CTIA: Verizon Opening App Store on Monday March 29th
During CTIA, Verizon has announced and confirmed the debut of its own branded application store for its lineup of handsets and smartphones. The first devices to support the new app store will be the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2, with more devices being supported in the future. This announcement follows Verizon’s initial announcement made last summer […]
Opera Announces Mini for iPhone App Submission to App Store
Opera has taken a rather novel approach to submitting its iPhone version of the popular Opera Mini browser to Apple’s App Store for approval. First it has issued a press release stating the submission of the app earlier this morning, and it has also opened up a dedicated portal with a timer that details the […]
Yes, Apple Blocked MobileEdition: What We’re Doing About It
A year ago, at CTIA, we announced MobileEdition. It was the first tool that allowed bloggers to quickly take a blog, and turn it into an App Store app. No, it never shipped. We were told by Apple it wouldn’t last long on the market, as they’d pull the plug. In fact, they even rejected […]
Apple Bans Apps with Sexual Content from App Store, Leaves Developers in Lurch
Apple has quietly reinstated its adult content ban in the App Store and is now banning the following content according to Wobble developer Jon Atherton: 1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either) 2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn’t ask about Ice Skating tights for men) […]
CES: Stupid Samsung Tricks
Samsung has done some odd marketing moves in the past, but these two take the cake. The first photo on the left depicts a quality rating system that makes Intel’s dumbed-down “brains” ratings blush. The second photo takes it even farther. An entire exhibit kiosk devoted to showing the Android Market, which is “Serviced by […]
Skype Confirms App Store Outage, Points to Bug Being Fixed
A few hours ago, Skype became unavailable for download on the App Store. PhoneNews.com has confirmed with Skype that it is a known issue. The company also confirmed that it is due to a “fault which has made Skype for iPhone unavailable to some people.” A fix has been identified, and Skype hopes to restore […]
Review: Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless)
Motorola, and Google, have done something that no other phone has done before. They have built a phone better than any iPhone. Now it gets interesting. First, we’ll get the obligatory iPhone boilerplate out of the way. Yes, contrary some fist shaking, iPhone (3GS) was the phone to beat, until today. Be it in the […]
Sony Ericsson to Turn PlayNow Into App Store
Sony Ericsson has announced that it will add a centralized application store to its European-oriented PlayNow multimedia download service with plans to expand it outside of Europe later this year while continuing to support the older Fun & Downloads portal during the transition to PlayNow. The manufacturer has also signed an agreement with the venerable […]
Deal: Apple iPod touch 1G Refurb – Starting at $159
Apple is selling their refurbished original iPod touch units at a bargain price. The 8GB iPod touch sells for just $159 on their store. Why is this on PhoneNews.com? Well, we’ve been at the forefront of the iPod touch revolution. Using a Wi-Fi slinging smartphone, you can feed any iPod touch 3G connectivity… and have […]
LogMeIn Ignition Gives iPhone Reliable Remote Access
LogMeIn has released their long awaited iPhone and iPod touch client, Ignition. The application is the first native LogMeIn client for iPhone. While LogMeIn did support an HTML-based browser inside of Safari, the experience was very poor and unreliable at best. This new client offers all the connection options of a native PC, including keyboard […]