Want to get into PC gaming but don’t fancy getting to grips with keyboard and mouse controls? Flypad, a new iPhone app, may help you out by bridging the void between PC and casual gamers. Read on for the full details and video. Read more
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Double Fine caused headlines last week when its founder, legendary point and click game pioneer Tim Schafer, raised more than a million dollars in a day for a new adventure game via Kickstarter. Now, in an interview following his success, Schafer has let slip on some of the company’s mobile plans too.
Here’s some fanboy ammo for you: it appears that iOS apps may crash more than Android apps, going against the typical mantra that iOS for iPhone is typically more stable than Google’s mobile operating system. Mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism spent 1 to 15 December 2011 busily compiling crash data, and its findings are very interesting indeed. Put on your gas mask: a flame war is brewing.
It’s long been rumoured that BlackBerry Messenger will eventually be released for iOS and Android, but one analyst now believes that’s very unlikely. Jefferies’ Peter Misek predicts that RIM will abandon its plans to develop BBM apps for competitors’ devices in favour of “direct competition” with them.
Apple is to hold a “strange” event in February and then launch the iPad 3 and iOS 5.1 in March, according to a Japanese report. What exact form the February event’s strangeness takes is something of a mystery, although it could be simply that it’s an industry-focussed launch similar to last month’s education-centric iBooks event in New York City.
Starting on Wednesday, T-Mobile is launching a new unlimited data tariff, The Full Monty, complete with unlimited data, texts and calls. It’s akin to Three’s One Plan: T-Mobile representatives this morning were keen to stress that there is no hidden cap or limit to 3G use.
So how does it plan to offer this, without its network flagging under the pressure? With a new smartphone app that offloads your phone onto Wi-Fi hotspots seamlessly.
In America and the UK, Android is the most popular smartphone operating system right now – on mobile. But a new report today illustrates just how much tablets really do matter: when you factor in tablets and portable media players (PMPs), Apple is still winning by a country mile.