iPhone gets UberTwitter client, BlackBerrys have one less reason to exist
If the name UberTwitter sounds familiar, that'll be because it's one of the more popular mobile Twitter clients, accounting for 10 million tweets each day from BlackBerry users around the globe. And now it's also available on the iPhone. Citing the "growing dominance" of Apple's one-device-to-rule-them-all mobile platform, the UberTwitter crew has decided to expand its offering with a new open beta, which is available to download now
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: application, beta, black, BlackBerry, entry, iphone, million-tweets, social-networking, twitter-client, twitterclient
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
AT&T debuts slim, AMOLED-equipped Pantech Laser slider
Well, it looks like Pantech may not be dropping AMOLED screens just yet after all -- the company has just rolled out its new Laser slider on AT&T complete with, you guessed it, a 3.1-inch AMOLED display. Set to be available on October 17th, the phone is also the thinnest QWERTY slider available on AT&T at just 9.95 millimeters thick, but things unfortunately get decidedly less interesting from there. The Laser is simply a "quick messaging phone," for starters, and you'll only get AT&T's own apps for navigation, social networking, and other basic tasks -- though it does have a somewhat unique "Drawing Commander" feature that lets you draw shapes to make phone calls or launch apps.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: amoled, commander, entry, mean-the-laser, pantech, pantech laser, pantechlaser, quick messaging, qwertyslider, result, rolled-out-its, social-networking, thinnest, though-it-does
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
Facebook phone rumors resurface, Mark Zuckerberg fails to deny them
Let's try to untangle this Facebook mobile phone mess, shall we? Mark Zuckerberg has recently sat down with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch -- the source of the original rumor -- to try and dispel some of the confusion that has arisen as a result. The first thing the Zuckmeister says is that Facebook isn't looking to build its own OS or hardware and is absolutely opposed to competing with the likes of the iPhone and Android
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arrington, confusion, elements, facebookphone, from-the-start, Mobile Phone, social integration, social-networking, sources, speculation, techcrunch, zuckmeister
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
iPhone OS 4 to include Facebook video uploads?
We already knew that Apple was likely ratcheting up the social networking integration in iOS 4 -- that is, if the addition of Linked Contacts and .plist entries referring to Facebook means anything (and it probably does). Adding further flame to the fire, the gang at 9to5Mac.com have dug up a bit of code that appears to handle video exporting to the popular social networking site. As near as we can tell, users will be able to send files at 480 x 480, 30 FPS -- and since Facebook is already using HTML5, you won't have that pesky Steve Jobs / Flash thing to worry about
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: addition, already-knew, facebook, facebookvideo, files-at-480, flame, flash, gang-at-9to5mac, ios 4, ios4, linked-contacts, result, social-networking
iPhone OS 4 reveals its social side: Facebook integration?
Users of webOS and HTC Sense can skip ahead, you're already familiar with tight social networking integration on your handsets.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: calendar, engadget, entry, linked-contacts, result, safety, single, social, social-networking, the-possibility
Apple patent reveals iGroups location-based social networking for iPhone
Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups of people share data amongst themselves using a service like MobileMe. Once group members are identified and linked up, they can securely share information and users carrying devices without GPS-abilities will be able to triangulate their position using the positions of other GPS-enabled devices in the group.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, entry, groups, igroup, igroups, patent, patent application, placeholder, positions, social-networking
SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 debuts with Android, Symbian support
We'd already caught a glimpse of it on Toshiba's new TG02 handset , but SPB Software has now gotten fully official with SPB Mobile Shell 5.0, which will be available to consumers and OEMs alike. The big news with this one is that SPB has added support for both Android and Symbian in addition to Windows Mobile, all of which will be able to take advantage of a spiffy new 3D engine and a new "natural interaction engine" that apparently has full multitouch support. Other additions include some 3D widgets, and an array of tightly integrated social networking features, including Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: consumer, consumers, engadget, facebook, glimpse, gui, handset, mobileshell, networking, result, social-networking, take-advantage