The Apple Apps and the mooted Android Apps stores have featured heavily on The Gadget Monkey over the last few days, so what better way to round things up than with strong rumours of a Windows Mobile application store.

This cute device will run the upcoming Windows Mobile 7, a long rumoured adddition to the Microsoft family which will hopefully feature seamless communication and synchronization with its big brother, the successor to Vista: Windows 7.

The app store is apparently called Skymarket, and has been revealed by way of a job advert for a Senior Product Manager:

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Skymarket
This is a unique opportunity and time of rapid change in the mobile industry for a Senior Product Manager in the Mobile Communications Services team to drive the launch of a v1 marketplace service for Windows Mobile.

Key Responsibilities include the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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Toy, gadget or surveillance tool? You can make your own mind up - suffice to say it’s a pretty neat piece of kit.

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Eagle-eyed readers will notice that there is a lack of adverts on the right column of the site.  The reason for this is simple - improving the experience of anyone who visits The Gadget Monkey, while maintaining the site’s income.

In order to do this, we’ve opened The Gadget Monkey Store, available via the link above.  The idea is simple - buy your electronics hardware via our store, and it pays for the hosting.  Anything extra will be ploughed back into the site in order to hire new writers, that kind of thing.

We’re also considering contextual text links within the articles, however a trial run on one of our sister sites will give us the final answer on that.

As always, your feedback - either in the form of comments or an email to me (editor@thegadgetmonkey.co.uk) - is welcome and vital to the continued success of the site.

Let us know what you think, and above all, support The Gadget Monkey!

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The hottest Christmas toy in 2007… a voice activated Dalek with “guard mode”!

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As the release of Google Android - the search engine company’s own mobile phone operating system - marches ever nearer, it has been announced that owners of the HTC Dream and any subsequent Android devices will have access to a Google Android App store, similar to the Apple iPhone apps.

Developers will have the facility add applications to the market by registering as merchants, and the content will be uploaded and published; Google expects features to be added after the initial launch, including a developers dashboard to display analytics information about their content.

Before the birth of the iPhone, applications only became widely used when developers managed to convince the cellphone operator to preload it onto a phone.  A challenge in itself, the iPhone apps model builds upon the proliferation of Java apps and Windows Mobile applications by organising everything in one place and taking a share of the price.

Android is set to make the concept of mobile phone apps to the masses. We wish it the best of luck.

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Damn this is a hot film… the HTC Diamond in action, smooth, TouchFlo sexiness…

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Let’s take a look at the phenomenal iPhone application I Am Rich, which caused several Apple iPhone users with more money than sense to part with a cool $1000 for an image of a glowing red diamond…

Wish I had thought of that…

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The Google Android wheel is rolling, with an example of the device leaked online - you can catch it below - and it seems as though its coming with a slideaway keyboard and all of the usual HTC gubbins.

But why a keyboard?  Why not a touchscreeen device?  There’s a certain, growing amount of consternation among the Apple iPhone loyalists that other companies are nicking ideas off Apple rather than forging their own path.  One of these companies is Google - but if they’re trying to steal a march on Apple or “buy in” to the amazing new trend for mobile UIs, why does the HTC Dream have a slideaway keyboard?

As we’ve already speculated, the only device that comes close to the iPhone 3G in capability and flexibility is the Samsung Omnia.

What will Google Android bring to the party?

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Looks as though The Gadget Monkey has come full circle - we featured this top-quality USB toy months ago!

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Monday November 17th and Tuesday 18th sees Kensington Town Hall play host to the second FOM – Future of Mobile conference event.

With representatives of Google, SonyEricsson and Symbian among the speakers on the Monday and a series of workshops on the Tuesday, FOM is a must-visit to anyone interested in the mobile industry and its possibilities.

One workshop of particular interest takes place on the Tuesday morning, 9-12.30:

Delivering rich media to mobile with Flash Lite

Adobe are on a mission to reduce fragmentation in mobile with Flash Lite. This is becoming virtually omnipresent on new mobile devices. The Open Screen Project is the icing on this cake, the collaboration to remove barriers to content delivery. This will herald rapid growth in the consumption of video on mobile devices.

What you’ll learn
* How to optimise content for Flash Lite.
* Integration techniques for the user interface.
* Optimal use of action script and the rendering engine.
* How to use device profiles and optimise performance.

Tickets can be booked online, with a nice concession for students

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