According to sources, Google is working on its own version of iMessage, the exclusive instant messaging client that's built into iOS. Details are scarce at the moment, but it would make perfect sense for Google to jump on board, like other competitors have.
If you're an Android user, you better stay on the lookout for a new form of Android malware: DroidKungFu. Discovered by Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang and Ph. D. student Yajin Zhou, both from North Carolina State University, this reflects yet another evidence that hackers are interested in this open but also largely unprotected platform.
iPhone and Android users are probably aware of Landscape mode, a feature that automatically adjusts apps when users turn the phone sideways. However, on the Android platform, some apps just don't look good turned sideways. Thankfully, there's Smart Rotator, which allows you to set which installed Apps will rotate.
iAndroid is a new iOS application for jailbroken devices that simulates the Android operating system experience on the iPhone or iPod touch. While it's still very far from completion, the project is taking shape.
Independent developers have a finite amount of time in which to put together their smartphone apps, and they obviously want to get the maximum return on their work. Taking their Android apps and porting them across to iOS is certainly a time consuming practice, assuming the particular developer has the technical know-how to do the work.
According to Lookout, an Android anti-malware maker, there's a new threat in the wild that is said to have affected between 30,000 and 120,000 headsets already.
J.K. Shin, President of the Mobile Communications division at Samsung, has unveiled plans to release a new Galaxy Tab tablet by the last quarter of this year and a new Galaxy S smartphone early next year.
If you're an avid Android user, you've probably heard of the vast collection of emulators that are available for the platform: Apps that simulate other platforms, such as Game Boy Advances or Nintendo N64's. If you use or planned to get those Apps, you might be sad to hear that they're gone from the Android Market.
Is this lovely slab of glass Google's next reference Android handset? If we are indeed looking at the 3rd Nexus phone, it would point to HTC being the manufacturer of choice once more after Google dropped the company it used for the Nexus One in favor of Samsung when it came time to bring the Nexus S into the world. But that isn't the only note-worthy aspect of this leaked photo. Not by a long shot.
Every so often a story comes along that just seems a bit odd. Then after reading past the first paragraph or two it some how manages to get even more odd, and eventually it closes with nothing but complete amazement. This is one of those stories, and it'll blow your mind.
