Google Mobile App update brings visual tweaks, additional language support

An update to Google Mobile App provides new UI features as well as support for additional spoken languages.

Apple Plans For ‘World Mode iPhone’ Bad News For AT&T

The Apple rumor mill claims that work is underway todevelop a 'world-mode' iPhone capable of operating on both CDMA and GSM/UMTS networks. World mode. Rumors also persist that Verizon will begin to carry the iPhone in 2010. All of these rumors suggest that the AT&T honeymoon with the iPhone is ...

Review: Castle Warriors for iPhone

Castle Warriors is an excellent introduction to real time strategy, but hard-core fans of the genre will be wishing for more depth. Still, if you're looking for a simple, no-nonsense strategy game, Castle Warriors is a solid choice.

Gorillacam spices up iPhone’s camera with self-timer feature, more

Joby's Gorillacam app brings a number of welcome enhancements to the iPhone's camera features, including a self-timer, composition grid, and bubble level.

Foxconn Received Order for 4th Generation iPhone?

Foxconn sounds like it’s once again on tap by Apple to manufacture the iPhone — the 4th generation iPhone this time around. At least, Eldar Murtazin, EiC of Mobile Review posted that up on Twitter:

“Foxconn received order for next generation iphone”

Engadget’s inclined to believe it, and it absolutely meshes with previous years, and with Phil Schiller’s June product cycle for the iPhone.

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Foxconn Received Order for 4th Generation iPhone?

Hootsuite Comes to iPhone, Brings Twitter and Statistics with it

Hootsuite [$1.99 on sale until Dec. 17 - iTunes link] is a hybrid client that not only provides basic Twitter functionality but also hooks into Hootsuite’s own services to provide statistics (on things like ow.ly click-throughs) and scheduled tweets (so you can set it to tweet “Happy New Year!” while you’re busy getting your champagne on).

In our brief tests, it offered good functionality especially for a first release, with an interesting take on many of the standards, and if you have (or are willing to create) a Hootsuite account as well, it brings a host of new features to the table.

(Though no, push notifications isn’t one of them yet).

If you give it a try, let us know what you think (especially you, Bla1ze!). More screens after the break!

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Hootsuite Comes to iPhone, Brings Twitter and Statistics with it

Draw: Shareable, Playable, Tweet-able Sketchpad for iPhone

Draw [$2.99 - iTunes link] lets you doodle on your iPhone or iPod touch to pass the time or whip up whiteboard-style diagrams to illustrate your point, share via Twitter or email, and even challenge friend’s to tic-tac-toe or homespun games via P2P.

Draw comes by way of Erica Sadun of Jailbreak, iPhone dev, and TUAW fame, and she not only knows how to make great apps, but beautifully stylized ones as well. If you want a good mix of casual productivity and just plain old-world fun on a decidedly new-world device, give Draw a go and let us know what you think.

More screenshots after the break!

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Draw: Shareable, Playable, Tweet-able Sketchpad for iPhone

Apple’s Purchase of Online Music Streaming Service Lala to Take iTunes to the Clouds?

The Wall Street Journal is weighing in on Apple’s purchase of online streaming music service, Lala, saying Apple is using it to explore taking iTunes to the cloud:

Lala.com lets users buy and listen to music through a Web browser, meaning its customers can access purchases from anywhere, as long as they are connected to the Internet. Apple is considering adopting that same model for songs sold on iTunes, a change that would give consumers more ways to access and manage their iTunes purchases—and wouldn’t require them to download Apple’s software or their purchases.

According to the WSJ, Apple paid $85 million for Lala, and that the big brains behind the service would be given “very significant roles” inside Apple.

Even before the acquisition closed Friday, Lala Chairman Bill Nguyen and Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president for Internet services, began making joint calls to various business partners, including record-label groups, discussing possibilities for the music service’s future.

