Latest on the Next-Gen iPhone

Seems like apparently Taiwan Semiconductor along with two of it's subsidiaries will be the major  manufacturer of the next generation iPhone. From digitimes, "TSMC have landed foundry orders for GSM EDGE power amplifiers, Bluetooth ICs and 3.2-megapixel OmniVision CMOS image sensor (CIS) used in the upcoming iPhone model, indicated the ...

Aragom Space War Review

When Stairways software announced that they had released an iPhone application called Aragom Space War that was reminiscent of the original TRS-80 Star Trek game, I was quite excited to try it out. I remember playing the game during my high school years and loving every minute of it. ...

iPhone 3.0: WiFi Auto-Join and Login Panel

We heard mention of this when iPhone 3.0 first hit, but it’s the first time we’ve actually seen it in action. WiFi Settings now includes and option for auto-join, which we’re assuming saves passwords for commercial, web-fronted WiFi services like you’d find at a hotel or coffee shop.

Also, when you login, you get a special slide-up window with some new controls and an embeded web-view — no more app-jump to Safari.

Very nice!

Again, for more iPhone 3.0, check out our giant walkthrough…

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iPhone 3.0: WiFi Auto-Join and Login Panel

TUAW review: Daylite 3.9, Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch

Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Features, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Marketcircle's Daylite is a popular business productivity management application for the Mac platform, and it was recently updated to version 3.9. While this sounds like it might have been just another version upgrade, it was actually a major update to Daylite. Coinciding with the release of Daylite 3.9, Marketcircle also released Daylite Server and Daylite Touch, two new components that bring the power of Daylite to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms.

We'll be talking with Marketcircle CEO Alykhan Jetha (AKA A.J.) this Sunday, April 19th, at 10 PM EDT on the TUAW Talkcast, so be sure to listen in and bring any questions that you'd like to ask A.J. about Daylite.

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TUAW review: Daylite 3.9, Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pogoplug iPhone app makes its way into the world

Just in case you've been trying to worm your way into your network-connected hard drive via your phone, the folks at Pogoplug have made their iPhone application available, free of charge. After you're done Skype'ing, you can check out some family photos. C'mon -- you know you need those files.

Filed under: Storage

Pogoplug iPhone app makes its way into the world originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone 3.0 Beta 3: Mobile Me Merge, Publish, and Share

We’ve now gotten a few reports and some screenshots of yet more new functionality in iPhone 3.0 Beta 3.

First is “merge”. If you already have bookmarks, contacts, or other data on your iPhone (for example, if you synced it over via iTunes) and you enable MobileMe, a menu will slide up asking if you want to merge the data, not merge (i.e. replace), or cancel.

Next are “Publishing to MobileMe”, which shows a direct upload status bar, and new options to view published items on MobileMe, or “tell a friend” (via MMS?).

More screenshots after the break, and for a far more detailed look at the beta releases so far, check out our massive iPhone 3.0 walkthrough.

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iPhone 3.0 Beta 3: Mobile Me Merge, Publish, and Share

iPhone Game Roundup: Red Bull Air Race, Cosmic Nitro

We’re clearing out our mailbox of some recent stuff that’s come our way, such as an aerobatic racing game, a new title from the maker of Galcon, football/soccer management game and an imaginative game involving flatulence.

Red Bull Air Racing on the iPhone

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review

Got a hankering to fly through some pylons? Red Bull Air Race World Championship Lite Version [App Store link] might be just the ticket. The $0.99US game puts you in air races in either San Diego or Abu Dhabi. Red Bull Air Race is not a flight simulator like X-Plane, but more of an arcade game. It uses the iPhone accelerometer for steering. and is pretty responsive. The course, said to be an accurate representation of the real locations, is rendered in nice 3D. On-screen markers point you in the right direction if you get off course. You will.

Flying the race is a good challenge, and happily you can choose to turn off the background music if you want to. You can choose a cockpit eye view, or follow along behind your plane.

In the hangar you can chose from 2 planes to fly, but you have no options to configure them further. An options screen allows you to change the volume, the vibration and sensitivity of the controls. There is also a calibration screen if things get off a bit.

The game is the lite version, with a more full-featured version coming. It runs on both the iPhone and the iPod touch.

My only complaint is that the game has a slow load time, made even slower by seeing an animated logo from the developers, then a video from a real race. It takes about a minute from the time you launch the app until you are flying. As they used to say around the flight schools, 'Got time to spare, go by air.'

Screen shots are here:

Red Bull Air Racing on the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Report: Hulu planning iPhone app

Video-streaming site Hulu may be in the process of developing its own iPhone application, according to reports.

Reminder: Apple’s All About Profit Share NOT Market Share

Quarterly results time, when the interwebs fancy turns to chicken-little predictions of how many percentage points this or that company slipped on which or what index of… who cares.

