PhotoFast’s AP1000 takes AirPlay support to your car
3.5mm auxiliary inputs and stereo Bluetooth used to be good enough -- but that was before Apple announced AirPlay a few months ago. Now, everything else sounds like someone is stabbing you in the ears; the world looks black and white, and food no longer has any taste. AirPlay, save us! Taiwanese firm PhotoFast is playing the superhero role here today with the AP1000, a little black module with WiFi that accepts incoming AirPlay streams and routes them through to your car's stereo.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: audio streaming, demo, firm, probably-going, professional, superhero, taiwanese, wifi
Pantech’s Vega IM-A650S launched in Korea, packs Android 2.1 and a bit of kimchi
Pan-who? You know, the guys behind the long-forgotten Helio devices? Doesn't matter, because the Korean firm's back with a follow-up model to its Sirius Android handset.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, firm, follow-up-model, im-a650s, internal, mobile, Mobile Phone, pantech, phone, samsung, sky
Twidroid acquired by TweetUp, soon to be bundled with new Android phones as Twidroyd
Remember our old friend Twidroid? You know, the app that came out as cream of the crop in our little Android Twitter client round-up ? Things are about to get interesting again -- following today's acquisition of said app, SEO firm TweetUp has renamed its latest trophy to Twidroyd to avoid upsetting a certain Mr.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: avoid-upsetting, cream, crop, engadget, entry, firm, following-today, friend, get-interesting, seo, statement, twidroid, twidroyd
HTC buys Abaxia, gets cozier with carriers in the process
French software firm Abaxia has made a name for itself create white-label modules that help carriers brand phones -- its two flagship products are search and active home screen apps (pictured) -- so the fact that HTC has shelled out €11 million (about $13.1 million) for the company this week should offer you a solid clue where this is all headed. Naturally, HTC isn't talking about exactly how Abaxia will fit into the big picture, but boss Peter Chou says that the acquisition will "deepen and broaden [their] software development capabilities so that [they] can innovate at an even faster pace." Software value-add is becoming even more important for phone manufacturers these days as hardware all converges on a fairly standard full-touch prototype that doesn't offer much opportunity for differentiation -- even as Microsoft is putting the kibosh on serious customization in Windows Phone 7 -- so it'll be interesting to see how this ultimately affects HTC's products, particularly those with carriers' logos silkscreened around back
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: acquisition, active, firm, htc, microsoft, more-important, process, result, the-acquisition, white, windowsphone7
NPD: Android ousts iPhone OS for second place in US smartphone market
"We're number two" might not be the chant everyone's after, but we have a feeling that Google is more than satisfied with that in this case...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, BlackBerry, chant, firm, first-quarter, operating, result, rim, smartphone os, statistics, strong-carrier
Modasys plans mobile phone advertising system | Brunei NEWS from …
IT FIRM Modasys Technology, provider of Cooltones in Brunei, is planning to come up with a range of new products including a service that will allow corporate advertisers to reach mobile phone users, The Brunei Times learned. ...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: brunei, brunei-times, cooltones, corporate-advertisers, firm, Mobile Phone, modasys, modasys-technology, new-products, phone-users, reach-mobile