Motorola ‘Stadia’ trademark application hints at device with gaming / fitness features
It's not exactly a ton to go on, but a trademark application recently filed by Motorola for the word "Stadia" has at least opened up a few interesting possibilities. While the (as yet nonexistent) device in question is seemingly phone-related given the goods and services Motorola is hoping to have covered, the application also specifically mentions a "game device in the nature of handheld units for playing electronic games for use with external display screen or monitor," along with a number of fitness-related functions like heart rate, speed, and calorie monitoring. That latter bit is further backed up by a separate "Stadia" trademark application filed by Motorola back in November, which specifically covered "fitness monitoring devices." What does it all mean
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: application, further-backed, game, handheld-units, motorola, possibilities, Rate, stadia, trademark
ChevronWP7 team releases custom ringtone manager for ‘unlocked’ Windows Phone 7 devices
While we patiently wait for the now-offline ChevronWP7 team to partner up with Microsoft and make homebrew awesomeness happen on the real, those that have already opened their Windows Phone 7 devices to sideloading will want to take a look at the team's second tool released earlier this week. The custom ringtone manager they've crafted works in a most unusual way: you select five ringtones you want installed, then let the tool craft a custom XAP (which represent WP7's application package files) which you then sideload -- assuming you've already used the original ChevronWP7 tool to allow such shenanigans.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: application, chevronwp7, custom-ringtone, homebrew, package, package-files, unusual, windows, windowsphone7, wp7
AirSync for doubleTwist brings wireless syncing to Android phones
Been looking for the perfect thing to boast to your iPhone-owning friends about?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: air sync, application, collection, database, doubletwist airsync, doubletwistairsync, entry, media, passcode, phone, windows-phone, wirelesssync
iPhone gets UberTwitter client, BlackBerrys have one less reason to exist
If the name UberTwitter sounds familiar, that'll be because it's one of the more popular mobile Twitter clients, accounting for 10 million tweets each day from BlackBerry users around the globe. And now it's also available on the iPhone. Citing the "growing dominance" of Apple's one-device-to-rule-them-all mobile platform, the UberTwitter crew has decided to expand its offering with a new open beta, which is available to download now
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: application, beta, black, BlackBerry, entry, iphone, million-tweets, social-networking, twitter-client, twitterclient
Wall Street Journal releases Android Tablet Edition app, phones need not apply
Given that the first truly respectable Android tablet just came out , the Wall Street Journal is timing its Tablet Edition app release pretty much perfectly. It aims to offer a faithful reproduction of the printed version of the paper while augmenting it with full-screen video, market data, customization options, and the ability to save articles for offline reading.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, application, drive, edition, ipad, market, printed, reading, reproduction, street-journal, tablet-edition, tablet-editions, tabletedition
SlingPlayer arrives in Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
Got yourself a big new Windows Phone 7 device and need something to fill its screen with? Sling Media has your back with its SlingPlayer Mobile app, which has hit the Marketplace just in time to earn its Launch App Partner achievement.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: app, application, htc, marketplace, mediastreamer, mobile, release, sling, stream, streaming, tvstreaming, windowsphone7
Android Market surpasses 100,000 apps: can’t stop, won’t stop growing
Ah, there we go. Right around three months after we falsely suspected that El Goog had crossed the 100,000 mark in its Android Market, the company itself has today confirmed the passing of that line via Twitter
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, apple, application, brothers, entry, goog, googleandroid, months, numbers, sheer, step, stop-growing, three-months, twitter
Nokia ends talk of Symbian^4, adopts HTML5 in Qt framework
Things are turning upside down in Espoo today. Besides, earnings and reported job cuts of some 1,800 employees, Nokia also announced that it'll be streamlining its development strategy to unify environments for Symbian and MeeGo. Nokia's new approach calls for the adoption of Qt , and only Qt , as its application development framework from today onward
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: adoption, application, approach, environments, experience, framework, interface, nokia, platform, rich green, smart, smartphone, strategy, symbian, user
RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers’ woes, says ‘we’re so there’
There's no question that the BlackBerry App World hasn't been quite the runaway success RIM hoped it would be, but the company is far from ready to throw in the towel, and it's now promising some new measures to woo new developers and make the lives of current ones a bit easier. Some of those initiatives have already been rolled out -- like new payment options -- while others including a free analytics service will become available to developers in the coming weeks and months. As RIM's head of application development, Alan Brenner, explains to The Wall Street Journal , RIM has been working for the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer friendly, and he now says that "we're so there." They may not be quite as close as they think, however, as the WSJ also spoke to a number of developers who used words like "horrible" to describe the current state of things, while leading mobile game developer PopCap Games even went so far as to say that "RIM today is not really on our radar." RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers' woes, says 'we're so there' originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:12:00 EST
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: application, blackberryappworld, brenner, current, games, journal, make-the-lives, result, rim, state, street
Lego’s MINDroid Android app remotely controls Mindstorms NXT robots
Hardcore hobbyists have been controlling their Mindstorms NXT creations with all sorts of paraphernalia for years, but now Lego itself is stepping in to lend a hand.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app-market, application, Army, bluetooth, Lego, mindroid, mindstorms, minstorms nxt