While being frustrated by all of the various instant messaging clients available for mobile devices and PCs, I noticed that the majority of the people I know were often available on Facebook chat. I had been thinking about this for a while and recently I noticed the same thoughts expressed by Zack Wittaker over at Zdnet. There’s no need for Blackberry Messenger anymore, everybody you know is on Facebook and Facebook chat is supported by …
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Zune Social’s Facebook Integration Upgraded to Support Posts
Lately the whole social networking for music thing has seen a resurgence. Spotify has some cool Facebook integration and iTunes’ Ping is another attempt at socializing users music libraries. Of course we know Zune kind of invented the idea many years ago, although I think Microsoft got the idea to do a legal music-sharing social network from the illegal-days of the original Napster. Anyway, the Zune HD’s Facebook app had this really cool feature where …
Continue readingApple vs. Mango: UI, App Stores, Music, & Web Browsing
We thought it would be fun to do a little comparison between Windows Phone Mango and Apple’s iOS. Just to warn you, we decided to use Apple’s iOS 4 on a 4th generation iPod Touch rather than the iOS 5 beta since the latter seemed to be too buggy for now. So take a look at some of the major differences and similarities between two tasty fruits–Windows Phone Mango and Apple’s iOS. Startup time First, …
Continue readingIs your 4G HSPA+ Category 10, 14, or 20?
The whole “4G” thing can be pretty confusing these days, especially now that everyone is calling HSPA+ 4G when it’s really more like 3.5G or 3.7G. It turns out, HSPA+ or “Evolved HSPA” has a couple flavors and different devices support different speeds. Category 10 implementations of HSPA+ supports 14.4Mbps download speeds under optimum theoretical conditions. That’s the type of “4G” the Motorola Atrix and Inspire 4G support on AT&T. Then there’s Category 14 HSPA+ …
Continue readingMultitasking Differences: WP7, Android, and iOS
Everybody wants a smartphone that multitasks, but multitasking can have different meanings and certainly different methods and implementations. We’ve recently learned that Windows Phone 7’s Mango update will enable multitasking for the new OS, but it’s definitely not going to be the same as the way Windows Mobile did it back around the turn of the century between 2000 and 2010. Back then multitasking was implemented in a similar way to how desktop computers do …
Continue readingAngry Birds Rio Now Available on Nokia N8 (Video)
The popular new version of Angry Birds called “Angry Birds Rio” is now available in the Nokia Ovi Store on the N8 smartphone. It costs $1.99 for the full version and there isn’t a free “Lite” version available just yet (as was available for the original Angry Birds game). The video below shows you how to find the new game in the Ovi store on the Nokia N8 and then goes through a couple of …
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