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January 1st, 2012, 01:40 Posted By: wraggster
Now that pod2g has done the heavy lifting and released an untethered jailbreak for iOS5, the Seas0NPass tool has been updated for your untethered jailbreaking pleasure on Apple TVs running even the latest 4.4.4 update. Redmond Pie has a full walkthrough and how-to that should help you get things going, so that you no longer have to choose between extending your device's capabilities beyond Apple's restrictions (still no Plex support on 4.4.4 thoughUpdate: Plex Beta 4 has been released which is compatible with 4.4.4., thanks Christo & Tulio) and features like AirPlay mirroring. Even more interestingly however, a few hackers may be close to unlocking iOS apps for use on the Apple TV. There's nothing released yet but we'll be following @themudkip and @westbaer on Twitter for further updates as they're available. In the meantime, check out a couple shots of iOS apps running on the Apple TV after the break, courtesy of Steven Troughton-Smith.
Update: Still images not enough to get you going? Check after the break or hit the YouTube link for a quick video demo of iOS apps running on Apple's TV box. Our friend STS hopes this may push the folks in Cupertino to open their doors to apps officially similar to the way things happened back in '07 on the iPhone -- for now we can only wait.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/30/s...-4-4-detailed/
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January 1st, 2012, 01:18 Posted By: wraggster
For the last six months, orangutans — those great, hairy, orange apes that go 'ook' a lot — at Milwaukee Zoo have been playing games and watching videos on Apple's iPad, but now their keepers and the charity Orangutan Outreach want to go one step further and enable ape-to-ape video chat via Skype or FaceTime. 'The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves — so there is a little vanity going on — and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure,' Richard Zimmerman of Orangutan Outreach said. 'So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch each other.' And thus the idea of WiFi video chat between orangutans — and eventually between zoos — was born. It might seem like folly, but putting (ruggedized!) iPads into the hands of apes could really revolutionize our understanding of great ape behavior
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12...oos-with-ipads
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January 1st, 2012, 01:15 Posted By: wraggster
Back in October, we discussed news that India had launched a $35 tablet. Now, JohnWiney writes with a story in the Globe and Mail about the device's development. Quoting:"Part of the difficulty in engineering such a device is that the underlying goal—that its final price should be within the means of those who can’t afford high-priced tablets—dictates crucial engineering and component decisions. A piece of high-impact-resistant glass, such as the touchscreen face of an iPad, can cost upward of $20. Datawind’s touchscreen glass, which the company had engineered down the street, costs less than $2, though it won’t allow for luxuries like pinch-and-zoom finger swiping. There were also compromises on processing power: Datawind’s 366 megahertz processor costs less than $5, a fraction of the $15-plus price tag on the chips that power iPads and other comparable tablets. And while the decision to run Google’s free Android mobile operating system on the gadget saves money, it requires coders to dig deep into the Linux kernel that underpins the software, tweaking it until it runs smoothly on Datawind’s weaker processor."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12...heapest-tablet
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January 1st, 2012, 01:11 Posted By: wraggster
Google bought Motorola, Nokia tried to regain its mojo, fake Apple stores were discovered in China..
20. NFC - coming whether you want it or not
The history of mobile can be carved up into three eras: voice, messaging, data. And after data, well who knows? But if the combined will of Google, Mastercard, Visa and the world’s operators has any bearing on it, it could be contactless payments. This year has seen a series of remarkable announcements in the field of NFC-based mobile wallets. In the US, the big three operators unveiled their own project, called Isis. In the UK, after Barclaycard and Orange rolled out a service, the big three networks unveiled a cross-operator collaboration. And then, in September, Google actually went live with its own Google Wallet service. Remarkable, given that NFC is present in just a single mainstream Western handset, the Nexus S. To be fair, the emphasis isn’t entirely on payments – Google and the UK opcos are more interested in coupons and advertising – but it’s still bold future-gazing stuff given that one survey in 2011 showed that 91 per cent of consumers have never heard of NFC.
