The Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 has seemingly been in pre-retail status for, like, years. But it will finally be available on the AT&T network on August 15th for $130. The official specs are pretty commonplace these days with a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 4-inch display, 8.1MP cam, and 8GB of on-board memory. The only thing not announced so far is the Android version with the screenshots on Sony Style indicating that it might even be 1.6. But that can’t be right. Even if it is, the Android community will likely fix that asap.
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia 10: $130 at AT&T on August 15th
Verizon’s Upcoming Phones Leaked, Droid Pro Coming Soon?
Verizon just had its entire roadmap leaked to BGR. Some standouts? The DROID Pro with a 1.3GHZ, a 4-inch screen, and global roaming with GSM support. Motorola will also release a phone with the style of a Q with keyboard but rocking Android 2.2.
Samsung will also be dropping a 7-inch tablet this year (actually probably in the next two months) on the Verizon network. The Samsung tablet has been been rumored for weeks but Motorola will also enter the tablet world along with a new version of Android, 3.0. This should hit in Feburary.
Windows Phone 7 to support YouTube, to some extent
If you’re a smartphone platform these days, you damn well better offer up YouTube support in one form or another. I mean, you really expect me to go through my entire lunch break without watching videos of cats not being able to make jumps?
Things were looking pretty grim for Windows Phone 7. No HTML5, no Flash (at least at launch), and no word of an official YouTube app? No cat videos, no glory, Microsoft.
Fortunately, it looks like Microsoft plans to offer up at least some form of YouTube support, though its not clear just how fleshed out it’ll be.
AT&T U-verse Mobile Coming To Windows Phone 7
Like this, except, well, not an iPhone app
When our PR contact at AT&T was filling us in on the details of U-verse Mobile’s new downloadable content functionality, they also casually mentioned that the whole she-bang would be available “soon on BlackBerry Torch ([and] other devices in the future, of course)”.
“Other devices”, you say? You can’t really leave us hanging like that without expecting us to dig, you know?
We didn’t have to dig too far. The first source we hit up was willing to say that they’d heard rumblings of U-verse Mobile for Windows Phone 7 being an active project, and the second completely confirmed it.
Apple now allowing developers to sell apps with an educational discount, choose when updates go live
With iPhones and iPads becoming an exceedingly commonplace sighting on college campuses, it makes sense for App developers to try to pitch their wares to universities for bulk licensing deals. The only problem: due to the way App Store sales work, it just wasn’t possible — until now.
Apple has just launched the “App Store Volume Purchase” program, which allows developers to offer up a discount of 50% to educational institutes. The catch: as the name implies, this is a bulk deal only (requiring at least 20 copies of an application to be purchased before the discount is applied) and it’s something that your university needs to organize — in other words, don’t go trying to use your .edu address to get a lone copy of DoodleJump on the cheap.
How to Install Flash on your iPhone (The Easy Way)
An enterprising iPhone hacker has figured out how to get Adobe Flash working on the iPhone, despite Steve Jobs' banishment of the third-party plugin from all iDevices for reasons detailed in his long-winded "Thoughts on Flash" memo posted to Apple.com back in April.
Why do you need Flash on the iPhone? To see banner ads?
No, not really.
You need Flash to see the whole Web: the one with icky-Flash intros that block you from accessing the main website, the Flash-based menu for a favorite local restaurant, the Flash videos that haven't yet been re-encoded for your iPhone, and so on. It may not be the Web you want to see, but it's the Web that, for now, you still need to see.
And now there's a way to get this content on your iPhone: Frash.
Ads Directed to Larry Page, Users Selling Their Data Among Google's "Wacky" Money-Making Ideas
An internal Google memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal outlines the company's "vision statement" for monetizing its vast stores of data over the long term.
The document talks about major profit sources like data and advertising exchanges. But it also includes some "wacky examples" of ways to make money from everyday users that its authors promise will be the subject of "future brainstorming sessions."
Brainstorming what to sell to end-users
"There are additional end-user features which we can consider developing that will leverage the user-cookie," says the document, which was compiled by an advertising executive who came to Google from DoubleClick, the global online advertising giant Google acquired in 2007.
iOS 4 On iPhone 3G: A Little Performance Relief
I decided to upgrade one of my iPhone 3G’s to iOS 4 and leave the other one on iPhone SDK 3.1.3 after purchasing two new iPhone 4′s. Realizing that the upgrade did not have much to offer, the fate of the iOS 4 iPhone 3G was to be utilized as more of an iPod touch for my six-year-old daughter.
Apple’s Instruments for Developers
When Steve Jobs told the media at the July 16 Press Conference that Apple loves its customers, he meant it. When 5,000 developers gathered in San Francisco for the WWDC a few months earlier to discuss how to build apps for these customers that Apple loves so much, the company provided training, as well as several new tools called instruments, to help developers build the best possible applications for users of Apple devices.
Apple in the Cloud: What I’d Love to See
For a company that’s in the mobile business as heavily as Apple is, its cloud strategy is embarrassing. Some parts of MobileMe work fine, like contact, bookmark, and calendar, but others, like iDisk, fall on their face so often I can’t count on them for production work. After one too many syncing errors, I’ve found iDisk to be a great place to store large files I want remote access to, but it’s not reliable enough for my day-to-day syncing; for that I use Dropbox. Lets face it, while the “It just works” slogan is mostly accurate, Apple’s Cloud strategy just doesn’t play well.
iPad is Smarter: Now With Genius!
This morning, as is part of my ritual when waking up, I checked for app updates on both my iPhone and iPad. (Am I the only one who gets excited over app updates?) When doing so on the iPad, I noticed that the Genius feature had been released sometime overnight. As the App Store is web-based in nature, this feature comes automatically, without the need for any update to your device.
The Genius feature, like that already found on iPhone and iPod touch, delivers a listing of apps that you may enjoy, based on your past purchases. The Genius featured on the iPhone has been fairly useful, and I check it from time to time if I’m looking for something new I may have missed in my other searches. When a suggestion isn’t useful, just use the “Not Interested” button to let the App Store know that the app suggested wasn’t your cup of tea.