Carphone Warehouse Listing 16GB, 32GB Next Gen iPhones?

Apple Insider, citing “sources” reveals that:

Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent European mobile phone retailer and an official iPhone reseller, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models earlier today

Whether they officially know something we civilians do not, or they’re just getting assuming the same thing everyone else in the iVerse is — that Apple will announce next generation iPhones during the WWDC 2009 Keynote this Monday — remains unclear, but word is they’ve pushed back their next marketing efforts to July 7…

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Carphone Warehouse Listing 16GB, 32GB Next Gen iPhones?

Belkin shows first iPhone 3.0 accessory, mashes up GPS and FM data to pick the best TuneCast frequency

After your fourth or fifth time ending up in a ditch or a swimming pool or a tree while attempting to find a good FM frequency to push your iPod tunes to your car stereo, you're likely looking for a better way to live. Lucky for you, Belkin has been hard at work over-engineering the problem to death, and has finally emerged with the new TuneCast Auto Live FM Transmitter. The device is "specifically compatible" with iPhone OS 3.0, and pulls GPS data from the phone to figure out the clearest FM frequency to use based on "geographical" data and on the recommendations of other local users. It's all controllable from the iPhone interface with the free ClearScan Live app, which reduces device juggling, but the unit also works with the iPod touch, iPod classic and iPod nano. It'll be available early this fall for $80.

Filed under: GPS, Peripherals, Portable Audio

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Apple Patent Applications: Multi-Touch Scroll Wheel, Sharing Digital Media During iPhone Calls

A number of patent applications from Apple were released by the United States Patent and Trademark Office this morning, and two of them have received a fair bit of attention, having been first brought to light in a pair of reports (#1, #2) from Apple...

BeeJive 3.0 with Push Notification Just in Time for WWDC?

Yeah, BeeJive is totally teasing us now. Instant messaging (IM) is one of the most anticipated services when it comes to iPhone 3.0’s Push Notification service, and BeeJive aims to deliver and soon.

Best of all — (see screenshot, above) — they aim to deliver it free to all current customers. Maybe as soon as WWDC next week?

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BeeJive 3.0 with Push Notification Just in Time for WWDC?

WWDC Preview: What we know, what we expect with iPhone 3.0

As WWDC nears, rumor and speculation about the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 software are coming fast and, dare we say, furious. Dan Moren takes a look at what we know, what we don't know, and what we'd really like to know about the new update.

WWDC 2009: TiPb Live Meta-Blog Monday, 1pm EDT/10am PDT

Will we see next generation iPhone handware? Will Apple release iPhone 3.0 or just more features for iPhone 3.0? Will MobileMe 2.0 be good to go? Will we have to sit through 8 excruciatingly long app previews like the last 3 iPhone keynotes? Will Scott Forstall say “blow us away”? And Will Steve Jobs show up in some way, shape, or Mobile iChat form to give that perfect “Boom!” or “One more–” accent to the show?

Everything before has been rumor, speculation, and question. Monday at 1pm EDT/10am PDT we get answers.

Join TiPb for a live meta-blog of of the WWDC 2009 Keynote as it unfolds. We’ll have analysis, color commentary, and a chat room going so you can tell us what you think.

We’re heading into the home stretch folks. It’s two-years later, let’s go see those light-years ahead!

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TUAW at E3: Mass Effect Galaxy on the iPhone

Filed under: Gaming, Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

EA brought a few iPhone games to the show in Los Angeles this week -- first up, we got a look at the Mass Effect entry for the iPhone, recently titled Mass Effect Galaxy. The game takes place in the same universe as the popular console game (and its sequel), but it focuses around a separate, non-customizable hero named Jacob Taylor. And while the game was designed by Bioware, it plays very differently from the regular console versions. It's much more action-based, and while it does tell a pretty enticing story, it's much less of an RPG.

While Mass Effect played as a third-person shooter, Mass Effect Galaxy actually goes with a top-down view, and takes basic aiming controls out of your hands completely. Instead, you send the main character running around the map with the accelerometer, and he aims and fires at enemies for you. Along the side edge of the touchscreen are your bionic abilities, and you can throw them in as you fight, but mostly, the game is just about navigating Jacob behind cover by tilting the accelerometer.

