We’re still recovering from that earlier Zune phone news and now we have to deal with another Microsoft project, the Pink, which, from the looks of it, it’s a smartphone. Now the Pink has some features available. The phone will have a 3.5-inch or even larger multitouch display, an ARM v6+ processor, OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible graphics, 256MB of RAM and 1GB or more of storage. We can also expect a 3 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a compass and an accelerometer. Think we’re done yet? We have even more leaked details for you! NVIDIA’s Tegra platform is also going to be part of the Pink project. TI’s OMAP 3 platform and Qualcomm 8k are also listed. Will Microsoft use all three of them?

That’s how Windows 7 Chasis 1 smartphones will look like but we can’t say for certain how will Microsoft bundle all those specs. According to previous rumors the Pink is not a phone but a project meant to bring Zune software and services to Windows Mobile. Should we assume that Windows Mobile 7 will come with lots of Pink features inside? Let’s hear it Mr. Ballmer? What will it be?

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I guess you’re not cool anymore these days if you can’t offer your own app store to your customers. Vodafone has just joined the club as it has announced its application store. According to Vodafone the store will contain “mobile internet applications and services”, which doesn’t exactly sound like a regular store. Vodafone will have a SDK and a set of APIs this summer ready for software developers. Vodafone is ready to “provide partners and developers with customer controlled access to other network capabilities, such as location awareness, enabling them to create even more innovative mobile internet services and applications” so those future Vodafone apps might be quite useful in the future. And let’s not forget that Vodafone has almost 300 million subscribers to please.

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The mobile market is just about to get hotter than it already is. A new open source project has just been launched today by Intel and Nokia. The oFono project will apparently be a Linux-based OS meant to compete against Android. Considering the names behind it we should assume that oFono will have a bright future.

The new OS will be used in various smartphones and mobile devices. It will be able to connect to GSM/UMTS networks, it will make calls, access the SIM card and it will have support for various mobile apps. We are really anxious to see a phone running on this new OS but we have no idea when that’s going to happen.

Here’s what the first blog post says about oFono:

Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project, an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution.

oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.…

oFono is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license. oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends. The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 “AT command set for User Equipment (UE).”

Nokia and Intel will jointly maintain the oFono project. We’d like to invite all developers to join the ofono.org effort and community.

Anyone excited about the new OS?

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Callpod launches a new security software application for personal and professional users to help in the password storage needs of businesses today. The launch of Keeper Desktop marks Callpod’s official entry into the software arena to complement its arsenal of award-winning mobile electronics products including the original Chargepod, a multi-device charger, and the Fueltank, a mobile on-the-go charger, to name a few.

“Today, consumers need to do everything they can to keep important information as safe as possible,” said Craig Lurey, Callpod’s CTO and Co-founder. “Keeper uses one of the most powerful encryption tools in the world to do just that and users can feel confident that their information is safe against thieves and hackers.”

“Callpod’s entry into the software space is the perfect complement to our mobile devices business and allows us to offer consumers useful and innovative applications for their Smartphones and computers. Smartphones have become the fastest growing segment in addition to power devices in the consumer electronics space,” said Lurey. “We have a long list of new and innovative apps that we will roll out this year and beyond to capitalize on this expansion. It’s a very exciting time for Callpod as it has now established itself as an innovator of software and mobile devices.”

Keeper Desktop is available for the Mac and PC via a 15-day free trial or users can purchase the full version is for $14.95, both can be downloaded at www.callpod.com/products/keeper.

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Here is a great app you can download for your iPhone. If you love those racing games, perhaps you will love this new car racing app, Stunt Car Racing 99 Tracks. Stunt Car Racing 99 Tracks is a fun, multiplayer, side-scrolling racing game where gamers are propelled through a frantic, high speed race with flips, tricks and mammoth jumps. The game has previously received a 9/10 review score and Gold Award from influential authority PocketGamer.

As the title suggests, there are 99 expertly designed tracks offering high replay and production value. Players can turn up the risk factor in Stunt Car Racing 99 Tracks by using nitro boost packs to increase their speeds and performing aggressive stunts.

The app also leverages the innovative Multi-Touch user interface of the iPhone and iPod touch by letting players command the monster vehicle using intuitive touch screen controls. By tapping the up or down controls, players can rotate the car to pull off extreme jumps, 360 degree spins and wheelies to overcome dangerous obstacles.

