Some clever programmers have managed to port Quake 3 onto the Motorola Droid. The port was done by a developer called Thuderbird2K who spent a day compiling and loading the main function, and got Open GL working to create kwaak3 which is a full port of Quake III for Android.
You can see the ported Quake III working on a Motorola Droid in then video below, and the game is running at around 30 to 40 frames per second on the Droid.
Microsoft [MSFT] will be making Windows 7 Phone Series available on three different chassis designs. The first of these will be called Chassis-1 and these phones will be large touch screen devices that feature a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
The next design is called Chassis-2, these sorts of devices will be similar to the Palm Treo devices and will feature a built in keyboard under the screen, and Microsoft has specified that certain aspect ratios will have to be used for these devices.
A company called The Astonishing Tribe are in the process of developing an application for the Google Android person, that will tell you who someone is by you pointing your mobile phone at them.
The application prototype uses a 3D model to recognize facial features, it then searches its server to find a match, once a match is found it the superimposes that persons social networking details around his or her face, check out the video of it in action below.
Researches have developed rootkits to demonstrate how easy it is to hack modern day smart phones and send invisible text messages to rootkitted phones allowing the hacker to place outgoing calls without the user knowing.
Allowing the smart phone to act like a microphone bug and relay the conversation within the proximity of the smart phone at the time of the call. Check out the video after the jump.
Google Earth has been available on the Apple iPhone for quite some time, good news for all the Google Android smartphone users out there, as Google Earth is now available for Android 2.1.
The new Android version of Google Earth is the fastest mobile version to be released so far and it comes with a range of new features which includes a Roads layer, just like the desktop version which draws roads labels on top of the satellite pictures.
Microsoft [MSFT] recently announced that it would be updating Windows Marketplace for mobile, with a range of new features and it looks like the update is now live.
The new version of Windows Marketplace for Mobile, comes with a few bug fixes plus a range of new enhancements which include the ability to install application downloads on storage cards, which means you no longer have to install application on the phone memory.
T-Mobile are launching a new Google Android smartphone in Europe, the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. The Pulse Mini is designed to be a budget Android smartphone and it will come with Google Android 2.1.
The Pulse Mini will be available on a pre-paid or pay as you go contract, and it is going to cost just £99.99 about $155, which doesn’t sound to bad considering you don’t have to sign up to a monthly contract.
The IDAPT i2, i3 charging stations come with either 2 or 3 ports for device charging and can help you save valuable desk top space. There are 22 different connectors available which IDAPT say cover a whopping 3,500 gadgets and phones. However if your device takes traditional rechargable batteries you can also charge these as well.
Palm users have been waiting for the release of the latest version of the webOS for some time now, it was rumored to hit on the 15th of February, but that date has come and gone, now it looks like the Palm webOS may arrive on the 25th of February.
The guys over at Pre-Central are reporting that it will go live by the 25th, and this version of Palm’s webOS will come with a range of new features.
When the new HTC Desire was announced last week, the only real difference between it and the Google Nexus One was the HTC Sense user interface, if you own a Nexus One and want the HTC Sense on there, good news as the homebrew ROM community have build a custom ROM for the Nexus One.
The HTC Desire hasn’t even gone on sale yet, but that hasn’t stopped Paul at Mocado forums from releasing the ROM for the Nexus One.
You know that problem to get when trying to sneakily charge your device for a little extra juice on someone elses computer and you suddenly see all your data syncing onto someone elses software or vis versa. Well this little cable has been designed to stop that happening.
The innovative South Korea company SK Telecom have created a prototype SIM card like no other. The tiny SIM includes a processor, memory, 1 GB of flash storage and incorporates the Google Android operating system as well. Check out the video after the jump.