19. The Cloud – coming whether you want it or not
When did server farms in remote Nordic locations become the cloud? And, er, what is the cloud anyway? This year saw two huge announcements bring the cloud into the mainstream. Well, the B2B mainstream anyway. Because it’s pretty obvious the punters haven’t got a clue. Apple confirmed its plan to press ahead with the iCloud system that lets users keep all their music in cyberspace (the stuff they’ve purchased anyway) and have a copy locally too. Then Google did the same, but letting users upload their collections. Then there’s the DNLA consortium, which is trying to give OEMs one standard through which to offer ‘access anywhere’ media on TVs, in-car etc etc. Then there’s Spotify. All are slightly different, and all have distinct business models. Yet they’re all the cloud. It was so much easier when we had external hard drives.
18. Did we all dream the Nokia N9 MeeGo phone?
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In the first series of Happy Days, Richie Cunningham had an older brother called Chuck. The makers soon realised that Chuck wasn’t interesting, and that Fonzie was ‘the one’. So one day Chuck went to his room and was never seen again. In the mobile world, the Nokia N9 is Chuck Cunningham. It’s the lonely MeeGo device deemed surplus to requirements. A handset with no narrative purpose when set against the Arthur Fonzerelli that is WinPho 7. Get an N9 now. Keep it in the box. And save it for Antiques Roadshow.
17. If you've got one I want one too: social gaming
There’s money in coins. Well, of course there’s money in coins. That’s the whole point. This year it was the virtual coinage offered by various social gaming platforms that lit up the M&A columns. As micro-payment surged (app analytics firm Distimo found 49 per cent of the revenue on iPhone apps in 2010 came from in-app purchases), these firms suddenly looked very tempting. After DeNa bought ngmoco in 2010, RIM swooped for Scoreloop and Gree bought OpenFeint.
16. There are other tablets beside iPad. It's just that no one buys them.
When Apple launched the iPad in 2010, people said ‘oh tablets, that’s been tried before. No one will buy them.” They were right. No one would buy tablets. They’d just buy iPads. It’s an exaggeration of course, but the truth is that rivals have tried smaller tablets, cheaper tablets, tablets with 3D – and still Apple rules. Analysts put iPads share as high as 75 per cent. In October, ComScore revealed that 97 per cent of tablet data traffic in the US comes from iPads.
15. Never mind fake iPhones, let's fake an entire Apple Store
China eh? It’s like a foreign country or something. They certainly do things differently there, as one US blogger discovered when she felt there was something weird about the Apple Store in Kunming. There was. It wasn’t one. Your heart bled for the cheery staff who thought Steve Jobs was their boss, not some bloke who could also do you dodgy D&G belts. A month later the BBC unveiled 22 more fake stores. It’s not funny.
14. Barcodes may not be shit
Designers hate the way they look on adverts. Most consumers don’t know what they are. Barcodes are rubbish, aren’t they? Not so fast. In June, 14m Americans scanned mobile barcodes (says Scanbuy), and overall global scans grew 88 per cent in the quarter to May (says I-nigma). Barcodes are everywhere and they are converging around a single (QR) standard. The public is catching on. And when the first codes hit the peachy backsides of Olympic Beach Volleyball players, the mainstream may beckon.
13. Spotify streams into the US
After protracted legal negotiations Spotify finally hit the US this year, and then pulled off a coup by tying up with Facebook. The results were impressive, which must have royally annoyed Real, Napster et al. Spotify now has 2.5m premium subs, roughly half of which come from the US.
12. Here you go, InMobi. Have $200m.
Over the years, we’ve become accustomed to large VC rounds in mobile. And why not? If you’re going to invest in tech firms, then damn right you should be looking at mobile media players. But the $200m thrown at ad network InMobi by Softbank and others in September took the breath away. $200m! Easily the biggest ever in our space (although others have chalked up huge sums in increments – MobiTV’s $115 million for example). But it was only the biggest of a series of investments in mobile ad players, including £4.7m for Adfonic and $25m each for JumpTap and Mojiva to name but three.
11. Lawyers reluctantly fight multiple mobile IP wars
The world’s beleaguered IP attorneys were given a lift by mobile handset makers this year when they all decided, in legal parlance, to sue the arses off each other. Infographics spread across the web showing the spaghetti soup of lawsuits, most of which revolved around who invented icons, touch interface, tablet form factor and more very basic stuff. They involve Microsoft, HTC, Motorola, Qualcomm and many more. But the bitterest battle of the lot is between Samsung and Apple, which variously saw the Galaxy and the iPhone banned from various countries round the world.
