hot baby, the Motorola DROID. Several months later, we can see that the marketing paid off relatively well with Motorola enjoying some of the best income they’ve seen since the RAZR days with Verizon seeing an equally nice share of added income. Around that same time, a somewhat humorous though useless app called “DROID does” was submitted to Apple for sale in the App Store. The...
