LiMo Foundation is steadily gaining momentum. Industry seems to be scared of Google's Open Handset Alliance and they're jumping to other big Linux group. That being said, LiMo has announced the addition of new member companies — Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless, which [...]

I'm not sure whether you heard about TuneWiki, but it's a next generation, community based media player. Apparently they've created the Android prototype, meaning that as soon as we see the first Google mobile OS powered devices hitting the market you'll have a place to go to grab the latest tunes. The idea is to [...]

Those of you that craved to organize your thoughts with your Nokia Internet Tablet while on the go, here's a reason to rejoice. A software engineer from Ukraine Eugene Antimirov ported Labyrinth to the Maemo platform allowing us to mind-map wherever we are. Sure, you could rely on some of the web-based solutions like MindMeister, [...]

Handset manufacturers are scrambling to get their wares mated to Google's Linux-based Android OS, and it looks like Qualcomm's lending a helping hand. The chip-making giant has announced that it's hooked up with several OEMs looking to launch an Android-powered handset this year.  It makes sense for Qualcomm to help these handset manufacturers develop their [...]

We already know that Motorola is working on a 5 megapixel monster with a Kodak shooter. The Motorola MotoZINE ZN5, as it's called, is already known to be sporting a Montavista Linux OS, 5 megapixel Kodak branded camera, and the Morph keypad that we see in the Moto ROKR E8. But, we haven't had a [...]

Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. I was so impressed with the work Max Braun and Rafael Spring did with their Enkin application that I enthusiastically requested an interview. If you would like to know more about them, what they think about Google's Android and where they see location based services heading in the future then continue [...]

Remember those mysterious HTC smartphones that made an appearance in the picture that Stefan found? Right, well it seems that those two HTC Kaisers (HTC TyTn II's), HTC Touch, HTC Touch Cruise,  and HTC P3470 were joined by what could be the HTC Dream. Take a look at the picture again. You see that QWERTY-sliding [...]

The concept is simple, point your phone at the horizon and look at your screen to get more information about your surroundings. Rafael Spring and Max Braun wrote a program Enkin for Google's Android that does just that as their submission to the Android Developer Challenge. With the recent announcement that KML is now an [...]

Fans of the OpenMoko Neo1973 open-source Linux handset will be glad to hear that they'll soon be able to get their hands on the Neo1973's successor in the near future. The OpenMoko FreeRunner sports a faster processor than its predecessor and adds three-axis motion sensors to the mix. As we saw previously, the overall aesthetic [...]

Opera Mini, probably the best piece of mobile software even written in the past few years, I strongly encourage you to check out Beta 4.1, has been ported to Google's Android operating system. The processes was fairly simple, they took the original Opera Mini code base and used a wrapper that would translate J2ME API [...]