Apple’s App Store: 15,000 apps. Google’s Android Marketplace: 800 apps.
During its fourth quarter earnings call today, Google revealed that the Android Marketplace, its app store, has 800 applications now available. While that’s almost double the less than 500 apps available in early December, it’s still laughably behind Apple’s App Store, which now boasts over 15,000 apps.
Google didn’t go into download numbers for the 800 apps, but you can bet that’s only because the number would look even worse when compared to Apple’s 500 million… Continue Reading
The iPhone Pro looks awesome, but lose the keyboard
Is the above image real? No. Does it look awesome? Yes. Would I want it? Of course.
Well, most of it at least.
While Gizmodo did a nice job creating a mock up of an “iPhone Pro,” I have to take issue with their inclusion of a physical keyboard. While I know many of you BlackBerry lovers out there still insist that the iPhone needs a physical keyboard, I’ve got some bad news for you: It’s not… Continue Reading
Blackberry awards $150K to three mobile apps
Blackberry Partners Fund has awarded $150,000 prizes to three makers of applications designed to work on the BlackBerry handheld.
And the winners are:
Multiplied Media’s Poynt search service, which uses GPS to connect users with local businesses
Strands’ Social Player, a social-networking music player that connects users and recommends songs based on their tastes, soon to be released
Nobex Technologies’ Radio Companion, an app that tells users what’s playing on 2,700 radio stations and gives them the… Continue Reading
Did AT&T have Apple kill NetShare to start its own tethering plan?
An application called NetShare was the talk of the App Store back in July. The app, made by Nullriver, allowed users to connect their computers to their iPhone 3G to use the device’s unlimited data plan to surf the web. Unfortunately, this process, known as “tethering,” was apparently not approved by AT&T. Thus, NetShare was pulled from the App Store.
Today however, there may be hope of using the iPhone for tethering purposes once again. Apple… Continue Reading
First Android phones pushed to 2009?
It seems like once a month there is some talk of either delays or dismay surrounding Google’s mobile Android platform. Today brings a new report that the first phones built for Android, so called “Gphones,” could be delayed from the end of this year until the beginning of next year, according to Barron’s.
Specifically, one of the handset makers that is thought to among the first to deliver a device, HTC, is “having structural problems to… Continue Reading
Is Apple working on an iPhone with a physical keyboard? I hope not.
While the iPhone 3G (launching next Friday) has eliminated two major complaints about the original iPhone: lack of 3G network support and lack of GPS, other complaints are rising up. One, which has also been around since the device’s inception, is its lack of a physical keyboard. With the iPhone 3G now squarely aimed at business users as well as consumers, with features such as Microsoft Exchange support, these complaints are being amplified.
Apple may be… Continue Reading
A thinner iPhone with 3G, double the memory and better battery life for $199? Sold.
How badly do you want a 3G iPhone? How badly do you want one that is 22 percent thinner, with double the memory, GPS and better battery life? How about if it’s $199?
That could the case if a tip Cult of Mac (a Wired Network Blog) received is to be believed.
We’re a week away from Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ keynote at the the WWDC event where it is widely believed that he will announce… Continue Reading
RIM-Blackberry announces $150M fund
Update I: This story was originally published Friday afternoon
Update II: For more, also see our Q&A with one of the partners managing the Blackberry fund
Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters have invested in an $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers of applications running primarily on the Blackberry.
The fund comes on the heels of the iFund, a similar $100 million fund announced by Kleiner Perkins, a well-known Silicon… Continue Reading
Google data further legitimizes web browsing on mobile phones
Remember when your cellphone had a monochrome, single-line display that could only display numbers? Those days are far behind us according to Google. The company is seeing an acceleration of Internet usage on mobile devices, Reuters is reporting.
Google has made a concerted effort to make Internet applications that perform well on certain popular phones. These include RIM’s Blackberry, Nokia’s newer phones and of course the Apple iPhone. Google claims to have sped up the time… Continue Reading