Filed in archive iPhone Apps on June 8, 2010

FarmVille and Guitar Hero: Goes To The App Store

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Mobile game fans have reason to be happy after Steve Jobs announcement at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Two high-profile games are on their way to the App Store.

FarmVille, arguably the most popular game on Facebook is getting its own native app on the iPhone. On top of that, those of you who fantasize about being rock stars can look forward to turning your iPhone into a guitar when Guitar Hero comes to the iPhone.

Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, announced the iPhone version of FarmVille. FarmVille is a real-time social farm simulator that has than 80 million users. One of out every five Facebook users are play FarmVille. The iPhone version will include all the familiar features of the game, including allowing players to use in-app purchases to get cash and coins to purchase things like seeds, animals, buildings, decorations, and vehicles. iPhone users will be able to start farming on their phones at the end of June-coinciding with FarmVille's one-year anniversary.

Activision's Senior Vice President Karthik Bala announced that Guitar Hero has hit the App Store. It will be a $3 app and is now ready for downloading. Guitar Hero for the iPhone game has classic rock songs by Queen and the Rolling Stones as well as more current rock hits from the Vampire Weekend and Rise Against. High scores can be posted on Facebook.

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Filed in archive Smartphones on June 7, 2010

HTC Mobile Phone – A New Revolution Mobile Phone

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The HTC P3400mobile phone is a quad-band GSM mobile phone featuring 2.8-inch 65K TFT display, combined with 2.0 Megapixel digital camera, GPRS, EDGE, Media player with 5-band equalizer, and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP.

The HTC cell phone P3400 is a quad-band GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz smartphone that features a large 2.8-inch, 240 x 320 pixels, 65K colors QVGA touchscreen display, and HTC RollR (Trackball and Track Wheel) for easy navigation and browsing.

The HTC P3400 smartphones are well manufactured with a Taxes Instruments OMAP 850 processor running at 201 MHz. Equipped with 64 MB SDRAM Memory along with 128 ROM, which allows user anunlimited contacts phonebook, unlimited call records and supports Photo ID call, the HTC P3400 smartphone also offers microSD media card support for extended memory storage. HTC P3400 smartphone is also equipped with fast USB v2.0 port HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one) that is used for both power recharging and PC connectivity for data exchange.

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Filed in archive iPhone , iPhone Apps on June 6, 2010

Skype For iPhone Now Has 3G, But For A Fee

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Finally, Skype for the iPhone will now let you make Skype calls over AT&T's 3G network but there will now be charges for Skype-to-Skype calls and AT&T is closing down its unlimited data plans.

Version 2.0 of the Skype iPhone app now allows Skype calls to be placed over AT&T's 3G data network. AT&T had actually given the go signal for Skype calls last year, but the Skype app itself only worked over Wi-Fi until just now.

This means you can bypass AT&T's voice network altogether - even when you're out of Wi-Fi range - so you can now place unlimited voice calls with fellow Skype users for free. Calls landlines and non-Skype users worldwide will cost about 2 cents a minute.

But there are limits. The iPhone's "push notification" feature is still not supported. But Skype will be able to warn you of incoming calls when the new iPhone 4.0 software gets out in the summer.

Free Skype-to-Skype calling is, however, going. Skype has announced that free Skype-to-Skype 3G calls will last only till 2010 after which a "small monthly fee" will be charged. No one knows yet how much these calls will cost although Skype-to-Skype calls over Wi-Fi will still be free.

AT&T also announced that unlimited 3G data plans will go. New customers will pay $25 a month for 2GB of data, or $15 a month for 200MB, plus any overage charges. ($10 for an extra GB in the case of the 2GB plan, or $15 for another 200MB for the 200MB option). Those under a current plan will be grandfathered in.

So, if you have 20 Skype contacts, log on for an hour and a half each day, do 25 daily minutes of Skype text chat, and use 20 minutes of Skype calls you'll be using about 1MB of data a month. That's still pretty much covered in AT&T's $15/month 200MB plan.

However, if you make long daily conference calls over 3G via Skype, well ... that will cost you some.

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Filed in archive Android , Smartphones on June 1, 2010

HTC Evo 4G: The Best Smartphone Rooted To Run “Froyo”

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It's no secret that smartphones are becoming wildly popular as time goes on, and that trend looks like it will continue throughout 2010. HTC showed the most impressive growth on the Android as HTC smartphones receive positive referrals from friends and family. With "Froyo", being the OS for HTC EVO 4G, the handset's appeal gets further enhanced.

Though Google's latest latest Android OS "Froyo" is not officially available on Nexus One, the XDA developers had an experience of the Froyomania on the HTC Desire; it is time for HTC EVO 4G to get powered by this recently launched version of Android OS. The soon to be released HTC EVO 4G will also enable users to run several applications simultaneously and it seems that the hacked Android 2.2 ROM for EVO 4G is much faster than Android 2.1 and almost 2 to five times faster than 2.1 as promised during the Google I/O keynote.

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Filed in archive Android , Smartphones on May 31, 2010

The Launch of the New Motorola Android Phones

© Todd Barnard
From a single device in 2008 to well over 25 models, the Android smartphone platform from Google has proved to be textbook sleeper hit, with virtually every vendor worth its salt releasing an Android touch screen only phone. With the Milestone, Motorola has chosen to kit their devices with slide-out full QWERTY keyboards, providing keyboard- diehards some much needed Android love.

With Smartphone reviews claiming Moto Droid (Milestone) as one of the best spec'd phones to ever run Android, Motorola will be back with a bang as Motorola and Verizone Wireless set out to add two new Motorola Android Smartphones to its portfolio in July this year. Catching the Android wave- as an open-source OS- may lead to some confusion, but the new releases are likely to turn the wave and vindicate themselves as top smartphones.

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