Apple [AAPL] has announced the best iPad and iPhone apps of 2010. The list starts by recognizing four of the best apps of the year which includes Hipstamatic, Plants Vs. Zombies, Flipboard and Osmos. After that it moves on to a list of more apps that meet certain criteria such as the Overall Top 10 PAID iPhone Apps, Top Free iPhone Apps and Top Grossing iPhone apps. The same lists are created for iPad apps in the same format.
Apple has had a number of amazing games and other apps available over this past year such as Angry Birds that made it to number 1 on the PAID iPhone Apps list and number 2 on the other iPhone lists. [Read more…]
Andy Rubin has confirmed on Twitter that each day, 300,000 Android phones are activated.
Today we hear that the MobileMe service from Apple [AAPL] is expected to get a lot better in 2011. The information comes from a user who emailed Steve Jobs asking about the reliability of the service and making comments that he had experienced problems over the year or 2 of using it…
DigiTimes is reporting today that Apple [AAPL] has notified Foxconn that the iPad 2 must begin shipping as early as the end of February 2011.
The iPad has around 10 hours of battery life on a single charge. If this isn’t enough for you, then you might want to check out this iPad battery pack case that adds 6000mAh of juice to your iPad.
We could be seeing the Apple Mac App Store as early as December 13th. The details come from the AppleTell website who heard information from an inside source at Apple [AAPL].
The mysterious White iPhone 4 that never arrived on time might actually have a new release date. The release date hasn’t been announced by Apple [AAPL], but was spotted on some official signage in an Apple store as having a launch date sometime in the Spring of 2011.
Apple [AAPL] is believed to be revealing a subscription system that can automatically bill users. The system would allow you to download a magazine for example and then choose to subscribe at a frequency of monthly, yearly etc… Currently the only way you can get magazines is by downloading a free app and then manually making a purchase in the “in-app” payments system which for various reasons, magazines and papers don’t like. 
Earlier this year the iPhone 4 was released. Some units leaked out a day early thanks to delivery companies shipping before the release date. On the first day that users got the iPhone 4 it was quickly noted that the iPhone antenna had a problem in that when you held it in your left hand and your thumb covered the black bar on the bottom left of the phone, the signal weakened. Although the problem wasn’t much different to any phone, it stung Apple in terms of bad press about it.
Samsung has announced that the Samsung App store just passed 1 million downloads. At the moment there are just over 200 apps in the store which isn’t really anything when compared to the likes of the Apple store, but when 200 apps have achieved over a million downloads, that’s quite impressive. Also note that we are talking about TV’s downloading the apps here. 
The BBC will be launching a subscription based iPlayer service for those out of the UK. The service will initially be made available to those using the Apple iPad and will then expand out after that.
We hear today that the Windows Phone 7 update will be “MASSIVE” and that the release date could be sometime in January.
