If you do an image search for iPhone 4 in Google, you’ll need to scroll to page 6 to get a crappy image of the new device. On Bing and Altavista (old scool) – the iPhone 4 is shown properly on the first page. Is this a quirk in their algorithm or does Google just not like to show fancy pictures of the biggest Android competitor?
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This morning we have received a package from France with 2 brand new iPhone 4’s. Unfortunately the cutting of a regular simcard into a microsim, so we have to wait until tomorrow for the T-Mobile shop to give us a micro-sim.
This device has everything that a Nokia N95 had 4 years ago, but then in such a way that people will actually use it (hopefully).
This week we have been participating in the Vodafone Widget Development Camp, here in Amsterdam. It was a great chance to know the details about this new exciting technology, meet a lot of cool people, and of course, have the chance to win one of the beautiful Samsung’s H1 that Vodafone is kindly giving away to the best 5 widgets of the competition.
A widget, in few words, is a web application that runs on a mobile phone. There is an extensive API available, known as JIL, which let developers access to a lot of phone capabilities, such as GPS, camara, accelerometer or even contacts or agenda. The biggest advantage of a widget is their device compatibility. This means that if you want to develop a mobile app that works in all devices, is not necessary anymore to build different native applications for Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile… Instead, you could hack a HTML/Javascript widget, and you’re done! Widgets are really powerful tools and in the future we hope that everybody will use them, as the most important names of the mobile industry are supporting this technology and promoting a massive implementation.
We developed 2 widgets for the competition: The well-known SMSMyPosition and the widget version of a new service we are unveiling these days, called Nowntown. It’s going to be hard to win, as the level of the other participants was pretty high. Congratulations, guys!
We want to thank Vodafone for the nice office space they provided to the participants, the impressive technical support during the Camp, the thoughtful talk of Peter-Paul Koch on the second day and of course, the free drinks and the massages (!). We will be there the next time!
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We are very happy to announce that Nulaz is available for iPod Touch now. Our iPhone team has been working hard to add iPod Touch compatibility to Nulaz.
So, don’t hesitate and go to the AppStore to get it! It’s free!
P.S.: The Nulaz Augmented Reality for the iPhone is about to be released.
In a thrilling race this Saturday, the Nulaz racing team has shown considerable fitness by claiming victory (Frans Göbel) in the ‘wild west’ race on the afsluitdijk and claiming the sixth place in the team time trial race around the IJsselmeer.
We will be presenting Nulaz at Nokia World next week. Please come and visit us, or contact us to make an appointment.
As you can read here, we are very pleased with the advent of all these operator and manufacturer application stores. Recently we have added the OVI store to our distribution list. Some versions are still under review, but our infamous touch version is out there.
