There’s some good and bad news if you’re that poor son of gripe who lost the next-multiplication iPhone in a bar. The badness news is that you’re Internet famous for all the wrong reasons, your career may be screwed and Steve Jobs will likely demand a hammer of your flesh. On the top, you may score a sweetness, free trip-up to Germany thanks to Lufthansa Airlines.

According to an surface letter from the airline on Twitter:

I recently read in the newsworthiness that you doomed a very special phone at a German beer bar in California … At Lufthansa we also noted with great interest your passion for German beer and culture. We thinking you could use a break soon – and therefore would like to offer you complimentary business course exile to Munich, where you can literally pick up where you shoemaker’s last left off.

Sucks for that dude, but it’s a cute marketing ploy by Lufthansa. Take it, man, I’m guessing you could use the vacation.

[Via Twitter]

The mobile web is primarily organism used to clout friends, update your status and connect with friends, according to information from enquiry firm Ground Sojourner Truth.

I don’t think it’s surprising that social networks ar popular on handsets but the information suggests that more than one-half (59.8%) of the metre spent using the mobile web are with these types of services. Portals, wheeler dealer websites, electronic messaging and downloads accounted for the majority of other usages, but none came close to social networks.

What’s interesting is that it’s not just the big boys that are capturing our aid on the go. Smaller, mobile-centric networks like MocoSpace or AirG ar gaining traction, the research firm said.

“Facebook and MySpace may be the most addictive pastimes on the PC, but sites like MocoSpace and AirG mastery more aid on mobile phones,” said Evan Neufeld, VP of merchandising for Ground Truth, in a prepared financial statement. “For exercise, each MocoSpace substance abuser spent in excess of an minute more on the internet site than did the average Facebook visitant during the workweek.”

I guessing this shows the mightiness of a internet site that’s been designed for mobile first but I wouldn’t numeration out Facebook for long. The company already has nearly 100 million mobile users and this quad will surely be an important butt for it in the future tense.

[Via Ground Truth, photo]

So far we usually covered SRS’ and Ray M. Dolby’s mobile efforts. The two companies have successfully partnered with leadership mobile phone makers which ar now selling multimedia system devices with enhanced audio frequency quality. Today we rich person a floor involving DTS that signed a trade with Pantech which volition embed DTS’ digital environment audio decoding technology into its smartphones. The first base line of these DTS-enabled products are exercise set for launch in Korea in April 2010.

At launching, Pantech smartphones volition include a DTS Legacy decipherer (digital surround) with 2-channel analogue and 2-channel PCM yield through a mini HDMI port. This volition allow users the power to stream content from their phones to a number of external sources to “experience soaker DTS auditory sensation.”

Signing such a trade with Pantech is a huge winnings for DTS, which is usually known for its engagement in family HD entertainment products. Hopefully, we’ll see more news from them as marketplace of the digital audio technologies on mobile phones keeps growing.

Korea’s SK Telecom (New York Stock Exchange: SKM) has a set of TV commercials for Android that are both awesome and expectedly spazzy. There’s not much more to say about them but “scream”.

If you jab the slightly more vicious Android mascot, feel free people to blindly click around SK Telecom’s Android web site – they have some wallpapers and icons there that might be worth a download.

[via UberGizmo]

Two more videos after the jump!

It’s not like every solar day we have some Ovi Store winner story to part. Unfortunately for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), they haven’t been able to repeat Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s AppStore success. If you looking at at Shazam’s exercise, it has smasher 1 one thousand thousand Ovi Store downloads after 7 month, compared to 1.5 one thousand thousand in 2 months on AppStore. To be fair, piece Apple keeps ruling the horse opera cerebral hemisphere, Nokia dominates the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific Ocean and Latin America.

Anyway, I wanted to showcase I of not-that-many Ovi Store winner stories. The troupe is Digital Chocolate and they announced that their biz downloads have crossed the 4 million mark.

To celebrate arrival such a milestone, the mobile gambling publisher is gift away 5 of its big top merchandising titles during the calendar month of Apr – Tower Bloxx: New York, Rollercoaster Rush: 99 Tracks, Crazy Penguin Party, Nightclub Fever, and Dictator Defense. Yap, you can already hunting for them in the Ovi Store.

In plus, Digital Chocolate also said it volition bring Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster Rush to the Maemo-based Nokia N900. So far we oasis’t seen a major publishing firm support Nokia’s Linux platform, but we’re definitely hoping to see how it performs in the mobile gaming world. The proper hardware is definitely there, so it shouldn’t be a problem for the N900 (and its potential difference successors) to smoothly tally 3D games…

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) for Twitter has been run its closed beta for awhile now, but version 1.0.0.37 has been leaked, and is available for download for whoever wants to spring it a tailspin. Aside from the indigen messages pamphlet integrating and push-degree direct messages, there ar a few new features – most noticeable is the inclusion of a Lists tab, which enables you to survey and edit your lists of following. Lists ar a life buoy, especially for mobile when you it tin be a real painful sensation comb through your stallion feed of incoming tweets for something particular. Viewing individual users within the app will allow you to view their lists as wellspring as subscribe to or recommend them to others.

