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Tetris Bullies College Student Over Apple App
Another rogue app has been yanked by the Apple App Store due to alleged business misconduct. However, unlike some of the get rich schemes we have witnessed since the inception of the App Store, this case is not so black and white. The Tetris Company, makers of the once beloved game by children and adults everywhere, has forced college student Noah Witherspoon to pull his Tetris clone called Tris off of the App Store. Apple informed Witherspoon that his app has been tagged as copyright infringement and that should Tetris unleash the wrath of angry lawyers at him, Apple won’t be around to help. While Witherspoon has admitted that he would likely lose any legal proceedings to Tetris because of financial…
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Canada is an iPhone Mecca
Canadians everywhere are diving into Niagara Falls and drinking medium double-doubles (coffee) out of sheer ecstasy with the download speeds they have been getting on their iPhones. With the exception of a few European countries, Rogers and Fido customers (Fido is owned by Rogers Wireless) have been clocking speeds of over1330 kilobits per second. To further emphasis the magnitude of the number, the cell phone challenged Yanks are only averaging 990 kilobits. This is yet another example of Canadian superiority to the United States – that already includes health care, education, crime rate, personality and personal grooming. Australian by the way, are the worst country when it comes to iPhone download times. Their pitiful 360 kilobits per second should be enough to cause…
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Nokia Reveals the N85
The Nokia N85 is here and mobile entertainment will apparently never be the same again. (At least that’s what Nokia claims.) The N85 is an all in one entertainment wonder that provides cutting edge gaming, music, video and much more. 10 made-for-mobile N-Gage games come preloaded as well as a 5 Megapixel camera and an 8GB microSD card. Let’s not forgot the N85’s ability to play tunes for over 30 hours, which will come in handy when you’re using the 3.5 mm audio jack to connect to headsets. All of this audio is of course geared towards using the Nokia Music Store, but we can live with the price gauging as long as the N85 doesn’t disappoint. The infamous Nokia Download application will also come standard, which opens up a whole dazzling selection of entertainment for the…
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Win Money with your Cell Phone
A company called Prizemo has quite ingeniously created a new games show for cell phones called ‘Show You the Money’. The goal is of course, to win some major mullah by sending the correct answer to trivia questions via text messaging. Each text will run about 99 cents a piece and winners will be drawn weekly from the pool of contestants who answered correctly. Prizemo is also in negotiations with some major cable channels around the world in the hopes of creating a television version of ‘Show You the Money’, where celebrity hosts will be quizzing contestants about sports, fashion, movies and other mainstream and shallow topics. All in all, Prizemo should be given a pat on the back for a rather groundbreaking idea that could certainly change the mobile industry and make…
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T-Mobile to Give Samsungs Away for Free
T-Mobile, apparently in an effort to rid itself of large quantities of cell phones, is offering all their Samsung models for free starting September 3rd. This month long promotion will see T-Mobile customers who are willing to lengthen their contracts, be allowed to pick up a free Samsung, or free after mail in rebate. The Samsung models offered by T-Mobile are as follows:
•Samsung T229: FREE
•Samsung T429: FREE
•Samsung T339: FREE
•Samsung T639: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung Blast: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung Katalyst: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung T819: FREE (after $100 MIR)
T-Mobile should be releasing the Tocco T919 in the near future. Logic…
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Advertising Hits Mobile YouTube
Just when you thought Google couldn’t get any more greedy, the implementation of advertisements on the mobile version of YouTube shows that the internet guru’s gluttony is enormous. Users in Japan and the United States have reported that banners and other such commercial elements have already started to appear. While world wide growth of mobile YouTube has been somewhat impeded by technical difficulties, it appears that Google has ironed out some of the kinks, with advertisements being the first step in a complete mobile browsing monopoly. Plans include an iPhone version of mobile YouTube and a more in depth viewing experience with higher quality video and more functionality for user channels. Google’s reign of terror in the cyber world is the perfect launching platform…
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The Home Version of the iPhone
It is now certain that we have entered a climate of redundancy with a new abomination from OpenPeak called the iPhone Home. Basically, the iPhone Home is the home version of the iPhone with a few additional features and multiple handsets. OpenPeak may very well be walking on an over crowded path with very little room to maneuver. How many iPhone related gizmos do we really need? Does anybody who already has an iPhone really need a home version and would they be willing to fork over $300 USD for a home phone with some web browsing? It doesn’t make any sense to bring home a stationary iPhone, when you already have a home computer that can pretty much do everything the iPhone can and 100 times better at that. Companies like OpenPeak need to start thinking a little more…
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The BlackBerry for Kids
In a shameless and somewhat disturbing fashion, cell phone manufacturer Bandai has created a cell phone called the SmartBerry. This adolescent equivalent of the BlackBerry has a touch screen, instant messaging and a lot of the usual bells and whistles that come with adult phones – plus it has a cool pinkish color. Bandai appears to be targeting little girls in an effort to capitalize on this growing market of foolish youngsters who possess a powerful influence over their pushover parents. Aside from the obvious worry that we are melting our children’s brains, there is also the ethical debate of branding. Bandai wants to catch this girls at a young age where they can be influenced and thus, loyally…
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The New O1 Cell Phone to Come with a Projection Keyboard…..Maybe
Apparently God's gift to mankind is set to be launched next month. No, it’s not a woman, or beer that won’t get you drunk, or even a bank that gives you free money every month. It’s a cell phone called the O1 and it’s supposed to set the world on fire. I say this with much skepticism of course, because we’ve all heard this before. This O1 however, is touted to have 32GB of memory, a five megapixel camera and a 3G connection, as reported on www.cellular-news.com/. What has some internet geeks hooting and hollering is the projection keyboard. O1 creator, Future Publishing, is about to release the Buck Rogers of cell phones – if you believe the hype. That’s an ‘if’ the size of old Yankee stadium. (May she soon rest in peace.) The internet has become a hype machine for…
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New First Person Shooter for the Cell Phone
Cell phones have undeniably made our lives easier and more enjoyable, but at the risk of sounding like a religious zealot, humanity’s filth is slowly rising to the top of the mobile industry. This time it’s a 3D shooter called Amore. In Amore, your mission is to cause hordes of luscious Amazonian women to fall in love with you by hitting them with your magic arrows. These voluptuous females walk around scantly clad from the waist down and pretty much nothing from the waist up. This morally questionable game that may provide just enough amusement (or arousal) to stifle some boredom on the bus rid home is available on the Motorola, Nokia and Samsung. Amore does get thumbs up for being free, but then again, a pile of dog crap is free, but you probably wouldn’t want to get…
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