Friday, January 14, 2011

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Best Mobile Apps Of the Week for iOS, Android and Symbian – #5

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 05:35 PM PST


Welcome to the fifth edition of Best Mobile Apps of the Week for iOS, Symbian and Android. In this edition of Best Mobile Apps of the Week (BMATW), we will introduce our readers to a very slick RSS app for iOS, a new Launcher for Android and a painting application for Symbian devices.

Below are the featured mobile apps of the week for iOS, Symbian and Android:

ADWLauncher EX (Android)

AD Launcher EX is the paid version of the highly popular ADW Launcher. The paid version of the app offers some nice features over the free version including some crazily awesome animations. The app also includes four different kinds of App drawers including 3D and a 4D one.

Below is a video demonstrating all the features of ADWLauncher EX:

In fact, ADWLauncher EX is so good that it has forced me to change loyalties from LauncherPro. To know more about ADWLauncher EX, readers can read our full review here. The app is downloadable from the Android Market for $3.50.

Pulse (iOS)

Pulse is one of the best looking RSS readers available for iOS. The app has a UI unlike any other feed reader out there.  The app shows a picture of the webpage and the heading of the post.

Below is a screenshot of how Pulse looks -:

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Pulse brings in only the ‘bare essentials’ of an article by stripping the post from other irrelevant stuffs like advertisements, images etc. The app also includes some nifty features like Offline sync, Easy Share and News Discovery. iOS users can download Pulse for free from the App Store.

Pulse is also available on the Android Market for free.

Scribble Away (Symbian)

Scribble Away for Symbian OS is a simple painting tool. Even though 'simple', the app has all the basic painting features covered including the canvas type and even allows users to share their paintings on popular social networking sites. A simple but definitely a fun filed time killing application.

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Scribble away is available for all the touch based phones from Nokia running on Symbian S60v5 or Symbian^3. Symbian users can download the app from here.


Best Mobile Apps Of the Week for iOS, Android and Symbian – #5 originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Rajesh Pandey on Friday 14th January 2011 08:35:29 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Ultrasn0w Permanently Unlocks The iPhone 3G On Baseband 06.15

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST


Here is some good news and possibly some bad news for 3G users. According to @MuscleNerd’s tweet, the Ultrasn0w unlock for baseband 06.15 will be permanent.

Because there’s no 4.3 beta for iPhone3G, it’s effectively unlocked for life via the 06.15 ultrasn0w unlock

However, here is the bad news. This means that iPhone 3G users will not get the iOS 4.3 update and will possibly be locked out of any future updates coming from Apple too.

The iPhone 3G was launched around 3 years ago, so it makes sense for Apple to remove support for the device considering that they might launch the iPhone 5 this year.

So have fun with your unlocked for life iPhone 3G but don’t expect any new goodies from Apple.


Ultrasn0w Permanently Unlocks The iPhone 3G On Baseband 06.15 originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Keith Dsouza on Friday 14th January 2011 04:13:00 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Researchers Put The iPhone Audio Port To Proper Use

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 10:41 AM PST


Researchers at the University of Michigan have been working away at putting the 3.5mm audio port on the iPhone to many other uses other than playing music, including the ability to display EKG readings on the 3.5″ Retina Display. While this isn’t one of the first products we’ve seen that extends the functionality of an iPhone using the audio port, it certainly is one of the most interesting. The code for interfacing with the “HiJack” is free, open source and available under the BSD licensing scheme. The research team has advised that they will be reviewing project proposal ideas and providing 20 project-taskers with hardware in order to develop and continue research.

This project provides developers, DIY’ers and other researchers access to external hardware without going through the Dock Connector API and without jailbreaking the device, all for the extremely cheap (if done in large volumes) price of $2.34 for the hardware.


Researchers Put The iPhone Audio Port To Proper Use originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Friday 14th January 2011 01:41:06 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Apple App Store To Serve Up 10 Billion Downloads Soon

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:53 AM PST


If you’re one for trumpeting numbers, you ought to know that according to the flip-clock counter that Apple has put up, presumably indicating the number of downloads and not an interval clock, the App Store is soon to hit the 10 billion mark. That’s 10 billion downloads, no word on it being unique downloads, re-purchases or previously downloaded material or if there’s any other number fudging going on, but it is what it is. To commemorate such a glorious event, Apple is giving users the chance to win a $10,000 USD iTunes gift card. Download the ten billionth app for your chance to win. Of course, if you don’t own an Apple device capable of accessing the App Store, you can simply fill out an entry form for your chance to win – no downloads or purchases necessary and you can actually submit it a maximum of 25 times per day.

Good luck to any readers who enter!


Apple App Store To Serve Up 10 Billion Downloads Soon originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Friday 14th January 2011 12:53:00 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Ovi Store Receives Fit And Finish Update

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:03 AM PST


Let’s face it, the Ovi Store might not really stack up to some of the offerings from the competition, fortunately, the folks at Nokia are working away at making it a better experience for users. Today, the Ovi Store got a small update that polishes things up just a bit more by adding the much needed feature of spelling correction. Text input on a mobile device can be a bit finicky, by using intelligent search correction, the Ovi Store can correct your spelling and search for the most relevant item you are looking for.

