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Promises to sort out your email once and for all After what seems like months of waiting, Xobni (yes it’s inbox spelt backwards) has launched their BlackBerry App for users of the RIM smartphones.
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Promises to sort out your email once and for all After what seems like months of waiting, Xobni (yes it’s inbox spelt backwards) has launched their BlackBerry App for users of the RIM smartphones. The new app, which will cost $9.99 with a further $3.99 subscription for those who wish to sync their data with their PC version, aims to make sense of your emails by bringing to light search and relationship relevance.
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TomTom listened to our concerns in the navigation app battlemodo , and has not only been dropping the price steadily since , but has just released update 1.3 for its iPhone app—which comes with live traffic updates aplenty. More??
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Are you one of those people who collects stuff ? Not material items, but little tiny scraps of information, be they photos, places, products, text snippets, ideas, or plans?
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Springpad Turns Your iPhone Into a Scrapbook for Everything [IPhone Apps]
Fighting games have always been awkward—and a little sad—as portable experiences, like Rottweilers stuffed in sweaters. Touchscreen controls, you’d think, would be adding a bowtie. But Street Fighter IV iPhone is a poodle in a cardigan
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1m euro prize pot up for grabs
Vodafone, having just announced a deal with Foursquare in the UK is continuing on its quest to embrace developers and get some decent dedicated apps on its handsets.
With that in mind, the company has announced a 1m euro prize fund available to European developers to see who can come up with the best app.
According to the mobile phone operator, the Vodafone App Star competition is open to any developer across the world and closes on 31 March 2010.
Developers can choose to submit their app into one of eight markets (UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain) and the best entry in each market will receive 25,000 euros. The second and third best entries will receive 15,000 euros and 10,000 euros. The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to the public vote.?
The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional 75,000 euros, with the second place app receiving 25,000 euros.
It’s the second time the company has launched the initiative with Smartrunner, a sports-tracking and geo-tracking app that helps you stay in shape using your mobile as the best app first time around.
So do you have an app idea?
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Vodafone launches prize for best App originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:37:03 +0000
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Competitive move sees full-fat GPS to become as-standard feature on Nokia smartphones
Nokia is upping the ante in the mobile phone navigation market with the news is it to make walking and driving navigation free on as part of a new version of Ovi Maps, as it looks to find ways of enticing smartphone customers to buy Nokia phones.
The new version of Ovi Maps – which will rival Google’s navigation offering available on some Android phones, as well as many paid-for offerings from other companies, as well as threaten the in-car GPS market – will include turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries in 46 languages, and traffic information for over 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for over 180 countries.
“It will boost our smartphone sales, it is a big change for the consumer,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia executive VP said confidently at the service’s London launch, before stating that there are 83 million handsets Nokia has sold over the past couple of years that will be able to use the service straight away.
Aside from data charges from operators, Nokia promises no hidden costs, and the “hybrid vector” nature of Ovi Maps means the application can run without a connection once you’ve got the correct map and route loaded up.
As with previous Ovi launches, Nokia is throwing the new mapping data out to the developers, hoping to empower developers to create new applications.
The new Ovi Maps is available now for download for 10 Nokia Symbian handsets, with more smartphones due to be added in the coming weeks, while from March 2010 it will be preloaded on all GPS-enabled Nokia smartphones.
Although the N97 won’t be included in the intital run of handsets available, Nokia has confirmed that it will be available by the end of the month.
The current list of compatible Nokia devices is as follows: Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 classic and Nokia X6.
You can download the app and find out more at http://www.nokia.com/maps.
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Nokia makes Ovi Maps turn-by-turn navigation free originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:58:22 +0000
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Yet more mobile twitter apps to choose from
Seesmic, the Twitter client for the Mac, and recently PC, has announced that it is going mobile with BlackBerry and Android apps.
Leaving out the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android users will be able to get their Twitter feeds on their phone from Friday.
“Seesmic for BlackBerry groups all your Twitter timelines into a simple and clean interface,” says Seesmic with features for both apps including the ability to create and view saved searches, view Twitter lists that you’ve created on twitter.com, shorten urls and send photos, and configure notification alerts for Direct Messages and @Replies.
The news follows an earlier announcement this week the the company was launching a Windows 7 version.