10. Galaxy II – someone took on iPhone
It’s always a little unfair to compare Android sales with those of iPhone. It’s like saying the football teams in the Championship, and Divs 1 and 2 have more supporters than Liverpool. Not like for like. But this year something interesting happened. One device – the Samsung Galaxy S – seemed to establish itself as a genuine iPhone alternative rather than just an acceptable ‘second best’. The S II sold 10m in five months while its predecessor, the Galaxy S took seven months to reach the same milestone.
9. Everywhere you look people are using BlackBerrys. So why is RIM in the toilet?
Even the most die-hard Nokian would conceded that you just don’t see people using their phones any more. Not in Europe and the US anyway. But BlackBerrys are everywhere. So why has the (financial) world got it in for RIM? Well, the devil is in the detail. BlackBerrys fly off the shelves, but mostly the cheap ones that teenagers like. The far more profitable enterprise users are looking elsewhere. So the company shipped around 10.6 million phones in its Q2, but revenues of $4.2 billion were down 15 per cent year-on-year. Problems were confounded by the inability to get new devices out with a new OS better configured for apps, browsing and touchscreen. And then there was PlayBook. Just 200,000 shipped.
8. How the avian flew: 500m Angry Birds downloads
Angry Birds should be the app that’s encouraging other creative developers into the space. In reality, it’s probably ruining their chances: users don’t have time for their products – they’re too busy on Angry Birds. In November Rovio’s game passed 350m downloads. The firm was also selling one million plush toys and t-shirts every month.
7. Android – It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop
Without doubt, 2011 has been the year of Android. We’re a long way from the rather ugly G1 that kicked things off in 2008. Every week, new research is published that testifies to the dominance of the platform. By September, Millennial looked at its metrics and revealed 54 per cent of its ad impressions are on Android devices. In most markets, Android now has between 45 and 55 per cent of all smartphones. Earlier this month, Google revealed there are 700,000 new activations every day, equating to 21 million a month, or 250 million a year.
6. The world’s most interesting hardware manufacturer is… Amazon.
Amazon used to sell books. Paper ones. Then it was music, then clothes, electricals, lawn mowers. Then it started selling digital content. Then cloud services for other businesses. Was there anything left? Oh yes, an e-reader. Step forward the Kindle, which everyone loved because it was a single-purpose device, just for reading. Black and white. Battery lasted forever. And buying books on it was so so easy. The Kindle worked because it wasn’t trying to be the iPad. Then came the Kindle Fire. Which was – well, almost. Kindle Fire is small and cheap and, unlike its predecessor, it has a touchscreen colour display for running movies and other video content. If the Kindle process is anything to go by, Amazon will make content downloading/streaming easy. And in so doing it may make Amazon a bigger threat to Apple than Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG…
5. Apple's 'disastrous' 4S launch turns into a triumph
Even by previous standards, there was immense excitement before the October Apple press event. This was Tim Cook's debut as CEO and there was a lovely new iPhone 5 to be unveiled. In the event, Cook was lacklustre and the new phone was just the old one with some voice search thrown in. Worst Apple Event Ever. But the public didn't think so. it went crazy for iPhone 4S, buying 4m in a weekend and an expected 30.3m this quarter to put the annual iPhone total on target for 111.4m.
4. Google buys Motorola, terrifies its partners
Who would buy the ailing Motorola Mobility? Surely not Google. Why worry its many Android OEMs with the idea that it might slip all its platform secrets first to its new hardware division. Too bad, because in August Moto became a Google company for (gulp) £12.5 billion. Google says this is all about 17,000 patents. Samsung, HTC, LG et al say they’re cool with that. Let’s see what Motorola’s Jellybean devices are like before rushing to judgement.
3. HP murders its own child
You can accuse HP of lots of things, but indecisiveness is not one of them. On August 18th, it announced it was to kill its webOS-based TouchPad tablet – just 49 days after it went on sale. Stunning. That beat the previous record for brevity set by Microsoft’s disastrous Kin (55 days). HP had paid $1.2 billion for Palm in 2010. $1.2 billion for a software platform with apparently limited appeal to OEMs and the developer community.
