Kindle for Android updated with periodicals and integrated web store, can be installed on SD card
Version 2.0 of Amazon's Kindle for Android software has snuck out tonight, bringing with it access to the company's library of newspapers and magazines, the ability to purchase content in-app, and the freedom to choose where you want to store the app itself, which is now happy to reside on your microSD card. Other additions include social networking updates of your reading progress, the appearance of chapter titles in the reader status bar, zoom for images and graphics, and the volume keys doubling up as your page turners should you wish them to do so. The updated app's available in the Market now -- you know what to do with that QR code, right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: card, chapter-titles, e reader, magazines, market, microsd, networking, newspapers, reading, the-appearance, update, upgrade
Amazon MP3 app hits BlackBerry phones
It may not quite be enough to bring non-BlackBerry users into the fold, but RIM has finally scored one long awaited coup to keep its current users happy -- it's just announced that the Amazon MP3 application is now available for download from the BlackBerry App World. While still technically in beta, the app will let you purchase and download music both over WiFi and over the air, and it includes plenty of BlackBerry-specific functionality, including sharing via BBM in addition to the usual social networking features, and full integration with BlackBerry's Universal Search and Media Library. Hit up the link below for a closer look, or simply download it yourself to try it out first hand -- it is free, after all
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, closer, coup, current, features, includes-plenty, networking, phones
Android 2.1 rolling out to Sony Ericcson Xperia X8, depending on product code
Here's an extra bonus for those of you who snapped up an unlocked Xperia X8 on a frosty Friday morn -- Sony Ericsson is starting to push Android 2.1 to the handset right now. Thirty-two tasty batches of Eclair are already in the oven, and you can easily check to see if you're a likely candidate for upgrade by scanning the back of your phone. If your eight-digit "SI-number" (e.g.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: enhanced-social, entry, ericcson-xperia, ericsson, handset, morn, networking, recording, software-update, sony, tasty-batches, xperia x8, xperiax8
LG Cosmos Touch hits Verizon November 23rd for $80
We're having a harder time by the day getting excited about a touchscreen dumbphone with a 1.3 megapixel camera for $80 -- especially now that you've got a number of respectable Android choices below that price point -- but if you're an LG diehard, you need physical QWERTY, and you couldn't care less about the Android Market, we suppose you might want to give the once-rumored , now-official Cosmos Touch a look. Besides the 2.8-inch wide QVGA display, you've got Bluetooth 2.1, memory expansion up to 16GB, some semblance of social networking support, and VZ Navigator turn-by-turn navigation on board. Interested
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Choices, cosmos touch, cosmostouch, entry, memory, networking, qwerty, social-networking, some-semblance, support, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, vzw
U.S. officials push for broader internet wiretapping regulations
The NSA may have its ominously named Perfect Citizen program to guard against potential cyber attacks, but it looks like the U.S.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, congress, government, intercepts, law-enforcement, networking, quite-satisfied, result, social-networking
Is Facebook working on a phone? Ask Erick Tseng
A report from TechCrunch today claims that Facebook may be working on a mobile device of its own to compete in the ever-warming smartphone race. According to a "source who has knowledge of the project," the social networking site has put two high level employees to the task of a creating a smartphone which will allow deep integration with Facebook contacts.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: facebook, iphone, lead, matthew papakipos, networking, puzzle, result, rumor, tseng
Samsung’s Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro slider join the bada OS party
Samsung's bada , heard of it?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: all-important, networking, s5330, samsungapps, slider, social-networking, touchwiz, touchwiz3.0, user-experience, wave2
Lenovo LePhone unboxed, exhaustively reviewed ahead of launch in China
We're not sure how we missed this one, but it's better late than never -- turns out some lucky jerks in China were given a Lenovo LePhone to play with back in mid-April, and the guys at Sooyuu have just finished the fifth and final part of their lengthy review, just in time for the May launch .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: amoled, bundled-goodies, gesture, integration, jerks, lenovo, lenovo 3gw100, lenovo lephone, lucky, networking, phone, reviewer, social, their-lengthy
MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010
Wow, the MeeGo news is flying fast and furious today! Our first stop is the Intel Developer Forum , where a recent talk detailed feature lists for netbooks and handhelds running (presumably) 1.0. For the former, you can expect to see it rockin' Chrome (or Chromium), and overhauled social messaging, media, camera, email, and calendar apps. That's in addition to touch and gesture support.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: developer, flash, idf, instant, linux, location, maemo, meego, netbooks, networking, services, support
Microsoft Kin notifications have up to fifteen minute delay
Microsoft's new Kin phones promise to let "Generation Upload" stay in touch with their friends via integrated, streamlined social networking. It's the main draw, the big selling point, the reason why teens, tweens and those who want to share pictures of huge fat men eating Chipotle burritos will get one. But unless you hit a manual refresh button, Microsoft says Kin will only let you stay in touch in fifteen-minute intervals
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: delay, engineer, exclusive, facebook, from-the-cloud, microsoft, myspace, networking, result, Sync, synchronize, teens, update