Big Media is said to be cautiously optimistic about the concept, “optimistic” about web-based purchases, but “cautious” about adding to iTunes already dominant position in online music. And, of course, with plans still in the early stages, much could change before Steve Jobs or Phil Schiller put sneaker to stage and announce a customer facing solution.

While anywhere, anytime access sounds appealing, they also point out that past services have had problems negotiating “virtual goods”, such as Amazon pulling books from users’ Kindles, and we’d add Microsoft’s DRM services shutting down and placing access to user-purchased content in doubt. There’s still that Google partnership to navigate as well.

All in all, however, if iTunes goes cloud, as long as we still have the ability to buy and download music as well if we so choose, TiPb thinks it will be a net gain. (No pun intended). What do you think?

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Apple’s Purchase of Online Music Streaming Service Lala to Take iTunes to the Clouds?

That was Qik! After Ustream’s debut in App Store, Qik submits streaming app

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Video, Odds and ends, Developer, iPhone, App Store

We were all a bit surprised when Ustream's free Live Broadcasting iPhone app [iTunes Link] was approved by Apple and tossed into the App Store yesterday. After all, it wasn't that long ago that it seemed that no streaming video apps would ever be approved for the iPhone platform due to AT&T's reluctance to have their network overwhelmed by self-produced live vidcasts of emo guitar players "broadcasting" from their unheated rent-controlled flats.

No sooner had the Ustream app magically appeared than we began to receive emails from Qik stating that they were submitting their streaming video app for approval. Qik currently has Qik for 3GS [Free, iTunes Link] in the app store, which allows recording and eventual uploading of video to their site, but not live video streaming. According to a blog post on the Qik site, the app has been resubmitted and the wait is on.

Having a choice of legal video streaming apps that don't require jailbroken iPhones will certainly open up a new chapter in the iPhone story.

That was Qik! After Ustream's debut in App Store, Qik submits streaming app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

That was Qik! After Ustream's debut in App Store, Qik submits streaming app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Eldar Murtazin: “Foxconn received order for next generation iPhone”

You've heard of Twitter, right? What about Eldar Murtazin, heard of him? He's editor in chief of Mobile Review and the ultimate insider when it come to all things mobile. So when we see a Tweet like this:

"Foxconn received order for next generation iphone"

We're inclined to believe it's true and certainly give Eldar's statement more weight than a random analyst note. Besides, if Apple's going to keep up the mid-year iPhone refresh cycle then the timing's just about right, eh?

Eldar Murtazin: "Foxconn received order for next generation iPhone" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple to Overhaul iTunes Service?

The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is looking to "overhaul of the way it sells and stores music" and to extend that service into the web. According to "people familiar with the matter", Apple is considering using Lala's recently acquired engi...

China Unicom Has Sold 100,000 iPhones Since Launch

Despite some paltry sales during the first weekend, China Unicom announced today that they have now sold more than 100,000 iPhones since the October 30th launch in China.

These results indicate sales picked up since the opening weekend...

iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow

The marriage of a high-priced smartphone to a value-minded department store was always going to be interesting and Tesco has not disappointed. Having just announced that availability of the latest and greatest iPhone is coming on December 14, the company has also detailed some unique -- for the UK at least -- price plans to go with it. Most notable is the unlimited (subject to fair use policy) 3G web and BT Openzone WiFi access on offer, which will be free for a year to Pay As You Go and one-year contract customers or for two years if you're on a 24-month agreement. Tesco's also bringing the minimum monthly outlay down to £20 ($32) on its one-year contract, but that only gets you a £60 ($98) calls and texts allowance and you'd have to pony up £320 ($520) for the 16GB handset. On the other hand, you could go nuts and get the unlimited calls and texts plan for £60 a month, which isn't too bad value for the incessant chatterboxes out there. Finally, there's also half-price calling to your favorite five numbers, which isn't going to matter much to people on the all-you-can-eat price plan, but is a nice extra.

[Thanks Tony H. and everyone who sent this in]

iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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