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  • iPhone 4 coverage cavalcade

    iPhone 4 coverage cavalcade

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’re idling here wondering where all the iPhone 4 goodies are, they’re over at MobileCrunch. Greg got a hands on including some amazing views of the HD screen. MobileCrunch’s WWDC Round-up Side-By-Side: Just how much better does the iPhone 4’s display look? Exclusive: Full Resolution iPhone 4 screenshots Everything you need to know about the iPhone 4 Steve Jobs [...]

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  • Sprint officially kicks off sales of the HTC EVO 4G

    Sprint officially kicks off sales of the HTC EVO 4G

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    "History will be made across the nation as anxious customers get their hands on America’s first 3G/4G wireless phone, HTC EVO 4G, packed with industry-leading features." A little over the top right there, but anyway: you can now purchase the HTC EVO 4G at Sprint.com, Sprint retail stores, at RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart. The device sells for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new line activation or upgrade.

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  • MobileCrunch Memorial Day Weekend Roundup

    MobileCrunch Memorial Day Weekend Roundup

    Posted on May 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Just because we’re taking a short break from the Internets to enjoy this fine three-day weekend doesn’t mean the news stopped. If you’re outside of the US, stuck at some job that doesn’t acknowledge today as a holiday, or just got a good ol’ fashion case of the boreds.. this one’s for you. Skype for iPhone [...]

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  • ScanBizCards: use your iPhone 3GS to organize your collection of business cards

    ScanBizCards: use your iPhone 3GS to organize your collection of business cards

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Business cards are an anachronism. We all have them, we all pass them out to people we meet, but how many of you actually own a rolodex, or file the business cards you receive in any meaningful way? For the people you actually care to connect with -- as opposed to the people from whom you dutifully accept a proffered business card with no intention of ever contacting -- you might manually transcribe the card's details into your phone or contact management software. Personally, I wish business cards would die a fiery death so we could all move on to something a little more modern. Until that happens, or you become a master of business card throwing, you might want to check out the ScanBizCards application for your iPhone.

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  • Visa wants to turn your iPhone into a credit card

    Visa wants to turn your iPhone into a credit card

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've been reading MobileCrunch since November of 2009: A) We love you. Thanks for sticking around. B) You might remember that we did a post on "5 iPhone accessories we're still waiting for" - one of which was an iPhone case that acted as a credit card, relying on the RFID tap-to-pay system already in place in many thousands of retailers. Visa -- whoever that is -- is totally stealing our awesome, completely original, no-one-else-has-had-it-ever idea. And we love them for it.

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  • New developer challenge offers Android devs a trip to TED if they can get people moving

    New developer challenge offers Android devs a trip to TED if they can get people moving

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Obesity sucks. Unfortunately, smart phones generally don’t do much to make the problem any better. Sure, there are plenty of exercise-assistance apps, like RunKeeper, built to make exercising easier and thus more likely to happen — but for the most part, our smartphones help us to move less. Why walk to the computer downstairs, when [...]

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  • How can we make MobileCrunch better for you?

    How can we make MobileCrunch better for you?

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Hello, CrunchGear reader! So here's the deal. Our sister site, MobileCrunch, is doing well. Like really, really well. February was MC's biggest month ever, and then March went and made February look silly. That makes the people upstairs happy - and when they're happy, we're all happy, because we get to make improvements. So we turn to you, dear reader, and ask: What do you want from MobileCrunch?

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  • Android’s “Blapkmarket” pirated app repository goes down hard

    Android’s “Blapkmarket” pirated app repository goes down hard

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Now, before we enter the breach, I think it bears repeating that MobileCrunch and indeed the rest of the TechCrunch network in no way condone software/application piracy. Developers work too hard for responsible members of the tech community to give them the shaft like that. That said, while cracked iPhone app repositories like apptrackr continue to operate with impunity, we're surprised to see that the big Android equivalent has been forced to shut down first. Jesusxxx's Blapkmarket, which provided paid apps free of charge to its users, was just recently shut down by his hosting company.

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  • Google Goggles Getting OCR Translations

    Google Goggles Getting OCR Translations

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    In his keynote speech today at the Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off what could end up being a crucial tool for anyone trying to figure out a menu in a different language or a street sign in a foreign country. Google Goggles, which creates search queries based on images instead of typed-in keywords, will soon start to be able to translate from foreign languages using Google Translate. It will do this using optical character recognition to first convert the images of letters into words it can understand, and then put those through Google translate. Schmidt showed an image of an Android phone translating "Spring salad with wild herbs and parmesan cheese wrapped in bacon" from the German. (MobileCrunch editor Greg Kumparak took the photo at left). Of course, Google Translate often gets the translations wrong, to humorous effect. But even a partial translation is better than nothing when you don't speak the language.

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  • PositionApp Helps Developers Track App Store Performance On The Go

    PositionApp Helps Developers Track App Store Performance On The Go

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Today, UK design firm ustwo has launched PositionApp, an iPhone application that provides data regarding the top 300 apps in the App Store from the last 6 months. The price of the app would have been $7, but AdMob (well, Google technically) is sponsoring the app so that it is free for the next two [...]

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  • Marc Flores joins the MobileCrunch team

    Marc Flores joins the MobileCrunch team

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've been reading MobileCrunch lately (as you most certainly should be), you might have noticed a new name floating around the bylines. I thought we'd give him a day or two to get his feet wet before we made it official - but with that out of the way, we're really proud to announce that Marc Flores has joined the TechCrunch family. I'll let Marc take it from here. - Greg I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I'm stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

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  • Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer

    Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I'm stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from popular sites such as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

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  • Sprint LG Lotus Elite announced

    Sprint LG Lotus Elite announced

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember that quirky little square LG phone from last year, the Lotus? Well, they’ve gone and made another one: the Lotus Elite. This ought to sound pretty familiar for anyone who’s been reading MobileCrunch for a while, as we scooped all the details on this handset (sans the name) way back in October. All of the [...]

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  • AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App

    AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Every once in a while, a startup comes around with a product that we not only cover, but actually want to use ourselves. PointAbout, a Washington, DC-based self-funded startup, has done just that. AppMakr is absolutely ridonkculous. Basically, AppMakr allows you to create your own iPhone app – for $199. You can include feeds from [...]

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  • Top 10 MobileCrunch Posts of 2009

    Top 10 MobileCrunch Posts of 2009

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Ever wonder what stories of 2009 the people of the Internet found most interesting? I can’t really help you there, but I can tell you which stories on MobileCrunch got the most pageviews. Now, you might assume that most of our popular stories involved the iPhone, but — well, actually, you’d be right. The iPhone [...]

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