Portable Apps

In case you ever wondered how’s it like to bail on a meeting or just an awkward situation only using your phone, here’s the answer: Fake Calls for the iPhone. Fake Calls will erm, create a fake call that will allow you to bail on any situation. You can customize caller id and even, you can schedule ‘Fake Calls’ to call you at a given time or interval. Of course, the application is available only for the iPhone and it’s not free, but I’m guessing anyone can afford to spend $0.99 for such a treasure.

Purchase and download Fake Calls from iTunes App Store.

Handshake for the iPhone/iPod Touch is an application that helps you share your contact information or any contact information stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch, with anyone having Handshake installed. The application can send data using Wi-Fi, 3G or Edge with no problem and it uses the Apple’s Core Location framework.

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This isn’t the first time when Apple rejects an application for competing with one of their in-house applications. It seems the history is repeating and this time, it’s about a bigger player, Opera. Opera Mini, the mobile browser was rejected because source say, it competes with Apple’s Safari web browser. Apple has found another, more legal reason to ban Opera, stating that the popular browser isn’t based on the same language or framework as Safari.

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Apple has added some long waited features in its next OS 2.2 update, but also some new improvements. The rumored Google Maps “street view” can be found within the iPhone 2.2 update along with the “public transit directions” and the new “location sharing” feature.

While the “street view” feature within Google Maps is enough to make everybody drool waiting for the new iPhone firmware, the public transit feature is a very good addition in this update. iPhone owners will be guided by choosing a transit icon such as subway or buses, along with the estimated travel time for the selected option.

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If you ever dreamed on bringing the power of Google Earth in your pocket, we have some good news, Google Earth is not available for your iPhone. You can visit any country or landscape on your iPhone’s screen but beware, iPhone screen tilting gives you a certain Google Earth addiction. You may never want to use Google Earth on your desktop computer!

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The Gmail for mobile team just released the Gmail for Mobile 2.0 version for Blackberry and J2ME supported phones. The aim of this new version is to bring more speed and reliability within the new Gmail application.

“We rearchitected the entire client to push all the processing to the background, greatly improve the client-side caching scheme and optimize every bottleneck piece of code we came across.”,

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Probably the most expected mobile browser of the year, Firefox for Mobile enters Alpha 1 and goes publicly. Firefox for Mobile, also codenamed Fennec, promises to the THE browser and comes with the Firefox power. Now, if you are rushing to search for it and install it, i have bad news, the Fennec Alpha 1 is aimed at Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet users, for now. ( installation instructions )

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While some people think that Opera was launched as a response to Firefox for Mobile, the reality is that Opera Mobile was launched somewhere in 2000, being one of the first browsers for mobiles. Today, the Opera Mobile browser got its second Beta, which brings the Symbian UIQ compatibility. Yes, you heard it right, the Opera Mobile browser can be installed on Symbian UIQ without a problem.

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