Review: MathBoard for iPad

This app for drilling students on math is charming without losing track of its fundamental purpose.

Apple Executives Discuss Targeting Low-End Smartphone, High-Growth Tablet Markets

As happens on occasion, Apple once again last week held a meeting with research analysts to answer questions and offer guidance on Apple's plans. While the company is careful not to reveal many specifics...

T-Mobile notes the “4″ in iPhone 4 does not mean 4G

Nearly nine months after Apple's official announcement, T-Mobile finally points out to its customers that the "4" in iPhone 4 does not refer to 4G. T-Mobile's latest advertisement for its HSPA+ network takes a shot at both the Verizon and AT&T iPhone 4 with the two carriers illustrated as turtles, while T-Mobile is a hare. The eye-catching graph points out that T-Mobile has blazing fast 4G handsets while Apple's popular smartphone is still 3G.

Of course, this slick marketing piece fails to recognize the "4' in iPhone 4 actually refers to 4th generation as it is the fourth handset in the iPhone series. Apple never claimed the iPhone 4 had 4G LTE or HSPA+ connectivity. As is often the case, this promotional material focuses on sensationalistic claims, not the truth.

[Via Engadget]

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News360 for iPad aggregates international news, photos

Moscow-based Demo has launched News360 for iPad, a news and photo aggregation application that displays stories from around the world.

App Review: Kamon is a great two-player strategy game, but a bit pricey

Kamon (US$1.99 for the iPhone version) and Kamon HD for the iPad (available separately for $2.99) should really be one universal app. There isn't enough meat here to justify the five dollar price tag for both versions -- not when the top-of-the-line board games like the Settlers of Catan cost $4.99. Two dollars for a universal version sounds about right in today's App Store economy/price structure, but I also want more and more board games to come to iOS, and developers need to make their money somehow. So, with that in mind, I can recommend Kamon to anyone looking to expand their app library of well-designed two-player strategy games.

Kamon was created by renowned designer Bruno Cathala who was recently responsible for the particularly good game Cyclades. The elegant leather and wood version has been hard to find in the U.S., but now everyone has access to this simple (yet hard to master) game. Keep reading for more.

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Intel’s Z68 Chipset to Bring SSD Caching to Sandy Bridge

VR-Zone reports (via Hardmac) that Intel has begun production of its new "Z68" chipset for Sandy Bridge-based processors, with availability set for May. Most notably in light of rumors regarding the new MacBook Pro that failed to materialize...

Xoom 4G upgrade could take more than six days

Users will have to send their Motorola Xoom tablets away for a week in order to upgrade them to 4G, Verizon Wireless says.

Still no white iPhone 4, so how about a white iPad 2 rumor?

Still no word on the white iPhone 4 other than “spring” so how about we start wondering about a white iPad 2? That’s what the above part just might represent. Or it could just be a test part, a part for after-market conversion shops, or for a knock-off tablet. Who knows any more?

Bezel size aside, given the delays in white iPhone 4 production would Apple really tempt that fate again and if true, could a white iPad 2 actually be released before the white iPhone 4? We’ll find out on Wednesday at the iPad 2 event but until then let us know — would you want one?

[9to5Mac]

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Jonathan Ive considering a move back to UK?

UK news paper, The Sunday Times is reporting that Jonathan Ive, the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, wants to return to the UK to live! Ive is the principal designer of the iMac, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

Ive supposedly wishes to commute to Cupertino from his home, which is based in Somerset, England, and the Apple board is not exactly thrilled by the idea. A friend of Ive’s family has allegedly confirmed the dispute and told The Sunday Times:

“Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them.”

Ive’s has reportedly just received a $30 million payment from Apple on completion of his latest deal, which is now up for re-negotiation. The problem appears to be that his wife Heather would like their two children educated in their own country.

