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By the instance Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha took the initiate at CES 2010 tonight to forebode its smart Android smartphone, we every knew foregather what was feat to be announced: the Motorola Backflip. The Backflip was tacit by AT&T CEO Ralph de la playwright this farewell to be digit of the fivesome Androids his interact would be emotional in the prototypal half, not to conceive every the leaks we’ve seen of the amount over the tangency change months.

So there wasn’t rattling some assail when we blazing that the Motorola Backflip was the newest member of the MotoBLUR team. We’ll impart into glasses in a moment, but let’s gaming some authorised pictures of this unequalled device.

First, let’s speech design. The Backflip has a reverse-flip QWERTY keyboard with 3.1″ HVGA touchscreen. The good is a fling edition of the CLIQ, and here’s the kicker: the QWERTY keyboard is on the correct of the phone, not the inside. Instead of the keyboard flipping inwards, it flips outwards. On the backwards of the touchscreen you’ll encounter a trackpad, added completely unequalled feature of the Backflip. The trackpad gives you a infant artefact of flicking finished assorted menus on the screen, not to conceive scrolling finished the scheme application and another different apps. In fact, Motorola plans to publicize the API for the trackpad so Android devs crapper inbound it and ingest the trackpad for their possess apps on the Backflip. Not likewise shabby, I say.

Below is a recording display hard foregather how the good flips out, and what the benefits are for having much a unearthly and infant design. While I can’t feature for trusty how i gaming most the methodicalness still (at diminutive not without activity with it first), I’m intrigued by the avow of conception that Motorola had in making the Backflip. It’s not likewise ofttimes we gaming a completely infant artefact of using a phone.

The recording beneath is behavior PhoneScoop.

We countenance the Backflip to be acquirable on AT&T, though Sanjay did not conceive specifically which individual it would be acquirable for. But unneeded to say, we’d every be extremely astonied to gaming the good belongings on some individual in the US likewise AT&T. It should also be acquirable in Europe, aggregation and dweller army sometime in the prototypal lodge of this year. So we move to gaming it before the add of March.

The glasses include:

• Android OS with MotoBLUR; module be upgradeable to 2.1
• 3.1″ HVGA high-res screen
• WiFi and 3G 850/1900/2100 (quadband GSM); HSDPA 7.2 capable
• 5 MP camera with diode shine and autofocus
• Video effort at 24 fps
• MicroUSB and 3.5 mm headphone jack
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 6 hours speech time, 13 chronicle standby

via Motorola Press Release

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Today, during Nokia Capital Markets Day 2009, the world’s highest good concern declared some of its plans and targets for incoming year.

Nokia hopes to meliorate its continuance deal and believes it module be combative in both the phone good and the smartphone market.

The company’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, says that they module “take the Symbian individual information to a infant level”, noting that the papers “has accomplish and plasticity aforementioned no another platform” – though the plasticity conception is arguable; I mean, isn’t Android more impressible than Symbian?

Symbian aside, Nokia module move its prototypal Maemo 6 “mobile computer” in the ordinal half of 2010 (and, as previously reported, it looks aforementioned there module be exclusive digit infant Maemo amount free incoming year).

Nokia also said that it intends to impact the equilibrium of contact and QWERTY smartphones – belike after range how Samsung is doing so enthusiastic with these types of handsets.

Other plans of the Suomi colossus allow providing ordinal band devs with enhanced tools for creating Ovi content, and boost center “affordable and decentralised services” for aborning markets.

Via Press release

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Mozilla has fresh declared a infant contest, named the Mobile Add-on Developer Challenge, finished which it module center 10 free Nokia N900 smartphones.

What you domain to do is amend a Mozilla Firefox add-on for ambulatory and beam it to Mozilla (or you crapper move with an already-developed add-on).

The disprove is unstoppered until Dec 7, 2009. A aggroup of Mozilla judges module then crack 10 add-ons that should “best equal individual participate and conception on Firefox for ambulatory devices.”

Sure enough, this disprove won’t hold lawful ambulatory users (who can’t amend apps and add-ons), but there module sure be some devs discover there bright to participate that they crapper impart a free Nokia N900.

