Mobile Tweaks

It was a long wait, but customers who walk into an AT&T store finally have a legitimate high-end Android phone to purchase. The Samsung Captivate is AT&T’s version of the Galaxy S and it goes on sale July 18th for $199.

The most notable feature of the Samsung Captivate is its 4 inch Super AMOLED display, but I think I’m most excited about the PowerVR SGX540 graphics processor. This GPU offers 2x the performance compared to the previous SGX530 core that was found in the Droid and Droid X and I can’t wait to see how it performs in our round of benchmarks.

We will be posting a full review later this week, but check out our quick unboxing video to hold you over. If you have any questions or things you would like to see addressed, please leave a comment and we will do our best to respond.

Package contents include:

• Samsung Captivate
• Lithium ion battery
• Stereo headset
• Wall charger
• USB cable
• Quickstart

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Have you ever dreamed of creating your own Android application, but you have no coding skills whatsoever? Google’s App Inventor for Android is a new software development tool that is designed to bring app design to the masses.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires no programming knowledge because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and drag-and-drop blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

The web-based software is free and it should go live today after being under development for the last year. Potential users just need to enter their Gmail account on this form and wait as Google grants access over the coming weeks. To help users get started Google has plenty of tutorials, sample apps, and discussion boards.

App Inventor might lead to a wave of new crappware in the Android Market, but it’s exciting that anyone should now be able to create their own apps. All it takes is $25 to register a Market account and publish your own applications.

We have yet to get our hands on App Inventor, so we will have to wait and see if it’s as easy as it looks. Check out Google’s demo video for an idea of what to expect.

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CyanogenMod 6 has finally landed, giving the HTC Magic and Dream a taste of Froyo. While a few other ROM developers have been releasing some of their beta builds on Android 2.2 for the two phones, the CyanogenMod team is the first to deliver a nearly perfect build to the public. For those already running on Cyanogen’s Eclair build, the update to Froyo is pretty seamless, but you may need to wipe your phone in order for everything to install properly.

Earlier this afternoon, we gave the newest build a try and can say that it’s a great first build. We did run into a few issues with various apps not downloading properly from the Android Market and have had our G1 freeze and restart a few times as well. However, we can say that CM6 is definitely faster than CM5 thanks to the new JIT compiler from Froyo. While there are a few things that still need to be ironed out, the team behind CyanogenMod have released a great ROM which is definitely ready for day to day use for people who simply have to have the latest build of Android running on their phone.

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In the latest issue of Macworld, on page 45, Apple declares the NPR News app for iPad (developed by Bottle Rocket) to be an essential app to have.

Dan Frakes explains why NPR News for iPad is an essential free favorite:

Who said Internet audio killed radio? NPR for iPad proves that networks can embrace the Internet to make their radio and Web offerings even more compelling. Like NPR’s iPhone app, the free iPad version lets you browse NPR news, shows, and podcasts; you can read or listen immediately, or save audio programs to a playlist you can listen to at any time. The app also lets you listen to streaming audio of many NPR-affiliate stations across the country. But the iPad app adds emphases on the multimedia-friendly areas of NPR’s coverage—Arts & Life and Music topics—and takes advantage of the iPad’s larger screen to make it easier to find content and more enjoyable to consume it. It’s public radio on-demand, and it makes NPR appealing even to the NPR-agnostic among us.

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Candywriter is offering a new strange app to iPhone and iPod touch users since today. The app is called GyroDraw 1.0 and is sketching app letting iPhone 4’s users draw with it’s built-in gyroscope. Drawing on your iPhone is accomplished by sliding a virtual paper under the fixed virtual pencil. But in case you have an older iPhone it is also available with it’s accelerometer, and it works otherwise, here the pencil moves.
Users can choose according to the abilities of their phones to use accelerometer or the gyroscope. Tilting the phone left or right in Accelerometer mode allows the user to drop a pencil around the screen towards gravity. In Gyroscope mode, on the other hand, rotation of device slides a piece of paper about the pencil. iPhone 4 offers three-axis gyroscope measuring angular velocity and built-in accelerometer, giving six-axis motion sensing.
Gyro Draw users can pick between seven types of background paper—printer, graph, legal, and more—and toggle between 16 different pencil colors. The app also offers options to adjust the thickness and the speed at which you draw.

Key Features:
 * Motion sketch with the accelerometer or gyroscope
 * An assortment of pencil colors and paper styles
 * Save sketches to your photo library
 * Retina display-compatible
 * Allows accelerometer drawing on devices without a gyroscope

Device Requirements:
 * iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
 * Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
 * 5.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
 Gyro Draw 1.0 is available now and is free for a limited time. The app is available exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment and Education categories.

Source: Apple iPhone Blog