Gadgets and Video Games

Activision has stuck with Glu for bringing more than just Modern Warfare 2 to mobile phones. Gamasutra reports that the studio will also create keypad-friendly versions of Guitar Hero 5 , Blur and Tony Hawk: Ride for release this year, although we have to question how closely the gameplay of the latter with adhere to that of the peripheral-based console version. Again, these ports are all for mobile phones , not gaming handhelds masquerading as such, iPhone ! (Which, when you think of it , would seem ideally suited for Ride .) They’re being made for handsets running Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Java-based operating systems

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Glu also sticking Guitar Hero 5, Blur, Tony Hawk: Ride on cell phones

It’s true that we haven’t played a “video game” on a cellular device (at least, one that wasn’t an iPhone) since our lengthy Snake sessions back in 1999 — though we imagine there’s a contingency of folks out there who get excited for mobile adaptations of console games. For instance, you may find yourself thrilled about Glu’s next mobile project — a version of Modern Warfare 2 that’s coming to Androids, Blackberrys, BREWs, J2MEs and Windows Mobile phones in Q4 of this year.

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Glu developing Modern Warfare 2 for mobile phones

Skype promised that it would release a beta version of its VoIP software for BlackBerry smartphones in May, and it took an important step closer to that goal this week: it has started beta testing.

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Skype for BlackBerry Getting Closer (Brighthand)

Cool, I love my blackberry curve. It works pretty well for me.

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 on sale at AT&T stores Friday (IT World)

Two weeks after Toronto-based QuickPlay Media launched its highly anticipated mobile TV service on BlackBerry’s new App World, it is crediting subscribers $7.99—equal to a one-month subscription—for failing to load enough content into the service in a timely manner.

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QuickPlay Credits Users Of New BlackBerry TV Service For Enduring Content Delays (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

Computerworld – The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone will be on sale at AT&T stores starting Friday for $200, after a $100 rebate.

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 on sale at AT&T stores Friday (Computerworld)

AT&T has just revealed that it’s going to release the BlackBerry Curve 8900 well before most people were expecting it.

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AT&T Will Launch the BlackBerry Curve 8900 this Week (Brighthand)

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 has been out for a few months now via T-Mobile, but as of Friday, May 22, the phone will be available through AT&T for $199.99 with a two-year contract, and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Curve 8900 is the slimmest full-QWERTY BlackBerry

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 available at AT&T on May 22 (ZDNet)

Location-aware iPhone apps not only outnumber their BlackBerry counterparts by 40 to 1 but are less expensive as well, Skyhook Wireless said Wednesday.

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iPhone has 40X more location apps than BlackBerry (MacNN)

Wi-Fi hotspot based location services provider, Skyhook Wireless has released a report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Marketplace and Blackberry App World.

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Blackberry LBS Apps 4-Times More Expensive Than IPhone, Android LBS Apps (Cellular-News.com)