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BlackBerry has US$250,000 for your app ideas
Eric Franklin | Oct 22, 2008
So you have a great idea for a BlackBerry application, but like the rest of us in the poor old U. S. of A., you have no money to develop it.
Enter the Jump Start Financing Initiative, which provides entrepreneurs with capital infusions of up to US$250,000. The initiative is designed to bring new and innovative ideas into the development process faster, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on building smart phone applications instead of raising capital.
Announced Monday, the initiative is funded by the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.
Interested entrepreneurs should go here.
Via CNET Crave
Freehands--gloves that love your handsets
John Chan | Oct 15, 2008
(Credit: Freehands)
Cold weather is not something most of us in Asia Pacific have to contend with. But for the business traveler who has to travel to the northern hemisphere near the end of the year, the Freehands gloves could be the ticket to keeping hands warm while still allowing you to use your tech gadgets.
Created by the founder of design/technology blog CoolHunting, Josh Rubin, these gloves let you operate your iPhone or BlackBerry without you having to remove them. The parts of the gloves covering the index fingers and thumbs can be folded back so your flesh can make contact with a touchscreen or buttons. The really clever thing is that they are held down by magnets, so nothing flaps around while you are typing a message or dialing a number.
The Freehands come in leather, spandex and fleece costing US$40, US$30 and US$20, respectively. There are five sizes ranging from extra small to extra large and you can have one in any color--as long as it is black. Visit the official site if you want to pre-order one.
Via CoolHunting
Impressive Edelweiss touchscreen phone
John Chan | Oct 14, 2008
(Credit: Emblaze Mobile)
Even as widescreen VGA displays are starting to feature in upcoming handhelds like the HTC Touch HD and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, Israeli startup Emblaze Mobile has in the works one that tops them all with a 3.5-inch 852 x 480 display.
The Edelweiss is a touchscreen device with a capacitive display, just like the iPhone. This means that multitouch is a possibility, provided the software supports it. The operating system found on the Edelweiss is the Access Linux Platform (ALP). Access is the Japanese company that bought the rights to Palm OS 5 (or Garnet OS) and it developed ALP as a successor to that.
Other specifications of this smart phone include internal storage of up to 16GB, a 3.2-megapixel camera, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi and GPS. Interestingly, it will be made by Sharp in Japan. Though not prevalent outside of the country, we know Sharp makes many mobile phone models for the Japanese operators and these are known for having excellent displays. In fact, many of these handsets have trickled out to grey markets for use in countries with UMTS networks after being unlocked.
The Edelweiss will first be sold in Russia, and quite a few pictures and full specifications can be seen on its Russian language teaser site. We have contacted the company for more information about availability in Asia and are awaiting a response.
Via Palminfocenter
Video calling on mobile phones to go mainstream in US
Dong Ngo | Oct 14, 2008
(Credit: Global IP)
If talking over the phone is not enough (it's never enough for me, personally), you will probably soon have the option to place video calls, too. That is, of course, if your mobile phone supports VideoEngine Mobile platform Global IP Solutions (GIPS), the company that introduced the VoiceEngine for iPhone recently, announced on Monday.
The technology enables peer-to-peer video calling as well as multi-point video conferencing on mobile phones. GIPS says that its VideoEngine Mobile paves the way for wireless carriers, application developers and mobile handset manufacturers to provide high-quality video calls, even under adverse network conditions.
The VideoEngine works by implementing GIPS's existing industry standard real-time communications capabilities to leverage network effects and hardware limitations. This results in a better way to solve the most complex voice and video-related challenges in IP communications, such as packet loss and lip synchronization.
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HTC to roll out more WM6.1 updates
John Chan | Oct 13, 2008
According to theunwired.net, HTC has released more Windows Mobile 6.1 updates for some PDA-phones in the Touch series. These are for the Touch Dual and Touch Cruise devices, both of which were not included in the original upgrade plan when WM6.1 was first launched.
WM6.1 doesn't significantly affect the operation of devices already running WM6, but it does offer some conveniences like threaded SMS and a setup wizard from the Today screen. We contacted HTC on the availability of this update in Asia Pacific. The company responded that there are upgrades forthcoming, but was unable to say which products and when customers will be able to download them. We'll update this blogpost as we get more information.
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