Yahoo messenger coming to iPhone and Android with cross-platform 3G video calls
You'll be seeing a lot more of the good ol' Yahoo smiley on front-facing cameraphones soon -- the web portal's VP of Mobile David Katz says that a new Yahoo! Messenger with cross-platform video chat is headed to Android and iPhone. Originally confirmed for the new T-Mobile myTouch , it's presently been submitted to the iTunes App Store for review.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cross-platform, device, device-running, entry, fring, instantmessaging, iphone, presently-been, town, video calls, videocalling, wifi, yahoo
Windows Phone 7′s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter?
At this point you'd think we covered almost every nook and cranny of Windows Phone 7, from games and UI to a launch device or six , but of course there's a few dust balls of info our swiffer of newsgathering has yet to grab up. Microsoft Canada's Greg Milligan has revealed at a recent Xbox 360 event. The big takeaway is future plans for phone-to-console gaming.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cross-platform, engadget, greg milligan, newsgathering, phone, phone to console, platform, speed, twitter, video
iOS has a bigger dev army than Android, but will cross-platform apps rule the day?
We oftentimes hear raw numbers of apps bandied about in mobile OS comparisons , but we rarely get any idea of just how many developers are behind the scenes working for each platform. This is the void of knowledge filled by AppStore HQ today, who have gone to their dev directory -- claimed to be a complete listing of all 55,000+ coders whose work is currently available for consumption in the Apple App Store or Android Market -- and stacked them into neat piles of Apple, Google and Gapple programmers
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: applications, appstorehq, Army, consumption, cross-platform, dev, doing-the-cross, engadget, entry, figures