Well that was short lived. The liberating HTC Sync desktop app that dropped a few days ago, allowing the side-loading of Android apps by bypassing AT&T’s restriction, is no more. HTC has yanked the application and pinning the snafu on a good ‘ol fashioned mix-up. It’s disappointing to say the least. But given Ma Bell’s track record, would you expect anything less? Such a short life it...
RIM isn’t the only game in town gunning for the consumers’ dollar. While their BlackBerry Protect (Enterprise for the consumer) suite is promising all of the great enterprise features that signify BlackBerry for all consumers, Microsoft has something of their own to dish out — a Windows Phone Live website. Much like RIM’s offering, Windows Phone Live online will allow customers to sync just about any type of data you can think of, be it notes,...
Even though AT&T’s rationalization as to why they don’t allow non-Android Market apps on their Android devices is somewhat believable, the fact of the matter still stands — people want to do what they want, when they want, and how they want on their hardware. Thankfully, HTC’s own HTCSync desktop software goes around AT&T’s software nanny and brings back some freedom to Android. Namely, side-loading Android apps is a simple...
Reach back in the depths of your cranial cortex to April 26th. It was then that we talked about an upcoming app by developer “Greg”, that allowed you to sync your iPhone/iPod Touch over WiFi. Obviously, a bunch of criticism and shifty eyes followed as such functionality is just so terrible for the App Store. And as we thought, Greg has come forward today to announce that while Apple did reject his extremely useful app (that adds functionality we’ve...
iPhone docks and cases are a dime a dozen. It takes an increasing amount of creativity and uniqueness to even get me to notice a “new” case/dock these days. The iRetrophone Dock is one such dock. Hand-made out of resin and styled to look like an old relic communications device from the golden years, the iRetrophone Dock also provides some functionality to go with it’s (good?) ancient looks — docking and syncing. Sure, the features are bottom...