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WWDC early sneak photos highlight the blazing success of the App Store

With roughly five days to go before Apple kicks off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, signage spotted around the Moscone Center can already be seen paying homage to all things App Store. A reader on another site delivered a Flickr album of 22 photos snapped outside the Moscone West Tuesday evening, the conference [...]

iPhone to Competitors: Can’t Touch This

All signs are pointing to some new iPhone hardware come this Monday at WWDC. Even if the upgrades are all internal and minor such as memory, CPU, and storage bumps - the iPhone is poised to stay on the top of the hill regardless of what Palm, RIM, or HTC may bring to the table.

In a article posted on Wired.com, Roger Entner, an analyst at Nielsen Mobile had the following to say:

“I think the Pre holds up very well compared to the current second-generation iPhone 3G. But the third-gen iPhone will most likely up the ante again…. If you only follow Apple, you will never catch up.”

Whether you like it or not, Apple has a firm hold in the consumer market. Back in July 2007, Apple introduced us to iPhone, that forever changed the smartphone market. In July 2008, Apple launched the App Store and once again altered the mobile landscape. Since then, many companies have tried to follow in Apple’s footsteps, only to fail.

We are curious to see what you, our readers, think about Apple’s competition. Can Apple be overthrown by the likes of RIM, Palm, or HTC? Or does Apple hold a death grip on the rest of the industry? It seems they can do no wrong no matter how small or large they update the iPhones hardware. With WWDC — and a next generation iPhone — only days away, is there anything Apple could do to seriously disappoint?

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iPhone to Competitors: Can’t Touch This

Opinion: Pre is not the homerun Palm needed

Someone at Palm should probably be kicking themselves: The first reviews of its much-hyped Palm Pre aren't bad, but they are not incredibly good, either.

Patent Watch: Apple Adding “Add Media” to iPhone Phone App?

Apple Insider has unearthed another very cool, who-knows-if-they’ll-ever-deploy-it, Apple patent pertaining to the iPhone. This one, credited to engineer Jeffrey Terlizzi pertains to media file sharing while already on a phone call:

“For example, the user may initiate a telephone call with his friend in order to ask the friend if she is familiar with a particular song,” Apple said. “Once the phone call has been established between the user and his friend, the user may select the song of interest from his communications device, and he may send the song to his friend over the same communication path used by the communications device to establish the communications operation, so that the two may continue their phone conversation while the song plays simultaneously.”

In addition to music, video, photos, voicemail, and podcasts are also mentioned, as are requests in the form of video conferencing (oh, hi, Mobile iChat!), and control over media playback during a call.

Forget 3.0, let the rumors for 3.1 and 4.0 begin! (Joking! A little…)

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Patent Watch: Apple Adding “Add Media” to iPhone Phone App?

Review: Cops & Robbers for iPhone

There are flashes of greatness in Cops & Robbers -- they're just too infrequent.

@TheiPhoneblog: Now with Mo’ Better Twitter!

In-between analyzing the Palm Pre to a near-quantum level, Dieter managed to squeeze in a little feature bump for TiPb as well. If you look down and to the right, you’ll see a brand-spanking new “tweet” button and handy-dandy counter.

Let’s face it, the iPhone and Twitter are the peanut butter and chocolate of the mobile age. They “just work” together. So, if you love the iPhone, and you’re hooked on Twitter, just hit that little button and help TiPb spread all the latest news, opinions, and reviews. Your tweeps will thank you. (And if you have no patience for buttons, no worries — the counter will register any bit.ly URL that leads back to TiPb, so RT and Via work great as well!)

Of course, you can also just follow us @theiphoneblog

Or our staff, who can’t help but to sometimes break stories first on Twitter (tsk!):

• Rene: @reneritchie
• Chad: @iChadman
• Jeremy: @BadAsh77
• Matt: @msproductions
• Chris: @skeetobite
• James: @jamesus
• Leanna: @llofte

And our aforementioned editor-in-chief:

• Dieter: @backlon

Don’t hesitate to drop us tips, suggest help topics, or just engage in some conversation — that’s the point!

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Siri: Virtual assistant for the iPhone

New technology called Virtual Assistant is coming to iPhone, helping consumers complete tasks in their online lives -- booking dinner reservations, buying movie tickets, getting local information, etc. Siri, the name of the mobile virtual assistant application, will introduce its first public version this week. On a TechCrunch's guest post, Nova ...

