By Editor on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Motorola Backflip which came out this weekend for AT&T looked like a standard mid-range Android device. According to the critics it is completely bush league.
While the Backflip is loaded with AT&T’s bloatware, the default Google is completely replaced with Yahoo. AT&T is doing business so it cannot be blamed for blindly copying Android but you can blame them for not allowing you to delete those carrier apps or install apps that don’t come from the Android Market.
According to Phandroid, programs cannot be installed from other app stores even if an individual puts them into his microSD card while it’s connected to his computer. This could be AT&T approach to ensure that the Backflip Android experience isn’t tainted by bad apps but it goes directly against what the company said it planned to do with the operating system.
Last year the AT&T Mobility’s CEO, Ralph de la Vega opined that, the Android is liked as an operating system on its own, however the company wants to make sure that the company as well as the customers have the option to put applications on that device that are not just Google applications. Therefore when the G1 came out and T-Mobile launched it, it’s primarily a Google phone.
The company wants to give customers the choice of other applications on that device and not just the same Google applications.
Eric Zemen of Phonescoop added to the scene by mentioning on his Twitter stream that the MotoBlur on his Backflip gave him the option to set up myFaves at a time when myFaves is an exclusive calling feature of T-Mobile.
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Tagged with Android, Android Market, Applications, AT&T Mobility, Droid, Google Applications, Launched, LED, MicroSD card, Mobile, MOTOBLUR, Motorola, Operating System, Phandroid, phone, RIM, T-Mob, T-Mobile, twitter
By Editor on February 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A social networking service called Ideas has been launched by Latin American mobile operator America Movil. Through the service, the users can stay connected and update their account on social networking sites directly from their mobile phones.
The SMS or MMS sent by the Ideas users will be automatically posted on social networks, including Facebook, YouTube, WordPress, Twitter, and Picasa.
Mexico will be the first country to receive the service followed by Latin America.
By Editor on February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A Vodafone employee has been suspended by the company after he posted a homophobic comment on the company’s twitter account which meant, Vodafone’s account had been hacked. The employee had official access to the Twitter service as part of their customer care role.
The team managing the account quickly deleted the post and spent the rest of the afternoon posting “We weren’t hacked. A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally. We’re very sorry” to people who complained about the message.â€
However, the goof up resulted in an addition of a further four hundred followers as many Vodafone customers became aware of a Twitter presence for the company.
By Editor on January 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Sony Ericsson signed a deal with Japan’s largest mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo to supply its first smartphone using Google Inc.’s Android operating system, Xperia X10, to be launched in April.
However, Sony’s Ericsson’s entry in the iPhone market is late to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone or Research In Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry devices.
According to Bert Nordberg, president of the loss-making joint venture between Sony Corp. and Sweden’s Ericsson, DoCoMo will be company’s first customer globally to get its new mobile phone.
Some of the features of the phone include four-inch touch-screen and a powerful mobile processor besides some software features that allows users to track all of their communication with friends or colleagues, spanning phone calls, e-mail and even social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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Tagged with Android, Apple, ASIA, Blackberry, Facebook, iPhone, Japan, Launch, NTT DoCoMo, Research in Motion, Sony Ericsson, Sweden, twitter, Xperia X1
By Editor on January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A new Android-based mobile handset has been launched by LG Electronics through T-Mobile UK and Virgin Media under the name of LG InTouch Max GW620. The device has an access to over 20,000 applications available on the Android Market.
Both free and payable apps including weather, games, mapping, Facebook and Twitter applications has been offered by LG InTouch Max GW620. The features of the phone include a 5-line QWERTY and touch screen keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera, a 3-inch touch screen, and a 1500mAh battery. The Social Networking Manager built-in application allows the users to access their friend’s social networking profiles directly from their contacts lists.
Auto Face-tagging and Face-to-Action are some of the other qualities making social networking through your phone all the more exciting.
By Editor on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the goal to extend the smartphone experience to average users on mainstream devices, Korean handset vendor Samsung put the wraps off its Bada platform, announcement of which was made a month
ago in London. The OS will be launched in the first half of 2010. However, the company made it clear that Bada is actually not a brand new OS but it is based on the existing Samsung proprietary.
Though the firm is involving itself in a variety of top-tier smartphone OS community projects, it still believes that sufficient enthusiasm cannot be achieved by collaboration to bring the smartphones to the mass market or at a cost point that will allow them to be bought by a wide audience.
According to Thomas Richter, director of portfolio management, Samsung Telecommunications Europe, the new technology will be based on touch interface. Bada trident will have an existing operating system, UI technology and industrial design expertise. However, the effectiveness of the device depends upon thriving community of capable developers.
Twitter, EA Mobile, Capcon, Gameloft and, oddly, onetime video rental market leader Blockbuster are some of the on hand content partners of the Samsung.
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Tagged with ASIA, Bada platform, Blockbuster, Europe, Gameloft, Korea, London, Mass Market, Operating System, Samsung Telecommunications, smartphones, Teleco, twitter
By Editor on December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After Telstra which already has an official AFL app, Vodafone and 3 have joined the league by releasing their official cricket app. The application which can be downloaded at $1.19 allows the customers to watch live matches for $2.50 a day on their iPhone’s screen.
Even if the customers are on a different network, they can still buy the app but without added video goodness. The Live Summer App of Vodafone and 3 gives access to cricket TV channel featuring live streaming action including exclusive video highlights from Cricket Australia and Channel Nine.
The customers can also avail the facilities of getting live scores for every match, ball-by-ball text commentary, Face book, twitter & email in-app sharing• Full match schedules and reminders and latest cricket news stories are also available.
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Tagged with AFL, ASIA, Australia, channel nine, email, iPhone, Network, Summer App, Telstra, text commentary, twitter, video highlights, Vodafone
By Editor on May 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment
The New York Times has a story today about mobile social networking applications – particularly focusing on the new hot thing, Twitter, as well as Jaiku, social image site Radar, and Kyte. While the article doesn’t break any new ground, it does mention some Helio user numbers – saying some 70% of Helio’s 700,000 users (as of the end of last year) use integrated MySpace functionality.
Mobile social networking software, also called mososo by those people who want to make everything into a cute word, has been around for a few years, with some flashes in the pan such as Dodgeball, which Google seems to have not made up its mind about, breaking onto the scene a couple years ago to start the ball rolling. Text has continued to be the killer social app, and maybe Twitter has taken that a half-step forward. Kids today like the social aspects, but some apps’ complexity turns users off after a while. So, what’s the next killer mobile social app? GPS, like Boost Loopt or Helio’s BuddyBeacon? Viral video and images? Push-to-talk? Will it continue to be simple text messaging? Integration with the top social sites only? What new innovation might break this space open finally?
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3 and Vodafone launch their official AFL app (Australia)
By Editor on December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After Telstra which already has an official AFL app, Vodafone and 3 have joined the league by releasing their official cricket app. The application which can be downloaded at $1.19 allows the customers to watch live matches for $2.50 a day on their iPhone’s screen.
Even if the customers are on a different network, they can still buy the app but without added video goodness. The Live Summer App of Vodafone and 3 gives access to cricket TV channel featuring live streaming action including exclusive video highlights from Cricket Australia and Channel Nine.
The customers can also avail the facilities of getting live scores for every match, ball-by-ball text commentary, Face book, twitter & email in-app sharing• Full match schedules and reminders and latest cricket news stories are also available.
Filed under Mobile · Tagged with AFL, ASIA, Australia, channel nine, email, iPhone, Network, Summer App, Telstra, text commentary, twitter, video highlights, Vodafone