This is unbelievable. Samsung is shipping the new Galaxy S Blaze with Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread). Sure, it has T-Mobile’s so-called 4G (HSPA+42). But, Gingerbread? Really?
Category: Mobile Devices
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Unbelievable: Samsung Galaxy S Blaze shipping with Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread. Can you say “Fragmentation?”
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An app that might be worth its $28.99 price tag: Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary for Android & iOS
The most I’ve paid for an app is $9.99. I’m hard pressed to name an app I might consider buying that costs more than that. However, if you do, here’s an Android app that might be worth its relatively high $28.99 price:Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Google Play)
A version is also available for the iPhone and is being developed for Windows Phone.
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MobileViews Podcast 58: A discussion with Aditya Bansod about Sencha Touch 2
In MobileViews podcast 58 Todd Ogasawara speaks with Senior Director of Product Management at Sencha, Aditya Bansod, about Sencha Touch 2 which launched this week. Sencha is a JavaScript framework optimized for developing mobile HTML5 web apps with rich user interfaces. It supports the native web browsers for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Chromebook, and more. Bansod said that Windows Phone will be supported in a future release.The big news about Sencha Touch 2 is that it lets web developers create native apps for Android and iOS that can be distributed through their respective app markets. This also means that developers who use Windows as their development platform can now create iOS apps for iPhone and iPad without buying a Mac, learning Objective C, and using Xcode.
And, what does Sencha Touch 2 cost? It is free with dual licenses available: GPL or Commercial License. Listen to the podcast to learn more details.
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MIT App Inventor for Android (formerly by Google) is back
Good news for people who never got a chance to play with Google’s App Inventor for Android. It is back as an MIT maintained project.Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview
You can find the project itself at: appinventor.mit.edu
App Inventor is a visual programming language to create Android apps.
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Windows Phone software written on the phone itself can be published in Microsoft’s Marketplace
Microsoft Research’s TouchDevelop is a remarkable tool that lets you write software for Windows Phone right on the phone itself. The news today is that it is now possible to distribute software developed using TouchDevelop (again, this task is done right on the phone) through Microsoft’s own Windows Phone Marketplace.
turn TouchDevelop scripts into apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace
You can learn more about the preparation and submission process here.
You can listen to the podcast discussion I had with Nikolai Tillman (Principal Researcher Software Design Engineer of Microsoft Research) in June 2011 when the tool was named TouchStudio
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[CORRECTION] Skype for Windows Phone beta available. But, there’s a trick to get it
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My old friend Don Sorcinelli (@DPSJ) pointed out a trick to get the Skype for Windows Phone beta to download and install. First, here’s what does not work.- Going to the Zune Marketplace on a desktop PC running Windows using the link provided by the Skype blog announcement
- Searching for Skype in the Windows Phone Marketplace app on the phone
What does work is following the link provided by Skype for the beta from the Windows Phone’s browser itself. This takes you to the app product page (that cannot be found using search within the Marketplace app) where you can install the Skype beta app. Here’s the link:
Skype for Windows Phone beta < - View this blog item in a Windows Phone browser and click on this link. Thanks to Don for pointing out my error. (more…)