Vlingo: Vlingo’s updated their popular (well, BlackBerry popular) voice transcription app with a new interface. The core functionality—voice actuated calling, web, Facebook and Twitter updates and mapping—is still there, and the newly organized homescreen literally spells out how to use each function. The catch, though, is that to use the new features, like the email [...]

Android’s been around for more than a year, and in that time developers have whipped up some great apps. Whether you’re a new Android owner or a pro looking for new tools, these 10 great and free apps belong in your arsenal. Photo by lwallenstein. We’re going to skip right over the apps that are [...]

Final Fantasy I & II: An extremely faithful pair of ports. The original FF1 and FF2 are old enough that Square Enix decided to revamp the artwork for the iPhone, making these versions noticeably prettier than the originals. Gameplay doesn’t suffer too much on account of the touch controls because of the games’ slowish pace, [...]

A few months back, I heard an iPhone game called Twin Blades was getting a promotion to a full Xbox Live Arcade downloadable. That interested me, as most ports travel in the opposite direction, console to iPhone. So I threw a buck Press Start Studio’s way to see what they did to merit the extra [...]

Windows/Mac + iPhone/iPod touch: Not only do videos take up a ton of space on space-constrained devices, but converting videos for the iPhone gets painful quickly. Air Video streams videos straight to your iPhone, converting them on-the-fly if they’re incompatible. The app is actually an iPhone app plus a PC/Mac app that acts as a [...]

How many apps does it take to screw in a light bulb? That was the question facing Microsoft as rival mobile operating systems backed by Apple and Google added tens of thousands of applications giving users stylus-free access to a wide range of capabilities. For a company whose co-founder trumpeted the notion of information at [...]

It’s astounding that until this moment, three years after the iPhone, the biggest software company in the world basically didn’t compete in mobile. Windows Phone 7 Series is more than the Microsoft smartphone we’ve been waiting for. Everything’s different now. Today, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for [...]