Be a great Android designer, get a free Android handset

Word cycling around the Internets is that Google is giving away Droid and Nexus One smartphones for free to Android creators who have nonetheless one app that’s scored 3.5 stars or superior and over 5,000 unique downloads. And for once, everyone appears on the same page as to why this is virtuous. First, gratifying creators for abundant (Read More)

Review: Motorola Devour

Is the Motorola Devour the Droid’s little sister, or is it a social butterfly all its own? Phone Scoop takes a longer look at this intriguing aluminum Android device, running Motorola’s Motoblur interface. (follow link to read)

TiPb Live Podcast #88 – Explicit

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Rene, Mickey (The Cell Phone Junkie), and Phil (Android Central, WMExperts) for the great sex-apps rejection, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook speak, iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3 for iPad, iPhone+AT&T first, Droid+Verizon last, and all the week’s news. Listen in!

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Thanks to the the iPhone Blog Store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

Our music comes from the following sources:

I Called You — iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy

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HTC Commits to Android 2.1 and New Sense for All Heroes

Today in Barcelona HTC CEO Peter Chou said that it will provide Android 2.1 updates to its existing lineup of Herp devices (GSM model, Sprint version, Droid Eris). The update will also include the new version of HTC’s Sense …(follow link to read)

Apple’s iPhone Market Share Still Growing, iPhone 3GS #2 US Best-Seller

PreCentral.net points us to comScore’s latest stats showing Apple’s iPhone market share is still on the way up, going from 24.1% to 25.3%, a 1.2% increase.

Google’s Android, with its Droid on Verizon splash jumped 2.7% (to reach 5.2). Everyone else was in the negative, with RIM down 1% (though still huge at 41.6%), Microsoft down 1% (to 18%), and Palm down 2.2% (to 2.7%).

It’s also important for TiPb to once again point out that Apple’s high margins means that market ..read more

Say Hello to TiPb: The iPhone, iPod, and iPad Blog!

We’re proud to say that The iPhone Blog is now TiPb: your #1 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad blog!

A little SPE network news before we get to our weekly list o’links. We’ve been calling TiPb ‘TiPb’ instead of ‘The iPhone Blog’ for so long now, we figured we may as well make it official. Add in that the iPhone platform now encompasses the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the newly announced iPad and renaming the site pretty much became a foregone ..read more

Motorola Devour Brings MOTOBLUR to Verizon

Today Verizon Wireless announced a new Android phone, the Motorola Devour, which has MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s social networking software on board. Similar to the Droid, the Devour is a sideways slider with full QWERTY keyboard and a 3.1-inch, 320 x …(follow link to read)

AT&T Releases Two More Anti-Verizon Ads — Secret Switch and Share AT&T

The battle of TV attack ads between AT&T and Verizon continues on as AT&T has just released two more commercials taking aim at Big Red.

In the first commercial, named “Secret Switch”, Luke Wilson is at a dinner party and he secretly switches the attendee’s AT&T smartphones for Verizon devices. Once they realize they’ve been bamboozled by tricky Luke and are using “dumb phones” all hell seems to break lose. Notice the Motorola Droid highlighted when they mention “dumb phones”?

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Google Nexus One Multitouch Hack Accessible Now [How to Get Multitouch on the Nexus One Yourself]

Lest you don’t want to wait for ages till Google chooses to bid multitouch support for the Nexus One and other hot Android handsets like the Motorola Droid then you can do everything yourself and relish tweak and zoom too. Sure you can go ahead and enjoy your new Android smartphone without needing multitouch, but is that something you (Read More)

Apple’s iPhone Ranked #1 in Mobile Web in Americas and Europe

AdMob [Via Electronista] released its latest report and it states the iPhone is the leading smartphone not only in the Americas, but in Europe as well. This news should really come to no surprise to any of our readers, and it’s not the first signs of Apple’s dominance in the smartphone world as we’ve reported its U.S. success of mobile web traffic previously. As you can see, the iPhone is annihilating the competition regarding mobile traffic in some major markets.

“Alongside ..read more

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