iOS 4 updated: Bejeweled 2, Instapaper, iTeleport, Articles, Twitterrific, and Apple’s Awesome iOS 4 apps

We’ve been covering some of the new and notable iOS 4 updates as we find them going live in the App Store, but Apple’s new Awesome iOS 4 Apps section in the iTunes App Store has just made that task a little easier.

Check them out to see Apple’s favorites, and hit the jump to see some more of ours…

[iTunes via TechCrunch]

Bejeweled 2

I think Bejeweled 2 was one of the first games I downloaded (ok that’s probably an exaggeration), but ..read more

iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS in Pictures

You didn’t really think we’d let you get through a day without setting the iPhone 4 down next to the iPhone 3GS, did you?

The verdict? Well obviously we prefer the iPhone 4, but we will say that the lack of a curved back has us flipping the device around quite a bit post-pocket-pull. But the iPhone 4 is thinner, feels nicer to our hands, and… well there are a lot of “ands,” the last of which is …and you’ll ..read more

HTC Sense Stores Thumbnails of Bookmarked Web Pages

As numerous sites are reporting, the HTC Sense interface on HTC Android phones stores thumbnail images of certain Web pages. This would seem to be a security issue, as these thumbnails are not erased when the user performs a …(follow link to read)

Bolt 2.1 Available with Enhanced Facebook, Video Features

Bitstream, makes of the Bolt Web browser for BlackBerry and Java-based phone platforms, has announced the Bolt 2.1 browser. The Bolt browser, previously available as a beta version 2, uses a server-side Webkit engine to render Web pages then …(follow link to read)

Opera Mini for iPhone Approved, in App Store now

Opera has just announced that their Opera Mini browser for iPhone has been approved [Free - iTunes link]. According to Engadget, it’s already popping up in some international App Stores and should/could be in your App Store any time now. Update: looks like it’s live now, go get it!

Opera Mini likely received approval because it’s not an actual web rendering, JavaScript processing engine like Safari (or Firefox, IE, Chrome, etc.) but a proxy-browser. All the rendering and processing is done ..read more

OPERA BROWSER releasing ON ANDROID

Web browser Opera has launched a beta edition of its Mini 5 software on the Google Android operating system. The browser, famous because it bandages web pages and makes them significantly hasty to load, is the chief to rival the official Android browser and is obtainable via the Android souk.

Opera proclaims over 50 million customer’s (Read More)

Opera browser unveilings on Android

Web browser Opera has hurled a beta version of its Mini 5 software on the Google Android operating system. The browser, popular because it bandages web pages and makes them knowingly quicker to load, is the first to rival the official Android browser and is available via the Android Market Opera claims more than 50 million (Read More)

ProSwitcher for Jailbreak Brings Safari Pages, webOS Cards-style Multitasking UI to iPhone

If you’re Jailbroken yet still frustrated that you can’t move between iPhone apps as easily as you can web pages in Safari (or Palm webOS users can in card view), ProSwitcher [Free beta - Cydia] is something to consider.

A front end to Backgrounder, which enables multitasking on a Jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, duplicates the “Pages” metaphor in MobileSafari, including swipe-able switching and X-icon closing, and for good measure adds in the swipe-up-to-close gesture from Palm’s webOS “Cards” interface. ..read more

Verizon Droid iDoesn’t Beat iPhone on Browser, Apps, Multi-touch or User Interface

Did Verizon and Motorola forget to include a few things in their iDon’t attack ads, like iDon’t render web pages as slowly or badly, iDon’t arbitrarily restrict the amount of apps users can install to 256MB, iDon’t fail to implement multi-touch, and iDon’t have a worse user experience.

We can’t blame them, of course. They were [...]

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Verizon Droid iDoesn’t Beat iPhone on Browser, Apps, ..read more

Acceleroto on Developing Air Hockey for the iPhone vs. Palm Pre

Acceleroto, makers of the iPhone apps Air Hockey [$0.99 - iTunes link] and Air Hockey Free [Free - iTunes link] have written an interesting post on the differences between developing their app for the iPhone App Store vs. the Palm Pre App Catalog. Some take away:

They charge more for the webOS version due to lower volume expectations iPhone and Palm Pre are “remarkably similar” hardware-wise They already knew Objective-C, but Javascript wasn’t difficult to pick up iPhone is native, webOS is interpreted, so ..read more