Applications
The lifeblood of innovation, in this section we profile applications and related services that come to our attention. If you’re a developer and you’d like your application featured — or, if you’ve just discovered a piece of electronic genius in the form of a must-have-application, email our editor, Ewan with details.
The MIR iPhone application is almost ready. Our developer, Pashik, has been working away.
It quite simply gives you an RSS news feed of our site in an easy to consume form. Nothing too shocking for our first app version.
The big challenge we’ve got though is designing a decent icon for [...]
Have a read of this comment posted on today’s article about the 400,000 downloads of the MySpace for Blackberry application.
If you thought the Blackberry Developer’s Programme was a bit… rubbish, congratulations. You appear to have been correct:
When we launched Palringo on the Blackberry in May, we saw an equally impressive increase in downloads. But, [...]
You read that right.
400,000 downloads of the official RIM application for MySpace.
15 million messages have been sent using the app in the 7 days since it’s been live. 2 million mood and status updates already.
You know, somewhere in RIM, there’s a chap or lady who was nominally in charge of applications and encouraging third [...]
Samsung have snapped up elements of Scalado’s rather swish imaging software services that blew us away at the Symbian Smartphone Show the other week (see video1 and video2).
Here’s what the news release says:
Samsung Electronics has signed a contract with Scalado, the leader in mobile imaging software solutions, to licence and integrate Scalado SpeedTagsâ„¢ technology into [...]
Ostensibly for the Symbian platform (but available for almost any platform — imagine an iPhone or G1 with this built-in!), we bring you some more footage of the Scalado imaging system for mobile devices.
This is one of the videos they produced themselves:
See our previous post on Scalado here.
Continue ReadingJust got news in from the chaps at WebTrends (the analytics experts) who’re working with the London Telegraph newspaper’s online service. They’ve been tracking browsing habits of the newly released T-Mobile G1 handset and have added Google Android as a browser-type into their On Demand software already. WebTrends are reportedly seeing a big [...]
Continue ReadingFor the last four hours I have been trying to get the G1’s IM client to add another account. I’m using my main Mobile Industry Review account on the device — but I have a load of other accounts that I’d like to use — MSN, Yahoo and so on — but I can’t [...]
Continue Reading250,000 Trutap users are, this evening, finding that they can now use a heckuvalot more instant messenger services than they could yesterday to connect with each other. Given that Trutap has a massive amount users in developing countries who love the ultra cost efficient communications medium of IM on mobile, this is set to [...]
Continue ReadingA brilliant piece of news from Will at Sharpcards. I’ve been trying to get him on the podcast (or the MIR Show itself) for a while but he’s been rather busy. No wonder.
Sharpcards have a wicked model. They actually embed the functionality to send happy birthday greetings (for example) directly into operator-branded [...]
London mobile developer Ed Lea is, I suspect, smiling brightly.
Why?
Well, his second iPhone application, TV Plus, has stormed up the iTunes UK App Store charts and dominates the number one slot.
And we love it.
Big congratulations are due to Ed!
If you recall, we first covered Ed Lea’s services when he emailed to let us know about [...]
Fresh from winning Gadgetfest last week, Truphone is now ready for the Blackberry (The OMmeister has the goss).
It’s most certainly beta. You don’t NEED to have a WiFi capable Blackberry — but I reckon it helps. Provided you’ve got the right version of the software, you should be Truphoning in record time by [...]
Enkin is a heads-up-display for your mobile handset (in particular, your Android-enabled handset). It’s described as a ‘handheld navigation concept’ that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. I first read about it back in May and last I heard they were chatting to Google about possibilities — and the Enkin [...]
Continue ReadingReader Jeremy emailed me in details about MyCaption — a service offering the ability to dictate email messages via voice.
All you have to do is (for example) click on the “Reply (MyCaption)” menu link and speak. When you’re finished, the MyCaption service will insert the dictated text into your typing window.
I think this is [...]
QIK, probably the best mobile video streaming platform has hit the Blackberry platform this morning. The system is alpha and they’ve got it working on almost every modern Blackberry — including the Pearl, the Bold, the Curve and the new Pearl Flip (which is a piece of goodness in itself).
Founder Bhaskar is radiating sheer [...]
I’m particularly excited about getting proper hands-on with the T-Mobile G1 to look at it’s email functionality. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out the functionality in-depth during the T-Mobile launch party as we were filming the whole time (see the results here).
I wondered how business-critical the Gmail functionality [...]
DeviceAnywhere, the fantastic service which lets developers test out their applications across hundreds of applications has now teamed up with Research In Motion (RIM) to enable the developers to test their applications for their Blackberry phones.
Today, companies like Apple are making mammoth profits through their application store for their phones and Google too has joined [...]
At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, Red Five Labs have announced the latest iteration of their .NET compact framework, the Net60 version 2.0 for S60 devices.
The Net60 framework, along with Microsoft’s Visual Studio provide you with a powerful platform to develop apps for the S60 platform very easily. The app will be demonstrated at [...]
If you haven’t taken a look at Palringo recently, you should. Way back at the beginning of 2008, we took a close look at the mobile instant messaging service and thought it had the basics in place to make it a must-have, top-of-the-pack service offering. We had some real concerns about the user [...]
Continue ReadingAhhhh fantastic. This is what mobile innovation is all about. It’s why I’ve been so delighted with the launch of the iPhone platform.
Frederic Descamps has a day job working for for neutron science/technology specialist ILL. And he’s got a big interest in stars.
So when the iPhone development kit was released, he set about [...]
I got this in from a reader today who, whilst happy with Nokia Maps, is deeply unimpressed at the billing system and infrastructure surrounding it:
Hi.
I seem to be having real problem with Nokia Maps - not a software issue - but a fault with the SMS payment service. I am happy to pay by SMS [...]
Daniel caught me the other day. He’s a mobile developer working on some nifty communications services aimed at Ethiopians throughout the world.
He’s got some chaps to create a Symbian S40/S60 version of the service he’s aiming to launch — and is wondering how difficult it will be to convert the application to work on [...]
I had a question in from Mark Westall of FadMag. He writes:
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Ewan
Do you know, (I’m sure you do) of any cool city guides for mobiles ?
regards
Mark
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Well Mark, a few come to mind but I’d like to open this question to the readers [...]
This note is from Tom Adler of Didiom, a very interesting new service that’s all about ‘placeshifting’ your music to any device.
Let’s get the overview from Tom.
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Hi Ewan,
I am writing to invite you to test out a new mobile service that we’ve just launched called Didiom.
Didiom allows you to placeshift your [...]
Hi this is James Coops from mjelly, we’ve just launched a new directory of mobile sites and apps and the good folks at Mobile Industry Review have kindly asked us to do a weekly post highlighting some of the amazing new mobile stuff that we are finding out there. We’ll be focusing on the so-called [...]
Continue ReadingI got a note in this morning from Carl Uminski, CTO of Trutap. I caught up with Carl very briefly at CTIA in San Francisco last month and he showed me a demo of the next version of Trutap — it’s going to be quite stunning. IM, Content, Social Networking — all aimed [...]
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