By: Aaron We live in an era where social networking has taken over some people’s lives, whether it’s Twitter or Facebook. There are a plethora of Twitter clients already out there, many supporting push notifications. What about Facebook? Does it have push notifications? Not until today. That’s right, Facebook 3.1 for the iPhone is now [...]
If you have been paying attention to the online buzz as of late, you have surely heard the name Nexus One thrown around. Google announced its much anticipated mobile phone just two days ago, and the hype it is generated brings me back to when a certain other phone starting with the letter I was announced. However, as exciting or not exciting as the Nexus One is, Google actually announced something else that excited me more.
If you have not been paying attention, one of the big buzz words lately has been Augmented Reality. There really is no simple way to explain what it is, but let’s just say it is a developing technology that overlays or augments reality creating a separate mixed reality. Yes, I know you are probably more confused now than you were before. What this technology allows you to do practically is aim your camera phone in a certain direction, and using the phone’s GPS in combination with the Web, display results based on the phone’s view. That means you can define that you want the phone to look in a 5 mile radius for pizza stores, ATMs, people on Twitter, or many other things, and the phone will display the results.
Ever since I started tweeting, I have been using Twitterfon, now Echofon as my default Twitter client on my iPod Touch. I always found it to be the closest balance between form and function. However, Twitter is not what it used to be, and there are many new features that were not around back then. Echofon pretty much stayed the same with the exception of some small updates, but never really made the transition to the new Twitter experience, and specifically the addition of Twitter lists.
As the year and decade are coming to an end, it is safe to say that one can summarize this year in the mobile space using only three words: Apps, apps, and more apps. While all the major players in the mobile industry have released some pretty amazing phones this year, the ones who are bringing in the major numbers are the ones who realize that software is the name of the game. Apple surpassed the 100,000 mark, Android is hovering around the 20,000 mark, Nokia released its Ovi store, and BlackBerry’s App World is catching up quickly. It is safe to say that Apple still has the lead by a lot, and in my opinion, there is a direct correlation between that lead and the iPhone’s unprecedented popularity.
Some of you may not know it, but I am from France, and more precisely from Paris. There are a few things that Parisian are particularly proud of, but two monuments automatically spring to mind: the Eiffel tower and le Louvre. I haven’t as of yet found an app relating to the former (if you think you have a great idea post it on appboy!) but there is one for the latter.
As far as I can remember, the group responsible for Louvre has always been at the forefront of the new media. I remember a time, where you could visit the museum on a computer. I am not even saying online because it was at the time when multimedia was in it’s infancy and windows 95 merely a project!
By: Hillel Fuld When it comes to Twitter apps for the iPhone, if you want to succeed, you need to have a significant edge over the competition. There are so many apps available to tweet from your iPhone, that creating just another one wont cut it. As for Twitter itself, the company has not rested [...]
I came across iShoot Turkey for iPhone among the top free games on the app store. As I was downloading it, I thought to myself that this is going to be another one of those download and delete kinda games, you know, the ones I download, play with for 20 seconds, decide are ridiculous and pointless, then delete. I was wrong.
No matter how many times I play games on the iPhone/iPod Touch, I never get enough of the graphics some of these games have. Call me old fashioned, but the fact the a game on a tiny mobile device can look so real and resemble a real life situation so much, is truly astounding. I have seen Paper Toss for iPhone in the top downloaded apps of the App Store for as long as I can remember, but I never bothered to download it, till today, and as I write this review, I am still smiling.
One of the trademark apps of the iPhone platform is the new edition of Facebook for iPhone. It is the most popular app by far, and not only due to the popularity of Facebook, but the app itself is amazing, which drives more downloads. What is so interesting, without getting into the heated debate surrounding the different mobile platforms, is that the very same app, or at least the app that is supposed to do the same thing, is one of the worst apps on the BlackBerry platform.
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