Has Apple relaxed its App Store policy for not approving apps that duplicate the functionality of iPhone? The famous Opera Mini browser has just got approved for the App Store.  This browser uses server from Opera to render web pages and thus achieve a superior speed for loading of web pages.  For a long time Apple has been rejecting this browser to the App Store.  And it is to many people’s surprise, it finally makes [...]

It is official now.  Microsoft has announced the babies from its Danger acquisition.  2 social networking centric Windows Phones, KIN ONE and KIN TWO have been announced. The two new phones are built with the same Zune HD foundation.  The entire UI is built surrounding social media.  However, it has a very different user experience compared the Windows Phone 7.  It supports OTA software update but it is not exactly a smartphone.  It is missing [...]

Although this may not be a big surprise to many of you, it is still a surprise because Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has been advocating that Palm has plans to return to profitability. According to Bloomberg, Palm is working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a proper suitor.  As early as this week, Palm will receive bids from the bidders.  And it is said that HTC and Lenovo are among the bidders. However, [...]

The next major version of iPhoneOS has just been announced – the iPhoneOS 4.  Among many of the improvements, multitasking support for third party apps is one of the highlight. The new OS, together with the next generation of iPhone, will be launched in this summer.  However, there is a big disappointment to iPhone 3G users and below, some of the new features, including multitasking support, will not be available for these devices because the hardware does support [...]

Have you been waiting for this, HTC Hero owners?  According to Engadget Chinese that HTC has announced to release the Android 2.1 for HTC Hero in Taiwan on 26 April. How about the rest of the world?  From the passed experience,  Asia should get the upgrade shortly after Taiwan’s release.  So we are expecting to get the upgrade in Singapore in May. [via engadget]

Despite Microsoft’s official statement saying there will not be Windows Phone 7 Series upgrade for HTC HD2, the ROM chefs are working hard to bring it to HD2. The latest news is that a ROM hacker from Russia has successfully used the development tools from Microsoft to create a WP7S ROM for the HD2.   The ROM is in beta now and it will soon come online for download.  HD2 owners, you have been saved! You [...]

HTC Legend is coming to Singapore early next month (April 2010).  According to HTC’s press release, the Legend will be retailed at SGD798. HTC Legend is widely considered as the successor of the successful HTC Hero.  It has a similar form factor with the Hero with some enhancements.  The Legend is covered by Aluminium casing and it is now using a 600Mhz CPU from Qualcomm.  It has FM radio, AMOLED HVGA screen and it will [...]

Just few months after Nokia case, Apple is doing this again.  Apple has just file a case to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.” “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own [...]

Many of the high end Windows Mobile device (like HD2) owners are hoping to get Windows Phone 7 upgrade when Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 later this year. Device like HD2 has a snapdragon CPU with high resolution capacity touch screen, 5MP camera and enough RAM seems to be one of the devices that qualified for Windows Phone 7 hardware requirement and likely to receive Windows Phone 7 upgrade. However, here is a piece of [...]

This came out to be a surprise during one of the Engadget show.  The Microsoft executive actually brought an LG made prototype Windows Phone. The device shown was running the early version of Windows Mobile 7.  And it has a side sliding QWERTY keyboard with back, home, search and camera dedicated buttons.  The camera is found to be 5MP.  And the device has an impressive thickness.  It is just slightly thicker than iPhone and Nexus [...]