Amazon is set to be launching its own little Market for Android sometime this month, but Opera just flinched first, flipping the switch on the Opera Mobile Store. It’s an online clearinghouse for apps available for “virtually any mobile platform and device” — which right now covers Android , BlackBerry , Palm , Symbian , Windows Mobile , and good ‘ol Java.
Telegraph.co.uk App of the week – Opera Mini Stuff.tv (blog) Or multiple thumbnail tabs that you can shuffle around and pull to the front, a bit like a Palm Pre . Or decent hold-and-press contextual menus. ..
PreCentral’s 50-app demo on the Pre Plus was insanely (if not excessively) impressive, but is it the only phone out there with the kind of multitasking prowess that mere mortals could never possibly need? No, turns out. Adam Fullerton of iUnlock does a pretty wild demo on Symbian-Guru where he flashes his i8910 HD with a custom ROM that significantly lowers power-on consumption of the phone’s 256MB of RAM, starts running apps, and makes it all the way to 50
When the Palm Pre debuted in Canada , it arrived with new applications to celebrate.
The Instinct software feels pretty damn dated now, and the Instinct HD doesn’t make it feel any fresher. But, the hardware is a deadly serious upgrade : It can shoot 720p HD video and 5MP photos, plus it finally has Wi-Fi.
Real’s new RealPlayer SP software, currently in beta, adds functionality to rip YouTube and other streaming videos from the Internet and get them onto whatever handheld you choose. It works well enough, but it’s also crammed full of unnecessary features
