If you’re after our choice of the best free iPhone apps, or want reviews of the latest full price iPhone apps , (not to mention iPod touch and iPad apps) we have a bunch of stuff for you. We’ve collated a list of our iPhone app store articles, so whatever you’re after, this should get you started.
Unlike the iPhone, the iPad just calls to be swiped sideways and scrolling up and down on it just doesn’t really feel right. The iBook app is a great example of how convenient this gesture is. Unfortunately, it only reads eBooks in the ePub format. Should that prevent you from reading your eBooks or documents saved as PDFs in it
HP has announced that it will be purchasing Palm , and has also dropped some pretty big hints it will developing tablets and netbooks based on webOS. One of the most attractive things about the acquisition of Palm for HP is the control of webOS, Palm’s custom-built smartphone platform. And on a conference call to announce the deal, HP was asked why it has chosen to invest this money in Palm when it could just develop new devices based on Android or a similar mobile OS.
Nokia sold more than 107 million mobile devices in the first quarter of 2010, a 16 per cent increase on sales last year, with the Finnish communications giant shifting 21.5 million smartphones and netbooks. Although the main focus is on smartphones at the moment, there is still clearly a market for traditional mobile phones (dumbphones?) where sales were up 6.4 per cent, with emerging markets helping significantly. But the headline will be in Nokia’s huge increase in the sale of smartphones, mobile internet devices and its Nokia netbook.
HTC has apparently pulled out of any prospective deal to buy Palm, the company it used to produce phones for. The Taiwanese firm was invited to make a bid for Palm, but after looking at the company’s books has decided to decline, according to Reuters. Citing a source with direct knowledge of the deal, any possibility of a bid was withdrawn as “There just weren’t enough synergies to take the deal forward.” And that’s a no from us too Huawei, a company that has dabbled in mobile phone production recently but is better known for creating telecoms infrastructure equipment, has also passed up the chance to buy Palm, according to the same source. Now Lenovo has been tipped as the most likely to purchase Palm, as it looks to capitalise on its fast market growth and expand into the US, where it has minimal presence compared to other markets.