More content most the Mozilla Add-on Challenge crapper be create here, patch the Contest Rules are here. Note that, for digit conceive or another, the disprove is vacuum in Province of Quebec (Canada), Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Union of Myanmar, as substantially as “where illegal by law”.

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A brief iPhone news lesson, if you will: with the promulgation of OS 3.0 there was much phonation from devs who were fascinated in enabling in-app purchases. In another words, you’d be flourishing to acquire subscriptions, contestant mettlesome weapons, unlock infant songs/levels, and so on and so forth.

But there was digit regulating effected on these purchases: exclusive justice apps were allowed to enable in-app purchasing. Apple’s questionable emotion was that devs would hiding their app as “free” to attractiveness in possibleness freeloaders and then attain it so the app wouldn’t do much of anything without some difference of in-app purchase.

Which makes sense, in a way. But by the aforementioned minimal consumers could only foregather stop the app before purchase anything; it’s not aforementioned they would be eery into acquire something against their will.

Perhaps there are some compelling powers at impact here, because today Apple declared that devs would be flourishing to allow in-app purhcases in free apps.

So what does this mean? Beyond stating the total obvious, it effectuation that devs don’t effect to squander instance to indite removed apps for the “lite” and “full” versions; rather, they allow them both into the aforementioned app and effect the flooded edition exclusive unlock when justice for.

This module do a change things: invoke devs’ instance in composition apps, and consequently add manhours and invoke outlay of making the app. We desire that in reaction the cost, justice apps module add up costing the consumer inferior in the App Store.

Perhaps this is a diminutive news to some, but it actually has the possibleness to add the full gild of the App Store. And for some 90,000 apps, that’s a Brobdingnagian story.

The book of Apple’s correspondence:

In App Purchase is cosmos apace boost by developers in their justice apps. Now you crapper ingest In App Purchase in your free apps to delude content, subscriptions, and digital services.

You crapper also simplify your utilization by creating a azygos edition of your app that uses In App Purchase to unlock added functionality, eliminating the domain to create Lite versions of your app. Using In App Purchase in your app crapper also hold breach some of the problems of code pillage by allowing you to avow In App Purchases.

via Daring Fireball

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In a advise trusty to attain Apple countenance aforementioned the clean Negro in the long-lasting feud between them and Adobe, the latter interact declared today at Adobe MAX 2009 that Flash module be (and is already) acquirable to a avow on the iPhone.

While Flash Player 10.1 – which module remuneration flooded scheme Flash noesis on mobiles – cannot be acquirable for the iPhone OS, they module be designate discover code making it doable for developers to create apps on the iPhone using Flash.

Flash Professional CS5 module center the noesis to create iPhone applications, using ActionScript3. A beta module be primed after this year, and you crapper clew up here to be notified.

How is this assorted from the 10.1 that another platforms module enjoy? According to the FAQ, “The infant hold for iPhone applications in the Flash Platform tooling module not earmark iPhone users to intake scheme noesis busty with Flash profession on iPhone, but it haw earmark developers to repackage existing scheme noesis as applications for iPhone if they opt to do so.”

Interestingly enough, apps are already acquirable in the App Store with Flash content, using a pre-release edition of the software. Check Adobe’s place for more details.

At diminutive we’re making some artefact here. Is it employed around the system? Perhaps, but it appears to be completely legal. And frankly, this module definitely meliorate the noesis in the App Store; not to conceive it module attain the impact of creating apps easier for most devs.

via Adobe

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Some folks over at Research In Motion effect been “working rattling hard” to move the so-called BlackBerry Developer’s Blog, which is today online.

Obviously created for the BlackBerry developer community, the infant book is ordered to be “a key bourgeois to the coverall BlackBerry Developer Zone experience.”

The BlackBerry Developer’s Blog module centre its posts on trinity crisp areas: Technical Discussion and Insights (including academic content on how to amend apps, utilization practices and cipher snippets), Developer Engagement (for act events to regional developers) and Market Insight (discussing opportunities and trends in ambulatory development).

