Friday, March 25, 2011

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Samsung App Store Hits 100 Million Download Mark

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:13 PM PDT

Ten months after Samsung launched their own App Store for Bada devices, the company reached the 100 million download milestone, a notable result for what we can only termed as a Quixotic quest. The rush to app download nirvana began with the Samsung Wave last year.

There are currently 13,000 apps available on the platform. Users in France, Germany, and Spain downloaded 40% of the total, making them the biggest consumer of Bada apps.

While this is all well and good, it seems a bit dangerous for Samsung to rest on its laurels here. The Bada app store exists in a situation where a feature phone has its own apps and OS and there is no mention made of how many of those apps are paid. One hundred million is fine and good but current success in the Bada framework, especially considering the inexorable move towards Android in the app phone marker, does not guarantee future success on the platform.

via Cellular News

Pah! The iPhone game you play with your mouth.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:06 AM PDT



Have you ever been sittin’ there, playin’ an iPhone game, thinking to yourself, “Man! This is a cool game and all, but I really wish I didn’t have to use my hands so much. If only I could play using nothing but my mouth!”

No? Yeah, me neither. But hey, go with it.

Pah! is a classic sidescroller for iOS, with one big ol’ twist: it’s played entirely with your mouth. From the start screen on down, you play via a series of “Pah! Pah! Pah!”s and “AaaaAAAAaahs”. Shouting “Pah!” fires your ship’s guns, while the pitch of your “Aaah” determines how high you fly.

Don’t expect it to rock your world with mind-blowing graphics or an epic narrative — but at just 99 cents [iTunes Link], it’s worth checking out for the laughs alone. Check out a video of the game after the jump.


[Video via iPhoneGuru]

Waiting For The Windows Phone 7 Copy/Paste Update? It may be a while.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:25 AM PDT

Between February’s preparatory update, the almost immediate cancellation and then resumption of said update, and then the promise of the bigger/badder, Copy & Paste-enabling “NoDo” update in early March, a lot of people are left wondering: Where the heck are their updates?

The answer, it seems, isn’t a simple one. Different carriers are pushin’ out the update at different times, and not all of their handsets will receive it at once. Lookin’ to make things a bit less mysterious, Microsoft has just put up this “Where’s my phone update?” page. Be warned: the forecast may be a bit disheartening. Outside of the Venue Pro and the HD7 (and the Arrive, but that ships with NoDo so it doesn’t really count), most of the handsets have been pushed back into “Testing” phase, which could take anywhere from 10 days to a few weeks.

Isn’t this exactly the confusion/annoyance that Microsoft was subtly jabbing Android for back before Windows Phone 7 launched?
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