Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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Mobile Buzz

Skyfire Browser Pulled Out From App Store Due To Heavy Demand

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 06:07 PM PDT


Guess what. After opening up the app store a wee bit, web browsers are now heavily in demand in the Apple App store. First Opera Mini for iPhone saw several million downloads and now Skyfire; which was recently launched for the and converts Flash content to ; has just been knocked out of the app store.

Skyfire iPhone Sold Out

No, Apple did not take out Skyfire, it was taken down by the developers themselves due to heavy demand. In case of Skyfire, Apple did not take them out and instead they themselves stopped sales due to overwhelming demand. If you try to visit the app store link for Skyfire, you will see a notice as displayed below.

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Unlike , which is free, Skyfire is priced at $2.99, but the number of sales they got resulted in bad user experience for the video conversions. The developers blogged about taking the app out of the app store:

Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm. Despite our best attempts and predictions, the demand far exceeds our initial projections.

The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade.

Thus we are effectively 'sold out' and will temporarily not accept new purchases from the App Store.  We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.

We are very grateful for the demand. Within 5 hours, Skyfire for iPhone became the top grossing app, the third highest paid app overall and the top application in the Utilities category. Wow!

So within 5 hours of being released, users managed to take down the app out of the app store, which suggests that they might have roughly sold anywhere between 300K to 750K copies. Now, that’s not bad business at all for 5 hours, is it?

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Skyfire Browser Pulled Out From App Store Due To Heavy Demand originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Keith Dsouza on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 09:07:42 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

MeeGo v1.1 Ported To Nexus One

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 10:25 AM PDT


It was a week ago MeeGo v1.1 for handsets was officially released, and today the modding community has managed to port it to the Nexus One. We had reported earlier that the modding community was trying to port MeeGo OS to the Nexus One, HTC Desire etcetera. However, the developers were facing many performance related issues and driver issues. Nexus_One_MeeGo_1.1

However, the latest version of MeeGo OS – v1.1 – has been optimized for handsets and thus the performance of the OS is pretty smooth on the Nexus One. This makes the Nexus One the second phone – unofficially – to run the MeeGo OS. The Nokia N900 being the first.

Users who are interested in running MeeGo OS on their Nexus One need to make sure that they have a microSD card. The steps to run MeeGo v1.1 OS on your Nexus One can be found here.


MeeGo v1.1 Ported To Nexus One originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Rajesh Pandey on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 01:25:18 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

T-Mobile G2 Gets Wi-Fi Calling

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 09:48 AM PDT


T-Mobile will be rolling out a new software update for the HTC G2 starting from today. The software update will add Wi-Fi calling for Android along with several bug fixes and enhancements. T-Mobile_g2

Here is the full change-log from T-Mobile –:

* Wi-Fi Calling for Android – new!

* Resolves device freeze and unexpected power-off issues

* Improves data connection reliability

* Optimizes radio recovery

The software update version is 1.22.531.8 and it will be automatically downloaded on your device. Users will be prompted to install the update after it has been downloaded. The T-Mobile G2 sports a pop-out QWERTY based keyboard with a 3.7-inch screen. The handset runs on stock Android 2.2 with no HTC Sense UI on top of it.

Hopefully, we will see many more Android phones getting the Wi-Fi calling capability in the future.

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T-Mobile G2 Gets Wi-Fi Calling originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Rajesh Pandey on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 12:48:34 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Palm Pre 2 Pre-Orders To Begin On November 8

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 08:26 AM PDT


palm pre 2

Last month HP announced the new Palm Pre 2 smartphone. It is the first device which runs on the HP's latest operating system, the webOS 2.0. HP recently posted on their HP for Students Facebook page that, the device will be available for pre-order from November 8th.

Palm Pre 2 features a 3.1 inch HVGA touchscreen display with 320×480 pixels resolution, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz processor, webOS 2.0 Operating System, 5 megapixel camera with LED Flash, Wi-Fi, Built-in GPS, Stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta, 16GB of internal memory, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, Microsoft Exchange, Proximity sensors, Accelerometer, 5.5 hours of talktime and more.

HP didn’t revealed the price of the device, nor they have  commented on whether it would be the unlocked GSM version, Verizon’s CDMA model or both. Verizon is expected to sell the device from November 11. Earlier, HP’s Product Manager, Tim Pettitt said in an interview that, HP will offer an unlocked GSM version of the Palm Pre 2 in the coming months to US consumers.


Palm Pre 2 Pre-Orders To Begin On November 8 originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Omkar Dutta on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 11:26:52 AM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.
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