Vodafone launches visual voicemail in Australia

Vodafone has finally launched visual voicemail service for their iPhone 3G customers in Australia, allowing iPhone 3G users to see who has left a message and when they left it. Yeah, visual voicemail is one of cool features of original iPhone that somehow never made it out here in Australia ...

iPhone artist creates cover of The New Yorker

It's a good news for art lovers. Portuguese illustrator Jorge Colombo has created the art for June 1st cover of The New Yorker Magazine with iPhone app Brushes, helping the magazine make a quantum leap forward from it's first issue released on February 17, 1925. The original finger painting for the ...

Apple Retail Store News Roundup

Over the past few days, a number of items regarding Apple's retail stores have popped up, and we've collected some of them here for visibility and discussion.

- USA Today reported last week about Apple's plans for its retail stores, re...

iPhone 3.0 Firmware Antici…

Filed under: iPod Family, WWDC, iPhone

With WWDC just a short while away, iPhone users everywhere are looking forward to the upcoming 3.0 firmware release promised back in March. So when will 3.0 debut? Apple hasn't said[1].

In March, Apple promised that 3.0 would appear this Summer, causing pundits to speculate that the firmware and a refreshed iPhone line might hit the streets in early July, around the one year anniversary of the 3G model. July 11 marks the date that the 3G iPhone and App Store finally launched.

Rumors have been flying in recent days that 3.0 might bow as early as next Monday. The recent release of iTunes 8.2 supports that idea, indicating that Apple may be closer to a 3.0 update than originally thought. TUAW readers point out that apps which have publicly announced remote notification support have begun appearing in iTunes, albeit in 2.x releases.

There's no reason I can think of that Apple should have to wait for new hardware before releasing the 3.0 firmware to the general public. In fact, I'd greatly welcome an earlier release for enthusiastic reasons I cannot expand upon due to the ongoing NDA. Others have pointed out that a staggered software/hardware release might avoid the iTunes server capacity issues that plagued the 2.0 firmware release.

So when do you think Apple will start shipping 3.0? Let us know in the comments and cast your vote in this handy poll.

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iTunes 8.2 Contains Next Gen iPhone Strings for VoiceOver, Nike+, Radio Tagging

Poor iTunes 8.2, not even a week and its code has been sifted and (some of?) its secrets laid bare. Apple Insider reveals details including:

• radio capabilities along with a corresponding ability to tag songs so that they can later be purchased from the iTunes store
• additional string shows the ability to change VoiceOver settings to manage aspects of the Nike+ application

So, Nike+ like the iPod touch, VoiceOver like the iPod shuffle — looks like Apple isn’t only adding new features to the next gen iPhone, but leveraging features they’ve added to the rest of the line since the last gen iPhone. Good way for Apple to keep the iPhone “the best iPod we’ve ever made”, isn’t it?

[Thanks daveizzle for the tip!]

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iTunes 8.2 Contains Next Gen iPhone Strings for VoiceOver, Nike+, Radio Tagging

Mossberg: Palm Pre Review or iPhone News Article?

The grand old uncle of technology reviewers, Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal loves him some iPhone. Indeed, ever since Apple’s little pocket universe-denter came out in 2007, it seems Mossberg can’t review another, similar device without mentioning the iPhone as much as the subject du jour.

As I mentioned last night on Twitter, however, with his Palm Pre review for D All Things Digital, however, Mossberg went a step further. Alongside roughly 40 or so iPhone references — including the title! — Mossberg interjects:

• I’d note that the new iPhone to be unveiled next week will have lots of added features
• Apple has both a new iPhone operating system and new iPhone hardware coming, likely available within a month
• I expect to see an iPhone with up to 32 gigabytes of memory, video recording, a higher-resolution camera, a compass, and greater operating speed. Plus, there are persistent rumors that Apple will announce at least one iPhone at a drastically lower price than $199.

And in the video he goes on to say that, at WWDC:

• There will be changes to the iPhone, not all of which are known

That’s a lot of iPhone info (Engadget thinks so as well). Our question remains:

Is Mossberg guessing, leaking, or was his Palm Pre video clip shot on a next generation iPhone?!

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Mossberg: Palm Pre Review or iPhone News Article?