Iphone Updates

Orange and O2 today announced their pricing plans for the new iPhone 4. The cheapest deal on Orange is £30 a month for two years plus a £169 down payment. That gets you 300 minutes of talk time and…

We glimpsed a prototype of Nokia’s N8 today. The flagship smartphone takes over from the n900 as the latest in the N-series range and will hit the UK in September. We take a look at the hardware in the…

Unlike many Brits Shiny Shiny’s Anna has been playing with an iPad for a few weeks now. Here are her top five free iPad apps designed to appeal to Brits including London HD traffic, All Saints shopping and Twitterific….

Anna rocked along to the All England Club in Wimbledon to get a look at the IBM sponsored app of the tournament. Providing info on everything from current matches, cafe opening times, and how busy the taxi ranks are…..

The first Nokia phone to pack the Symbian ^3 software, the N8 is a beautiful camera and video device. But what’s the user interface like. It has some slick features like the album scrolling and they’ve made it a…

Mobile-based augmented reality will get more social and gaming features and cute little bouncing Floaticons it was announced today. At a conference a few hours ago marking its first birthday, Layar the augmented reality app platform announced some interesting changes…

Anna takes a look at the next gen LG Viewty. Is the GT405 a worthy successor of what was one of the most popular mobiles ever? It is available exclusively on 3 going for £13 a month inc 300…

If, just for a chance, you decide not to follow every single game of the World Cup, I think I have just found the perfect place for you…..on your Iphone!

Last night, I spent hours on a new poker application on the Iphone and it is great!

I was always a bit cautious about playing poker in casinos or even with friends because I never really knew if I was good at it. I always wondered where all these people were training to become so good. Well, now I found the perfect tool for that my Iphone…

There are several applications worth the try, such as Poker Texas Hold’em, Absolute Poker or Zinga Poker live is excellent. You can play without spending a fortune and you can train as much as you like to become a real pro.

The best thing is that you get lots of advice and tricks and you really can improve very quickly. I did! You can also choose who to play against, real people, your friends or very realistic players.

Check out this website PokerListings, and especially their quick guide to poker on iPhone to get all the info you need and see you soon on the green carpet…

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MedTango.com has developped an iPhone version of their Medical Search Engine that is very impressive. It contains all the information that are in the web version of the web application, but totally adapted to the iPhone. Very good job from the team behind it.

Your iPhone is also automatically detected apparently, I guess the iPod Touch as well.

MedTango is also available on Android, I’ve just tested on my Google Nexus One, and it looks the same as on the iPhone.

If you want to have a look, here it is:

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McGraw-Hill’s CEO confirmed that the new Tablet device from Apple would be based on iPhone OS. That’s a big relief for all developers on iPhone and iPod Touch who would be able to continue work on the SDK and release on both platforms.

Apparently, the iTablet will have the iPhone OS 3.2 as a start, let’s see tonight for the official launch!!!

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Yep it is finally here. The Voda iPhone. There’s very little to distinguish the Voda iPhone from the ones sold by Orange and O2. The big difference, so the bloke in the Voda shop told me this morning, is that…

Best Buy has a round up of the best iPhone accessories and gadgets at CES 2010 here. The two that caught my eye the most are the iLuv app station and the Cydle i30 Digital TV add on. There’s…

Gotta love this! It is a hat that houses your iPhone.touch so you watch videos on the quiet. It even includes a magnifying glass to increase the size of the screen. Great for the beach, but not too hot…

One of the highlights of this year’s CES 2010 Unveiled was a pico projector from a company called Microvision which is named the ShowWX. It is showing video footage here from an iPhone. As you can see it is…

There are loads of iPhone solar chargers on sale but the Novothink Surge iPhone solar charger and app is probably the best. It fits snugly on to your phone and can deliver thirty minutes of power for two hours…

The AR Drone Quadricopter (that’s a four propeller helicopter to you and me) is a very cool device that is sure to be one of the year’s hottest gadgets. It is controlled by either an iPhone or an iPod…

Nice parody for the iPhone and the Nexus One:

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Vodafone has just gone live with its launch date for the iPhone. Its subscribers have not got long to wait as it hits the stores on January 14th. If you were waiting for a bargain basement iPhone you’ll have to…

The Shiny offices are currently being overrun by iPhone rivals. Last week we had the Motorola Dext, better known in the US as the Cliq, and this week Nokia’s new music phone, the X6 has turned up. We kind of…

Big day today for Tesco have confirmed that it will be selling the iPhone from Monday 14th December. The supermarket have also gone in aggressively with a £20 per month tarriff and a 12 month contract option. On paper…

Sponsored post A few months ago Vodafone announced the launch of its Vodafone 360 service which delivers a new set of internet services for the mobile and PC. It works by gathering all of a customer’s friends, communities, entertainment and…

Only the most die-hard Apple fan boys/girls could deny that in the last few months the gap between the iPhone and some rival products in terms of their hardware has significantly closed. The Google Android operating system has been…

Shiny Shiny has a big list which comes courtesy of research company Gartner. There’s no mega surprises – so you may have to wait longer for the teleporting app – but it certainly makes interesting reading. You can read the…

Shiny Shiny mentioned a new texting technology Swype a couple of days ago, and we were very impressed. Genius Texting works on touchscreens and simply requires you to slide your finger over the keyboard to write words. Swype claim…

Shiny Shiny mentioned a new texting technology Swype a couple of days ago, and we were very impressed. Genius Texting works on touchscreens and simply requires you to slide your finger over the keyboard to write words. Swype claim…

The creator of iKee, the first ever iPhone worm, has landed himself a job creating iPhone apps, it has been revealed today. Ashley Towns revealed his new post via Twitter today. The 21 year old Aussie is set to…

Over the last few weeks Paul from TechDigest has been working his nuts off downloading app after app to his iPhone. Now after literally putting hundreds of apps through his handset he is now ready to name his top…

Tesco Mobile (MVNO with O2) is entering the iPhone war, and certainly with attractive prices.

