Despite earlier speculation, the rumors of a possible Android and LiMo collaboration have been quashed. Google claims that they are close to completion with their technology and any kind of input from anyone else would ruin the user experience. Thus they have no interest in LiMo.
This may prove tough for Google in the long run as they are starting to fall behind fast in the market. Despite the end of the year estimate from Android’s Eric Chu for Android’s release, LiMo might already have another round of phones on the market. This will be loss ground for Google.
What to do you think? Any preferences towards either system? Is all the Android hype worth the wait? Will the release date even effect google?
Often times I imagine myself as Luke Skywalker about to make that impossible shot that saves the Rebel forces from Darth Vader’s Evil clutches.
Of course my Datsun 180b is hardly an X-wing and the Brooklyn Bridge is no Death Star but still I can’t help but relive my Leia fantasies of youth when a cool iPhone App like PhoneSaber comes along.
The App uses you Apple iPhone’s inbuilt accelerometer to generate sound at the slightest movement of your projected lightsaber.
If that’s not enough, and quite clearly its not, there’s also Star Wars: The Force Unleashed a multi-touch StarWars gaming fantasy writ large on the grins of nerds everywhere. Sorry honey I won’t be home tonight- there’s a universe that needs saving. Zhoom zhoom.
Apple iPhone users have long been spoiled with cool apps and games but Aqua Forest is somewhere inbetween and one awesome use of the accelerometer and Touchscreen features.
Command fire, water and wind like the Moses of a lesser God as you wreak havoc on the iPhone’s pixelated world.
Not a game? Not an App? Why am I interested? Check out the video
If your sick of all the hoopla about the first Android gPhone and you want in on Android now you can , with a Nokia N810 and a few downloads you can immerse yourself in Google’s open-source OS.
1. First download android.img.bz2 here or here
2. Install the the android-installer.deb from here or here
3. Reboot!
Now to enjoy your new OS just start Android from the extra’s menu and wait 60 seconds and voila you are Google-toting internet-tablet-waving god of thunder.
Once villagers wise to the fact that you are in fact a tech head and not the often claimed god of thunder and you wish to rid yourself of all remaining evidence simply uninstall by removing the deb and deleting the android.img sitting on MMC card to get back to your original jobs-fearing ways.
For Nokia N810 find your flash here for N800 find it here Once installed simply reboot. Now wasn’t that fun.
In a marriage made in heaven the FriendMobilizer app joins Facebook with WinMo phones to allow access to your notifications directly to your mobile.
The free download pushes friends updates be they wall, photo album, status updates or friend requests, and delivers them straight to your smartphone or PocketPC home screen. If you have a HTC Diamond, LG KS20 or even a Samsung I780 you could be reacting to the latest romance in seconds.
Great for those obsessed with all the latest gossip, break-ups and of course cyber-stalkers. Yes I’ looking at you. Get the free download here.
In a major shakeup Nokia has announced its intention to purchase the remainder of Symbian Ltd to create a non-profit Symbian foundation aimed at turning the OS into a single open source mobile platform.
The acquisition requires Nokia to shell out 264 million Euros for the remaining 52.1% of the organization currently held by Ericsson (15.6%), the Sony Ericsson joint-venture (13.1%), the Japan-based Panasonic (10.5%), the German-based Siemens (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
The new company will combine Symbian, S60, UIQ and NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP(S) into a a single open-source platform creating an environment to encourage rapid innovation in what is already the most popular mobile platform in the world.
The news could dampen excitement in Google’s own ‘open’ Android platform and will have Apple and Microsoft’s ‘closed’ platforms re-thinking strategies perhaps with select components of the Symbian Foundation available at launch and the entire platform available within 2 years.
SlingMedia have released a proof of concept video of their video streaming software for the iPhone and will be demonstrating at the Apple WWDC.
While still in pre-alpha the SlingPlayer promises stream video on your iPhone, Tv to go.
While they are still awaiting official approval from Apple to go forward as an approved developer from the looks of the demonstration video this one will have Apple fans giddy.
While US iPhone users have enjoyed rapidly tumbling pricing on mobile calling their Canadian cousins will no doubt have upturned ear at news of a user-friendly VOIP solution for the Apple device.
iCall is in beta presently but the easy switch from GSM to WiFi mid-call allows users the freedom, and cheaper costs, of the VoIP functionality
Interested in cheaper calls and sick of using up your minutes? check out the video.
The $100 Million fund set-up in March to encourage development of applications for the iPhone has finally starting doling out some cash with two new apps taking advantage Whrrl and iControl.
Whrrl is a social mapping service that takes web 2.0 to your Apple and lets users rate events, entertainment and restaurants, the other iControl turns your iPhone into a multi-purpose device taking care of of all the nitty gritty of appliance control, light, sound and what have you.
Having received innumerable proposals the iFund still only has two new competition crushing apps being funded - but really what’s the rush?
Opera Mobile 9.5 is set to come preloaded on the HTC Diamond and be available for WinMo devices generally and by the looks of this video there is reason for excitement.
Including context-based zooming (Opera Zoom), finger scrolling and panning, tabbed browsing, Flash Lite 3 support, fast page loading and the ability to save pages for offline viewing Opera Mobile 9.5 is definitely worth checking out. Enjoy the video.
