PosiMotion Helix iPhone / iPod touch gaming grip now available at Best Buy
PosiMotion certainly announced this one well enough in advance (all the way back in December ), but it looks like its Helix gaming grip for the iPhone and iPod touch is now finally available, and at Best Buy no less. In case your memory needs to be jogged a bit, this $20 contraption promises to be ideal for "virtually any game," and let you use your iPhone or iPod touch in either portrait or landscape mode -- it'll also keep your headphones from getting tangled up for good measure. Still not convinced?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: buy, either-portrait, from-getting, game, gaming grip, gaminggrip, helix, iphone-or-ipod, landscape-mode, memory, not-convinced, posimotion, touch-gaming, your-headphones
Nokia will kick off MeeGo effort with ARM-based silicon, not x86
We've heard a similar message from Nokia dating all the way back to MeeGo's introduction at MWC back in February, so it comes as little surprise that Espoo is apparently trumpeting the virtues of ARM for its first MeeGo-powered device that's still targeted for the tail end of 2010. What might make this particularly interesting is the fact that MeeGo 1.0 is clearly further along for Atom devices than it is for the Cortex A8-based N900 , not to mention that Nokia has already warmed up to Intel thanks to its Booklet 3G -- but regardless of the silicon, getting the platform solid enough for any sort of retail device by the end of 2010 still seems like a tricky proposition when you figure that the ARM build doesn't even have a proper user interface yet. Ultimately, it might come down to a question of size; Intel still hasn't proven that it can scale Atom down far enough to tackle the smartphone market head-on, so if Nokia wants to go small with its first MeeGo hardware, that alone could be impetus enough to go ARM.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: arm, comes-as-little, entry, impetus-enough, intel, meego, nokia, proposition, result
Netflix for iPad hacked and running on iPhone
How desperate are you to get Netflix running on your iPhone? Desperate enough to jailbreak, grab frameworks from your iPad, and do some plist hacking? If the answer to those questions is "yes," then the folks at ModMyi have something they'd like to show you.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: battery, engadget, ipad, iphone hacking, iphone3gs, jailbreak, mediaplayer, party
Nokia N8′s USB On-The-Go support demoed, lesser phones turned into slaves
Among the Nokia N8's neater tricks is its support for USB On-The-Go, which basically lets you connect USB peripherals (flash drives, for example) to the phone and have it act as a host -- a duty usually reserved for heavier-duty devices like PCs. Though the N8 is still a solid month or three away from release, we're getting a nice little video demo on YouTube today of an N8 being walked through the paces of connecting both a plain-vanilla USB drive and another Symbian-based Nokia candybar (brownie points for naming the model in comments, by the way)
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: demo-on-youtube, engadget, mass, nokia, result, storage, symbian, video
HTC EVO 4G gets hacked Froyo port, Sense UI be damned
You know what happens when you give EVO 4Gs to a room full of some of the brightest developers the world has to offer? Well, [expletive] is going to go down, that's what -- so it comes as little surprise that the phone's already been blessed with a seemingly functional Froyo port, even though neither the phone nor the operation system have even seen a public release yet. The largest distribution of the EVO so far has come at the hands of Google itself, which provided the Android 2.1- and Sense-equipped handsets to attendees of its recent IO conference; a timely upgrade to Android 2.2 has unquestionably been a big sticking point for would-be buyers, though, so it's good to see that early owners are already hard at work making this happen
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: developers, evo, evo4g, froyo, hack, point, result, Sticking, sun, timely-upgrade
Keepin’ it real fake: N8 available now, only not from Nokia
Well, it was bound to happen: a flagship device released as a KIRF ( for the second time ) well ahead of its official launch. Unfortunately, that's what happens when you delay a product that already leaked months in advance . The $99.20 "N8-00" might share its name and stylings with Nokia's imminent Symbian flagship but that's where the similarities end.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, backside, engadget, flagship-device, its-official, kirf, leaked-months, nokia, sun, the-backside
Smokescreen makes Flash content visible on iPhone and iPad (video)
Mind you, it's just a preview release, but Chris Smoak's Smokescreen does exactly what it promises: enable Flash content to play on Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: animated, binaries, engadget, entry, extracts, flash, graphics, iphone, javascript, result, simon-willison, video
OpenWays makes your smartphone a hotel room key, provides a different kind of ‘unlock’
For years now, hotel chains have been toying with alternative ways to letting patrons check-in, access their room and run up their bill with all-too-convenient in-room services. Marriott began testing smartphone check-ins way back in 2006, and select boutique locations (like The Plaza Hotel in New York and Boston's Nine Zero) have relied on RFID, iris scanners, biometric identifiers and all sorts of whiz-bang entry methods in order to make getting past a lock that much easier (or harder, depending on perspective). This month, InterContinental Hotels Group announced that they would soon be trialing OpenWays at Chicago's Holiday Inn Express Houston Downtown Convention Center, enabling iPhone owners to fire up an app and watch their room door open in a magical sort of way
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ADDITIONAL, boston, chains, Express, express-houston, holiday, hotel, hotels, marriot, result, room, travel
New Skype 2.0 app for the iPhone allows voice calls over 3G
Plenty of other VoIP apps have managed to work in this functionality since Apple / AT&T started allowing it last year , but the official Skype app has been a notable holdout. Now, two months after Skype started doing 3G calls on Android with Verizon , there's a 2.0 version of the app for iPhone that brings voice calls over 3G at last. Mobile iPhone calls are free until August, after which you'll need a "mobile subscription." We're testing out the app as we write this and it seems to work about as well any other 3G VoIP app we've tried: passable, not revolutionary.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, apple, entry, functionality, skype, skype app, skypeapp, voice calls, voip
Motorola Shadow slithers into Verizon’s inventory database as MB810
If the whole "smoke -> fire" adage proves true once more, it's looking like Verizon loyalists can expect to see a Shadow at least a few milliseconds before a CDMA iPhone . Following up on months of leaks and rumors, we've got yet another snippet of evidence pointing towards a VZW release of the so-called Motorola Shadow
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, entry, luck, memorial, motorola, result, return-policy, smartphone, snippet, start-pinching, verizon, verizonwireless