Stunt Car Racing 99 Tracks is available for $5.99 from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

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The iPhone or the iPod Touch is the last contraption you would consider giving you peace and sleep. But it can be possible if you get an app that can do so. Apparently, the iPhone has one available over at the Apple App Store and this application is the “A Good Night’s Sleep”.

Mobile Frontiers newest application “A Good Night’s Sleep” gently awakens users, ensuring the gradual, peaceful start to each day. A Good Night’s Sleep also guarantees users a relaxing end to every night with its feature of allowing users to set a series of sleep sounds or music.

Although there is a vast array of applications currently being offered either as sleep enhancers, clocks or wake up alarms on the iTunes store, there is nothing that compares to A Good Night’s Sleep as it incorporates all of these, and enhances them, to produce the perfect solution for A Good Night’s Sleep.

This is the ONLY application of its kind on the iTunes store; no other application utilizes our unique and exclusive process of gradually allowing users to WAKE and sleep, peacefully and gradually, the way they want!

A Good Night’s Sleep is currently available at an introductory price of only $1.99 but the sale ends soon.

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It looks llike Mafia Wars is going great guns and has made its way to the world of iPhones. However, one thing you should note is that it is not linked to Facebook, the online network where it gained much popularity. Now isn’t that intriguing?

The Facebook app on the iPhone / iPod Touch is a killer. And one of the most popular Facebook games - Mafia by Zynga is here on the iPhone for free. But the only thing I hate is that the iPhone version is not linked to your Facebook profile. So you cant continue playing your Facebook Mafia via the iPhone app.

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Sony Ericsson mobile phone owners are going to get some help when it comes to personalizing their phones thanks to the new Themes Creator 4.0. The new program includes a wide range of attractive features, enabling customers to design their ideal ‘signature style’ directly on their mobile phone’s desktop.

Moreover, the Themes Creator also enables mobile phone users to choose from dynamic and intuitive animations that are based on Adobe Flash technology, and which will vary according to the time of the day, will change as soon as the season changes, and are even able to change colors when the battery is low on power.

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It was once bundled with a variety of Mac models but is now an optional accessory to the iPhone. This is of course the Apple Remote Control, providing iPhone owners the remote capabilities to control a broader variety of applications.

Rowmote is an iPhone/iPod touch application that mimics the operation of the Apple Remote, complete with Plus, Minus, Back, Forward, Play/Pause, and Menu buttons. It works in tandem with the free , which you install on your Mac. Once that application is installed it’s automatically added to your account’s list of login applications so that it’s ready to do your iPhone or iPod touch’s bidding even after you’ve restarted your Mac.

What makes Rowmote particularly special–other than that you don’t need line-of-sight access or you computer because it works over Wi-Fi–is that it supports far more applications than Apple’s hardware Remote Control. The list of supported applications includes Front Row, Boxee, DVD Player, EyeTV, Finder, iTunes, iTunes Visualizer, iPhoto, Keynote, PowerPoint, QuickTime, Plex, Skim, Spotify, VLC, Airfoil Video Player, PandoraJam, XBMC, and Last.fm.

You choose an application by tapping an Applications button at the bottom of the screen. A Settings button to the left of that Applications button lets you choose the computer you want to control.

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EA releases a mobile game of Star Trek, just in time when the expected remake is scheduled to hit theatres worldwide. The action game has players captain the USS Enterprise on a host of missions, during which Kirk and Spock make appearances and help gamers along. Players also fight against and alongside ships from series fiction, such as the Keldon, Valdore and K’tinga.

Star Trek is currently on sale via the App Store and priced at $5.

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For iPhone owners who want to record their voice, Spin Vox has announced the launch of the first SpinVox-enabled application to be available through Apple’s App Store.

Using the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) nFinity has been able to rapidly develop a new feature for nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro, the latest version of the award-winning voice recorder that instantly became a Top 100 product in Apple’s App Store when it was released in July 2008.

With QuickVoice you can already conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to do lists, and even entire lectures and multi-session seminars. With the new enhancement, QuickVoice Pro users will be able use their iPhones for the first time to record voice messages which will be automatically converted to text by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user’s choice.

SpinVox API leverages SpinVox VMCS, the world’s largest commercial speech platform– a Cloud service which already has over 30 million users and is growing fast - to enable Speech 2.0 applications to be built and launched quickly. It enables SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market.