[Cult of Mac]

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New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Monday, February 28

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Jenga: Now with Gyroscope support! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• LastStandStan: Take control of Stan (STatic Alien Neutraliser) to defend the last Po’Trubian world from the evil Sleevils! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• SolidState: Control the music on one iOS device with another iOS device or from your Mac. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• League of Evil: This fantastic little platformer received a huge update that includes story chapters and “impossible missions”. [$1.99 - iTunes link]

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Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Review: YP Yellow Pages apps for iPhone and iPad

The iPhone version of this Yellow Pages app outshines its iPad counterpart after a recent update that added easy to access lists of local deals and upcoming local events.

TUAW’s Daily App: Sticky

I'll say this: Sticky is an original one. It's sort of a platforming game, though there are no real platforms involved. You play as a little orange blob named Sticky, tasked with saving the world from invading black blobs that slowly move from one side of your iPhone's screen to the other. Sticky can defeat these enemy blobs by bouncing on their heads, so it's your job as a player to catapult him back and forth around the little levels in order to hit the bad guys exactly right.

The game is fun, cute and intuitive, and while it's pretty easy to beat the individual stages (at least until power-ups and more obstacles get added into the mix), each stage also rates you out of three stars, so you need to race against time to try and grab a perfect rating as well. Hardcore gamers will want to clear out all of the levels, while younger (or just more casual gamers) can bounce Sticky around and still enjoy playing.

Full Game Center (and Crystal -- Chillingo is publishing) integration extends the experience, and the fact that it's only US$0.99 means it's probably worth a try if you're interested. It probably won't pull me away from Tiny Wings completely, but it's another fun casual experience.

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Apple to Launch a White iPad 2?

Apple is holding its iPad media event in just a couple of days. The rumors to date have been relatively modest for the iPad upgrade. The general consensus seems to be that the new iPad will be thinner, faster, and with improved (but not Retina di...

T-Mobile continues campaign against iPhone 4 with new ‘State of the Smartphone’ infographic

T-Mobile cares about you. It cares so much that it's spending all its advertising dollars lately making sure you know full well that the iPhone 4 can't do "4G" the way its own phones can. The latest salvo in this crusade of enlightenment includes the above graphs showing just how much faster and further your money can go if you ride along on the Magenta network. It conveniently ignores the fact that AT&T and Verizon offer other phones besides Apple's iPhone, some of which can handle speeds above the 3G threshold, but such is the price you pay when you want to have a really pretty and eye-catching chart. Hit the source link to soak up more of T-Mobile's priceless wisdom.

[Thanks, Ramon]

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Best of Smartphone Experts, 27 Feb 2011

Android 2.3.3 OTA now rolling out to Nexus S and Nexus One (finally!) The HTC Merge lives! Officially coming to ‘multiple’ carriers this spring HTC Inspire 4G review	CrackBerry.com Turns Four Years Old Today and We Are Going to Celebrate for a Week! Lots of Great Contests Coming Up!! Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 images leak out Weekly Accessory Roundup – Win the case of your choice from ShopCrackBerry.com!
Join the Search for 7 competition to find a Nokia E7	How to get webOS 2.1 on older devices webOS 2.1 on Pre Plus: video webOS 3.0
Apple holding iPad 2 event this Wednesday, March 2 (and so is BBC?) Apple releases new MacBook Pro, FaceTime HD, Thunderbolt I/O, and Mac OS X Lion developer beta with AirDrop, WebKit2 iPhone 5 part leaked, looks like it may have a larger 4-inch screen?	Updates from Microsoft on the WP7 Update HTC Arrive … arrives for $199 on Sprint — with copy/paste! WPCentral Podcast 113 – Updates and Nokia

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Apple adds pattern locking to an iPhone app that you can’t have?

The nine-dot pattern lock option is one of those uniquely Android things -- it's been there ever since the G1, and even if you don't personally use it, odds are good that you recognize it. So when we see it on an iPhone -- apparently on an app used by Apple internally -- you can appreciate why we're going to do a double take. What you're looking at here is one of several screens obtained by 9 to 5 Mac, allegedly showing a version of Apple's employee-only AppleConnect app with support for pattern locking to keep prying eyes out. It seems that the app enforces some minimum gesture length to constitute a secure lock -- and considering some of the forensic science going on there, we bet it's gotta be pretty long. Of course, none of these means we'll see the feature show up in an actual iOS build, but the site says that the company's testing the mechanism in other internal tools... and if nothing else, Apple seems to be acknowledging that lock patterns aren't a terrible idea.

