Sygic launches Mobile Maps - Turn-by-Turn Voice Guided GPS for the iPhone for Europe, Australia and New Zealand and South East Asia

In what seems to be a recent flurry of turn-by-turn navigations apps for the iPhone, Sygic has launched Mobile Maps in three versions covering Europe, Australia and New Zealand and South East Asia. North America is reported to be coming soon. Sygic GPS navigation software turns your iPhone into a real-time, turn-by-turn voice guided navigation [...]

Apple pulled adult app, won’t distribute porn

An Apple spokesperson confirmed that the company pulled the Hottest Girls app from the App Store after it added pornographic content and that such content would not be allowed on the store.

Popular app Fring now supports 3.0 in new release

Mobile internet community and communication service, fring, now supports Apple’s latest iPhone 3.0 software update, including the new iPhone 3Gs. If you don’t have fring’s latest iPhone version yet, grab it up. Quote from the website: “Following Apple’s last week release of the iPhone 3.0 software update, we’re happy to announce that fring now supports the brand new [...]

Sprint takes a bite out of the Apple, touts innovative Pre features like ‘multitasking’

From the look of it, our BFF Roger McNamee stole himself a copy of Adobe InDesign and has gone wild in Sprint's ad department, calling out the iPhone for its unitasking nature and spendy contract price. All we have to say is that if this is really going to turn into this generation's Sega vs. Nintendo war, we'd better see a whole lot more licensed Joe Montana titles.

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Apple increases ownership stake in graphic chip designer

Apple has increased its holdings in Imagination Technologies, the chip designer responsible for the graphics technology inside the iPhone and iPod touch, and now holds a combined 9.5% stake in the company. The British firm said Friday that Apple subscribed to 2.2 million new shares at £1.4275 per share — the mid market close price on [...]

iPhone 3GS prompts a surge of YouTube video uploads

If there was any doubt that that the video recording and upload capabilities of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS would signal a new chapter in mobile video sharing, the first statistics quantifying its impact are in, and they’re impressive. Google said Thursday that in the first five days since the new Apple handset hit the market, its [...]

Review: Space Ace for iPhone

This faithful recreation of the 1983 arcade classic is a nostalgic trip to the past. But the developers did a good job adapting Space Ace for the iPhone and iPod touch, even if the game doesn't offer a lot of replay value.

3D Camera adds depth to your iPhone photography

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3D photo apps are not new to the iPhone platform, but a new app from Juicy Bits looks promising in terms of making those pictures with depth a lot easier to take and view.

3D Camera 1.1 [US$1.99, click opens iTunes] is now available for iPhone OS 2.2 and 3.0 devices, and it lets you take photos that use one of three methods to create the illusion of 3D: red/cyan anaglyphs that require those funky 3D glasses, stereograms that create 3D images when your eyes look at them a certain way, and wiggle stereograms (or wiggle-grams) that use animated GIF images to provide the "depth". If you need a place to buy the goofy glasses, Juicy Bits lists several sources on their website

To take the photos, you use one of two methods. If you're planning on taking an anaglyph or sterogram, you take one picture, move the iPhone camera slightly to the right, and take another photo. To make a wiggle stereogram, you point directly at the same object from two slightly different vantage points. The app provides instructions on exactly how to take the two photos each time you launch it.

How are the results? Well, I haven't tried a red/cyan anaglyph yet, but if you use "crossviewing" (crossing the eyes slightly so that the two images overlap and form a third 3D image) you should be able to see depth in the test image seen below. If you use 3D Camera or any of the other 3D photo apps for iPhone, be sure to send some of your best pics to our Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tuawrigs/pool/

3D Camera adds depth to your iPhone photography originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Will Not Distribute ‘Porn’ and Other Inappropriate Content

After the news broke that the first iPhone application with nudity was released, the app was quickly removed from the App Store. Despite the developer initially claiming that it was removed voluntarily to relieve server load, it seems that Apple may...

iPhone 3GS Graphics Even More Powerful than Imagined?

MacRumors is reporting that Apple’s new iPhone 3GS, while indeed using Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR graphics core, may just have a little more under the hood than previously thought:

iPhone developers, however, have discovered that the iPhone 3GS has extension files named “IMGSGX535GLDriver” suggesting that the new iPhone uses the more powerful graphics processor intended for “high end” mobile devices. This may not be entirely conclusive evidence by itself but it is consistent with a report from a Anandtech commenter who claims to have heard directly from Apple engineers at WWDC that the iPhone 3GS does indeed use the SGX 535.

Zoom. Zoom.

In a related story, Apple has apparently raised their stakes in Imagination Technologies to 9.5% on the heels of Intel’s 16%.

