Mobile Phone News

Filed under: Games, Multimedia, Software, Misc

After seeing what we saw at CEDIA this year, we knew this innovation was only a hop, skip and a jump away. RCDb and Nortel have teamed up to showcase what they’re calling the Video Bulletin Board, which is an interactive application that enables cellphones and Blu-ray players to communicate like never before. With it, you can “send a photo or video from your mobile phone to your own or a friend’s BD Live-enabled Blu-ray deck and then, using the remote, activate a click-to-call feature that would automatically have your phone call back the mobile user who sent you the photo.” It won’t be long before you’re ordering pizza from your Blu-ray player and watching outtakes on your handset — at least, we hope.

[Image courtesy of Blu-ray.com]

Video Bulletin Board enables mobile-to-Blu-ray player interaction originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Games, Peripherals, Apple, OS X

For better or worse, it seems like the so-called iControlPad is edging closer to reality — or at least something really similar. According to a new image (and our limited Spanish translation skills), Belkin is actually looking to produce an App Store gaming controller, though we’re still not entirely convinced that what we’re seeing is legitimate. Whatever the case, the JoyPod would somehow, someway provide users who purchased Super Monkey Ball to play it using a bona fide game pad, though we can’t figure out if the iPod touch / iPhone slips in behind the controller or if it just morphs to fit the JoyPod’s space constraints. Guess we’ll see (or not) soon enough.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Filed under: Games, Handsets, Peripherals

We saw a couple versions of the iControlPad iPhone gamepad surface back in May, but it seems like the clever add-on is getting close to reality — check out these case prototypes that just popped up. Yeah, it’s not, uh, small — good thing the target price is under $30. Touch Arcade also has some other pictures of another iPhone gaming accessory that looks like it slides open, check it out at the read link.

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