Android – Iphone – Applications

Google’s Android is one of the most popular mobile plaforms currently on the market with a massive installbase and users all around the globe. While the software itself is not perfect one of the biggest gripes consumers have had is market segmentation. In other words, if you buy a new Android powered phone, it may be some time before you’re actually able to grab the latest version of the mobile OS.

However, as time goes on things are getting considerably better with Google even coming forth today to show off the latest report saying Android ‘Froyo‘ 2.2 is now installed on 57.6% of devices powered by the mobile platform. While this isn’t the ideal scenario considering Android ‘Gingerbread‘ 2.3 is already out, it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

If you have an Android powered phone, which version are you running?

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Halfbrick Studios, the company behind “Fruit Ninja” has hinted at the numbers that they are seeing in terms of downloads on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and it’s not bad. Shainiel…



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The age of the touchscreen is uponus with everything from tablets and smartphones to laptops and desktop computers getting the treatment. While touchscreen touting smartphones have been around for some time, capacitive touchscreens didn’t really make their mark until the iPhone was released in 2007. Now that smartphones with these touchscreens have become the norm many consumers are looking towards tablets to fulfill their mobile needs.

One of the biggest user gripes with these capacitive touchscreens is that you can’t use a traditional stylus with them and tablets like the iPad are no different. However, it seems that Apple may be looking to change that as a patent filed by the company has been spotted showing a stylus made specially for the iPad. This special tablet features a pressure detector that will communicate with the iPad via Bluetooth and WiFi as the iPad’s screen itself cannot detect pressure.

No official word on when this is coming if at all but we’ll keep you posted. Would you use a stylus with your tablet?

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Thanks to mobile gadgets a mobile lifestyle is much more practical. However, when it comes to staying connected on the go things can get a bit more expensive. For run of the mill mobile broadband you can either tether your phone or buy a dedicated mobile broadband modem. Both aren’t exactly expensive but they certainly aren’t the cheapest things in the world either. Staying connected in the air, on the other hand, is a whole other story.

If your airline of choice even offers in-flight WiFi, chances are they’re going to charge you an arm and a leg to use it meaning productivity while in the air is going to be costly. Luckily, if you’re looking to check our Facebook in the air, Delta, AirTran, American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Alaska, US Airways and United are now offering free access to Facebook on 1,100 commercial and 5,000 private planes.

No idea how long this will last but at least you’ll have something to do on those long flights, right?

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Well folks, it’s Thursday and you’re on Mobilewhack, and that means that it’s time for me to make a plunge into the depths of the Apple App Store to see what’s going on, and today, I’ve got something extra exciting, but kind of disappointing: iDOS.

iDOS is the revamped version of a Dos emulator that showed up for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch some time back–you know, the one that Apple promptly pulled because having a DOS emulator on Apple systems was making reality implode?–but now pretty much limited to playing half a dozen old shareware games, including, for some reason, two versions of Duke Nukem.

It’s hard to fault any app that’s prepared to give you a six pack of games, and all for free, even if they are pretty much antiques, but this one is just kind of sad. Admittedly, I tried this on an iPod Touch, and on an iPad it might be a different story, but the games just crawled along and were entirely too small to be legible. Still, while the size issue is a function of the platform on which I tested it, I’m not so sure the performance issues will be made up for by the move to iPad.

And even if the performance issues were cleared up, still, how good could it possibly be? Where the old one gave you access to DOS, and everything DOS had to offer, this gives you six old shareware games. It’s like being offered a magnificent roast beef sandwich and then discovering, surprise surprise, it’s mostly sauerkraut.

Still though, if you can’t get enough of those sweet old retro games and have discovered that most computers today turn the whole thing into a chopped salad because they’re orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers they were designed to run on, well, you’ll do pretty well with iDos. But under most circumstances, this absolutely isn’t worth it, even though it’s free.

The Good

Free app

Comes with six free games

The Bad

Significant performance issues

Games are old, and shareware besides

Score 3 / 10

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