T-Mobile Germany banning Skype for iPhone

T-Mobile, Apple's mobile partner in Germany, has announced it intends to ban use of Skype on both its mobile network and Wi-Fi hot spots.

Apple Now Accepting Entries for 2009 iPhone Design Awards

Developing for the iPhone? Have the next great user experience? Apple wants to give you a shiny silver-gray box to express your excellence!

Let your creativity shine as we honor the year’s best-designed applications for Mac and iPhone at WWDC 2009. Winners will take home prizes of great Apple hardware—along with the respect, admiration, and envy of their peers from around the world. Enter today and put your work in the spotlight.

I’m doubting any fart apps need apply, but outside the novelty apps space, we’ve seen some really nicely designed software come out since App Store launch. Last year’s winners were all outstanding. Anyone have any early predictions for winners? Tapbot? Icon Factory? Gameloft? Who’d get your vote?

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Apple Now Accepting Entries for 2009 iPhone Design Awards

Review: ProCamera for iPhone

If keeping your phone straight and getting constantly blurry images are big problems for you, ProCamera may offer a solution to your camera troubles. If you are looking for more control over your images in addition to that nifty self-timer, you may want to look elsewhere.

Apple makes a proposition for a very secure iPhone

In the latest installment of Apple’s iPhone security-related patent filings, the Cupertino-based company describes the implementation of loss prevention software that would notify a security agency in the event the handset is lost or stolen, which could in turn lead to a police officer being dispatched to the current location of the device based on [...]

iPhone firmware 3.0 already jailbroken…kind of

The iPhone OS 3.0 beta has already been jailbroken. Quickpwn for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices except the iPod Touch 2G. The Dev Team has some words of warning about this jailbreak – in terms of future ability to unlock, mainly because of a big caveat: “That’s because QuickPwn, by [...]

Apple patents movement controls for devices

Apple recently applied for a patent for “movement-based interfaces for personal media devices,” which means a more advanced accelerometer and movement gestures for the iPhone, basically. Apple has enjoyed applying for patents recently. Following in the footsteps of Sony Ericsson, Apple doesn’t seem to be satisfied with just the ability to switch between landscape and portrait [...]

Apple Ordering 3.2 and 5-Megapixel Camera Sensors for iPhone and Future Product?

In a brief report, DigiTimes claims that Apple has placed orders with OmniVision Technologies for both 3.2 and 5-megapixel image sensors. The 3.2-megapixel sensor is reportedly destined for the next-generation iPhone, while the 5-megapixel sensor is...

3.5mp Camera for Next Gen iPhone. 5mp Camera for… Next Next Gen?

Digitimes is reporting… what many others have been rumoring about the next gen iPhone and it’s camera. 3.5 megapixels, according to their “market sources” are bound to get bundled in if/when Apple shows off new iPhone 2,1 hardware at WWDC this year.

What’s even more fantastical is that a 5 megapixel camera is also rumored to be on its way to another Apple product this year. New iSight for the built-ins? Heh. That’s no fun. Gotta be for the next next gen iPhone 3,1, right? Or the iTablet? iNetbook? iYaiyai?!

Rumor season has only just begun folks!

[Via iPhonebuzz/Engadget Mobile]

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Skype for iPhone Appears in AppStore 1 Day Early

Loyal  Skype users rejoiced yesterday when the official Skype client for iPhone became available in the AppStore yesterday afternoon HST. Skype if you weren't aware is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) service that allows users to place phone calls for free over the internet.Although there were other iPhone apps that ...

It is fatal, iPhone 3G hardware problem - NOT!

A number of April fools jokes have been floating about. Of course they have, like that of a fatal flaw in 3G iPhones requiring a return to Apple. Reports were out today that the 3G iPhone had developed a 'terminator' like intelligence. "It seems that the iPhone's supreme integration between hardware ...

iPhone Goes 3D with Vuzix

Okay, my first thought was “finally, they’ve figured out how to use the iPhone to power optic blasts!”, so I was ready to strap one on, grab the rest of the X-Men, and go take down known BlackBerry Storm user, Magneto.

Alas, turns out that while optic blasts didn’t make the final release, this new cable does support using the iPhone with a set of Vuzix 3D headgear. With more and more video making the leap to 3D, no doubt this opens the iPhone up to watching those leaps in even more realistic — and scarier — ways.

Not sure I’m ready to strap on a visor for my next plane trip though. How about you? Can’t wait for Monsters vs. Aliens or Avatar, or are you holding fast until they can just beam the stuff straight into your brain?

[via Engadget]

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iPhone Goes 3D with Vuzix

DigiTimes conjures up 3.2 and 5 megapixel cameras for future iPhone / iPod touch

Ah DigiTimes, where would we be without your river of tattle? The Taiwan rumor-rag just served up a doozy calling for Apple's "next-generation iPhone" to be equipped with a 3.2 megapixel CMOS sensor from OmniVision. Seems logical as a natural update to the existing 2.0 megapixel camera. DigiTimes also has Apple adding a 5 megapixel CMOS sensor to "another Apple product expected to be launched later in the year." Interesting as in-bezel webcams found in laptops and netbooks are typically less than 2 megapixels. If true, perhaps this will be the shooter found on a bulkier device carrying the iPhone3,1 or iPod3,1 identifiers peeped in the 3.0 firmware. Or not.

[Via iPhonebuzz]

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Review: Vector Tanks for iPhone

Gamers of a certain age will enjoy Vector Tanks’ old-school look and feel, while younger games should appreciate the challenge of a game that rewards racking up high scores with finite resources.