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
Verizon scoop extravaganza: Motorola Venus with portrait QWERTY, Stingray LTE tablet, and more?
We've been tipped by multiple sources today on some interesting developments in Verizon's roadmap over the next couple quarters, and if you're a BlackBerry fan, an Android fan, or a fan of exceptionally fast data, you're probably going to want to tune in.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 9570, BlackBerry, bold9650, engadget, fivespot, friend-via, i400, meat, motorola, probably-going, roadmap-over, sch-i400, storm3, tablet, vzw
Blyk-powered ‘Orange Shots’ service coming next month to Monkey customers
Now that Blyk's free-service-for-ads model has officially bitten the dust, we're starting to see new ideas come out of the woodwork from the Dutch company that might (or might not) stand a better chance of striking a survivable balance of value and profitability. Orange UK has announced that it'll be launching Orange Shots as of February 1, a program for advertisers that lets them target subscribers of its Monkey prepaid service in very specific ways. Sound familiar?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, getting-special, margins, mobile, mobileads, monkey, orange monkey, orange-shots, prepaid, probably-going, result