75 million phones running the Android operating system will be sold in 2012 , says research firm Gartner, which if right, would eventually make it the second most popular mobile OS after Symbian. This makes sense, because the operating system is free (unlike Windows Mobile), and it gives mobile carriers and handset manufacturers who aren’t Apple and RIM (the closed off guys) the ability to create a smartphone that someone may actually want to use. I’ve switched to Android now based largely on deep integration with Google Voice. [...more]
Mobilizy , the company that brought us one of the world’s first Augmented Reality browsers, Wikitude , just released a major upgrade which crosses that significant line between technology and its effects in the ‘real’ world. [...more]
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Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC's TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure) [...more]
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A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1 : Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile . and it'll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly . But the bad news [...more]
![The Week In iPhone Apps: The Beautiful Game [IPhone Apps]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/3c7da08b31optest.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Don't listen to the pasty dude with the Arsenal shirt who lives downstairs—FIFA 10 isn't the only good thing to land in the App Store this week. Not even close. AP Stylebook : Anyone who has to crank out copy on a regular basis is probably familiar with the AP' stylebook, but an iPhone app seems like an odd incarnation. [...more]
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Possibly in response to the amazingly low price of Fullpower's MotionX GPS (stay tuned for full review), Networks In Motion has reduced the monthly rate of its Gokivo iPhone app to $4.99. [ iTunes Link ] [...more]
Howard Lerman can be a little intense. After the CEO of Yext finished his demo at this year’s Techcrunch50 (embedded below) he left one judge “speechless,” and during rehearsals Michael took him aside and asked him, “Are you on drugs?” He wasn’t. [...more]
Texting while driving is incredibly unsafe (and making calls, for that matter). Even more so than drinking and driving , which YOU SHOULD NEVER DO, EVER. [...more]
Oh, TLA Systems , you clever, clever bastards . As we all learned from that one awkwardly-mature kid in our first grade class, there is a glaring fault in nearly every calculator ever made: they double as a means of smuggling smut into the classroom. In an otherwise sterile and pure environment, these tools allow for children (CHILDREN!) to be corrupted (and to subsequently corrupt each other) by displaying words such as “BOOBIES” and “HELL” simply by punching in a series of numbers and turning the calculator upside down [...more]
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