Mobile hardware is cool and all, but you know what’s really cool? Software. Here’s a roundup of some of the coolest mobile apps we’ve covered at Mobiputing over the last 7 days: DualWeb Browser for Android tabelts lets you view two web pages at once Sure, the nice big screen on your Honeycomb tablet is great for viewing web pages……

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Apple is set to unveil the next version of iOS soon, HP is willing to license webOS to competitors, and Microsoft gives us a sneak peek at new music and podcast features in Windows Phone 7 Mango. Plus new apps for editing photos, creating documents, and restoring your iPhone to an older version of iOS. Here’s a roundup of recent…

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Google Android 3.1 is now rolling out to Motorola XOOM tablets, and my test unit received the update this morning, so I thought it was time for a little tour. Overall the tablet feels faster thanks to improved hardware graphics acceleration, smoother system animations, and improved web browser performance. Interestingly, while the tablet scored higher in some benchmark tests after…

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You can always find the latest news and reviews on mobile apps by visiting Mobiputing.com in a desktop browser or mobile browser. Now after spending a year covering mobile apps, Mobiputing finally has one of its own. You can download out first Android app from the Android Market. An iPhone version is coming soon. And don’t worry, a Liliputing mobile…

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Apple released a minor iOS update this week, and within hours hackers figured out how to jailbreak it. A pre-release version of the firmware for a new phone with HTC Sense 3.0 software hit the web, and hackers have already figured out how to run the software on other phones. You’ve got to love hackers. But even if you’ve never…

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Apple quietly made an announcement today. And by quietly, I mean pretty much every tech news site on the planet dedicated about 2 hours to Apple only coverage this afternoon. Steve Jobs didn’t pull a netbook or an updated tablet out of his magical bag of tricks, but he did make a few interesting announcements. Here are some of the…

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While the Computex trade show in Taiwan is at the center of the mobile tech world this week, Google has kind of dominated the headlines for the past few weeks with announcements about Android 2.2 Froyo, Google TV, and other tech. This week I spoke with Saul Kropman of the Digital Edge podcast to discuss the Google v. Apple approach…

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[/caption] Sure, Palm’s stock might be worth next to nothing and a lot of pundits are starting to question the company’s future. But for the first time, I’m starting to wonder if I should have picked up a Palm Pre last month when I was in the market for a smartphone instead of a Google Nexus One. Because today Verizon…

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Tablets are everywhere these days. Apple is making one. Dell, HP, and Samsung are making them. Fifty or more companies are developing tablets with ARM-based processors. And we know that Microsoft is working on a tablet called the Courier. Depending on which rumor you believe, Microsoft’s tablet will be based on either Windows 7 or Windows CE. But what if…

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The Federal Communications Commission wants to know what kind of internet speed you’re getting. Is it close to the speeds your ISP advertises? Are download and upload speeds different in different parts of the country? The agency has a web-based speed test at Broadband.gov. But you’ll need to install Java and enter your home address to use that app. Or…

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I wanted to take a moment to let you know about a new web site I’ve just launched, called mobiputing. As you can probably guess from the name, mobiputing is and will continue to be a sister site to Liliputing. But while Liliputing is focused on netbooks and mobile computing hardware and software generally, my aim with mobiputing is to…

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