2. Nokia aligns its with the underdog – Microsoft
Nokia’s decision to jettison decades of self-determination and become an OEM for Microsoft. It’s not just the magnitude of the decision, it’s what it says about the speed of change in mobile. Nokia was a firm that utterly ruled the space (with 40 per cent plus market share, and 1m phones sold a day) just three years ago. Now mobile lives in Silicon Valley, kept in the handbags of Apple and Google. So Nokia had three choices – Android, Microsoft or death. It chose the plucky outsider. The Lumia devices got a decent reception, but it's too early to say whether WinPho has turned round Nokia in smartphones. In 2012 we’ll see whether Nokia can help make Microsoft the evil overlord in mobile it so wants to be.
1. RIP Steve Jobs
The mobile story of the year is not a tech story at all. It's the death of a human being. We all knew he was very ill. But none of us could imagine waking up to find that Steve Jobs had finally succumbed. He was without doubt the man of the century so far, a man whose creative vision and relentless desire to dominate transformed the way the world listens to music, accesses the web, communicates. A lot of lachrymose nonsense followed Jobs' death. But the subsequent biography of Jobs spelled out what we all knew – that Jobs was no saint. He could be ruthless and unpleasant. Why? Because he was driven to make things better. Well, he did that alright. I'm writing this on a MacBook Air. It's wonderful.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...of-2011/016568
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December 30th, 2011, 00:30 Posted By: wraggster
GameStop's iOS device trade-in program has been "successful," according to the company. The program, which began in September, allows customers to trade iDevices for hundreds in company credit. GameStop claims customers can receive up to $180 for an iPod Touch, up to $300 for an iPhone and up to $400 for an iPad.
"The velocity of this trade program has exceeded our expectations," said GameStop president Tony Bartel.
The company was unwilling to provide specific sales numbers or details on the program, but informed us it will have more to share with its holiday sales release, which regularly arrives during the first week of the new year. The company also expects to see more iDevice trade-ins as consumers upgrade their Apple products over the holiday.
GameStop is moving ahead and expanding the availability of "refurbished devices" in more stores and online in the coming year.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/29/ga...-expectations/
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December 30th, 2011, 00:03 Posted By: wraggster
Your momma always said your handsome mug would take you places. Now it might allow you to access your iPad. An Apple patent application released today describes a facial recognition system that requires minimal computing power, and works whether you're indoors or out -- we don't use our tablets and phones in a photo booth, after all. The technology works by comparing a current image of your mug to a reference model user profile made using "high information" portions of the human face, like eyes and mouths. Translation: it'll take a picture, compare it against the pictures associated with various user accounts on the device and decide if the two images are similar enough to grant you access. Because this is just an application, it's safe to say we won't be seeing this kind of facial recognition in iOS anytime soon, but let's hope it works better than the ICS version if it does.
Update: An important thing to note is that Apple applied for this patent long before Android's Face Unlock debuted a few months back. The paper work was first submitted on June 29th, 2010 -- it's just now being disclosed to the public.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/29/a...to-let-idevic/
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December 29th, 2011, 23:25 Posted By: wraggster
Tablets set to target mid-range and high-end markets.
Loose-lipped supply chain sources claim the devices are set to arrive on January 26th 2012 at the iWorld event in San Francisco, according to Digitimes.
However, this isn't the first talk of the successor to the dominating iPad 2. We recently reported on the rumours of a 7.85-inch iPad, which was thought to be designed to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire.
The sources have now quashed the discussion of smaller screens, saying that the imminent Apple tablets will still come with 9.7-inch screens, but will receive dual-LED light bars to strengthen the brightness.
While the iPad 2 is powered by dual-core A5 processors, Samsung has been contracted to provide the devices with quad-core A6 processors, according to the sources.
Some users have been less than impressed with the iPad 2's camera quality. Based on this, it's no surprise that Apple is expected to give its new devices a 5MP lens and an 8MP lens, provided by Samsung and Sony respectively.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...d-event/016571
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December 29th, 2011, 00:37 Posted By: wraggster
Apple has officially pulled iMame, the free, ROM-playing arcade unit emulator, from its App Store, killing one of the very few venues for getting old arcade games onto your iOS device of choice. The move is presumably due to Apple's long-standing policy of not allowing applications running on its devices to play emulated software (despite a few exceptions in Capcom and Atari).
