Skype for iPhone released; details surfacing

Apple’s about finished rolling out Skype for iPhone, and now US residents can go download the VoIP app for themselves. Quick test posted by several sites show that voice quality is quite good - definitely on par or better than actual 3G calling over AT&T’s network - and connects rather quickly. It’s unfortunate that 2.2.1 doesn’t [...]

DirecTV app for iPhone released

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to set your DVR to record a show you might have forgotten to program, even though you’re away from the house? This new app allows you to do just that. The DirecTV iPhone App is available now, and can let you browse 2 weeks of shows, set recordings and [...]

Royal Bank of Canada thinks next version of iPhone won’t boost sales momentum

The Royal Bank of Canada is maintaining its bearish near-term outlook on shares of Apple, claiming that although consumer interest in a new version of the iPhone remains healthy, sales of the new device are unlikely to provide the company with the same boost seen during the transition from the original iPhone to the iPhone [...]

25 most wanted tips for iPhone 3G

Just discovered a site that wrote an interesting piece on iPhone 3G's tips and tricks. These handy resources will help you to easily get the most out of your iPhone. The Hongkiat's post discussed about: How to Disable iPhone 3G GPRS or Edge Connection How to Set Content Restriction How to Customize iPhone Wallpaper ...

FourTrack for iPhone updated

Sonoma Wire Works updated its audio recording application for the iPhone, fixing a couple of issues.

CBS releases Entertainment Tonight iPhone app

CBS is giving celebrity watchers a new application to keep track of their favorite stars.

iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari Gets Enhanced Security Certificate Visualization

Looks like another desktop Safari 4 Beta feature has found it’s way into the iPhone 3.0 version of the browser. Now, when you go to a site with an enhanced security certificate, the text on top of the browser turns green (like the green bar, we get it!), with little green lock icon beside it, and the name of the certificate’s trusted organization. For example, the above screenshots show how Apple’s order status page looks on iPhone 2.2.1 (top right) and iPhone 3.0.

What does this mean for users? In an age of increased phishing attacks, where bad sites try to trick you into thinking they’re your bank or shop and steak your login or credit card info, this is one more visual cue in your assessment process for determining if you can trust that the website is what it says it is.

Come iPhone 3.0, look for the green text on top of Safari and carefully check to make sure the company it identifies is the one you want to be dealing with.

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iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari Gets Enhanced Security Certificate Visualization

Hideo Kojima Discusses Metal Gear Solid Touch, the iPhone and Apple

Hideo Kojima, the legendary game designer behind the Metal Gear series, recently took time to discuss his foray into iPhone game development at the Stockton Street Apple Store in San Francisco

MLB At Bat 2009 Now Available

A few weeks back we reported that MLB At Bat 2009 [iTunes Link] would be available on April 3rd, well it seems it was pushed out a few days early and can now be found in the App Store. Most of it’s features, however, will not be activated until April 6th. The biggest feature being, live Gameday Audio, from either the home or visiting team radio announcers, streamed directly to your iPhone. That feature alone should make this app worth the price of admission for all of you hardcore baseball fans.

So you have to be asking, how much will this cost me? For the entire baseball season including post season play this will run you $9.99. That really is not too bad considering in-game audio for the complete season, directly from the MLB website, costs $14.99.

So how many of you will be picking this one up? Let us know what you think!

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MLB At Bat 2009 Now Available

Want a Gmail App on the iPhone?

While Google’s Gmail is still in “beta”, they done a lot of good stuff for the iPhone including a quirky but usable IMAP implementation so we can keep mail synced on our mobile, desktop, and cloud. But Gmai’s quirkiness isn’t restricted to IMAP, the whole concept of GMail just “thinks different”, from it’s April 1st, everyone-thought-it-was-a-joke launch, to its labels rather than folders, stars rather than flags, and flat search rather than hierarchical sort.

All this leads some to consider a separate GMail client for the iPhone, rather than leaving it bundled into Apple’s own MobileMail app. The Google Android G1 goes this route. You have one app for Gmail and another app for all your other mail. Would we ever see this on the iPhone?

Ars Technica spoke with Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson, who had this to say (or rather, not say):

he did leave the possibility of a dedicated iPhone client on the table

But what would this mean?

If we look at Gmail strictly as a mail service, my vote is to keep it in mail, do a better job mapping labels to folders, map stars to flags (and enable flags, Apple!), and let iPhone 3.0’s built in search access the Gmail cloud store as well.

If, however, we look at Gmail as some new-fangled cloud-communications service, with email, IM, and Video Chat built in, then maybe some equally new-fangled, and dedicated app is and will be increasingly necessary. That or keep it on the Web with offline access?

Meanwhile, more than better Gmail integration or a separate Gmail app, I’d still like Push Gmail, please. We know Google has licensed ActiveSync for calendars. Go on and throw the switch for email. And while you’re at it, give some IMAP IDLE love for those of us who already use Exchange for work and — due to the 1 account per device limit, thanks Microsoft! — couldn’t take advantage of it for Google.

What do you want, one of the above? All of them? How do you want your Gmail handled on your iPhone?

[Thanks to Phil from WMExperts for the tip!]

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Want a Gmail App on the iPhone?

Xserve Refresh Coming Within the Next Week or Two?

AppleInsider reports that Apple may release updated versions of its Xserve rackmountable server computers within the next few weeks. The new models are expected to utilize new Intel Xeon 3500 "Bloomfield" processors, as well as the same Xeon 5500 "G...

iZel allows for hands-free iPhone viewing

The iZel is a new stand designed for the iPhone, iPod touch and other portable devices that lets you view it at an angle against a horizontal surface like a desk.

iPhone Dev 101: Creating Xcode projects, brief Xcode UI overview

Filed under: Features, How-tos, Developer, iPhone, iPod touch

In our last iPhone Dev 101, a continuing series on iPhone development, we talked about resources that you can use while you are coding with Cocoa. In this dev post, I'm going to walk you through Xcode and creating your first project.

