Some webOS PDK apps still having trouble in Sprint’s 1.4.5 release
Palm changed some system permissions in PDK -powered apps with the release of webOS 1.4.5 to prevent third-party apps from writing to the /media/internal partition of the phone's storage, which is all well and good -- except for the fact that a number of existing apps use it, which means they're unable to save data post-upgrade. Amazingly, Palm went ahead with the first US rollout on Sprint a month later anyhow, even though not all apps are kosher with the change yet. Good thing the dev community is all over it, then, right?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apps, engadget, existing-apps, hard-at-work, mobile, pdk, phone, preware-as-soon, result, storage, thing-the-dev, update-finishes
PlayOn’s web app brings Hulu and Netflix to iPod touch, iPhone
Tired of waiting around for Apple's "review process" to complete? So was PlayOn .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apps, hard-at-work, html5, mobile, netflix, playon, stream, streaming
Fring bends under the pressure of iPhone video calling, Skype temporarily locked down
We guess this is a "good" thing in a roundabout way, but Fring has just dropped the knowledge that its video calling update for the iPhone 4 has been so wildly successful that they've been forced to temporarily restrict Skype access to "free up capacity" for direct Fring-to-Fring calls.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: actually-see, apple, engadget, fri, hard-at-work, iphone, iphone 4, iphone4, knowledge, result, skype, the-meantime, thought, video calling, videocalling
HTC EVO 4G getting over-the-air update next week?
Word on the street is that Sprint and HTC are hard at work on a software update for the EVO 4G that would start rolling out on the 28th, next Monday.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: expectations, hard-at-work, issues, like-the-first, mobile, second-update, start-rolling, street, update, word
Bell, Telus, Rogers trial inter-carrier video calling
Even as American carriers continue to resist it, a variety of Canada's GSM networks support video calling on so-enabled 3G handsets -- but currently, the problem is that you're only able to video call other phones on the same network. Fortunately, Rogers, Bell, and Telus have been hard at work playing nice long enough to ensure that their respective video calling services play nice one another, and they've just announced the successful completion of inter-carrier trials. The companies are quick to point out that this makes them the "first inter-carrier partnership in North America" to support 3GPP-compliant video calling, something that should hopefully make AT&T and T-Mobile feel at least a fleeting moment of shame.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bell, bellmobility, feel-at-least, fleeting-moment, hard-at-work, respective, rogerswireless, successful, the-successful, videocalling