The preview version, which is free, of Seesmic for Windows supposedly “combines the best features from of our ever-popular social application and provides it to you in a native Windows environment.”
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Seemic BlackBerry and Android apps released originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:10:00 +0000
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How square eyed do you think you would get?
You probably don’t use the picture in picture feature much on your television, but what if you could watch up to 64 channels at once on your television at home would you then?
If 64 isn’t enough, what about four times that much? (you would need four TVs of course), but that’s what one company has done here in an attempt to show off the fact that it can optimize its servers to work with multiple streams. ?
How’s it working? If you really must know, it’s 64 HD VLC media windows tiled to run at once per television rather than live TV (your bandwidth probably wouldn’t cope) and you the bad news, is that you aren’t really like to see this in your home anytime soon. Still, it made us do a double take when we walked past it at the web 2.0 expo in New York.
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Picture in Picture TV goes into overdrive, 64 picture overdrive originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:45:58 +0000
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New features available for download
The?TomTom for iPhone app has received an update on Wednesday bringing with it a number of promised features and a couple of new ones too.
New to the mix is compatibility for the original iPhone and iPod touch (all models) meaning that owners of the iPod touch, with the help of the TomTom Car Kit can get in on the?TomTom for iPhone GPS?action too.
Aside from that, features are as expected so that means advanced lane guidance for difficult junctions in both landscape and portrait mode, and text-to-speech functionality that will see street names and places read aloud as part of the spoken instructions.
In addition, TomTom’s “Help Me” emergency feature from its in-car satnavs will be ported to the mobile platform, there’ll be options to customise audio warnings, while maps and safety camera databases will see an update.
Finally the app will catch up with other offerings like CoPilot on the market by adding iPod player control “ensuring drivers can conveniently control their music from within the application”.
The update is free to all those who have already downloaded the application.?
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TomTom for iPhone updated originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:21:38 +0000
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New features and support for new S5 ZonePlayer
Sonos has releases an update to its iPhone and iPod touch app bringing it in line with the new?Sonos Software 3.1?update released recently for the music systems dedicated controller and computer software.?
The new update, which is now available in the Apple app store allows?Sonos owners?to tweet what they are listening to, as well as tweaking the menu system with new icons and logos for the relevant music service.
It also brings in support for the company’s new?Sonos S5 ZonePlayer, which includes a built in speaker. Handy, as the iPhone and the iPod touch app is the main way the company hopes to entice new users in to the streaming music system.
The Sonos controller iPhone app is available across the globe.
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Sonos Controller iPhone/iPod app gets twitter update originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:08:22 +0000
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New features and support for new S5 ZonePlayer
Sonos has releases an update to its iPhone and iPod touch app bringing it in line with the new?Sonos Software 3.1?update released recently for the music systems dedicated controller and computer software.?
The new update, which is now available in the Apple app store allows?Sonos owners?to tweet what they are listening to, as well as tweaking the menu system with new icons and logos for the relevant music service.
It also brings in support for the company’s new?Sonos S5 ZonePlayer, which includes a built in speaker. Handy, as the iPhone and the iPod touch app is the main way the company hopes to entice new users in to the streaming music system.
The Sonos controller iPhone app is available across the globe.
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Each month, the best new iPhone apps—and some older ones—are considered for admission into Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die?
Layar: There’s the obvious reason to be excited about this:
Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you.
And the less obvious, but ultimately more important one: Layar layers, which let you install user-generated overlays of all different kinds of information, like this one, which tracks government bailout spending. Free.
Tweetie 2: From Matt’s review:
It’s the most polished Twitter app yet, oozing slickness with every swipe. Yet, it’s exploding with new features, and still really fast. It manages to cram in every possible feature you could possibly want in a Twitter app-offline reading!-without feeling too complicated or bloated.
It’s three dollars, even if you had the previous version, but totally worth it.
Photoshop: To call this app Photoshop is almost a misnomer—you can’t have anything resembling desktop Photoshop on the iPhone, but you can have a decent photo processing app:
The tools are basic-you can crop, adjust exposure, saturation, and tint, among others, with some standard special effects like soft focus, colors and filters like “warm vintage” and pop-but using entirely swipe-based gestures as a virtual slider for how intensely or lightly the effect is applied is natural and easy
This, combined with ties to an online service and the fact that this, unlike almost any other similar app, is free, make it a must-download.
