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The iPhone App Store Should Let You Try Before You Buy
louisgray@gmail.com (louisgray via louisgray.com on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
With only a few exceptions, it's been universally accepted that Apple's move to sell iPhone applications on its iTunes store is an unqualified success. In fact, it's widely believed that readmore
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Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones [Technocritique]
Annalee Newitz via io9 on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, is one of the most techno-savvy scifi authors of his generation, and yet his new novel Anathem is strongly critical of mobile phones. Anathem, which hits bookstores Tuesday, i readmore
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Track Long-Term Goals on Your iPhone [Goals]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
Previously mentioned long-term goal tracker Lifetick adds a slick iPhone interface and iCal subscriptions, upping the everywhere-you- readmore
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Hands On With Nyko Wing: Wii's Classic Controller Goes Wireless [Wii]
Adrian Covert via Gizmodo on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Earlier today, Nyko unveiled the Wing, a wireless controller for the Wii, based on Nintendo's own classic co readmore
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Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone
(unknown author) via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (T on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Shared by Bwana I used this on other mobile platforms. It was solid over there, I wonder how it fares on the iPhone Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, readmore
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All your Symbian are belong to Nokia
Robin Wauters via The Next Web on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
I genuinely believe there will be a lot of interesting developments in the mobile industry during the next 5 years that will come from a number of innovative startups, but it’s hard not to get equally excited about the power play between the main vendors and mobile OS readmore
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The Future of the Instapaper iPhone App
John Gruber via Daring Fireball on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Marco Arment, developer of the terrific Instapaper iPhone app (and the Instapaper web site): I compiled a feature list for what I want in Instapaper.app 2.0, and it’s huge. It’s easily 6 months of work. I can’t do this and anything else — it has to just be this. I can only devote a few hours per week to Instapaper readmore
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Anonymize your phone number with LetsCall.Me
Josh Lowensohn via Webware.com on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
LetsCall.Me is a smart new service for giving out your contact information to others without actually revealing it. At sign-up you get a special vanity URL and the option to have it direct callers to whatever number you provide. People who have your URL and want to call you can simply enter in their phone number and it will call that number to connect th readmore
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MLB Releases At Bat v1.2 for iPhone - It’s Awesome
Ryan Spoon via RyanSpoon.com on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
I’ve said for a while now that MLB understands the web more than the NBA, NFL and NHL combined. The MLB At Bat iPhone App was announced at the iPhone’s launch and it’s been a hit since. Today, they released version 1.2 and it’s a huge upgrade. The app used to reflect the game’s score, number of outs and pitch count (with long delays) - and there was a video archive of “top plays” readmore
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Apple and AT&T Sued for Selling Too Many iPhone 3Gs
Mark Wilson via Gizmodo: Apple on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Shared by Randy /signed Apple/AT&T customer William Gillis was unhappy with the performance of his iPhone 3G. So he filed a lawsuit. But what's unique in this case is that the lawsuit isn't complaining just that the iP readmore
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Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS?
Don Reisinger via TechCrunch on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Symbian on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said readmore
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Apple, AT&T sued for over-saturating 3G network with iPhones
(unknown author) via AppleInsider on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the network with devices that themselves are flawed. ... readmore
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Will The Android Market Be More Appealing To Developers Than The App Store?
Kevin Donovan via Techdirt on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
In the past month, it has become clear that Apple, through their App Store, is going to exercise a lot of control over the programs that iPhone users download. The list of removed App Store downloads include Tetris clones, harmless but expensive novelties, movie readmore
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The Trouble with Phone Books
Ransom Riggs via mental_floss Blog on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
If you’re reading this blog, then you probably have no use for a phone book. You can get any phone number you need with the browser you’re using right now just as easily as you navigated here to mentalfloss.com. As of 2007, more than half of American households had broadband internet access. An readmore
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Does Anyone Else Use the iPhone On Chrome Throne?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Not that *I* do, of course (cough, cough), but I’ve noticed that browsing on the iPhone to be a fairly awesome mobile experience, where, of course, I can literally surf anywhere, and surf real webpages, not the mobile optimized crap that often passes as a “web experience”. Yesterday, for example, I found myself on my couch surfing on my iPhone (via Safari) while watching TV, while readmore
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Direct Line Takes You Straight to an Operator [Featured IPhone Download]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
iPhone only: Inventive iPhone app Direct Line navigates automated phone systems to get you directly to an operator without having to sift through menu options yourself. To use it, just launch the app, tell it who you want to call (it su readmore
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SIMable demonstration video
Matt via Tracy and Matt's Blog on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
A few weeks ago we saw SIMable mentioned on some other websites and thought that it sounded like a great idea. What the SIMable chip does is allow you to use any SIM card in a SIM locked mobile phone without the need to have the phone unlocked. In their words: "Unlock your SIM card, not your phone!" readmore
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OTA Sync with Zimbra now available for the 3G iPhone
Kelly Hodgkins via Boy Genius Report on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
Zimbra, an open source messaging and collaboration suite, announced this week the availability of Zimbra Mobile for the iPhone 3G. Zimbra users sporting the readmore
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Photos of Android Phone?
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
Engadget has photos of what they say is going to be a mobile phone running Google-backed mobile system Android. The phone is T-Mobile-branded and produced by HTC (Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corporation, a member readmore
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10 Awesome BlackBerry apps
Christina Warren via Download Squad on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
Filed under: Social Software, BlackBerryThe BlackBerry application marketplace might not be as ea readmore
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