If you’re like me, you use your phone for all kinds of things besides making phone calls. I watch videos, play games, surf the web, and listen to music almost constantly! So here are a few of my personal favourite audio and video applications. They are in no particular order as it’s difficult to pick and choose between them - they’re all very cool and useful in their own ways. So have a look through and grab a few and let me know what you think!
Well, it looks like Pandora, the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites, are working on an official Windows Mobile client but we aren’t sure about release dates. And while you can currently only listen to Pandora from your laptop or desktop computer, we’ve all got our fingers crossed that this will come out very soon to WinMo as it’s such a great, free radio service.
Pandora works on a customizable algorithmic user interface locating new music based on what you’ve already told it that you like. The application works great to discover new songs or to find songs to fit the mood.
[Via Windows Mobile Cool]
According to Silicon Alley Insider, of the 30,000 applications posted on Facebook, the most popular apps are games. Although these aren’t mobile games, Facebook application games are so similar to mobile games that it does provide some insight into the mobile gaming industry.
Of the 50 most popular apps on Facebook, 15 of them get 10% or more of the people who’ve installed the app to use them on a daily basis — and seven of those are games. Of the top five, four are games — including the most popular one, Bowling Buddies.
So what does this tell us about the mobile gaming industry? That it isn’t necessarily the quality of gaming that is deterring people. Clearly, people love playing casual games and will play them on a daily basis. The problem must lie in the discovery and acquiring of the games themselves.
Facebook has managed to provide a content distribution system that is easy to use and provides for quick acquisition. Sounds like iTunes doesn’t it? From this article, it has become even more clear to me that mobile gaming will get the boost it needs once iTunes or a similar content distribution system takes over, and discovery becomes an enjoyable experience, rather than one that makes you want to stick hot knitting needles in your eyes.
[Article via Silicon Alley Insider]
Today we are speaking with Stephen Cheng, CEO of Innaworks. Innaworks is a specialist development tool vendor dedicated to solving critical industry wide issues for the mobile game and application industry. Stephen and I spoke about the benefits of using Innaworks to port your J2ME applications and games to BREW.
Something you may not have known: Having a machine do your porting is not only more efficient and cost effective, but you may also see fringe benefits such as higher frame rates on games.
Episode 26 - The QuicklyBored Podcast - May 27,2008: BREW Exhibitor Spotlight - Innaworks: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
According to mobile-ent.biz, Sony Ericsson is going to distribute Veveo’s web-to-mobile video application via SE’s Fun & Downloads portal. Veveo’s vtap Java app allows the user to create their own video feeds from sources like YouTube, DailyMotion, etc, and will then automatically search, discover and deliver new clips to the handset. Maybe this is the solution to all the trouble we’ve been having getting quality video on our BlackBerrys.