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Skype for iPhone now live in US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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UPDATE: Skype seems to be live now in the US App Store. If you find it in any other App Store’s please let us know in the comments. (Nothing in Canada yet).
[Thanks daveizzle for the tip!]
ORIGINAL: Skype for the iPhone (and second generation iPod touch), rumored last week by Om Malik, is now confirmed by the WSJ as coming to the iTunes App Store tomorrow.
Skype, the popular VoIP (voice over IP) service that sends telephone calls via the internet, will be WiFi only for calls, of course (carriers will protect their income by keeping it off 3G), but you can IM chat anywhere. How does it stack up to existing apps like Fring that already offer VoIP support? CNet, which has an early review up, quotes Skype a saying:
what the other apps use is a workaround that requires them to channel calls through a server and transcode audio, resulting in poorer-quality calls than Skype can do in its own app.
GigaOm seems pleased:
SkypeIn and SkypeOut, along with Skype Chat, are the key features of this new version of the Skype application. This is a native P2P application for the iPhone and the iPod touch. It allows group chats and conference calls and is tightly integrated with Apple’s Address Book.
Gizmodo, by contrast, thinks:
Third party apps like Fring picked up Skype’s slack a long time ago, and lump in multiprotocol IMing, something which gives them a distinct advantage over this official client on the one-app-at-a-time-please iPhone.
[Thanks to John and Icebike for sending this in! And no, we'd have mentioned Om again anyway, even though it would be great if he'd yell at us over Twitter...]
Our own editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn will be live at CTIA 2009, where the official announcement is expected, so if anything else breaks, he’ll let us know. Meanwhile, anyone setting their alarm-clocks to download?
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UPDATED: Skype for iPhone Coming Tomorrow Now Live!
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Opening Day of the Major League Baseball 2009 season is just around the corner, and MLB.com At Bat 2009 (click opens iTunes) has been released. Beware -- this post contains bad baseball metaphors.First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Long rumored and eagerly awaited, DirecTV has finally posted their free iPhone app for finding and recording content. The DirecTV app [App Store link] has been pretty hard to find. It didn't come up in an iTunes search last night and this morning, but that may have been fixed.DirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
DirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DIRECTV for the iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Features include:
Any DIRECTV iPhone users giving it a try? How’s it working for you?
[Via Engadget Mobile]
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DIRECTV Announces iPhone App: Search, Browse, Get Info, Record, Program PPV
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We'll have a head-to-head comparison of the just-released Agile Messenger [App Store link] versus Beejive in a few days, but why not test drive Agile Messenger yourself first? Four lucky winners will get to do just that, courtesy Agile and TUAW. Just tell us which chat protocol you prefer (AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, etc.) and we'll pick four winners at random. Sorry, we've got to limit the winners to the US, as promo codes don't work anywhere else.Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Made from the finest nappa leather this luxury case from Covertec will keep your iPhone 3G protected with style.
The case features natural beige overstitching and the inside is reinforced with heavy duty synthetic material. This distinctive case also includes a fully removable belt clip.
Covertec Leather Pouch Case for iPhone 3G is available from TiPb’s iPhone Store…
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Sponsored Post: Covertec Leather Pouch Case for iPhone 3G
Ok, don’t worry, the above image is actually from Activisions version of Ghostbusters for the Apple II that appeared in 1984 and not from this upcoming version. Most Ghostbuster fans out there are aware that the Ghostbusters are making their comeback this June on all of the major video game consoles with the original cast doing the voice acting. Well, most of you will be excited to know that your favorite ghostbusting trio will be making an appearance on the iPhone this June as well. Details are pretty much nil at the moment though hopefully Sony Pictures does it justice.
Sony says the Ghostbusters iPhone game will see you playing as the traditional team from the Ghostbusters movies, tackling New York borough by borough, trapping pesky poltergeists and stopping innocent citizens from being slimed. Think Halloween Harry, only with Ghostbusters’ Peter Venkman deadpanning it all the way through.
It should be interesting to see how the developers take advantage of the iPhones accelerometer in terms of control. So what do all of the fans think of this comeback? This is pretty big for those of us who here at TiPb grew up in the 1980’s, so we’re pretty excited to this game is coming.
[Via Electricpig]
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Yep, the iPhone has won Engadget’s Gadget of the Year and Smartphone of the Year awards, not just from the editors, but from the readers as well. That’s quadrupal honors for those keeping score at home.
For the Engadget Awards in general, the editors also picked the unibody MacBook, and iPod touch (handheld and portable), and gave the BlackBerry Storm the worst gadget honors. Readers, meanwhile went far more Apple, with for iMac, unibody MacBook, 24″ LED Cinema Display, the iPod touch (for both handheld and portable), and Time Capsule for storage. Zune was worst gadget.
TiPb’s own Editor Awards and Reader’s Choice Awards were handed out on New Year and Oscar Sunday respectively.
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iPhone Wins Gadget of the Year, Smartphone of the Year at Engadget Awards
Macworld has just sent out an email telling interested parties that they’re changing the dates for their annual Expo from the traditional early January, to roughly a month later:
As we began the planning process for 2010, the Mac community - exhibitors, attendees, media and fans of the show - made it clear that February would be a more ideal time to hold the event, so we listened. The Conference programs are scheduled for Tuesday through Saturday, February 9 - 13 and the Expo will be held Thursday through Saturday, February 11-13th.
Now that Apple will no longer be attending Macworld, of course, not going up against the juggernaut that is CES — which is already, and controversially, wooing Mac and iPhone exhibitors — could also be A Good Thing.
On our end, we’re wondering if, between CES, Macworld, MWC, and CTIA we’re going to have to clone Dieter sooner than we anticipated! Were you thinking of attending Macworld 2010? Do the new dates make you more likely to attend now? And are there too many iPhone-involved shows too closely lumped together now?
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Macworld 2010 Changes Dates to February 9-13
IDG World Expo announced today that Macwor...
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Skype for iPhone goes live in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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