Over 400 developers have already registered interest in SpinVox API and, of these, 20 have been selected by SpinVox to be part of the co-creation programme. Those selected include business efficiency, personal productivity, games and social networking applications on Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60, and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.

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If you think that EA only made Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Need for Speed for the usual game consoles then guess again. EA Mobile has made them compatible with iPhones and are actually available at the Apple App Store.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR and Need for Speed Undercover were created for the unique capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch and providing the graphic quality and simulation experience that is core to these successful franchises. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR players will use the touch capabilities to draw back a golf club to tee off for a round at Pebble Beach. Need for Speed Undercover players will outrun the cops while navigating the roads using the accelerometer feature.

“Tiger Woods PGA TOUR brings the ultimate mobile golf experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, including the world’s No. 1 golfer, legendary courses and an interface that leverages these great devices,” said Adam Sussman, VP of Worldwide Publishing for EA Mobile. “Need for Speed players will lose themselves in the most intense 3D racing environment EA has brought to mobile phones.”

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR and Need for Speed Undercover are currently available worldwide from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. Additional EA Mobile iPhone and iPod touch titles available include: TRIVIAL PURSUIT and Lemonade Tycoon, joining previously released Spore Origins, SimCity, SCRABBLE, Tetris, MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition, YAHTZEE Adventures and Sudoku.

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Here is a useful iPhone app that travelers to London will certainly find helpful. Especially for first timers, the London Spot-on app is sure to help travelers find the top local spots for a purchase or a pint. The new app offers visitors an in-pocket extension of Air New Zealand’s renowned Inflight Concierge service, providing one-touch access to resources such as travel deals, tube maps, hand-picked recommendations and can’t-miss events and tourist sites.

“Air New Zealand has always set the standard for air travel, providing our customers with seamless service that extends far beyond the onboard experience,” said Roger Poulton, Air New Zealand vice president – the Americas. “Our world-first Inflight Concierge service is a key example of how we’ve improved the travel experience, and now passengers can take this expertise directly from the plane to their pocket.”

Features include:

• Personally-recommended places to eat, shop, relax and experience
• One-touch access to query Air New Zealand Concierge staff
• Hand-picked Activities sorted by genre, source and proximity
• Interactive Tube Map
• London Taxi numbers pre-programmed
• Eavesdrop on local Twitter chatter
• Plan a trip offline, roaming or even at 30,000 feet in ‘plane mode.’ Sync feature enables download of the latest local activities directly to the iPhone or iTouch.
• Automatically awaits Wi-FI connection prior to downloading updates, saving on international data roaming fees
• Direct access to air fares and special Air New Zealand offers and promotions

London. Spot-On is available for free download from iTunes at www.itunes.com. The app is compatible with iPhone and iTouch and requires the iPhone 2.0 software update.

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After developers launched Phoload for the Android Platform (T-mobile G1) in November, they have now followed up with a release for the Symbian platform. If you are not familiar with Phoload, it is a website that is dedicated to providing free mobile software downloads for the Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android and now Symbian operating systems.

Just visit the website from your mobile phone or computer and use the ‘Filter by Phone’ option on the top left of the site to view software for your device. The software is broken down into two major categories: Games and Utilities. However, within these categories are a wide range of choices including music/photo/video, social networking, SMS/IM/Email, location Based, calculators, security and many more.

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Here is a handy utility application you can get at the Apple app store for your iPhone called the ‘myWireless Mobile’ application. iPhone customers can view data and voice usage, manage bill payments, add New Wireless features and more.

Supplementing AT&T myWireless, a popular service through www.att.com used today by millions of AT&T customers, the Mobile edition for iPhone brings greater ease and simplicity to virtually all elements of account management. The app’s primary functions include:

• Bill and Pay - View monthly bill in full and make one-touch payments
• Voice and Data Usage - View all voice and data usage, including text messages
• Features - Browse and manage bolt-on features, including new texting plans and more

The AT&T MyWireless Mobile app is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone 3G or at www.itunes.com/appstore/

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The movie is a long time gone, but that hasn’t stopped Paramount Digital Entertainment from creating a game to cater Top Gun fans who own iPhones/iPods Touch.  This time, the players will be trained by none other than Maverick and Iceman themselves and they will aid in players climbing up the rank ladder at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School.  Just like in the movie, players get to take F-22 Raptors and B-2 Spirit stealth bombers out for a spin or go ballistic with dogfights against MiGs in the story mode with 10 missions that feature a variety of scenarios including the ocean, desert, cities, and canyons during day and night.  Players can also cruise the skies while grooving to the movie’s soundtrack from Berlin.