[Thanks, Jacob]

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iOS 4.3 unlock working on iPhone 4 basebands 3.10.01 and 2.10.04?

iOS 4.3 for iPhone is surely on the horizon and that leaves many unlockers wondering whether or not there will be an unlock ready. It’s been a while but it appears a tweet from @sherif_hashim may be confirming that the issues have finally been worked out.

Don’t go upgrading just yet though! MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team stated earlier that an iPhone 4 unlock solution would not be released until after iOS 4.3 goes public. This unlock would allow iPhone 4 users to unlock their phones on the newer basebands (3.10.01 and 2.10.04).

If all goes well and the unlock does perform as expected, we can probably expect a release a few weeks after iOS 4.3 is released to the public. Any of you unlockers stuck waiting for a solution so you can upgrade? Sound off in the comments!

Redmond Pie

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MobileNotifier is a great start to what iOS notifications should be [jailbreak]

MobileNotifier is a great start to what iOS notifications should really look like. Keep in mind this app is still in beta before you go replacing LockInfo. I’ve been playing with MobileNotifier today and it’s got a lot of potential.

One thing I really like is the ingenious way MobileNotifier makes use of the wasted space while multitasking. When the tray is pulled up, the top of the screen is really just a bunch of empty space. Why not make use of it? MobileNotifier does by putting all your notifications in it. The latest beta also adds support for a lockscreen mode. The app doesn’t currently have any built-in settings but we’ll have to keep in mind it’s an early release of the app.

With an early release comes compatibility issues and bugs. BiteSMS currently doesn’t seem to want to populate in MobileNotifier for me. Hopefully this and several other compatibility issues will be addressed in a future beta. Hit the jump for a couple more screens and to find out how you can grab MobileNotifier!

You can get MobileNotifier for free by adding the following repo to Cydia -

http://phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo

Check it out and let us know what you think!

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TiPb Picks of the Week

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Ally and George’s pick: Tiny Wings

Ally: I tend to lean towards games that have a simple concept but keep you entertained for hours. Tiny Wings fits right into that category. It has beautiful graphics and backgrounds but the controls and game play are dead simple. You are a bird and you have one dream, to fly. But your wings are tiny.

You use the hills in order to make your bird propel himself high into the sky. You’ll tap and hold the screen to tuck his wings and make him dive down hills. If done properly, he’ll peak high into the sky after using hills to propel himself. The goal is to fly (glide) as far as you can before night falls.

It’s an incredibly simple game but the graphics alone are worth the $0.99 it costs. Check it out and let us know what you think!

George: This is by far the most addicting game I have played on my iPhone! Its so simple, yet quite difficult at the same time.

Gorgeous yet basic retina graphics, extremely easy, one button controls, and amazing original background music, makes this an even more fun game to play.

Simply race against the clock, and get as far as you can, but avoid ‘night fall’ as you’ll fall asleep, and see the end of your trip.

If you think this game looks too simple, you’d be wrong, as its packed full of bonuses, like ‘fever mode’ and speedboosts, and objectives, like, getting a certain number of coins, or having to play the whole game upside down!

Pick up this game, and watch time go by, but watch out for night fall!

[0.99 - iTunes link]

Alli’s pick: Soundrop

Totally free, totally mindless, totally entertaining.

The idea is to drop little balls onto tubes to make… well, sound. When the balls hit the tubes, they make a pinging sound. The pitch changes depending on the distance between the “drop” and where the ball strikes the tube.

You can change the length of the tubes to make a higher or lower pitched ping, and you can change the angle so that the balls will bounce up at a new angle where you can create new tubes for the balls to hit, thus creating more pings. If you’re good, you can get the right angles, distances, and number of tubes to create simple melodies. Or you can just make annoying pinging noises.

