World Mobile News

Posted in: Mobile Accessories, Mobile Services, Windows Phone 15 hours ago by Kyle Nokia has just announced the next generation Windows Phone smartphones – the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. One of the cool new features shared by the duo is the wireless charging support. Nokia has already announced four compatible accessories and two partners, who agreed to install charging stations in their respective chains – Virgin Atlantic and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. The company also introduced its first wireless charging-enabled Bluetooth headset. Here go the videos in question. Any takers? View the original article here

Cooper City, Florida – allAware, the free mobile social network for nonprofit organizations, announced today the release of their new and improved iPhone and Android mobile apps. “The new apps are a complete rewrite from our first release,” said Jason Milgram, founder of Linxter, Inc., the creators of allAware. “We improved the mobile app user experience by creating a more streamlined interface, with more stability and increased functionality”. The allAware app, announced May 29th of this year has grown in use from 35 nonprofits to over 135. It’s a free app, designed to improve communication and member involvement. allAware allows organizations to jump into the mobile app world and engage with their membership in new ways, all without having to invest money in new technology. “A great part about working on a free app is the ease of getting it into the hands of customers,” stated Ryan Parsley, Director of UX at Linxter. “allAware was pretty rough and ready when we started asking people...

Posted in: Android, Mobile software, Tablets August 12th, 2012, 19:32 by Prasad Samsung has often been quick to release the source code for their Android devices after their launch. Keeping with that tradition, they have now released the source code for the Galaxy Note 10.1 on the Samsung Open Source Release Center. Along with the Note 10.1, you will also be able to get your hands on the source code for the Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. As a user you can’t do much with this but for developers this will be useful in creating custom ROMs for these devices, which can then be downloaded and installed by regular users. Click on the source link below and then search for the respective model number (GT-N8000 for the Note 10.1, GT-P7500 for the Tab 10.1 and GT-P6200 for the Tab 7 Plus) to download the source code. Source View the original article here

Posted in: Gaming, iOS August 4th, 2012, 17:09 by Prasad Everybody’s favorite endless running game Temple Run has completed one year since its launch on iOS. In this time, the game has been downloaded over 100 million times, including downloads on Android. People have played over 10 billion sessions so far and spent close to 54,000 years combined running from evil monkeys. The game has also received an update on iOS, which brings the version number to 1.5. In this update, the game adds Retina display support for the iPad, along with 22 new objectives and a new powerup called PermaWings that can be enabled at the start of the level and stays on permanently until you die, at which point it automatically resurrects you. Other additions include ability to disable and enable individual powerups and some bug fixes. Unfortunately, this update is not yet available on Android. As before, the game is free of charge, so you can download and try it out right now. Source View the original article...

San Francisco, California – Justapps has announced Pics Me In with Pictures Background Remover Version 1.2, an update to its photography app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Pics Me In with Pictures Background Remover allows users to simply remove background from pictures and overlay the result while taking photos. In other words “Pics Me In” is a fully featured photo camera app that allows you to add real-time (on-the-fly) objects, pictures, photos, images that are not there to your photos. No need to long post processing, editing, “photoshopping”,etc. with “Pics Me In” the result is instantaneous. Imaging the reaction in the faces of your friends next time you will take a picture of them showing something completely hilarious in the photo. They won’t believe you!! As you can see from the screen shoots, using this app you can remove the background from any picture downloaded from the web (or taken right within the app) and then simply add the background-less image to your nex...

Posted in: Desktop computers, Mac OS X July 28th, 2012, 15:02 by Prasad It’s been quite a while since Apple released ads for the Mac. All the recent memorable ads have either been for the iPhone or the iPad. In fact the last memorable ads for the Mac were the famous ‘Mac vs. PC’ series and it’s been three years since those came out. But now that Apple recently updated their MacBooks, they probably felt it was the right time to go ahead and make some new ads. So now we have three new ads for the Mac that don’t concentrate on any particular model, but like the older ‘Mac vs. PC’ ads aim to glorify the Macs as a whole and all the features they have. They also fail spectacularly at doing that. The new ads have an Apple Store Genius going around helping people with their Macs. The first ad is in an airplane, the second is where the Genius helps his neighbor with something and the third where a guy accidentally buys something that he thought was a Mac. The first two ad are supposed to show...

Posted in: Android, Mobile phones, Mobile software July 26th, 2012, 10:19 by Prasad Couple of months ago we reported that HTC has released the kernel source code for the international HTC One X. Unfortunately, the AT&T version in the US was left out back then. We’ll, you’ll be glad to know that the AT&T version has now joined the international model and both their kernel source codes are now available on HTC’s developer website. What this means for the end-users is that the custom ROMs that are currently available for the AT&T One X will get a lot better and development of upcoming ROMs will also get a lot faster. If you have an AT&T One X and are part of the custom ROM scene then this is great news for you. Source View the original article here

Posted in: iOS, Mobile phones, Mobile Services About an hour ago by Prasad Apple has released yet another ad for the iPhone 4S highlighting the Siri functionality. And this time, they have none other than Mr. Martin Scorsese himself. This new ad sticks to the same formula as the previous ones. The celebrity is using the Siri functionality on the iPhone 4S to manage day to day tasks such as changing appointment schedules, which highlights the ease of using just your voice to do these otherwise tedious tasks while simultaneously highlighting the conversational nature of Siri. This particular video has Mr. Scorsese is in a cab, finding out the schedule for the day, moving around calendar events, locating his friend on a map using the ‘Find My Friends’ service and finding out the traffic on his current route, all using his voice. Personally, this is my favorite of the new series of Siri ads featuring celebrities because it actually shows the celebrity, Mr. Scorsese in this case, doing so...

Posted in: Android, Tablets July 23rd, 2012, 10:33 by Prasad We saw the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD back at Mobile World Congress earlier this year but there hasn’t been any news about it ever since. Now it seems the device is close to its release and so Huawei has released an official video mentioning some of the key features of this 10-inch Android tablet. One of the major features is the presence of a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 resolution IPS panel, which is the highest so far in the world of Android tablets, along with the new ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity. Other things that the video mentions is an 8.8mm thick, 580g “luxurious, yet subtle” body with “refined metallic surface”, 8 megapixel camera on the back with dual-LED flash, Dolby Surround sound, Huawei’s own K3V2 processor with a quad-core CPU and a 16-core GPU, LTE connectivity, 160GB cloud storage (no particular service mentioned), cloud-based backup and sync, device locator and a laptop-style keyboard dock. No pricing or release d...