The Top Gun game for iPhone/iPod Touch is available now on the AppStore for an inaugural price of $1.99, so hurry up and download yours before the price shoots up to $3.99.

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MidCountry has launched a similar program in the proper disposal of e-waste with their “Answer The Call Now” Cell Phone Recycling program. The phones will be recycled for money, and 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to USA Cares’ “Combat Injured Program,” which assists wounded service members and their families with immediate financial needs.

To donate an old cell phone, visit any Heights Finance or Pioneer Services location throughout the month of May. Service members who do so at a Pioneer Services office can also attend one of the Military Appreciation Month activities occurring at selected locations.

“Those who have served, and are serving, have given so much to our nation that it just makes sense to give something back to them,” said Tom Holcom, President of Pioneer Services. “In this case, all people need to do is give us their old cell phones. We’ll do the rest.”

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For people who don’t want to go through the trouble skimming the papers or relentlessly looking for great travel deals, here is one made easier by AAA Discounts. In fact, you only have to get your iPhone to do it! Apple iPhone users can now easily find their way to AAA member savings by downloading a new application, AAA Discounts.

The free, GPS-based “app” displays retail locations of AAA Show Your Card & Save partners near user locations. There are more than 110,000 AAA Show Your Card & Save locations and more than 51 million AAA members in North America.

The AAA Discounts iPhone app acquires the user’s location automatically, displays nearby AAA Show Your Card & Save locations and allows users to pan and zoom on a regional map. It also displays key information including the name, address, phone, distance from location and a summary of the discount details. Users can filter listings by category and have one click access to narrative directions. The AAA Discounts app works on the iPod Touch as well when the user has access to WiFi.

First in a series of AAA applications planned for the iPhone, AAA Discounts can be obtained in two ways: via an iPhone by clicking on the App Store icon and searching “AAA Discounts” or by downloading iTunes on your computer and searching “AAA Discounts” in the App Store. The application uses components of AAA’s TripTik Travel Planner in combination with iPhone GPS capabilities.

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A new portable personal database has just been made available at the Apple app store with the release of the Bento for the iPhone/iPod Touch. With Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, it’s never been easier to organize all the details of a busy life — in one exciting new iPhone application. The new software is now available for download for just US$4.99 from the Apple App Store.

Start tackling any area of your busy business or personal life right away by adding information to any of the 25 built-in templates within Bento for iPhone and iPod Touch:

• For Business: Issue Tracking, Time Billing, Customers, Expenses, Products for Sale, Inventory, Projects, Event Planning, Items Sold, and Equipment.
• Personal Uses: Contacts, To Dos, Diet Log, Expenses, Classes, Recipes, Digital Media, Vehicle Maintenance, Projects, Home Inventory, Event Planning, Membership Lists, Notes, and Donations.

With Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, you can:

• Start adding information into any of 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates that can be quickly customized with a few taps. You can also create your own forms to organize virtually any data on an iPhone or iPod touch.
• Tap to call a contact, view a Web site, send an email or display a map all while in a Bento library or collection.
• Manage anything from contacts and club members to projects, parties, medical bills and vehicle maintenance.
• View libraries and collections, create new records, edit details, sort data, modify forms — even use the iTunes-style search to find information quickly on the go.
• Select from 15 field types including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account.

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There is a new game app over at the Apple app store from Glu Mobile. The game is Cops and Robbers, a game that will give players a rush of adrenaline as they play a thief escaping pursuers or play as a cop chasing down a criminal on the run.

“Cops & Robbers introduces unique sub-genre because we set out to make a fast-moving experience that has the flow of a racing game with the variety and challenge of an action platformer,” said Jill Braff, senior vice president of global publishing, Glu Mobile. “We are excited to provide consumers with a game that takes advantage of the unique and engaging features of the revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch.”

Cops & Robbers plays off of parkour-style acrobatics using unique accelerometer controls of the iPhone and iPod touch. Set in a 3-D urban landscape, the game is a visual feast full of shadows and rich glowing effects.

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