According to Microsoft, there are now around 800 apps in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. This is actually far less than the apps available for Windows Mobile platform.  As Windows Mobile platform is more open towards app installing, the users can freely install apps into the Windows Mobile platform by just copy the installation cab files to the device.  And there are still many developers not submitting their apps to the Marketplace yet. Compare to 100,000 [...]

Looking for more reviews before you decide to buy the latest gadget, N900 (powered by Linux Maemo 5) from Nokia? Here is another review from pocknow.   The ariticle actually give you a quick tour of hardware and software aspects of the device. You can have a look here.

After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

Sprint makes an clarification of what they have announced before, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will get updates of Android 2.1, instead of 2.0. That actually make sense as at the time the update is released, the Android 2.1 should be available already.  And it will make it outdated if they are just Android 2.0. However, 1st half of year 2010 is a long six months.  Hopefully HTC can make the updated ROM available [...]

HTC has started to upload some widgets to Android Market.  They are downable for free.  However, they are only for HTC Hero and Eris only.  That means they are only for Sense equipped devices. The four widgets are: Dice: Tap the dice first, and then simply shake your phone to “throw” the dice. Today in History: In this widget, learn about significant events and famous people who were born or who died on this day [...]

Anxiously waiting for more information of the rumoured Nexus One?  I have more screenshots of it collected from the web.  They look great and I hope things will get clearer soon. Enjoy!

Google‘s official spokesman has clarified the numbers of free and paid apps in Android Market is around 16,000, not 20,000 as reported by AndroLib few days ago. “There are currently more than 16,000 free and paid apps in Android Market.” However, Google did not state the breakdown of the free and paid apps.  May be it is just the ways both parties used to calculate the numbers. Anyway, it doesn’t really bother me with that [...]

Motorola has done it again.  Somebody leaked out this interesting Android device coming from them. What’s interesting is the backflipping QWERTY keyboard.  You actually flip the keyboard to the back of the phone.  So when you close the device, the keyboard is at the back of the phone, facing outward.  And there is a touchpad behind the screen. The other interesting fact of the phone is that it will not come with Google apps, like [...]

Looking for an alternative search engine on your iPhone?  Microsoft has made its search engine Bing available in iPhone App Store.  And it will compete with Goole’s mobile app. The key features of the new application include: Daily image from Bing.com Easy to access voice search Tips and tricks on the home page “Locate Me” functionality Ability to add pushpins and save locations Show multiple locations on a single map If you wish to try [...]

According to AndroLib, who keeps track of the statistics from Android Market, there are now over 20,000 apps available in Android market, and 62.2% of them are free apps. Considering  just sightly over one year since its opening, this number is not bad at all if you don’t consider the quality of the apps in the Android Market.  Apple App Store was about 50,000 during its first year (and it has over 100,000 apps at [...]