As reported here on Cell Phones Etc. and across the Web, here’s your daily brief on what happened in the world of mobile phones this Thursday, June 9th, 2011.
SaskTel Extends 4G Coverage To 15 New Locations
Quick update regarding SaskTel’s continued “4G” wireless coverage. They sent out a message that it’s been expanded to 15 more areas and now covers over 98% of the population in Saskatchewan. In addition, 42Mbps speeds will be coming to Regina and Saskatoon “by this summer”.
MobileSyrup
Virgin Mobile Welcomes 4.1-inch Motorola Triumph
Fear not, pay-as-you-go fans — Virgin Mobile saw a hat tip of its own at today’s Sprint / Motorola event in the form of the Triumph, a 4.1-inch Android 2.2 handset that perhaps doesn’t quite live up to it’s hyperbolic name. Virgin Mobile’s first-ever Motorola handset has 2GB of built-in storage, 512MB of RAM, a five megapixel camera, WVGA display, 1400mAh battery, A-GPS, WiFi, a Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU and HDMI output.
Engadget
Sprint And Motorola Announce The Dual-Core, Kickstand-Packin’ Photon 4G
Sometime in Q3 of this year, Motorola and Sprint will be launching a phone worthy of its weight in PVC and carbon emissions: the Photon 4G. The handset packs a 4.3-inch qHD display, 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in memory, and pre-installed Gingerbread. All in all, that’s one fine piece of kit. No word yet on pricing and nothing beyond “Sometime in Q3 for a launch date.
MobileCrunch
Apple iCloud Brings Previously Purchased Apps Back From The Dead
Lamenting the time you restored your iPhone and lost that beloved VLC app because it’s no longer available on the App Store? Cheer up, there’s an iCloud for that. The service allows you to re-download any app you’ve previously purchased on any of your iOS devices — including killed apps. So if you were one of the four people that downloaded I am Rich before it was killed, you’ll be sure to enjoy that $1,000 investment for years to come.
Engadget
Microsoft Releases Android To Windows Phone Porting Tool
As promised back in April, Microsoft has today released an Android to Windows Phone API mapping tool for developers which will help developers port existing Android applications to the Windows Phone platform. Like its iPhone counterpart, the tool doesn’t actually port your code for you automatically. Instead, what it provides is a list of API mappings that acts like a translation dictionary from one platform to the next.
ReadWriteWeb
