Stream NFL games from your iPhone

iPhone users will be able to enjoy this season's NFL football games via DirecTV's "Supercast Mobile" app. Despite the app is free -- still coming soon to the App Store-- and the stream can be accessed over 3G and wi-fi, but the service is not cheap and subjects to local ...

Dear developers, sell your iPhone game under $2

If you are developing new iPhone games now, please consider the price wisely. The cheaper is better, according to a recent study about top selling App Store games. At least, if you had plan to increase the game's sales volume. In a study of the top 100 iPhone games, PocketGamer.biz has ...

Send real postcards from your iPhone

While you're on holiday, have you ever been wanted to send your friend or family a picture or postcard from your iPhone? I mean, a real, physical postcard or printed photo. An on-demand printing company, Amazing Mail, which has integrated two iPhone apps, Postino (free) and PicCard (99 cents) into its ...

iPhone’s App Store hits 1.5 billion downloads in first year

It took Apple only nine months to reach 1 billion application downloads mark, now the Cupertino-based company has announced that iPhone users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from the App Store. Supported by more than 100,000 developers, the revolutionary App Store now has more than 65,000 apps. Apple’s App ...

iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2, iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 released

Following the release of iPhone 3.1 with the accompanying SDK for developers earlier this month, Apple has seeded iPhone developers with iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2 and iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2. Noticed that the Wi-Fi connection feature offered by the version is "huge for developers". Ars Technica wrote: ...beta 2 enables ...

iLuv’s premium earphones for iPhone 3GS

Looking for earphone to enjoy your iPhone 3GS music capability? iLuv debuts its iEP515 premium earphones and iEP315 in-ear earphones and offers features more than just "brings the concert directly to your ears". These accessories allow you to control your iPhone functions including voice memos recording, answering or making calls with ...

Apple to break O2 iPhone exclusivity in the UK

Apple will end its two year exclusive deal with O2 this September, allowing other networks like Orange and T-Mobile to distribute iPhone 3G handsets. But the Cupertino-based company will continue to give O2 exclusivity for iPhone 3GS. The addition of a new network selling the iPhone will break O2’s UK exclusivity ...

Triazzle makes it to the iPhone

Triazzle, the triangle jigsaw puzzle game, now comes to the iPhone.

Apple Estimated to Account for 20% of Cellphone Industry Profit

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on research from Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff showing that Apple and Research in Motion together accounted for approximately 38% of the cellphone industry's total operating profit in 2008 ...

Dev Team Pro Tips for iPhone Unlockers

It was just this past Thursday that the Dev Team updated their software unlock, ultrasn0w, to version .09. While this update seems to have eliminated most of the issues some users were experiencing, the Dev Team have been nice enough to post some pro tips for unlocking your iPhone 3G/3GS with ultrasn0w .09. The following are just a few:

• Unusual battery depletion is almost always caused by people choosing to “Restore from backup” instead of “Setup as new iPhone” when iTunes asks you. This isn’t caused by either the jailbreak or the unlock, but it’s a common 3.0 snafu. The fix is to just re-run the official 3.0 restore and choose “Setup as new” this time. Your music and apps and all that will still be synced, but you’ll get rid of any conflicting wifi, bluetooth, or carrier settings. Then just re-run redsn0w and install ultrasn0w.
• T-Mobile in the USA doesn’t use the 3G frequencies that the iPhones support, so turn off 3G in Settings->General->Network. (Some T-Mobile territories gracefully hand down to Edge mode, but most do not).

So there you have it folks, two very important tips for the unlockers of the world. We here at TiPb can not stress exactly how important that first tip really is to “Setup as new iPhone” within iTunes while restoring your device. Not doing so can and will create issues for you somewhere along the way.

For the full list of tips, swing by the Dev Teams blog.

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Dev Team Pro Tips for iPhone Unlockers

The Competition: Sony PSPgo or No-Go for iPhone Developers?

Eurogamer spoke to Johnny Two Shoes (The Heist, Banana Dash), Normalware (Bebot) and Firemint (Flight Control) about how Sony’s new PSPgo platform may compete with the iPhone, and the answers were interesting:

• After an 80% price cut to PSP dev tool charges, bring the price down to $1500) it’s still much more expensive than Apple’s $99.
• Developers can’t target the existing PSP install base of 50 million, PSPgo has only just been released, and Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch have an install base of over 40 million devices.

However, Apple growing the download gaming market and PSP games traditionally being bigger and longer (as opposed to casual iPhone gaming) were seen as positives for Sony.

“In the end,” Maxwell Scott-Slade concludes, “the consumer wins for choice and developers win for a more direct access to their audience.”

[via PS3blog.net]

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The Competition: Sony PSPgo or No-Go for iPhone Developers?

iPhone 3GS - One Month Later

Apple released the iPhone 3GS on June 19th. Since then we’ve heard lots of raves for its speed and camera prowess, and some complaints about its battery life and iPhone 3.0 bugginess.

Now, one month later, if you’re one of the million plus who’s been using the iPhone 3GS, we want to know how it’s working for you? What feature are you liking the most, and what does Apple really need to fix or improve in iPhone 3.1 or the next firmware update?

Likewise, if you still haven’t picked up an iPhone 3GS yet, tell us (and Apple) what’s holding you back.

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iPhone 3GS - One Month Later

Review: UPinPoint.com’s Disney World guides for iPhone

If a trip to the Disney World theme parks is in your future, UPinPoint.com's map-based guides to the individual parks -- or a Box Set with all the maps in one place -- can be an invaluable traveling companion.