It’s not the first time we’ve mentioned this, and we’re certainly not the first people to have mentioned it, yet just like clockwork every 3 months analysts spout estimates and every blog and their commenters race to re-publish what in essence are meaningless numbers.

Cases in point: Apple and the iPhone.

Certainly, without much room for doubt or question, Apple’s market share and likely iPhone market share will be down this quarter. Newsflash: the market will likely be down this quarter. So if Apple is selling 1% or 2% less in terms of units, hellseven 10% less in terms of units, is that reason to panic?

If you’re an analyst or shockmedia type, likely “yes”, or if you’re manipulating stock for short term turnover rather than stable long term, “aye, ye scurvy dogs!”. But if you’re Apple?

No.

Historically, Apple doesn’t care about market share, they care about profit share. (They already own mind share, so we’ll remove that from the equation for now).

Apple reports their margins, which typically run around 30%. Let that sink in for a moment. When Palm is selling millions of Centros and losing money hand over fist, when Nokia owns the international market and revenues plummet, when PC makers are racing each other to the bottom of the netbook price list to eek out razor-thin margins and gaining footprint only to hemorrhage cash, rumors of iPhone nanos and cheapo iNetbooks make as little sense for Apple as iSupply- and analyst-fueled headlines.

Sure, it’s nice for consumers to get low prices, but not at the expense of the companies going out of business and no longer giving us products or competition. Short term gain at long term loss isn’t sustainable. It’s the $0.99 fart app of the electronics space.

Apple reports earnings on April 22nd.

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Reminder: Apple’s All About Profit Share NOT Market Share

Found Footage: iPhone Developer Profiles

Filed under: WWDC, Found Footage, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch

In anticipation of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference coming up June 8 - 12 in San Francisco, Apple has posted four videos highlighting developers who are creating apps with the iPhone SDK.

Each video shows how the developer is creating a unique app with the iPhone SDK, using the tools and frameworks, and then selling the app through the App Store.

The videos highlight:

• Dr. Ge Wang of Smule, the developers of Ocarina and Leaf Trombone: World Stage (clicks open iTunes), among other apps. He is an assistant professor at Stanford who researches
• Christina Wick, who is part of the Mac software team for AOL (parent company of Weblogs Inc. and TUAW). Christina's team is using the SDK to develop iPhone versions of many of the AOL Mac applications, including AOL Radio
• Werner Jainek of Stuttgart-based Cultured Code, the developers of Things for Mac and iPhone. Things (click opens iTunes) is an amazing task management app that is a favorite of several TUAW bloggers.
• Steve Demeter of Demiforce is a lifelong gamer who saw the potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform and who has had great success with his app Trism (click opens iTunes).

In this cynical world, it's great to see four people who are so positive about the iPhone platform and the SDK.

Found Footage: iPhone Developer Profiles originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone

Metal Gear Solid Touch misses the mark -- it's Whack-a-Mole, rather than a stealth-based action game.

First Look: Airfoil Speakers Touch

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, First Look, App Review

I'd never gotten the opportunity to use Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil prior to today, and then I found out about Airfoil Speakers Touch (link opens iTunes). Airfoil allows you to stream audio from your Mac to other devices including Apple TV, Airport Express, other Macs on your network and now the iPhone and iPod touch. We looked at a similar application not too long ago, but the definite upside to Airfoil Speakers Touch is that you don't have to go through the mess of installing a separate server application -- especially if you already own Airfoil.

Using Airfoil Speakers Touch is extremely simple. I opened Airfoil on my Mac for the first time and it showed my laptop and Apple TV on my network. I then launched Airfoil Speakers Touch on my iPhone and it added the iPhone as an available streaming device. I selected iTunes as the source of my audio and clicked on the icon next to the iPhone on the Airfoil application. A quick restart of Airfoil (its Instant Hijack plug-in will bypass that) and I could stream music from iTunes through the iPhone. On the iPhone, a small image of my MacBook (complete with an image of my current desktop) appeared.

The application works beautifully. I left the laptop in my bedroom and carried my iPhone around both inside and outside of the apartment until I left the range of my wireless router. The sound is crystal clear and it turns the iPhone (and 2nd-gen iPod touch) into a great portable speaker.

However, there are a couple of drawbacks. If you exit the application on your iPhone, it will cut off the streaming. Because of this, there's no way to jump over to the Remote application and remotely control iTunes. So if you want to utilize your device as an Airfoil speaker, you need to have a playlist set up in advance since you can't change tracks from within the application itself. I'm hoping remote features will be added some time in the future. It would really make this a killer app.

Airfoil for the Mac is $25, and a free demo is available. It requires OS X 10.4 or above. Airfoil Speakers Touch is a free download through the iTunes App Store.

First Look: Airfoil Speakers Touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TiPb Picks of the Week: DirectTV, Wall Street Journal, Skyfart, Sudoku Grab, Ouch, Birdhouse, Whiteboard

Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game.