As with other emulators to have somehow sneaked past Apple's App approvals process, it wasn't long before Apple got wind of iMame's uses and shut it down. That said, if you already snagged yourself a copy of the free App, it can't be taken away, though it can't exactly receive updates either. Unfortunate, yes, but at least you've got a few months of unadulterated, portable, emulated gaming ahead of you!
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/28/im...rt-days-of-fr/
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December 29th, 2011, 00:35 Posted By: wraggster
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery -- what do they say about straight-up theft? A lot of the S7100 Android gaming tablet from JXD is taken from other gaming companies: the form factor and general look of the S7100 is clearly inspired by the Wii U, and the characters on the d-pad are the iconic PlayStation button icons. Heck, the manufacturer's website looks like iTunes!
The S7100 is moderately priced at $140 and sports an 800 x 480 capacitive touch-screen, ARM Cortex A9 CPU, Mali 400 GPU, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 0.3 megapixel front camera and a 2.0 megapixel rear camera, plus HDMI-out. See it in action in the video above.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/28/jx...station-wii-u/
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December 29th, 2011, 00:10 Posted By: wraggster
The current state of performing backups for Windows Phone is far from ideal, although a new job posting from Microsoft suggests that a better solution may be coming to the smartphone platform in its next major software release. According to a job posting from the monolith in Redmond, the company is seeking a talented employee to join its Windows Phone Backup, Migrate and Restore team. The listing goes on to state, "Our goal is to ensure that no matter if someone loses their phone, drops their phone in a lake ... a user can quickly and seamlessly get their phone back to a good state." Whether this involvesbackup to the cloud, or simply more robust features within the Zune software is never explicitly stated, although Microsoft does suggest it aims to leapfrog the competition in this arena. Not a moment too soon, either.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/28/m...-restore-feat/
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December 29th, 2011, 00:05 Posted By: wraggster
The French game publisher already sprinkled 99¢ allspice on its iOS and Amazon Appstore titles, plus a two-for-one deal on the Xperia Play, but soon it'll bring that volume-not-margin recipe to the Android Market too. Almost all of its paid titles will reportedly go for less than a dollar between December 26th and January 5th, so if you're about to click 'Buy' on a premium purchase like Asphalt 6: Adrenalin, 9mm or The Adventures of Tintin, then it might be worth relaxing your trigger finger. The notable exception is Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation, which will apparently only be discounted for a single day sometime around New Year's Weekend -- though hopefully not while you're still preoccupied with running around in yesterday's clothes and hugging random strangers.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/28/g...-android-mark/
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December 28th, 2011, 23:58 Posted By: wraggster
[Ytai Ben-Tsvi] wrote in to share a little holiday project that he and friend [Al Linke] put together, a dynamic light display that takes its cues from his Android-powered smartphone.
The display fits in a vase that sits in [Ytai’s] family room, and while it wasn’t exactly cheap to build, it sure looks nice. The vase is full of feathery decorative bits which help hide an addressable RGB LED strip. The lights are controlled by an IOIO board which the pair tucked away inside the vase as well.
The IOIO board was also fitted with a USB Bluetooth dongle, allowing it to communicate with just about any handset running a relatively recent flavor of the Android OS. When connected, the phone samples its surroundings with the onboard camera, commanding the vase to mix the colors seen by the phone into its twinkling display.
As you can see in the video below it works pretty well when used with solid, brightly colored objects. While just a fun toy in its current form, [Ytai] and [Al] have more than a few ideas on how to expand its usability.
http://hackaday.com/2011/12/28/phone...imple-and-fun/
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December 28th, 2011, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
Android gains market share, Microsoft struggles and Apple loses its talismanic CEO - our review of the year in smartphones.
iOS
The year began with news that the App Store had hosted its ten billionth download, the milestone reached in just two and a half years with the download by Gail Davis, of Orpington, Kent, of Paper Glider. Apple said 70 per cent of the total had been downloaded in the preceding 12 months, with senior VP of worldwide product marketing Philip Schiller admitting: "The App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams." The following month, app functionality - and Apple's revenue potential - were given a significant boost by the addition of subscriptions, from which Apple takes its usual 30 per cent cut.
In March, iPad 2 was revealed, and the second generation of Apple's tablet was on shelves within ten days. Thirty-three per cent thinner than its predecessor, with a dual-core A5 processor and front and rear cameras, nearly a million iPad 2s were sold in the US on its debut weekend. In the three months to 26 March Apple's net profit rose by over 95 per cent, to $5.99 billion.
