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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… Continue Reading