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15 December 2008
Can a ZunePhone Survive?
It would be very interesting to know exactly what is going on in the deep darkest recesses of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile steering team’s mind, but compared to their Zune colleagues they’re totally transparent.
Earlier this year Microsoft purchased Danger, and the smart money is on a “Zune Mobile software package for Windows Mobile”.
With rumours of Zune […]
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30 November 2008
iPhone MMS App - Doomed from the Start?
You may or may not know this, but the Apple iPhone has 3 failings - well, it depends on who you talk to - insofar as features that other mobile phones have.
iPhones are missing cut/paste (a function pioneered by Apple in the 1970s), a lack of video recording capabilities and an equally bewildering lack of […]
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22 November 2008
Microsoft Misjudge Android
It would seem that Microsoft aren’t taking seriously the entrance to the mobile OS market by Google via their Android system.
Just 18 months after the launch of the iPhone went completely over the heads of the guys at Redmond, Ballmer now reckons that Google doesn’t have a business model for Android.
Ever heard of Adsense, Steve?
“If […]
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18 November 2008
More iPhone woe for Apple
A recent lawsuit filed against Apple and AT&T which charges misrepresentation of the 3G speed of the iPhone on AT&T’s network has been amended to include a new charge that the iPhone develops hairline cracks in the housing, which according to the plaintiff constitute unfair practices under the New York Deceptive Practices Act.
It’s yet another […]
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17 November 2008
Facebook Mobile
As far as takeup of online services for mobile users, Facebook has become something of a killer app, with 15 million of us updating status, making comments and arranging nights out via our handsets, according to the Facebook developers blog.
It seems that regardless of your platform, you can interact with Facebook - I use Snap2Face […]
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7 November 2008
Blogging on the move: WordPress for iPhone
The best ideas for blog posts usually strike when you’re stuck in the world’s longest checkout queue, or wait for a delayed train. Times when you could write a post if only you weren’t in a supermarket or train station. It used to happened to me a lot, anyway, and by the time I got […]
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5 November 2008
WritingPad: Shape-Writing on the iPhone
So here’s another app which makes writing notes and emails on the iPhone easier. With WritingPad, you can “shape-write” words: trace the letters of a word on the app’s keyboard and when you lift your finger it will be transformed to text.
Word recognition is pretty accurate, and there is also a choice of similar words […]
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4 November 2008
WritePad: Handwriting Recognition for the iPhone
WritePad is a neat little iPhone app if you can’t be bothered with the keyboard - portrait or landscape. With WritePad, you write on the touch screen, and the handwriting recognition software turns it into text.
It works surprisingly well, and it learns the more you use it. There are gestures for return, backspace, undo last […]
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3 November 2008
EasyWriter makes emailing on the iPhone, well, easy
In celebration of National Novel Writing Month, this week I’ll focus on iPhone apps that should be useful to writers. And yes, some of us here at the Gadget Monkey are crazy enough to do a bit of novel writing on the side.
Anyway. EasyWriter (btw, I thought hard about a way to link Born To […]
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31 October 2008
Halloween gadget-style
Pumpkin carving? That is sooo last millennium. Also, carrying a pumpkin around with you is a pretty tiring affair, and you have to make the spooky noises yourself.
A number of app programmers must have thought along the same lines. Search for “pumpkin” in the app store and you’ll get over 20 results. I chose […]
