TOP APPS THAT MADE CTIA 2011
CTIA Wireless 2011, one of the biggest telecom industry events wrapped up last week in Orlando, Florida. Once again, Android was a force to be reckoned with, both for new Android apps that were announced and Android OS’s supported devices.
Here’s our take on the apps that made the biggest impact at this year’s event.
QuickOffice for Honeycomb
Quickoffice is “optimized for a large tablet form factor”. The app lets you access documents that are on the tablet, as well as in the cloud like Dropbox. In addition, the search engine has been optimized for checking the cloud.
Opera Mobile 11
The first thing you notice when you fire up the browser is the slight polish of the interface including the removal of the Opera title bar freeing up space. But you’ll also see the iconic huge red “O” which will take you to the settings menu. And in terms of settings, Opera is one of the richest browsers out there most notably with its Opera Turbo mode, compressing webpages by up to 80% – now that’s what we call a real speed boost! One welcome addition to settings is the share button allowing you to share pages to your social networks of choice in just two taps.
Logia Group’s Metropolis Location Based Game
1st Place Winners of the AT&T Open Call competition
The application is a social game which combines “Foursquare” & “Monopoly” elements. The idea behind this game is to offer a “mobile street game” which enables the users to purchase real estate and businesses in order to advance and win. The game is offers fusion between the real and virtual world combining cross platform (Facebook), real user value through sponsorships i.e. McDonalds and many other businesses.
In SDK news – Bitstream unveiled BOLT SDK, a suite of technology and tools that enable mobile app developers to build feature rich Java ME applications for feature phones. BOLT‘s WebKit-based HTML5 engine will make sure pretty much any web content will work on basic feature phones, potentially opening a floodgate for new Java apps.
OptumizeMe
After launching OptumizeMe for Windows Phone 7, health and wellness company OptumHealth is going for the iPhone and Android users, allowing them to create and challenge each other to fitness competitions and trade both encouragement and “digs” along the way.
Google Voice
One day after AT&T and T-Mobile proposed their epic merger, Google and Sprint teamed up to offer Google Voice’s add-on calling services to almost all of Sprint’s subscribers (except for corporate and prepaid accounts). The partnership brings an impressive ease to using Google Voice’s features–including call forwarding to multiple phone numbers and visual voicemail transcription that you can read on the phone or online–on top of your regular Sprint number, no porting fee applied.
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