So watch the space and I hope the US will have soon the same competition as UK for the iPhone.

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No more tangled mess of cords or searching for the right adaptor. Just put your enabled device on the Powermat to charge!…

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Original Ad from Verizon:

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Well it’s mostly bug fixing, so we will see, I actually experienced some bugs reported, so cross fingers now…

Official information about it:

“iPhone OS 3.1.2 Software Update

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not
wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular
network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during
video streaming

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3GS

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:

http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphone

For more information about iPhone, go to:

http://www.apple.com/iphone

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:

http://www.apple.com/support/iphone

This update contains security content originally included in previous iPhone Software Updates. For more information, please visit this website:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222″

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Adobe took a new strategy to put Flash animations on the iPhone, with the release later this year of Flash Pro CS5 Beta, Adobe will enable any Flash developer to create an iPhone application (.ipa file) and then the developer could send it to Apple for approval.

So it is definitely for Flash games on the iPhone, unfortunately, no Safari plugin to be able to see flash animations on web pages.

Quick video to explain it:

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Big news today, Vodafone is also coming in the UK iPhone market later this yeat. So now I guess all American customers of AT&T are waiting to have the same kind of choice as in UK, because AT&T hasn’t been known as being a good mobile operator with the iPhone.

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After being the partner of Apple in France, Orange will sell the iPhone later this year in UK.

That’s very good news for customers, who were quite disappointed about the upgrade from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS for existing customers with O2.

The competition on prices could finally start!!!

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It’s going faster and faster with 85,000 Apps on board in the most successful Application marketplace so far.

It is incredibly successful, and will it slow down? Apparently, the numbers are quickly going up.

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“There’s an App for that,” is Apple’s ubiquitous catch phrase for why you should purchase their iPhone mobile device. It does indeed seem to be the case that the iPhone offers applications for a wide variety of uses, but…

“There’s an App for that,” is Apple’s ubiquitous catch phrase for why you should purchase their iPhone mobile device. It does indeed seem to be the case that the iPhone offers applications for a wide variety of uses, but…

Focus on the iPhone to iPhone communication with 3 nice apps…

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I think this is a big hit for Apple. Why Mike Arrington quits? Simply because Apple doesn’t want Google Voice on the iPhone.

I think it will make some noice soon enough, and I think Apple will have to find solutions to work with Google on that subject, my bet is the problem sits with AT&T contract…

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The team behind Acrossair has built an incredible application for Londoners who can now see where are the nearest tube station in the city with an augmented reality view, check it out on this video before the App Store launch:

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Whatever you might think of companies creating games for the major purpose of marketing to potential customers, when done right you can still end up with a decent application.

Enter Barclaycard, which has just announced its new Waterslide Extreme game for the iPhone, coinciding with another showing of its advertising campaign. The objective? Steer a character down an increasingly difficult waterslide in the quickest time, collecting points and avoiding objects…

Do you use your iPhone incessantly? Do you boast about the latest cool app you’ve downloaded (there’s an app for just about everything, as the increasingly annoying Apple TV ads tell us) Do you find your friends slinking away when you approach them, excitedly clutching your phone? If so, then you’re probably an iBore…

Fans of simple, traditional games will be pleased to know that Astraware continues to release old favourites to the iPhone platform. Following the success of its Board Games and Sudoku comes Solitaire, and it’s available for a limited time for just 99c / 59p. Now, Solitaire has to be one of the most crowded niches on the App Store (or indeed, any platform). I counted well over 100 variants, so Astraware is certainly up against it…

Skype arrived on the iPhone back in March, after a long wait, and was generally warmly greeted. However, there were still some things that you couldn’t do, and not all of them were a result of the networks crippling innovation. A few months on and the first major update to Skype has made it into the App Store. Now it’s possible to listen to your voicemail messages from the mobile version, and also to send SMS text messages to contacts around the world…

In February, ITN launched its first iPhone application allowing users to watch videos and keep up with the latest news headlines. ITN On has now launched the free ITN Showbiz app which, as the name suggests, offers the latest video news from the world of celebrities, music and film…

Tradewinds 2, the popular PC strategy game from Sandlot Games, has landed on the iPhone and is available now from the App Store. This Caribbean-set trading game allows you to navigate a fascinating new world, discovering uncharted ports teeming with friends and foes. Be a master commander, defeating pirates and plundering their vast hordes of booty, or, play it safe by trading exotic island goods, gradually amassing untold wealth, power and influence…

Sennheiser has announced a new line of “HD” closed headphones which are supposedly optimised for iPod, iPhone and other portable device use and are distinctly affordable. The complete range of compact, lightweight and foldable HDs feature powerful neodymium magnets and ultra-light diaphragms and adjustable, comfortable ear cups.

Much as we expected after the iPhone’s software upgrade, TomTom has come up with its own satellite navigation hardware/software combo for the handset. As the iPhone’s GPS receiver is not quite as strong as those found in dedicated satnav units, TomTom sells a special hardware dock which includes a GPS booster and holds the iPhone secure. Software is based on TomTom’s award-winning turn-by-turn navigation system and includes IQ Routes and the latest maps from Tele Atlas…