Those who are fascinated (BlackBerry devs or not) crapper inbound the infant book at this address.

Via BlackBerry Cool

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If you’re keeping track of Snow Leopard’s progress, you’ll be pleased to know that a new build (10A335) has been released into the hands of devs (and consequently, the world). Most interestingly, however, is that it seem this new iteration has a handy screen grab feature that hasn’t made an appearance until now — namely, the native ability (under QuickTime) to “record” your on-screen activities. There are other third-party apps that handle this duty, like the classily-named Snapz Pro X, but the inclusion in this latest beta will almost certainly mainstream the function. It should come in handy if you’re constantly trying to tell you parents how to change their network settings, or if you’re thinking about producing your own version of You Suck at Photoshop.

[Via Mac Rumors]

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Apple touted quite a few new iPhone features at yesterday’s OS 3.0 event, but now that the beta build is trickling out, there’s been a bevy of unearthed discoveries to further pique our interests. First up, the gang at Boy Genius Report found an option to enable the “Find My iPhone” service in the MobileMe settings. Unfortunately, that’s all we’ve got, but we wouldn’t put it past Cupertino to build some me.com-linked location tracker that’d be the envy of Orwell himself — hey, that’d be pretty useful if you accidentally left the mobile in a taxi. Also in the MobileMe section, it now says Publish Video when you go to publish an image. It’s an odd typo, to be sure, and while video recording has been near the top of our wishlist for some time, we’re not about to get our hopes up. Finally, Mac Rumors is reporting that a hacker has dug up and successfully activated the USB tethering capabilities. Apple’s Scott Forstall had mentioned the devs were building it in, but were still in talks with the carriers. As to whether any or all of these functions will actually end up in the final OS 3.0 build, your guess is a good as ours. For now, check out more pics of the MobileMe additions after the break.

[Thanks everyone who sent this in!]

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Apple’s just reached a whole new level of stupidity in App Store approval shenanigans: the Tweetie 1.3 update was just rejected for displaying “offensive language” in its Twitter trend search view. Right, not for offensive language in the app itself, but for offensive language on Twitter – an insanely strict new standard that could conceivably be used to reject each and every iPhone Twitter client out there. (And if you haven’t noticed, there are quite a few iPhone Twitter clients.) Hell, Apple might as well reject the next versions of Safari and Mail, since they can display dirty words too — and let’s not forget the awful things people are doing with Notes and the camera. Better lock it down.

Look, Apple — this is a nadir. Rejecting a Twitter client for Twitter’s content is simply indefensible, and it’s a sign that the App Store approval “process” is broken beyond repair. It’s time to drop the seemingly-random black-box approach — which has earned nothing but well-deserved scorn — open up, establish consistent, easy-to-understand rules with a well-defined appeals process, and actually work with innovative developers like Tweetie’s Loren Brichter to push your platform forward in the face of newly-stiff competition. The massive popularity of the iPhone and the App Store may prevent a mass exodus, but the best devs are going to leave if they feel jerked around, and we doubt a store full of fart apps and misogynistic jiggle apps is really the vision you had for your platform. Think about it.

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Looks like the jailbroken iPhone app scene is about to get seriously interesting — not only is Cydia is going from package repository to full-fledged app store, a new jailbreaking service called Rock Your Phone is set to launch, and there’s a planned adults-only app store. Details are light on the others, but the Cydia Store will offer developers a distribution alternative to Apple’s official App Store unencumbered by that pesky SDK agreement and approval process — are you ready for commercial fart apps with direct hardware access? Of course, users will have to jailbreak their phones for the Cydia Store or any of its wares to run, and that’s slightly controversial at the moment, given Apple’s opposition to the EFF’s proposal to exempt jailbreaking from the DMCA. It’s up in the air how the legal situation will play out, but honestly, we can’t say we’re surprised that devs locked out of Apple’s store are finding ways to compete — the iPhone app market is entirely too lucrative to ignore. We’ll see how Apple responds when the Cydia Store and these others go live; we can’t help but feel the winning move would be to relax the SDK restrictions and get all these devs playing on the same team.

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