By July, App Store downloads had reached 15 billion, Schiller hailing the store as "the most exciting and successful software marketplace the world has ever seen." The company marked the occasion by amending App Store pricing in line with changes in exchange rates, with the cheapest apps on the UK store rising in cost from 59p to 69p. It didn't matter: less than a week later a report claimed that App Store purchases were up 61 per cent year on year. There followed another record financial quarter - profit this time reaching $7.31 billion - and Apple greatly increased its reach by launching the App Store in 33 more countries.
In August, talismanic CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down after 15 years for health reasons, his board of directors agreeing with his recommendation that COO Tim Cook should be his replacement. Cook insisted Apple, which he called "the most innovative company in the world," was not going to change, and on October 4 he unveiled iPhone 4S, a revision of the iPhone 4 with the same A5 processor found in iPad 2, and iOS 5.
The following day, Jobs died aged just 56 after losing his long battle with pancreatic cancer. Tributes poured in from across the videogame industry for a man who was famously no big fan of the medium, Sony chairman Howard Stringer saying: "The digital age has lost its leading light." EA's John Riccitiello added: "Steve was one of a kind ... the best role model for a leader that aspires to be great." Jobs' passing could have changed everything.
It didn't. The launch of iPhone 4S was the most successful mobile phone launch in history, with four million units sold in a single weekend. Its share price reached a record high. Despite the rise of Android, a report in December found that the App Store is still where the money is: the top 200 apps on the iPhone App Store generate four times the revenue of their Android equivalents.
Android
While Apple's mobile ecosystem is a walled garden, Google's is very much the opposite, and early in 2011 online retailer Amazon launched its own Android download store. The Amazon Appstore drew criticism from the IGDA over its developer terms, and a lawsuit from Apple over its name, but the retailer was just the first big company to take advantage of, and seek to profit from, Android's open nature. And its reach, too: in February Android was named the leading smartphone platform after 33.3 million handsets running the OS were shipped in the final three months of 2010.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/2011-round-mobile
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December 28th, 2011, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster
Just approximately 600,000 more apps needed to catch up with Android and Apple.
It was just last month when the platform hit the milestone for 40,000 apps. It seems plausible that the new adoption of Windows Phone to Nokia devices has spurred developers on to adapt to the OS.
All About Windows Phone claims the Microsoft milestone has been hit as a result of around 265 new items being added to the Marketplace each day.
However, while this may be a peak number of apps for the OS, it pales in comparison to Apple's App Store, which has around 600,000 apps and Google's Android Market, with around 500,000 apps.
On the other hand, WinPho reached the milestone in 14 months, while it took Android 19 months to get to 50,000. They were both outdone by iOS though, which achieved the milestone in 12 months.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...00-apps/016570
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December 28th, 2011, 01:45 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Marat Fayzullin has ported his (commercial) NES emulator iNES to the Android platform: iNES for Android
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New in 3.6.11: - Made new, better visible virtual joystick for the portrait orientation.
- Set default screen orientation setting to "auto".
- Finally fixed the crashes on Samsung Galaxy S2.
- Added optional haptic feedback, using vibration feature.
- Added customizable button assignments.
- Restored MENU button on Android Honeycomb.
- Optimized joystick drawing routines.
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December 28th, 2011, 01:44 Posted By: wraggster
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Marat Fayzullin has ported his (commercial) Game Boy / Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator VGB to the Android platform: VGB for Android
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New in 3.5.10: - Made new portrait mode virtual joystick
- Set default screen orientation setting to "auto".
- Finally fixed the crashes on Samsung Galaxy S2.
- Added optional haptic feedback, using vibration feature.
- Added customizable button assignments.
- Restored MENU button on Android Honeycomb.
- Optimized joystick drawing routines.
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December 28th, 2011, 01:43 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Marat Fayzullin has ported his (commercial) GameBoy Advance emulator VGBA to the Android platform: VGBA for Android
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New in 3.6.12: - Enabled sampled sound channels.
- Added configurable custom key mappings.
- Added optional haptic feedback.
- Restored MENU button on Android Honeycomb.
- Finger joystick now shows up on tablets in portrait orientation.
- Optimized joystick drawing routines.
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