MotionX GPS Drive: At $3 a month without any kind of long-term commitment, this is currently the cheapest decent turn-by-turn app in the App Store. And it works, pretty well! Until Google Navigation for Maps hits the iPhone, this’ll be the cheapest, least-risky turn-by-turn option out there.
NASA: Pure, welcome information overload for space geeks, in an app. NASA’s really been killing it with their online strategy lately—lots of news, downloadable media and Twitter action—and this app is a wonderful extension.
Squareball: If Pong grew into a platformer, or Breakout into a sidescroller. You can pick it up quickly, but it gets progressively harder over time without ever getting frustrating. In other words, it’s pretty close to a perfect game. Try the free demo before dropping the two dollars though, since with its retro graphics and soundtrack, dead-simple gameplay concept and fast face, this one can be polarizing.
Rock Band: It’s not perfect—controls can be awkward, and the singing mode isn’t really a singing mode, but it represents the first major rhythm franchise to hit the iPhone, and it bear gifts: Great graphics, decent, familiar, song selection, and multiple instruments.
NASDAQ: It’s much more intensive that the stock stock (stock stock stock) app, and comes with StockTwits integration, which provides a little crowd-sources insight to go along with your stream of numbers. Best of all, it’s free.
ReelDirector: This is as close as you’re going to get to iMovie on your iPhone. (Which isn’t very close, to be honest!) Video stitching alone, will be worth the ($8) price of entry for many people, but keep in mind that Apple instantly render this app obsolete if they just built decent editing into their OS.
Nikon Learn and Explore: It’s heavily branded and obviously intended to promote the Nikon name, but hey who cares: Nikon’s Learn and Explore app is actually a great, free photography primer no matter what kind of camera you carry.
So, who will join the illustrious ranks of Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone apps? I’ve sifted through user submissions, app updates and new arrivals to find our newest inductees:
• MotionX Drive, for its brilliant value-to-functionality ratio.
• Photoshop, for undercutting almost all of the overcrowded, underinnovating photo app field with something decent and free.
• Layar, for being a free, solid platform for augmented reality on the iPhone, which will be made great by new layers.
• Tweetie 2, for being even better than it was before, and for being the best iPhone Twitter app out there, assuming you’re willing to shell out a few bucks.
• Instapaper, for its tragic exclusion in the last update: the ability to save pages for offline reading is useful for just about anyone, but absolutely essential if you’re a frequent flyer or subway rat.
• Runkeeper, for simultaneously offering the most feature-complete outdoor exercise app I’ve seen in a while and offering a decent free version as well.
• Backgrounder, a jailbreak app, for giving everyone a taste of what a multitasking iPhone is like. (Hint: pretty great)
• Twitterfon, not because it’s bad—it’s still the best free Twitter app, but because it’s not called Twitterfon anymore. Hello, Echofon.
• TomTom, because Navigon has done more to innovate in the last few months, and because with great, cheap options nipping at their heels, expensive iPhone apps like this are harder to justify.
• Tweetie, for you have been replaced; cannibalized by your own child.
• CameraBag, for being two whole dollars more than Photoshop. (Sorry!)
What counts as an essential iPhone app changes all the time, and so should our guide: If we’ve missed anything huge, or you’ve got a much better suggestion for a particular type of app, let us know, or say so in the comments. We’ll be updating this thing pretty frequently, and a million Gizmodo readers can do a better job at sorting through the app mess than a single Gizmodo editor. Enjoy!
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No need to use a Google number
Google Voice, the currently US only based telephone service from?Google, has announced that it will be allowing users to use their own number to collect messages rather than having to use a dedicated Google number.
“Up until now, if you wanted to use Google Voice, you needed to choose a new number (a “Google number”). Taking calls through your Google number allows us to offer features like call recording, call screening and getting text messages via email,” Craig Walker, Vincent Paquet & Pierre Lebeau, Product Managers said in a blog post.
Clearly struggling to convince people to change their number to a “Google number” the service, which is free for all national calls, now lets you “have the choice to get Google Voice with your existing mobile number OR with a Google number.”
Google Voice users need to just log in and change their settings for the new feature to take affect.
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Google Voice features now work with your main mobile number originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:19:07 +0000
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