Mighty Fin for iPhone, iPad [giveaway]

Mighty Fin, the arcade game by Launching Pad Games, has been updated with universal iPhone and iPad support. The goal is to guide Fin through the water and collect bubbles.

I’m really enjoying Mighty Fin! The graphics are fun and the gameplay is both relaxing and challenging. It’s a great little time killer.

Details, screenshots, video, and giveaway details after the break.

[App Store link]

Fin needs a vacation. He’s signed up for Shady Sal’s suspiciously cheap — and possibly deadly — Round the World Tour. Hey, money’s tight when you’re a working fish.

The controls are simple: touch the screen to dive and let go to soar through the air. Grab bubbles for a high score, leap over lighthouses, swim under icebergs, and try not to get eaten by hungry sharks! And now in Mighty Fin 2.0, dodge pirate cannonballs, ride futuristic hovercars, sail over ninja shuriken and evade gigantic sponge cakes in a soda stream sea!

Update includes:

The good folks at Launching Pad Games have given us a couple promo codes to give away to you, our awesome readers! Since Fin is on a shady vacation, let us know where you would like to go on vacation for a chance to win! (To win a promo code, not the vacation of your choice).

Mighty Fin is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral

Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral
Phil, Kevin, Derek, Dan, Georgia, and Rene talk HP dumping webOS hardware, Google picking up Motorola Mobility, RIM’s new BlackBerrys reviewed, and what it means for Microsoft and Apple. This is MobileNations!

Got something to say? Agree or disagree with something we said? Have something you want us to discuss on a future show? Don’t just sit there yelling at the screen, dammit, let us know!

Phil Nickinson (@philnickinson)of Android Central

Kevin Michaluk (@crackberrykevin) of CrackBerry.com

Derek Kessler (@dkdsgn) of PreCentral.net

Daniel Rubino (@Malatesta77) of WPCentral.com

Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb) of ZENandTECH.tv

Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of TiPb.com

Our music is pROgraM vs. Us3R by by morgantj. Introduction by Joseph Holder.

Thanks to the Smartphone Experts network of store for sponsoring this podcast, and to our fantastic live chat members for keeping us honest and making us smart!

Sn0wbreeze 2.8b5 jailbreak for iOS 5 beta 5

Those of you on iOS 5 beta 5 that aren’t able to take advantage of Redsn0w for Mac users are in luck. Sn0wbreeze 2.8 beta 5 has been updated to support beta 5 for Windows users by its creator, iH8sn0w.

Sn0wbreeze will work to jailbreak the following devices on iOS 5 beta 5:

iPad 2 is not supported and it’s also worth noting that this jailbreak is tethered.

Note: This version of Sn0wbreeze also allows non-developers to pass the UDID check and “hacktivate” their devices. It will also remove the “beta timer” Apple has so you won’t be forced to upgrade or plug into iTunes if you don’t update by Apple’s beta deadlines. TiPb DOES NOT recommend anyone do this. iOS 5 is in beta for a reason — it’s not ready for mainstream use on your daily phone. It will frustrate you. Things won’t work. Apps will crash or not function. If you’re not a developer who needs to test iOS 5 SDK apps, or Jailbreak developer testing out next generation tweaks, you’ll be happier if you stay away until the final version is ready.

[Sn0wbreeze 2.8 beta 5 download]

iPhone Live 166: JooJooPhone

Rene, Seth, and Georgia discuss iPhone 5 launch dates, LTE 4G rumors, the Grid 4 JooJoo phone, Google buying Motorola, LinkedIn, and Dropbox vs. iCloud. This is iPhone Live!

Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb)

Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Thanks to the TiPb iPhone accessory store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

Our music comes from the following sources:

i Learn With Poko: Additions! HD for iPad [Kids Corner]

i Learn With Poko: Additions! HD is an educational iPad game to help kids learn counting and addition.

Great educational apps like this one make me so happy to be a parent during these times. It’s important for kids to have fun while learning, and i Learn With Poko: Additions looks like a fantastically fun app for learning how to add.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

In this game Poko, Bibi and Minus explore numbers and learn additions by playing with toys: count bowling pins and choose the right number, group set of blocks and add them or identify different objects and add them.

i Learn With Poko: Additions! HD is available on the iPad for $2.99.

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Did iPad kill HP’s hardware business?

After Apple introduced the iPad I wondered out loud on iPad Live whether it would leave any air in the room for eventual tablet rivals. It turns out I might have been right, but also might not have been right enough. The iPad, and now iPad 2, might not have left any air in the room for any hardware rivals, tablet or PC.

HP is not only killing off their webOS hardware and looking to license the software, HP is spinning or selling off their laptop and desktop computer business as well. Why?

The tablet effect is real and the TouchPad is not gaining momentum in the marketplace.

And since we know there’s no tablet market, just an iPad market, the real meaning there is pretty clear.

I was a PalmOS user since the Visor and while I never owned a webOS device, I have tried them and liked them and it’s disappointing to see HP cut and run like this. Sure it’s easier to say “make better hardware” or “get better carrier deals” or “ship more mature products faster” and really difficult to do, but that was the job HP signed up for.

Maybe Amazon or Facebook, or a jilted Android manufacturer will pick up webOS and show HP what a company of will can really do?

Keep reading PreCentral.net for ongoing coverage and let us know — did Apple and the iPad kill HP’s hardware business, and who would you like to see run with webOS?

Special edition Mobile Nations podcast tonight at 9PM Eastern

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this special announcement: Mobile Nations podcast is broadcasting live tonight at 9PM. There’s a lot for us to talk about between HP dumping webOS hardware to Google gobbling up Motorola, and we can’t sit on our hands anymore. So we’re broadcasting live tonight at 9PM Eastern (6PM Pacific, 1AM UTC).

Mobile Nations brings together the heads of the SPE communities, with at the very least Rene Ritchie of TiPb, Kevin of CrackBerry, Phil of Android Central, Dan of WPcentral, and – of course – Derek of PreCentral (plus maybe a few others). There’s going to be a lot to talk about, and things will be kicking off at 9PM Eastern, so be there. It’s going to be amazing. There might be tears.

Join us here, or at MobileNations.com.