The Mobile Fun Blog

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

I don’t keep my personal preference for mobile devices with physical keyboards a secret; the sensation of hitting real keys is an indivisible part of the text entry experience for me, and it’s not likely to change any time soon.

But there is one area where physical keyboards are woefully inferior to virtual ones: adaptability. A virtual keyboard can represent any alphabet or be arranged in any configuration the user or software needs, and a physical keyboard simply can’t keep up with that.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) employees bleed… or do they? What’s his secret? Could this be the answer? And are you sure we’re going to see the iTablet announced today? Fredo & Pid’Jin are not that sure, hence they’ve come up with a hilarious comic. Enjoy!

[Via: Gizmodo]

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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Apple kicked off its 2010 fiscal year with strong first fiscal quarterly earnings — less than two days before announcing its “latest creation” that bloggers, the news media and the tech community can’t seem to stop blabbering about.

During a conference call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer described the quarterly results as Apple’s best ever. However, Apple instituted new reporting rules with this quarter’s earning results. Previously, Apple deferred a significant portion of iPhone and iPod revenue under older  subscription accounting rules. The Financial Accounting Standards Board revised the rules in September.

The MiFi mobile router, that little dinky box that mobile bloggers and road warriors have been ranting and raving about, has a teeny weeny problem. If someone wanted to, they could find out your exact location. Every MiFi is GPS enabled, and all a hacker has to do to get your coordinates is send you a specially formatted hyperlink that once clicked will pass the MiFi’s WiFi security key and exact position in clear text to the attacker. Men cheating on their wives, terrorists, and children cutting class to smoke pot and have unprotected sex be warned.

GrooveMaker has announced that its range of style-based paid apps has surpassed the 500,000 downloads marker, and has become one of the most downloaded loop remixing applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The first Groovemaker app was released in August 2009, but the range of today comprises of 11 style-based versions covering all types of dance music genres and more, including House, Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance, Electro, D’n’B, Rock, Reggae and Reggaeton.

Here’s a fun little iPhone app which shows a new FAIL image every day. You know those image, right? Well, now you can get them right from your beloved device, all while on the go.

There are really not that many features involved in Daily Fail – you can comment on photos and read what other people have said. Moreover, you can make a list of your favorite fails with a tap of a button.

IK Multimedia is announcing the release of GrooveMaker Reggaeton, which is the latest application in the GrooveMaker range of remixing apps for the iPhone/iPod touch. This new style-based app allows anyone to create and share non-stop reggaeton tracks for remixing, multimedia and movie soundtrack compositions on the go, in real-time, just like a professional DJ or music producer.

By Carmi Levy, Betanews

We segue into 2010 with rumors swirling around the biggest mega product announcement since the iPhone. If Apple’s mythical tablet device — the “iSlate,” if insiders and analysts are to be believed — is in fact announced sometime in January, Apple fans will once again dance in the streets before lining up in the middle of the night, wallets in hand, ready to buy into the latest must-have doodad from Cupertino.

HTC is one of the more developer friendly smartphone makers out there. The company usually takes a hands-off approach to developers looking to customize HTC’s Windows Mobile and Android smartphones, which has fostered a “modding” community like no other. But, it seems HTC doesn’t look to kindly on developers that tread on their trademark design aesthetic. HTC has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Android widget developer LevelUp Studio, asking them to stop making “Beautiful Widgets” and remove the wares from the Android Market.

IK Multimedia has announced the release of a new application for the iPhone/iPod Touch – GrooveMaker Reggae. For those of you unfamiliar with Groovemaker, it’s a superb App that lets you cut together your own tunes (in real time) from a huge bank of pre-made samples!

GrooveMaker has quickly become one of the top downloaded remixing applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch, allowing any user to create professional, full-length tracks in minutes, with its unique combination of advanced remixing software and high-quality included loops’ sound content. With 10 available applications in the GrooveMaker range, there are now over 2,800 high-quality fresh loops available for your remixes.