My absolute favorite game to play on my iPhone, believe it or not, is one of the more simpler games. It’s called Fall Down created by Hannes Jensen. It is so basic in terms of graphics and game play, but it is one of the most addicting games I have ever played. Best of all it’s free! You can’t really beat free right? Although it doesn’t make use of connecting to the Internet, it still is way better than most games that actually do! It just proves all you need is a fun, simple idea and you can have an amazing app. All it is, is a ball that you need to fit through various moving lines. As the lines move up the screen, they can squish your ball at the top ending your game. You need tilt the iPhone so that the ball its through openings in the lines. It’s sort of like and opposite doodle jump if you’ve ever played that game. I am completely addicted to it. Although, I often find my phone missing and in the hands of my girlfriend who plays it even more than I do and has the top 5 scores on my game. I can’t seem to beat her records. She’s that good and it frustrates me beyond belief that I can’t beat her!!! Oh well, looks like I need to practice some more. So I’m going to end this review and get to playing Fall Down. Hopefully one of these days I’ll be able to beat her scores!

Download Fall Down for free here

The developer of the popular Firefox browser, the Mozilla Foundation, has just announce the release of Firefox for Mobile. The newly released version currently exclusively for Nokia’s N900 smartphone/Internet tablet. Plans are in the works to release version compatible with Google’s Android mobile platform operating system and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. None of Apple’s mobile devices (iPhone, iTouch, iPad) will be able to run the new browser because of the “inherent limitations” of Apple’s mobile operating system environment. Equally dissed  are Backberry users since their devices use a java based operating system incompatible with Firefox.

Firefox for Mobile sports bad ass Add-ons with names straight out of a 12-step program like: YouTube Enabler, Shareaholic for Facebook and Twitter abusers, and the Awesome Bar which apparently has nothing to do with alcohol (I checked).

But it does not run Flash.

This is the second poke in the eye this week for Flash whose owner Adobe claims to be the world’s most common software platform found on 99% of desktop computers. Early Steve Jobs was reported as saying Apple’s mobile platform will not support Flash because it too buggy.  At the same meeting anonymous sources reported Jobs said Google’s motto “Don’t Be Evil is bullshit.” Alternate anonymous sources report Jobs actually said “Don’t Be Evil is a load of crap.” Alternate, alternate anonymous sources report Jobs actually said “Don’t Be Evil is just the kind of pompous hubris that the sheeple love to eat up. I wish I had thought of it first.”

Yes it’s now official, we here at Mobile User have declared 2010 “The Year of the Mobile.” We were thinking of making it the year of the mobile phone but that was just too limiting what with the launch of the iPad. Since Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly said the iPad was “the most important thing I’ve ever done,” we figured we should be flexible in our declaration so as to keep Steve relevant post iPhone.

Market research firm Gartner has reportedly determined that smartphone app download sales will top $6.2 billion and mobile device ad sales will total $600 million this year. But that is only the start of this glorious new era. Gartner says that we are at the beginning a huge growth phase in the mobile industry. By 2013 revenues will skyrocket from 2009’s $4.2 billion, to mind boggling $29.5 billion. That’s an increase of over 700% in four years. Games will be the sector leader, then social apps.

Ladies and gentlemen, what we’ve seen speaks for itself. The Internet has apparently been taken over — ‘conquered’ if you will — by the mobile platform and it’s apps. It’s difficult to tell from our current vantage point whether they will consume all the revenue generated on the Internet or merely enslave us to this new paradigm. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the mobiles will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new gadget overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted web blog personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground texting caves.

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Watching Apple’s exciting unveiling of the over hyped iPad did little to mask the plain fact that is is a cool gizmo with no real niche to occupy. I am sure it will be a lot of fun to play with and the interface is just as snappy as the iPhone. With the giant group of developers and available compatible apps orignally designed for the iPhone the iPad does have some great things going for it. But still if you already have an iPhone and MacBook Air (um… like some of do), then what do you really need this over sized iTouch for?

Frankly what the iPad needs to move it in the marketplace is sex, and lots of it. Every one knows that the Internet is rife with pornography. What you may not realize is that without porn to drive innovation the web would not be as fast, or as commercially developed, or even as widespread. To deliver high quality images and video you need a big pipe, by that I mean broad band to every home. E-commerce is largely based on the pioneering work of porn sites. The basic technology of the Internet, DVDs, cable TV, VHS, and even traced all the way back early photography in the 1800s, and even further back to shortly after the Gutenberg press was introduced all were driven by sex and pornography.

The iPad can deliver streaming video content to a beautiful 10.5 screen almost anywhere. Other then that it is just an over sized iTouch, that is to say an oversize iPhone that cannot make phone calls. The iPad needs sex. Without it, it serves no purpose at all.

Photo credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/8363028@N08 and http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennf with apologizes