Either way it’s a nice break from anything productive!

[Free - iTunes link]

Andrew’s pick: Color Splash

Color Splash is a photo app that lets you turn any picture into a black and white photo so you can touch it up with some color, making your photos unique and artistic. The effect is really quite dramatic and can turn any old photo into an inspiring piece with a ’splash’ of color, redirecting the viewers’ attention to the portion of your photo with color. The app also supports all of the bells and whistles of iOS 4 and the iPhone 4’s Retina Display with fast app switching and high-resolution graphics.

If you want a full rundown of how the app works then check our Chris V’s forum review to get a better idea of how fun it is to use. If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to give your photos a new and dramatic look then head over to the App Store and check out Color Splash now!

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

Chris O’s pick: Movie Player

This app offers one thing that I find really useful, the ability to create video playlists. I do not understand why the built in video player for the iPhone and iPad fail to offer this simple feature.

My 20 month old daughter uses the iPad in the car to keep her entertained on long journeys. With the built in video app, I have to stop and reach over, take the iPad out of the holder, start the next video and off I go again. Using Movie Player I can create a playlist and it automatically plays the videos one after the other. Stress free driving!

Movie Player also supports lots of formats like divx, avi, flv, mov, wmv, mpg, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, m4v , mpv, vob, ts, ogv, ogm, mkv and a few others without the need for conversion. It can be a little buggy and fussy sometimes but it is worth it for the playlist feature.

The app is a universal binary, so you only have to buy it once and it runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad

[$2.00 -iTunes Link]

Chris V’s pick: Weather Doodle

I am always on the hunt for nice weather apps. I don’t really know why, weather is weather, but I am always looking for apps that either have a really nice user interface/display or contain all the weather data that I want available too me.

Recently, I came across Weather Doodle, which fits nicely into the former category. Weather Doodle does not display pages and pages of weather information, severe weather alerts, weather maps, etc. Instead, it has focused on graphics, and really only shows you the basic current weather (temperature, humidity, etc) as well as a five day forecast. The graphical design is reminiscent of a child’s doodle (thus, the name), but it is not sloppy or poorly done. Simple but pleasing is the best way to describe it. The graphics are animated as well, so you see the rain and snow falling, the clouds moving, the sun shining. In addition, they have in app purchases available to buy other graphical schemes. If you want a simple weather app to replace the basic weather app on the iPhone, Weather Doodle is one that might be worth looking at.

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

Rene’s pick: TouchPad

No not the terribly iPad-looking new tablet announced earlier this month by Palm HP and set to ship sometime between now and the end of the Mayan calendar (or Summer, whichever comes first), but the wonderful iOS app by Edovia that predates it by… a lot. This TouchPad turns your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into pretty much the best remote ever. It’s more functional than Apple’s, Boxee’s, VLC’s, and XBMC’s combined and far better looking than anything ever produced by the company formerly known as Sony. Seriously.

If you have a Mac Mini media center or a MythBuntu box you don’t even need any extra software. It just works. If you have a Windows Media PC then… well, you need to grab a VNC service but then it also just works. Well, works as in the opposite — being lazy. One crack at TouchPad and your butt will seldom if ever need to leave the comforts of your couch again.

It’s got full on gesture support, so iOS and Mac OS users will feel especially well at home. I’ve often asked-as-in-begged Apple for a Magic Mouse app for the iPhone. Embarrassingly, there was no need to. Edovia had already made it.

Good luck with your TouchPad HP. iOS already has a great one.

[$4.99 - iTunes link]

Your pick?

You’re part of the team as well, so jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

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iOS 4.3 Features Walkthrough

Apple is expected to release iOS 4.3 this week so we thought it might be a good idea to go through the new features and changes that have been discovered in iOS 4.3 beta 1, beta 2 and beta 3 that Apple has seeded to developers of iOS developer program so you know what to [...]