Items tagged with 'App'
Apple's App Store Goes 100,000 Deep
Talk about an unstoppable force. Apple's App Store essentially revolutionized the smartphone world, and every phone since has attempted to either match its great functionality or undercut it in price. Regardless of whether you like the phone or not, you can't say the iPhone hasn't turned the mobile world on its head. Granted,... Read More
HAVA Mobile Player Brings Live TV, DVR Control To iPhone
The SlingMobile application for the iPhone may be great for some, but for everyone else there's Monsoon's HAVA. The highly anticipated app, which was already launched on other platforms, has finally made its way past Apple's app security patrol and onto the App Store. What's it do? Put simply, it allows allows HAVA customers... Read More
Palm Opens Up to Developers
Palm, realizing that the difference between 85,000 apps in the App Store, 10,000 apps in the Android Marketplace, and 100 apps in the App Catalog may be a lot of Palm Pre sales, has decided to spur application development and approval in a much more open manner than, say, the iPhone App Store does. As opposed to requiring... Read More
New iPhone App Provides Information About Your Date's Past
A new iPhone app from background-check powerhouse Intelius enables the popular smartphone to expose information people are hiding. The new DateCheck app could prove very useful for people in the dating scene who want to quickly check to see whether their aspiring mate is a creep or a gem. Using names and telephone numbers,... Read More
Navigon Adds Text-To-Speech, iPod Functions To iPhone GPS App
While everyone seems to be talking about TomTom's GPS application for the iPhone, it's little-known Navigon that is really stepping up to the challenge. Today, the company is introducing its second major update for its MobileNavigator app, and it's definitely one worth checking out.For starters, the update makes the app... Read More
T-Pain Auto-Tune App Demonstrates Why The iPhone Rocks
By and large, we don't cover individual iPhone applications here at HotHardware. But this...this is something else. This has a life of its own, and it's easily the most hilarious iPhone app we've seen released to date. We know it's incredibly silly, but it's things like this that really give the iPhone an edge. Since when... Read More
iPhone App Store Pulling In $2.4 Billion Per Year, Killing Rivals All The While
Let's face it--Apple's App Store is big business. Really big. And if you paid any attention to the fact that Apple saw its 1.5 billionth (yes, with a "B") app downloaded back in July, you'd know that things still weren't even close to slowing down. But have you ever stopped to think about just how much cash is being generated... Read More
Rhapsody App Coming To iPhone, Requires $14.99/Month Plan
If there's ever been an iPhone app that runs a good chance of being blocked at the point of entry, it's this. Real has just submitted its Rhapsody app to the App Store for approval, and if it passes, it'll bring an all new source of music to iPhone users everywhere. In fact, it'll be the "fully on-demand subscription music... Read More
MINI USA's Roadside Assist App Brings Help With A Button Press
The much-hyped CARS program may be drawing to a close, but you know you you'll still be longing for one of those cute-as-a-button MINI Coopers even after that clunker rebate vanishes. If you needed just one more excuse to give your local dealer a visit, how's this? MINI USA has today become the first automaker in the US... Read More
TomTom Not Worried Over Smartphone Navigation Apps
One of the first things we thought when TomTom announced that it would finally be making an honest-to-goodness iPhone app was this: "what will this do to standalone GPS sales?" It's a reasonable question--TomTom has long since made its profits by selling hardware with routing software built in. The app within was just a... Read More
Palm's Paid App Beta Program Goes Live
You've got to hand it to 'em here, Palm sure is doing a bang-up job in reviving itself. Around this time last year, many pundits wondered if the company famous for creating the Palm Pilot and Treo smartphone would live to reach the next decade. The Palm Pre turned things around for the California-based company, but it's... Read More
TomTom Unleashes iPhone App
In June, we told you about TomTom’s plan to bring turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone 3GS. Now that TomTom has officially launched its iPhone app, this plan has become reality. The application works with many of the iPhone’s controls, including its multi-touch display and accelerometer for portrait / landscape viewing.... Read More
Analysis: 6.67 Billion App Downloads By 2014
Sure, Apple's App Store has surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. But that's just the beginning, according to an analysis of the smartphone market. Frost & Sullivan released the analysis today, "An Insight into the U.S. Smartphone Application Storefront Market" and predicts downloads to smartphones from all app stores will... Read More
Apple Tablet All But Confirmed--Could Retail Around $700
Where there's smoke, there's fire--right? Um, right--at least, we sure hope so! Just a week after we heard some pretty convincing rumors that Apple really was gearing up to give the whole Tablet PC thing a shot, along comes an even more believable report suggesting that a Barron's analyst has not only confirmed that Apple... Read More
Palm Pre Gets Two More webOS Apps, More To Come?
Palm may have released its Mojo SDK Beta for webOS developers earlier this month, but we've yet to see any real action spawn from it. In contrast, it only took developers a matter of days with Apple's iPhone SDK to start pumping out quality software, and now the App Store has well over 65,000 programs to choose from.Still,... Read More
Navigon MobileNavigator: GPS Comes To iPhone
Just like we heard back in June, Navigon is taking on TomTom and anyone else who dares enter the full-fledged iPhone navigation realm with its snazzy new MobileNavigator application. Released today in Apple's App Store for the North American market (the European version was released last month), the program only works with... Read More
Apple's App Store Sees Another 500 Million DLs
Can you say "unprecedented growth?" We had to pick our jaws up off of the floor just 1.5 months ago when Apple announced that it had surpassed one billion downloads in its heralded (and oft copied) App Store, and now--just days after this very store celebrated its first birthday--the California-based company is dusting... Read More
'Battery Go!' App Details Remaining iPhone Life
Battery life has taken on a life of its own here at HotHardware, and considering that many iPhone 3GS users are bickering about shorter-than-expected lifespans, this app couldn't arrive at a better time. Showcased now in Apple's App Store, 'Battery Go!" measures and displays the remaining battery life on one's iPhone or... Read More
AT&T Intros Voice Activated GPS for iPhone
AT&T is now offering a new application for the iPhone that provides voice activated turn-by-turn navigation. Given that wireless carriers love to capitalize on regular monthly fees charged to consumers, it’s not too surprising that the new app costs $10 per month. The new app makes it among the first apps to make use... Read More
BlackBerry App World Launching This Week
Say what you will about the iPhone (and the App Store in particular), but it has undoubtedly set off a chain reaction of me-toos. Not long ago, the Android Market was launched to bring the all-too-familiar app shopping experience to G1 users, and now we're hearing that RIM, Nokia and Microsoft are planning to follow suit... Read More
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