FunMobility: iPhone isn’t so hot at mobile flirting
The iPhone may be an incredibly useful and flexible tool, but there’s one thing it can’t do that well — flirt. At least that’s what mobile content company FunMobility found when studying the usage of its America’s Best Mobile Pix application.
APIX lets people upload mobile photos, rate them, submit them to contests like Hottest Girl and Hottest Guy, and, yes, send each other flirtatious messages. During the month of January, users of both the standard… Continue Reading
Sex can’t sell on the iPhone: Wallpaper Universe pulled from App Store
Yesterday, I expressed surprise that Apple would allow Wallpaper Universe, an iPhone application with racy pictures, to get into the App Store. Sure enough, today, it’s gone.
The removal once again calls into question Apple’s application reviewing process. Apps such as Google’s new brilliant voice search application get delayed because of the process (which, despite some conspiracy theories, is what Apple confirmed happened), but apps like Wallpaper Universe still manage to get through only to be… Continue Reading
Wallpaper Universe is hoping sex sells on the iPhone
Some days I like to check out what new applications are being released in the App Store. But seeing as there are usually well over a hundred (and sometimes several hundred) each day, it’s hard to pick out individual ones. But Wallpaper Universe got my attention today with something very obvious: Pictures of scantily clad women staring at me.
The app, which I assume has a large selection of wallpapers for your iPhone and iPod touch,… Continue Reading
Resist the urge to download that T.I. iPhone ringtone with YouTones
People actually pay $0.99 for ringtones on the iPhone. I have to write that out because it still boggles my mind. It’s a clip of a song up to 30 seconds long, and yet people pay the same amount as they do for the entire song itself. I don’t care how badly I want a T.I. song as my ringtone (the hip hop artist has seven of the top 50 ringtones), I’m not paying one dime for… Continue Reading
MoMoney widget helps bloggers sell mobile content
Mobile startup FunMobility is releasing a new product dubbed the MoMoney content widget to help bloggers make money by selling mobile content.
Granted, widgets for selling content for your mobile phone like ringtones and wallpapers aren’t exactly new — StartMobile, for example, announced a similar widget more than a year ago. But FunMobility has added some features that should make its widget particularly attractive to publishers. For one thing, it can be branded and customized —… Continue Reading