Android – Iphone – Applications

Apple has long been known to be pretty strict over what gets into their App Store and what doesn’t. However, as of late, the company has eased up a bit and have been allowing a whole slew of apps into the market that would have otherwise been denied.

One such category of apps that are now being accepted into the App Store are made exclusively for Google Voice. If you’ll remember not too long ago we told you that the GV Mobile + application had made its way onto the app store. While it’s a more than capable Google Voice iPhone app, it’s from a third party developer and not straight from Google.

However, today, TechCrunch has gotten word that Google is in fact working on an official Google Voice application and have already gotten it approved by Apple. If true, this means that it’s only a matter of time before we see the official Google Voice application hit the App Store for all to download.

We’ll let you know when that fateful day arrives.

written by janyton \\ tags: Apple, Application, google-voice, Iphone, mobile, official, official-google, permanent-link, store, voice

Today I’ve got something really interesting to talk about, folks–the crew out at Chinavasion, whom we have not heard much out of lately, shipped me out a Lenovo LePhone, one of only a bare handful to go out. So feel privileged, folks–you’re going to hear about one of the newest models of Android phone in existence and we’re going to be one of the first to tell you about it. And believe me, this one’s a beauty.

The Lenovo LePhone is an Android smartphone that features just over eight gig of storage, five hundred twelve meg of RAM, a variety of supported video formats with an included video player, a three megapixel camera with video and a night shooting mode, a touchscreen display, Wi-Fi access, an MP3 player, clock, calendar, reminder, GPS, mobile web, mobile email, external speakers, a set of earbuds, an extra battery with a dock, a battery with at least five (and as much as seven and a half depending on use) hours of life on a single charge, and enough apps to choke any three horses.

A special word about the apps at this point–being as it’s an Android phone, it has, naturally, access to the Android Market, which, in turn, is patently laden with apps of all stripes.  The LePhone, meanwhile, carries a host of them right out of the box: there are game demos here, an ebook retailer (Aldiko) which gives you H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man and Sun Tzu’s immortal classic The Art of War free of charge, barcode scanner, Facebook access, Google Maps, and a host of others besides. I could be here all afternoon making you a list of apps, but suffice it to say that the list is massive.

The Lenovo LePhone might well be what the Nexus One would have been if Google had had the intestinal fortitude to stay in the cell phone race–a fully realized competitor for the iPhone. It’s most everything the Nexus One was, a magnificent, deep cell phone experience with an incredible variety of options and, in most every way that matters, a worthwhile competitor for the iPhone itself.

In fact, the LePhone takes a lot of its cues from the iPhone–both boast sliding menus and a heavy emphasis on touch screen use.

The video quality is terrific if a bit on the smallish side (which makes sense for a cell phone), and the audio quality is slightly better with the earbuds than with the external speakers, though the external speakers are scarcely slouches. Even if you never made a call with this phone you’d likely still find solid value for it.

But the Lenovo LePhone, which was primarily designed for a Chinese audience before making its way to European markets and, by extension, into the United States at some point, will require some adjustment. Its AC adapter is unlike any I’ve seen before, requiring a strange connection ahead of the USB connector. The menus took some stumbling around before I finally managed to sift my way through them, so there is a learning curve here. But once you catch on to all the Lenovo LePhone’s twists and tricks, you’ll get a powerful and potent cell phone that will give you pretty much everything you want in a cell phone.

The Good

Incredible array of options

Solid camera with great pictures

Extra battery

The Bad

A moderate learning curve

Score 9 / 10

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written by spokoloko \\ tags: chinese, Iphone, lenovo, lenovo lephone, nexus, permanent-link, search, seo, tagging

We’ve recently heard that the RIM Playbook is getting an Amazon Kindle App, and I have just heard that Amazon is planning to launch its own App store for Android.

Of course, this is just a rumor. Here’s what else my Source says:

Revenue split is rumored to be “the greater of 70 percent of the purchase price or 20 percent of the List Price as of the purchase date,” which is pretty strange wording — this “List Price” concept is apparently designed to prevent you from undercutting pricing with other services — and there’ll be a $99 fee to gain entry, which is pretty standard.

I’m sure that we will hear more on this one.

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written by janyton \\ tags: amazon, amazon kindle, augen-android, dell, less-expensive, permanent-link, pretty-strange, price, purchase, services, source, streak, the-purchase

Some of you may remember the Kno Tablet, the huge dual-screen tablet that just received some extra funding.

They want to make a single screen tablet, and it will supplement the dual-screen model. I believe that the screen is a 14.1-inch one,

There isn’t any price or availability date as yet, but I’m sure we’ll see it soon.

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written by janyton \\ tags: 14-inch-screens, Apple, first-tablet, kno, kno tablet, nokia, permanent-link, receives-some, source, tablet, verizon, will-supplement, year

If you want a low-priced iPhone 4, then you might want to check out this deal for a refurbished iPhone.

AT&T is now offering an iPhone 4 16GB for $149.99, but the 32GB is $249.99. That is about a $50 savings, and you will have to go with AT&T and follow all their contractile obligations.

So, you may or not be saving money with this deal, but you might like this.

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written by iieevvn \\ tags: contract, contractile, deal, Iphone, offers, permanent-link, refurbished phones, take-advantage, until-december