The update also brings the addition of Hindi and Arabic languages to the S40 client, which also receives an update that packages up a brand new UI that makes it easier for users to locate and download apps, games, themes and music. The updates are live now and are a welcomed addition to the growing Ovi Store. Visit the Nokia Ovi Blog for the official word.


Ovi Store Receives Fit And Finish Update originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Friday 14th January 2011 12:03:44 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Nokia’s AT&T X7 Gets Pictured

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:40 AM PST


More pictures of the Nokia X7 have surfaced over at Pocketnow. This time around, a full “360″ style image shows off the 4 speaker grilles and the 8 megapixel camera along with the dual LED flash. The AT&T logo sits loud and proud on the front upper portion of the X7, which is a clear indication that this music-centric device should be headed to the big blue carrier soon.

Unlike the N8 and E7, the X7 lacks an HDMI-out port but continues along with the same styling and design cues and seems to forgo a user-accessible battery for the sealed, monoblock aluminium body instead. The pictures indicate a volume rocker and dedicated camera key on the right side, both the SIM card slot and microSD card slot are covered by hard doors on the left side of the device, the bottom is bare save for a tiny microphone hole and the top houses the microUSB charge/sync port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and what looks to be an angular power button.

Although the X7 shares extremely similar internals at the E7 and N8, it has a newer and updated version of Symbian^3 as indicative of the 4 home screens available to the user. No word of a price or launch date on this yet, but sporting a carrier logo means it might be in the final stages of testing.


Nokia’s AT&T X7 Gets Pictured originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Friday 14th January 2011 11:40:13 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

LG Optimus 2X Quadrant Benchmark Score

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:30 AM PST


LG announced the Optimus 2X last month. The Optimus 2X was the first phone announced from any manufacturer which is based on the highly anticipated Nvidia Tegra 2 platform. Nearly all the upcoming handsets and tablets from all major manufacturers will be based on the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform.

However, as much as we have heard about the Tegra 2 platform no company has provided us with raw benchmarks of the device, until now that is.

Thanks to Tech Bloggr, we have got a video of Quadrant in action of the LG Optimus 2X-:

LG Optimus 2X Quadrant Benchmark

Here is the link to the video for all our feed readers.

As seen from the video above, the Optimus 2X literally blows the competition away. The phone scores a whopping 2391 in the Quadrant benchmark. However, we should keep in mind that the Quadrant app has still not been optimized for dual-core processors.

The app still sees the dual-core Tegra 2 processor as a single core one.  Once an updated version of the app comes out, we expect these numbers to improve.

(Source)


LG Optimus 2X Quadrant Benchmark Score originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Rajesh Pandey on Friday 14th January 2011 11:30:24 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Blackberry Storm 3 Image Render and Specifications Leaked

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:06 AM PST


If the previously leaked Blackberry devices weren’t enough, the folks over at BGR have gone ahead and posted up another image render aside some specifications of the Storm 3. Outfitted with a relatively large 3.7″ 480×800 resolution screen, one can only hope that RIM has decided to drop their “SurePress” technology and run with a regular “non buttoned” capacitive screen for ease of use to regular consumers. Along with the other “next generation” Blackberry devices, the Storm 3 packs new internals, supports “3G Mobile Hotspot” as well as the OpenGL standard and should also be shipping with OS 6.1.

Blackberry Storm 3 Specifications

1.2GHz processor
3.7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive display
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Tri-band UMTS/HSPA
5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording
8GB eMMC (storage for apps and data), 512MB of RAM
microSD slot
Magnetometer
Proximity sensor
Accelerometer
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
2.4GHz b/g/n and 5GHz a/n Wi-Fi + UMA
3G Mobile hotspot
Optical trackpad
1230 mAh battery

Via BGR


Blackberry Storm 3 Image Render and Specifications Leaked originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Friday 14th January 2011 11:06:46 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Samsung Galaxy S Mini (Samsung S5830) Spotted

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 04:16 AM PST


A previously unknown member of the Samsung Galaxy family has been caught on camera by SamFirmware and Teena. Pictured below is the Samsung S5830, a smaller edition of the popular Galaxy S, which is expected to be announced next month at the Mobile World Congress.

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Based the leaked spec sheet, the Samsung S5830 or Galaxy S Mini seems to a budget Android handset that is aimed at those who can’t afford the Galaxy S, but want something more competent than the Galaxy 3 and 5, which are Samsung’s low end Android handsets. The S5830 reportedly runs on FroYo (Android 2.2) and has an HVGA (480 x 320 pixels) display. It features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, MicroSD and MicroUSB. The processor being used by Samsung is Qualcomm’s MSM7227.


Samsung Galaxy S Mini (Samsung S5830) Spotted originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Pallab De on Friday 14th January 2011 07:16:01 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Rumor: Samsung Forte, New QWERTY LTE Android for MetroPCS

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:58 AM PST


Samsung ForteSamsung Hub has come across some details and a leaked image of a new Android smartphone by Samsung – the Samsung Forte. Apparently, it is an LTE enabled device for MetroPCS. It will sport a sliding QWERTY keyboard and will come with a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and a 5 MP camera.

It will run Android 2.2 Froyo with the TouchWiz UI but will likely get an upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. No other details are out yet.

via Samsung Hub


Rumor: Samsung Forte, New QWERTY LTE Android for MetroPCS originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Pathik Shah on Friday 14th January 2011 06:58:42 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.
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