AT&T Asks LG for an Encore, LG Obliges

AT&T on Sunday made the LG Encore available for sale. The Encore is a touch phone with a three-inch display and LG’s feature phone touch operating system. The Encore has quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band 850/1900Mhz 3.6Mbps HSDPA 3G, aGPS, accelerometer, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with support for A2DP. It has a 3 megapixel camera with video capture and is compatible with AT&T’s Video Share service. The Encore has a robust media player that includes streaming radio stations and certified Dolby ..read more

Nokia Shutting Down Ovi Files

Nokia has indicated via an email to users of its Ovi Files service that the file-accessing feature will be shut down on October 1, 2010. Ovi Files, one of the many Ovi-branded services that Nokia offers, allowed users to access files stored on their computer from their Nokia handset. Nokia is asking users of the service to uninstall it from their machines. Nokia also recently ceased development on a social networking application for the Symbian platform.

Apple Adds Social Element ‘Ping’ to iPhone

Apple today announced a new version of its iTunes media player with new social networking features. The new features, which fall under the name Ping, allow users to share and like music, as well as create social circles with friends and artists. In addition to the social network being available within iTunes 10, it also works within the iTunes application on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The new version of iTunes 10 is available for download today, but Apple ..read more

Facebook for iPhone not playing nice with Jailbreak, fix coming soon

If you read the comments on our Facebook 3.2 and Facebook 3.2.1 posts, you might see that the latest version(s) of the uber-popular social networking app is having a little trouble on Jailbroken iPhones. Looks like Facebook is aware of the problems and working on a fix:

If you have a jailbroken device, you may have experienced problems with our latest updates. We’ve identified the issue and have an update with a fix coming soon. Thank you for your patience.

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Verizon Wireless Officially Announces Its First ZTE Phone

Verizon Wireless today formally announced the ZTE Salute, its first handset from Chinese manufacturer ZTE. Stand-out features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, VZ Navigator and Verizon’s Social Beat social networking application. The Salute is a vertical slider with standard numerical keypad. It is available online and at Verizon Wireless retail stores for $20 after mail-in rebate with a new contract. The ZTE was outed by online retailer WireFly earlier this week.

Director of App Store for Apple also made fart and wiz apps

Wired did some poking around and discovered Phillip Shoemaker, Apple’s director of App Store — the man purportedly in charge of App Store approval and rejection — was or is the developer of fart and urination apps.

Shoemaker apparently had or has a company named Gray Noodle, whose titles include Animal Farts and iWiz. Although the social networking profiles and posts that led Wired to the discovery have subsequently been removed, they’ve retained archive copies. An Apple spokeswoman gave them ..read more

Game Center slowly coming to life?

Apple’s iOS Developer News is letting developers know how to set up Game Center achievements and leaderboard categories:

You can now set up metadata for your Game Center Achievements and Leaderboard Categories in iTunes Connect. Setting up these elements will allow you to test the full capabilities of Game Center for your app in the sandbox environment.

Apple announced Game Center way back in early April but instead of shipping it in June with iOS 4, they said it would be coming ..read more

Microsoft Confirms It Is Killing Its Kin

Today Microsoft issued a statement on its Kin social networking devices, which are being sold by Verizon Wireless. A Microsoft spokesperson said to Phone Scoop in an email, “We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone …(follow link to read)

Top 5 apps for your iPhone 4

Today’s top 5 is directed towards iPhone 4 users who want to take full advantage of their new hardware and software. From shooting zombies, to finding your way around town, to keeping yourself entertained on the go, iPhone 4 really does have plenty of apps for all of that. Just like our other top 5 must-have iPhone app posts, all of these applications are available in the App Store. For the full run down, follow us after the break!

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INQ to launch its Android phone by fall 2010!

The most up-to-date reports do verify that! The mobile maker INQ, which has been pretty well-known for its popular social networking phones, is going to hurl its Android based phone by the fall of the year 2010. According to the details, the Android gadget from INQ will be launched by the fourth quarter of this (Read More)

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