Author Archive: Gareth

Foursquare for Windows phone now in Beta

The app is only available for touch screen Windows phones today. The .NET Compact Framework v3.5 is a pre-requisite for you to be able to run the application on the phone. You’d also need a phone that runs either Windows Mobile 6.1 or a Windows Mobile 6.5.

You can get the goods by emailing [email protected] or submitting your email address in this webform:http://touchality.com/WinMoSquare/

This is a beta. We definitely want to add features to expose the leaderboard, add new friends on the fly, and incorporate any new APIs that Foursquare may expose. There are also plans to submit this application to theWindows Marketplace for Mobile, and that will happen as soon as we hit v1 of the app and we’re confident that we’re beyond a beta.

Via Artificial Ignorance and J2inet

Archos 7 with Android

Whilst the Archos 5 with Android’s firmware is still trying to find firm footing Archos have released some nice images for the Archos 7 version. Packing an extra webcam this Android based Internet tablet looks set to be even more attractively priced. After the break are some pictures and notice on the second one that there is a lovely looking £150 (inc VAT) price tag. Making this a device for every home to have.

HTC HD2 with Android almost here?

There have been so many rumours of an Android version of the HD2 since the HD” (or Leo’s) inception. Look like those rumours could be ringing true if the HTS Supersonic is anything to go by. HTC have a dynamite product on their hands with the HTC HD2 and sharing the form factor with Android will put smiles on many faces, especially mine. Here is what Unwired had to say:

Dual boot your phone

Sounds farfetched, the stuff of dreams and a good bricking in the post but Tiltmobility is reporting that there is an interesting development in the world of Android and Windows Mobile phones. That’s right, the client has been released and if your Windows Mobile has an Android version then you could theoretically run them both. the Touch Pro2 is a likely candidate. Read on for the article.

It was just hours ago that we mentioned that Yozgatg would be releasing a way to dual boot a device in Android and WM and it’s now live. The download is located here. In order to use this you need to have a device that has Android ported to it (a so called ‘XDAndroid’ port). So while he has released a loader for QVGA, VGA and WVGA you still need a port of Android (which is what we anticipated). As you know, the Touch Pro/Diamond port is pretty far along. The Touch Pro 2 port is moving along at pretty good speed but it isn’t as far as the Touch Pro is.

Huge Nexus One review

Matt, from Tracyandmatt.co.uk, has publish a huge and insightful review of the new Google Nexus One. From the sounds of it, he was quite taken by it and so many questions are answered about the device operations. With many illustrations this is one must read for anyone with a fleeting interest with the handset.

Impact of iPad on iPhone: universal binary

Even if you don’t plan to buy an iPad, the fact that it goes on sale will have positive impact on iPhone users… and will be beneficial for iPhone developers too.

Of course we expect that some iPad apps like iBooks ebook reader will trickle down to iPhone, but one particularly interesting thing in iPad is so called “universal application” concept:

Apple tablet arrived and it is called Apple iPad !!!

It’s beautiful!

Answers to all Apple tablet questions will be known today!

It will be 6PM in London, UK, when the launch event of Apple will start today. While during the launch event of iPhone in 2007 nobody knew for sure whether this product will revolutionise anything, this time things are different: thanks to huge success of iPhone and iPod touch and their app store, now everybody expects that Apple’s product will be revolutionary…

Gigabyte GSmart Android appears

 

In our first podcast of the year, Matt from TracyandMatt.co.uk correctly predicted that Gigabyte would adopt Google’s Android OS and slap into on the G-Smart. They did.

The Gigabyte Android smartphone doesn’t have a name yet, but it’s part of the GSmart series – which, until now, included only Windows Mobile devices.

The new handset runs Android 1.6, it has a trackball and measures 103 x 54 x 13.4 millimeters. Mobile-review has some photos of the device: