Apple Could Release iPhone OS 4.0 Beta at Late January Media Event

An affordable cell phone signal booster

The Wilson Sleek all-in-one cell phone signal booster resembles a hands-free car cradle, but offers extended calling range and signal strength for your phone.

App warms your hands by overheating your iPhone

Filed under: Accessories, Software, iPhone, App Store

Here's an app from among the App Store's stranger selections. Much like the Zippo Hand Warmer, PocketHeat [iTunes link] is meant to keep your hands warm.

it works by making the iPhone max out 100% of its power processing capacity. A slider lets you adjust the temperature and illuminate the "heating elements." According to several App Store reviews, it doesn't work so well.

We don't know just how hot it gets, but we imagine there are safeguards to prevent serious overheating. According to the Apple Knowledge Base, the iPhone should be operated "...in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F)." Prolonged exposure to extreme heat will produce the temperature warning screen. The app got approved (somehow), so we assume it's safe. But I'm not installing it.

We don't know why you'd want to run your undoubtedly-still-on-contract iPhone at 100% capacity -- buried inside a confined pocket -- for any length of time, but that's up to you. At the very least your battery would drain in no time. At worst, well ... let's not find out. You can get PocketHeat now for $0.99US.

Or just buy gloves.

App warms your hands by overheating your iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Pac-Man Championship Edition for iPhone

Pac-Man CE has plenty to tackle, but unless you're a big Pac-Man fan, you might find the bulk of the content repetitive. The missions will develop your skill, but they get old fast.

New iPhone app adds graphic emoticons to Facebook posts

Facebook wall posts can now be adorned with colorful graphics with this new $2 app.

Apple Patent Application Points to 3D Multi-Touch Manipulation

The Baltimore Sun yesterday dug up a relatively recent patent application from Apple describing the manipulation of three-dimensional images on a variety of devices, including such implementations as the iPhone or the company's as-yet-unrelea...

Three Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store

The Competition: Android Central Nexus One Meta Live Blog: 1pm ET/10am PT

Our sibling site, Android Central, will be doing a meta live blog of Google’s big Android/Nexus One event at 1pm ET/10am PT, and yours truly is going to be online with them to help them out and get a sneak peak at the competition.

What will Google announce? Just the mega-phone? Free candy? Who knows with them! Join us for the meta live blog!

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The Competition: Android Central Nexus One Meta Live Blog: 1pm ET/10am PT

Apple Purchased AdMob Competitor Quattro Wireless

It seems Apple has made the move and gotten into the in-app advertising business. The rumor of Apple purchasing Quattro Wireless has turned out to be 100% accurate. The AdMob competitor, Quattro Wireless, was purchased by Apple for a cool $275 million.

“We are thrilled to let you know that Apple has acquired Quattro. We want to share with you our excitement about this news and what it means for our customers. We have built our business by enabling advertisers to reach the right consumers across the mobile web and in applications. We remain focused on delivering more engaging, relevant and useful ads to mobile devices, and improving the measurement and execution of digital campaigns. Together with Apple, we look forward to developing exciting new opportunities in the future that will benefit our customers.”

Something also to be noted is that former Quattro Wireless CEO, Andy Miller, revealed in the press release that his title is now Vice President of Mobile Advertising at Apple. The Google vs Apple showdown seems to be heating up. 2010 is going to be an exciting year in the mobile world.

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Apple Purchased AdMob Competitor Quattro Wireless

Nexus One is just another Android phone

Google will be releasing their Nexus One aka Google phone today. Will Nexus One be an iPhone killer? The answer is no.  Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky managed to get his hands on a Nexus One early, and posted his very detailed review up on Engadget. Go on and check it out, he did a good review of it. Joshua’s verdict is that the Nexus One is just another Android phone, and I’d have to agree with this judging by the videos and reviews I saw on the web. The iPhone will always win because of it’s simplicity!

If you plan on getting the Nexus One, I’d like to know why you would choose it over the iPhone so leave a comment and tell me!

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Apple’s iPhone App Store Passes 3 Billion Downloads

Apple has announced they have surpassed the 3 billion download mark within their App Store. Somewhere in Cupertino Steve Jobs must have a huge smile on his face as it was just this past September where downloads reached 2 billion:

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

So let’s stop and think about this, iPhone and iPod touch users in 77 countries downloaded one billion applications within a 4 month period. That’s pretty impressive and with no signs of slowing, it’s a safe bet Jobs is right about the competition.

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Apple’s iPhone App Store Passes 3 Billion Downloads

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Has Skype skipped? It’s missing from the app store

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch

If you have Skype on your iPhone, hang onto it. As of this morning it seems to be MIA from the app store. The reason? Unclear. It could be that a new version is about to roll out. It could be that AT&T/Apple are unhappy with the app. It could be a glitch.

The app is also missing from international versions of the app store. There is still a link to the app on the Skype web page, but the link fails with a warning that Skype is not available. An iTunes app store search also fails to turn it up.

People were excited to get Skype on the iPhone when it was released, but there was a let down when it turned out that voice calls could only be made on a Wi-Fi network. There were hints that AT&T was going to allow Skype to use the 3G network, but that hasn't happened yet.

We've got questions about this into Apple and Skype. You'll know morew when we do.

Has Skype skipped? It's missing from the app store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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3D UI patent snapped up by Apple in 2008: could be bases-covering, could be life-changing

We've seen this done badly so many time that it's hard to imagine anyone so self serious as Apple taking a crack at it (even if they've already done so in the desktop space), but for whatever reason the company picked up this 3D UI patent back in 2008 under the guise of a few French employees. The patent was just released in December, and describes in some detail a method of zooming around in 3D using multitouch. Of course, this picture seems to imply that it's for jumping through some representative icons on a 3D plane, but the patent seems more concerned with the core mechanics of using multiple fingers at once to get around in 3D space and manipulate 3D objects -- and then going to great lengths to cover Apple's back in regards to multitouch, capacitive touch, and "multifunction" devices. So, this could be something we see in "the tablet," the next iPhone or even never, but at least we can rest assured that pinch to zoom won't be the only multitouch game in town forever.

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Apple’s Purchase of Quattro Wireless Confirmed

Mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless confirms today that it has been acquired by Apple. The news follows a report late yesterday that the deal had been reached, with Apple agreeing to pay $275 million for Quattro.

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App Store tops three billion downloads

Apple announced on Tuesday that the company's App Store has passed the three billion download mark.

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Soulver brings a calculator scratchpad to your iPhone

Filed under: iPhone, App Review

Acqualia's Soulver, a very cool "calculator scratchpad" (which we've covered before), has come to the iPhone [iTunes link]. Both versions allow you to enter expressions in regular mathematical form, or a more "natural language" form. It keeps a running total in the sidebar, and you can reference (and edit) previous lines. Of course, it can run basic functions like sin, cos, and tan, but you can also use "English" functions such as "$29.99 - 35%" to get sale prices, markups, calculate tax, etc.. As a handy touch, Soulver (both iPhone and desktop versions) also allows you to save your work in files for later reference/editing.

Soulver has always been a great alternative to standard calculator programs, and the iPhone version is -- in many cases -- a full replacement for the built-in calculator. Check out the iPhone version ($2.99US) on the App Store, and the desktop version ($19.95US) at the Acqualia site.

[via Minimalmac]

Soulver brings a calculator scratchpad to your iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CourseSmart Looks Ahead at eTextbooks on Apple’s Tablet

The Wall Street Journal reports on eTextbook publisher CourseSmart, which is looking ahead to the release of Apple's much-rumored tablet and is using this week's CES conference in Las Vegas to show off its thoughts on how its content could be offered...

Report: Apple to move into mobile advertising

Reports say that Apple is buying Quattro Wireless, an advertising network for mobile devices.