In addition to numerous application updates, Cobi has recently developed an Android, web and iPhone app for Volkswagen Team Assist (commissioned by Amsterdam based FONKmobile), a Samsung TV app for News24, and our internal product division has created an iPad app called Sticky Art.

Team Assist is a driving schedule application for amateur football players in the Netherlands. The app gives users an overview of current and future games directly from the KNVB. Players can access the latest information about the games; see which team members are playing, the location of the next game, who is driving and where and when to meet.

The News24 application is the first locally developed Smart TV application in Africa. It allows users to access news content on their Smart TVs and navigate to stories or sections of interest using the remote as a cursor.

Sticky Art lets you design sticky-note art using your iPad. You can either create the design manually, or use the trace feature to convert a regular image into a sticky art. The app allows users to customise the window size, zoom in and out to get perspective of how the design will look and email or print the design from your iPad. A design inventory is also shown on your design so that you know how many stickies you need.

Download the VW Team Assist iPhone app

Download theVW Team Assist Android app

Download the VW Team Assist web app

Download the Sticky Art iPad app

The News24 app is accessible from the Samsung Apps Store via the Smart TV UI

Asus has announced it’s Padfone. It’s a mobile phone with a “pad” you can plug in into if you want something with a bigger screen. It’s concept is similar to that of Motorola’s Atrix. I like the ideas, but I would prefer something wireless. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just buy a generic tablet or netbook that you could connect any phone to rather than a specific phone. I guess that would be the next step and a little closer to moving to the cloud.

Sprint announced their dual screen phone, the Kyocera. Very interesting device. They’ve had to customise it to make it work dual screen, which I think is not a good thing. It means that if there’s ever and Android update, you’ll probably have to wait forever for them to update their custom UI. And to write apps to support their dual screens, you’ll probably have to download their own custom SDK making it that much more complicated writing apps for Android. It’s cool, but I think it needs to go.

So Google just had their honeycomb event. I can’t say I was very impressed. The googlers were excited about fancy animation frameworks and 3D graphics performance, all which looked pretty average to me. In my opinion honeycomb looks a bit like Windows with it’s widgets on the desktop and toolbar at the bottom with its home/start button on the left and time/notifications on the right.

Google also showcased their web store. It’s kinda of like xbox live where you can browse apps on the web, buy them and they automatically get downloaded on your phone.

The Google event was a bit disappointing for me. At least when Steve Jobs presents something average, it’s still somehow seems awesome. Hopefully he gets better soon.

I’m a bit torn between what I think about the new Galaxy Tab. It’s a tablet that’s only a little bigger than some of the Android phones out there, but yet it seems like a more portable device than the iPad. Anyway..it looks pretty good, although there were some of the standard Android jitters in the video. Interfaces looks like a copy of the iPad, but anyway, that’s the norm in the industry now.

Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) is out. Froyo, while not much of an update cosmetically, is said to provide up to 2x – 5x performance gains for applications thanks to its Just In Time (JIT) compiler. Read more about it here.

Word on the street has it that Google handed out new HTC EVO 4G phones to the developers at this years Google IO conference (19 – 20 May in San Francisco). Last year Google handed out free HTC Magic phones…. a testament to how things have advanced.

Some dude playing Donkey Kong on his Android phone using the Wii Remote. Cool. I want to try that out.

If you’re a Firefox supporter, you can now try Firefox on Android 2.0+ devices. We tried it on our custom 2.0+ rom, but it kills it. From the videos it looks like it has quite a nice interface, but currently looks horribly slow to use.

Guide to Installing Android on iPhone 2G from AndroidALot on Vimeo.

Motorola has decided to use Skyhook location based services instead of Googles. What is an android phone without Google’s services? I wonder if that will affect any android apps that make use of Google’s location services. If so, developing Android apps might get a little more complicated.

via Engadget