So who’s on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break!

Chris’ Pick: Direct TV

DirecTV initially enabled web access for programming your DVR, but now they have an app to do it on your iPhone. The interface is nice and simple, and it allows you to search for shows, browse for shows, and then select specific shows. The show has a synopsis, and you can choose to record the episode or record the series. If you have multiple DVR’s, you can select which one you want to record to. It’s a nice way to manage your DirecTV recordings while not at home - if only you could watch them as well! [FREE - iTunes link]

James’ Pick: Wall Street Journal

WSJ has upped the ante by releasing an app that accesses their paid online content for free. Articles and videos can be stored for off-line access. Take that New York Times! [Free - iTunes link]

Jeremy’s Pick: Skyfart

Skyfart is a… [never mind, we get the idea!]. It’s actually not that bad! I’m number 1, baby! Frigging sweet. [$1.99 - iTunes link]

Leanna’s Pick: Sudoku Grab

I have always wanted the ability to play ANY sudoku puzzle on my iPhone. My dream came true with Sudoku Grab. All I have to do is take a photo of a puzzle in a book, magazine, or newspaper and Sudoku Grab converts it for me to play and even knows the solution! [ $0.99 - iTunes link]

Matt’s Pick: Ouch

Ouch is the best game to release some stress When you have had a really bad day and want to beat the crap out of someone, Ouch will come to your rescue. The whole object of the game is to create as much pain to the avatar as possible. The app allows you to not only play the levels, but also allows you to customize them as well. [$2.99 - iTunes link]

Rene’s Pick: Birdhouse

No, Birdhouse hasn’t become my go-to Twitter reader or @reply client, but to my surprise and increasing delight, it HAS become my stand-alone tweet crafter. And it’s unpublish feature has let me mitigate all manner of embarrassing errors, more than justifying not only it’s niche import, but it’s price. [$3.99 - iTunes link]

Special Guest Pick from PreCentral.net Jennifer: Whiteboard Collaborative Drawing

It’s fun being able to draw on your iPhone and use the different colors. And what’s especially cool about Whiteboard is that you can connect with another person’s iPhone or an iPod touch near you. The two of you can draw a pic together or even chat by writing notes using the smallest sized pen. My niece showed me the app and we had fun drawing together and playing a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Check out the attached pic that my niece Jordan drew on her iPod touch using Whiteboard. It looks like a swatch of fabric! She drew on it and then magnified it and then drew some more. LOL, she said that she and her best friend sneak and write notes back and forth in chorus. Naughty, naughty! [FREE - iTunes link]

Your Pick?

Yeah, you’re part of team TiPb too, so what’s your pick of the week? What app was your absolute fav last week? Let us — and everyone — know in the comments!

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TiPb Picks of the Week: DirectTV, Wall Street Journal, Skyfart, Sudoku Grab, Ouch, Birdhouse, Whiteboard

Review: The New York Times Crosswords Daily 2009 for iPhone

The New York Times Crosswords Daily 2009 for iPhone is a low-cost way to have constant access to NY Times puzzles.

Verizon CEO says 4G iPhone could be on Verizon

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told the Wall Street Journal that his company would be more likely to work with Apple once the mobile operator had rolled out its 4G network.

Jobs is down, but not out

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has been on medical leave since January. Sources however state that Jobs is still running key parts of the company from his home. The Wall Street Journal reports Jobs, 54 was specifically involved in the user interface for the latest version of the iPhone operating system. From ...

Airfoil Speakers Touch streams audio to iPhone, iPod touch

Rogue Amoeba's new Airfoil Speakers Touch lets your iPhone or iPod touch double as remote Airfoil speakers, streaming music from your Mac or PC.

iPhone 3.0 Beta Galleries Illustrate New Features

Over the past couple of days, users have been digging through the latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta for signs of new features, and World of Apple and AppleInsider have put together some nice screenshot galleries illustrating a number of the findings.
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iPhone 3.0 Beta 3: Push Notification Settings

Apple Insider scored some iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 screen shots, showing off a new Settings option for Notification (though where Apple’s usual Smiley Face w/Badge icon went to is anyone’s guess). We did a quick check, and no one we contacted had this pane visible yet, so it may only show for those actively receiving push notifications, or who have done some digging through the code.

It’s nice that Apple will apparently let users globally enable or disable the different types of Push Notification: Sounds, Alerts (text boxes), and Badges. It will be even nicer (perhaps vital) that we also get to selectively enable/disable them within individual apps as well. For example, Twitter can badge, IM can Alert, new RSS only Sound.

They also show off some evidence of battery percentage-level numeric indicators in both black (good) and red (danger!), as well as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard-style data detectors, which we’ve seen in previous betas, but are highlighted for the Notes app.

Check out their full post for more screen shots.

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iPhone 3.0 Beta 3: Push Notification Settings