First we need to open Xcode, so once you have the SDK installed, you'll need to open /Developer/Applications/ and look for Xcode.app. This is Apple's IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that allows you to code, debug, test, and build all of your iPhone and Mac applications. When you open this application, nothing specially really happens, although you might see the welcome center -- if you see this, you can choose to disable it at startup by using the check box at the bottom.

To create a new project, select File > New Project. In the resulting window select iPhone OS Application > View-based Application, and click "Choose." You will then need to specify a save name and location for the resulting files that will combine to create your application. In the resulting Xcode window, you should note that most of the work is already done for you!

At this point you have a fully functional application. Try it out: click the "build and go" button at the top of the window and wait while the app is compiled and opens in the iPhone Simulator. The app definitely doesn't do much, but still, it's a running application you made without writing any code.

Continue reading to learn more about Xcode, and get a brief UI overview.

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iPhone Dev 101: Creating Xcode projects, brief Xcode UI overview originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Quick App: Citrix Receiver for iPhone Enables Windows PC Remote Access

Citrix, whom internet legend holds helped develop the Windows kernel and knows their way around Microsoft’s OS like Ballmer knows a good monkey dance, have been talking iPhone client for a while, and it appears they’ve now made good on it.

Citrix Receiver [iTunes Link] is a FREE application that hooks into the Citrix XenApp and XenApp Web Services environment to let you access your Windows system remotely from the iPhone. Labeled as a 0.9 release “Technology Preview” it still purports real-time, anywhere (as long as you’re online) access to your apps and docs, and an high def HDX experience, including special mention of piping Flash and Silverlight websites over to your iPhone. And yes, your data is encrypted and stored back on your server-side, not the iPhone client.

So, anyone try this out yet? Is it the great experience Citrix has come to make us expect of them? How’s AutoCAD and IE 6 ActiveX working for you on the iPhone?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Quick App: Citrix Receiver for iPhone Enables Windows PC Remote Access

Daylite Touch released for iPhone

Daylite Touch, Marketcircle's portable software system for Daylite users, is now available for download.

Review: Diary for iPhone

Elegant and lovely to look at, this journal app is off to a good start. But Diary needs more flexibility if it hopes to persuade diarists to abandon their pens and journals in favor of the iPhone.

iPhone 3G “Pro”: RBC Analyst vs. Magic 8-Ball

Welcome to iPhone Analysts vs. the Magic 8-Ball, where we take the often outlandish, sometime surreal predictions of iPhone analysts and pundits, blogeratti and the ‘net elite, and compare them to the potentially equally precise prognostications of a… magic 8-ball (running on an iPhone, of course!)

Mike Abramsky, seasoned veteran of of RBC weighs in on an iPhone 3G “Pro” with the following specs, and the Magic 8-Ball chimes in with its pedictions in italics:

• iPhone 3G “Pro” nickname. As I see it, yes
• Retail price to stay the same $199/$299. My reply is no
• Wireless UMTS/HSUPA, Wifi, Bluetooth. My reply is no
  (Note: our understanding is that HSUPA is to uplink what HSPDA is to downlink, and someone’s mixing up their UMTS technologies there and really means a 3.5G system)
• 3.2MP camera with flash and video recording. Don’t count on it.
• 16GB/32GB storage. Most likely
• 0.1″ thinner. Yes
• AT&T to get it before the rest of the world. Most likely.
• Growth will not accelerate. Don’t count on it.

Okay, so both of their predictions seem a little hinkey to us, but what do we know? Bring on WWDC 2009, and until then, thanks everyone for playing Analyst vs. Magic 8-Ball and be sure to leave your predictions, and your thoughts on their predictions, in the comments!

[Via Apple Insider. Thanks to Jimmie for the tip!]

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iPhone 3G “Pro”: RBC Analyst vs. Magic 8-Ball

China Unicom still not confirmed as Chinese iPhone provider

Remember how last week China Unicom brazenly threw up product images for the iPhone and a few other smartphones, implying that in the very near future it would be providing service to them? Well, funny story: turns out the company's chairman, Chang Xiaobing, is now saying negotiations are actually still ongoing with Apple and that the two have a good bit of wheeling and dealing left to do. What could they possibly still be discussing? According to Barron's, the debates focus on two primary issues: a Chinese law banning WiFi use in mobile phones; and Unicom's insistence on installing its own software on the iPhone, including some sort of *gasp* non-iTunes media player. How long now until these issues are resolved? Barron's is citing research firm Wedge Partners, who indicates it may not be until the end of the year. Better stick with those gray-market imports, folks.

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Tell us your Skype app stories

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

As the midnight line rolled across the globe last night, international iTunes users picked up the Skype app with glee and enthusiasm. While users in Germany are fuming at reports that T-Mobile plans to block use of Skype via its WiFi hotspots, everyone else seems quite happy so far. We're already hearing about Bluetooth speakerphones or plug-in mics that should work well with the service.

If you've got Skype fired up on your iPhone, let us know how it's going for you and what the advantages/drawbacks of VoIP on your iPhone or iPod touch are so far. Leave a comment below, or send us a Skype IM at 'TUAW_on_Skype' with your thoughts.

Tell us your Skype app stories originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Skype on iPhone, finally…

I’ve been waiting for Skype on iPhone for at least a year… I’m a Truphone user, but I’m not happy with it, it doesn’t work very well in terms of call quality. I hope the official version would be as good as the desktop application.

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