Aside from that, there are a few nice tweaks, like Messages leaning notifications of @ replies (not just Direct Messages), the ability to change your font, viewing full-size Twitter avatars, profile redaction, the power to delete your own tweets, and some nice esthetic upgrades. Apparently this variant is also caching information locally, so users North Korean won’t have to waiting for visibility pictures to load up, and you tin get rid of the “What’s happening?” loge on the home page, if you’re looking for more screen real estate of the realm. You still tin’t edit before retweeting, which is called quoting in other apps, and there’s also no native address book integrating, as previously speculated, which really disappointed me. I’d lovemaking to be able to pass through my contacts and be able to see the latest tweet of my friends – it could help beginning a earphone conversation, or boot off an e-mail. If RIM could squeeze in multiple account documentation before the public launching, I think they’ll be goodness to butt heads with incumbent third party clients like UberTwitter, SocialScope, and Seesmic.

There ar likely plentitude more surprises in 1.0.0.37, so go ahead and hit up bbtweeps.com/files/php/chirrup.php on your BlackBerry to get the latest Twitter app.

[via BerryReview]

The OtterBox Commuter serial for the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8500 devices volition launched with a splashing of color, just in meter for the nice weather. Jade K, ardoise slate, red jasper, scapolite gray, and zirconium silicate amobarbital sodium will all be available soon, presumably along with the garden pink variant above for the River Avon Breast genus Cancer Crusade should be available around the same time. OtterBox’s Commuter Series is designed to be the Voltron of the mobile lawsuit world, able to breakout apart into hard lawsuit and rubber hide and reassemble as needed. I’ve looked at just about every other OtterBox under the sun, but rich person no understanding to think the Commuter series doesn’t deliver the same floor of awesome ruggedisation and stylus seen in few other places in the mobile appurtenance worldly concern.

To get notified of handiness, you can sign your e-chain mail here, or here for the Pink Is Strength BlackBerry 8500 series Otterbox – just be sure to put aside $34.95 for when the time comes.

[via Accessorize Mobile]

There’s a new short letter taking instrument out there and an accompanying iPhone app – Springpad. Like Evernote (my personal favorite), it allows users to save and access things they want to remember. However, it also adds something new to the board – it tin read a portion of your content and put option it in context. Hera are some examples that should spring you an estimate what it does:

If you clipping an article about a eating house, Springpad will add links to Yelp reviews, Open Table reservations, and the restaurant’s address and tangency selective information.For a film, it volition add local appearance times, as wellspring as a link to the house trailer, “add to Netflix waiting line,” and order videodisk on Amazon River.And it volition do similar things with recipes and locomotion information.

In addition, Springpad’s iPhone app is fix-aware (like Evernote), taking reward of the built-in GPS receiving system and helping your remember things at the place they happen/ar.

In a nutshell, if you like the idea of putt your notes into a wider context, you should give Springpad a try. Heck, you should endeavour it nonetheless, especially if you don’t like Evernote’s “thumbnail approaching” to notes. Personally, I don’t motivation contextualized notes – I manipulation bookmarking services for that, but hey, that’s just me.

Springpad (FREE) [iTunes link]

I’m sure Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s AppStore (and other app stores around the world, for that substance) will be all about Easter this week. On that note, we present you Easter Eggs, a new iPhone biz we spotted in the iTunes.

It’s a puzzle game, which sees you placing arrows around the blind and then press “Go.” Then you see a bunny run around, pursuit your exercise set way (he bounces from arrow to arrow), until arrival the goal.

There are 50 levels to swordplay, meaning you’ll get pretty lot of fun from a 99-cent priced game. Of course, the sociable element is built in (like in many of today’s iPhone games), allowing you to post your high mark and see how it set of bookshelves against other players from around the world.

If all this excited you at least a turn, mouse click on the link below to check more screenshots, drug user reviews and… whatever else you’re look in the AppStore.

Actually, check out Easter Eggs’ demo video first before pouring out a buck. It follows after the jump.

Easter Eggs ($0.99) [iTunes link]

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless continues with its weekly Android app recommendations. This meter they are all about staying organized with your DROID smartphone. Actually, that’s the functionary line of work, though most of the apps they suggest trade with their own services. Hera’s the list:

My Verizon – allows users to access their Verizon Wireless accounts to get balances, custom numbers and defrayal information and to update features, services and Family SharePlan lines.Visual Voice Mail – diligence for managing your visual voice chain armour, which BTW costs $2.99 per calendar month.V CAST Media Manager – allows users to move and organize pictures, videos and medicine between their computers and phones. It’s not an app for your smartphone, but for your computer.Verizon FiOS Mobile River – enables remote control programing of your Verizon FiOS DVR, browse and searching of TV programme listings, and wake of lists of recorded programs.FiOS Mobile Remote – for FiOS TV control from your earphone.VZW Tones 4.0 – allows users to prevue, leverage and manage all of their ringtones and ringback tones.ScanLife Barcode Reader – popular barcode scanning app.

And you tin discovery all of the apps mentioned above (except V CAST Media Manager) in the Android Market.