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TiPb Give Away: Ice Road Truckers for iPhone, DVDs for You!

Ice Road Truckers (free - iTunes link) is the iPhone app counterpart to the harrowing HISTORY Channel show of the same name.

Take command of these huge 18-wheelers and drive your way across ice roads. In this official game from the award-winning TV series from HISTORY™ you will haul your load to its destination, drive some of the most powerful trucks on earth and become the number one Ice Trucker !

Now since the iPhone app already free, they can’t exactly give that away, can they? But what they can do is offer one lucky reader the chance to get some of that hardcore extreme trucking action on DVD with the Ice Road Truckers Season Two box set, On and Off the Ice, and Most Dangerous Episodes!

Want ‘em? Have a US mailing address? Then head on over to the TiPb iPhone Forums and give us your best ice, road, or truck story!

Get to it!

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iPhone OS 3.0 tethering, MMS hack released

As we know, iPhone OS 3.0 allows you to tether your iPhone's 3G connection to your laptop, or other mobile gadgets online while on the move. AT&T don't officially support it so far, while others like O2 in the UK will offer it but of course with an extra data ...

Again, Apple hit with iPhone activation issues

Following the iPhone 3GS day of June 19, Apple servers are struggling to cope with the demand for activation of the newly released iPhone. The issue recalls similar problems Apple had with the release of the iPhone 3G last year. "Your activation requires additional time to complete," reads a message from ...

Microsoft subsidizes iPhone 3GS

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that "there's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share," no one would have imagined that Redmond-based compay would lend a hand one day --like now. File this one under “irony”‘ Microsoft’s is providing an incentive to purchase Apple’s iPhone ...

AudioBoo lets you broadcast audio directly from the iPhone

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Back when we looked at Radar, a photosharing site with an accompanying iPhone app, I mentioned that while Twitter had monopolized the "text exporting" function from your iPhone, there would be a slew of companies to try and grab the rest of the media you want to broadcast. Radar, I said, wanted to be the photo app. And AudioBoo, it appears, wants to be the audio app (we've yet to see a strong video contender pop up with the 3GS, though YouTube is certainly serving for now).

I've been using AudioBoo (iTunes link) for a few weeks now, and I have to say, it definitely does what it says on the box: after a short signup session and the installation of the app to your iPhone, you can record and upload (and almost more interesting, listen back to others') audio quickly and easily.

You hit record, can talk for a while (i haven't hit a limit yet, though three minutes is what I originally heard, and that tends to be about right for these little mini-podcasts), then hit stop and upload, add a picture, title, and tags, and a few minutes later, your audio is right there on the web for everyone to hear. I've used it on my EDGE phone and my friend's 3G, and I have to say the experience is better on the 3G -- the upload speeds are much better (I generally have to wait on my iPhone until I get on Wi-Fi to upload the audio), and to my ears, the audio sounds better. Here's a recording I made at a Cubs game on my 1G with a few friends, and a recording my friend made on his 3G at a restaurant. Edge works, obviously, but the 3G seems to work better.

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New MacBook Air Slower Than Older Model?

Macworld recently took a look at the newest MacBook Air models that were introduced at WWDC. The MacBook Air received processor speed bumps as well as a dramatic $300-$700 price drop. Despite the clock speed increase, Macworld found that the new M...

Apple’s iPhone 3GS goes on sale in Japan

Apple's iPhone 3GS went on sale in Japan on Friday morning.

What iPhone software feature would you most like to see?

We're surveying our followers on Twitter about their iPhone use. Today's installment covers the software features people would most like to see.

Apple Raises Stake in Imagination Technologies to 9.5%

Imagination Technologies has announced that Apple has raised its stake in the company to 9.5% following recent share purchases. The news comes days after news that Intel has raised their stake in the company to 16%. Imagination Technologies is the...

Lancer’s iJector is the $700 projector for your $200 iPhone

For that $700 price quoted above you were probably hoping for some sort of impossibly small and stylish pico projector, able to consume your iPhone, beam its contents onto the nearest flat surface, and make everyone nearby say "Ooh." Sadly the truth is not quite so charming, with Lancer Corporation's iJector looking to be smallish but not particularly svelte -- or stylish, for that matter. It sports the ubiquitous iPod dock on top that will accept a suite of Apple devices ranging from Gen 1 iPod nanos to iPhones running OS 3.0, and also has video input and output so that it can work with non-Apple devices, beaming a maximum 50-inch image at a disappointing 557 x 234 resolution. Did we mention that, at ¥64,800, it's nearly $700? It is, and it's shipping to Japan next month if for some reason you're still interested.

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Lancer's iJector is the $700 projector for your $200 iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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