Touch DJ by Amidio Inc is apparently now for sale, and is claiming to be the first and only real MP3 DJ mixing app available for the iPhone. It offers realtime independent manipulation of 2 MP3/M4A files, including scratching, looping, positioning, equalization, effects and and pitching.

Traditionally iPhone and iPod Touch have only one stereo audio output which broadens the possibility of using them as a DJ device. Touch DJ overcomes this limitation by offering innovative and unique way of deejaying which doesn’t require additional headphones for prelistening to the tracks.

The technology is called “visual mixing” and it places the graphic display of the track waveforms next to each other. The low-bass (kick) parts are detected and rendered in different color compared to the rest sonic frequencies, making beatmatching as easy as adjusting the tracks position and pitch so that the kick parts become visually matched. Simple, but devastatingly effective!

As a former DJ myself, I can say there is sound logic here, and I can’t wait to get my paws on it and review it! In the meantime you can find it on the Apple Store by searching for Touch DJ, and then paying £11.99 to download it.

Also, if this App floats your boat immediately on reading the story, then click below to watch the video:

Launched today, 4iThumbs is a clear, tactile typing aid for the iPhone’s touch screen that apparently facilitates faster and more accurate typing, enables blind typing, reduces glare and supposedly is the strongest screen protector on the market.

The clear screen has tactile ridges that guide thumbs for accurate input to ease the transition from other smartphones to the iPhone, making the device more accessible for those who need tactile feedback when typing. The attachment enhances the iPhone user experience without disrupting the sleek design and can remain on the screen at all times without impeding screen or app functions. However, it can also be removed and inserted seamlessly on the rear of the device.

4iThumbs is priced at $14.95 for the portrait version, $16.95 for the landscape version and $19.95 for both. It is available for online purchase at http://www.4iThumbs.com.

If this were 2007, we’d be all about HP’s triumphant launch of their latest “WinMo” smartphone. But, seeing as how it’s almost 2010 and Windows Phones are losing market- and mind-share to iPhone and Android hardware, it’s hard to get excited about HP’s new business-class iPAQ Glisten for AT&T (NYSE: T). Still, it’s good to see HP finding it’s way back to the smartphone segment.

HP has announced their iPAQ Glisten as the AT&T production version of the HP K3/Obsidian that we’ve spied in the past. The smartphone sports a 2.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen (QVGA), 3G data, WiFi, GPS and a 3.1-megapixel camera – all powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. It’s good to see HP’s aging iPAQ brand coming back to market with high-tech features like the AMOLED display and integrated GPS receiver. OLED displays make for some serious color-rich pictures and videos while consuming less power than traditional LCD displays, which is a win-win in our book. Check out our Samsung Behold II hands-on video (in HD) to see for yourself how bright and crisp an AMOLED display can be.

The HP iPAQ Glisten is aimed at the enterprise segment, and will only be available on the AT&T website. Price comes in at $179.99 when purchased with a new 2-year contract.

Learn more about the HP iPAQ Glisten here.

The rest of us will just keep on going about our daily lives, caring not for the iPAQ Glisten.

Do you have bunch of different logins and passwords that you have to remember? Maybe all those pot brownies and bong hits in college destroyed your working memory. Whatever the case, you’re probably in need of a solid password manager app for your iPhone. Lucky for you, 1Password Pro for iPhone is now available for FREE on the AppStore.

1Password Pro is a special edition version of the award-winning password app on the iPhone. It saves your usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, notes and other sensitive information so that you don’t have to worry about remembering your password. 1Password will even log you into websites with a single tap.

1Password Pro was $4.99, but the price has been completely slashed for the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s now free and ready for your download. Even if your memory hasn’t vanished up in a cloud of skunky goodness, 1Password will probably make your life a lot easier.

Did we mention it’s free?

1Password Pro [iTunes link]

The original XPERIA Pureness

If you thought Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE)’s high-fashion XPERIA Pureness was pretty enough to make up for its low-tech attitude and nothing-to-cough-at price, you’re in luck. Sony Ericsson is apparently planning to launch a follow-up to the XPERIA Pureness with a Pureness 2. According to Electricpig, the Pureness 2 isn’t anywhere close to an official announcement (let alone a launch), but early reports indicate that Sony Ericsson is looking to create a more simplified and stripped-down Pureness phone. Sony Ericsson’s Pureness designer, Daniel Mauritzson, says the focus right now is on “taking away” features.

Imagine that. In a world where feature-packed smartphones jockey for visibility in a crowded market, Sony Ericsson is moving away from feature-bloat and looking to bring “counterbalance” to the smartphone market. Not just that, but Sony Ericsson is slapping its highest-end XPERIA brand on the Pureness handsets. That’s saying a lot about what Sony Ericsson thinks the public wants in a mobile phone.

The XPERIA Pureness is already a good looker, we can’t wait to see what the Pureness2 will bring to the table.

[Via: Electricpig.co.uk]

The holidays are here, and that means mobile enthusiasts like us will soon flock to their favorite retail or online store to spend some hard earned money on a new mobile gadget. To help you on your quest to empty your wallets in search of the hottest mobile gadgets on market, IntoMobile is proud to introduce TopTechGifts.com. In partnership with some of the hottest gadget blogs on the internet, we’ve compiled a list of the Top Tech Gifts of 2009, complete with reviews and expert ratings. Whether your in the market for a friend or loved one, or just looking to score the coolest mobile-related gear available today, Top Tech Gifts should help you with your next purchase.

You can find IntoMobile’s EIC Will Park putting in his couple cents in the Top Tech Gifts mobile section here. Or, for the entire gadget breakdown, hit up TopTechGifts.com.

Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Northeast Securities, is now the butt of all my “people who work in this industry who have no clue what they’re talking about” jokes. This time last month he told The Street that Google will be releasing their own Android device, only to be burned a few days later by the head of Android Porject, Andy Rubin, who said “we’re not making hardware, we’re enabling others to build hardware”. Kumar now has new information, and I’m being a total idiot for linking to it, but here it goes:

• Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will be releasing a Google branded handset that has unlimited free calls powered by Google Voice and the recent Gizmo5 acquisition
• This handset will have a “large touchscreen display” and will have a processor “nearly twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS”
• It will “probably” run a new version of Android called Flan
• The device will “probably” be built by HTC and have a Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) processor inside

At this point in time you may proceed to slap your forehead.

If Google ever released their own mobile device, which they’re not going to, they would be alienating handset makers.

If Google ever released their own mobile device with unlimited free calls, which they’re not going to, they would be alienating handset makers and operators.

Will there be a version of Android called Flan? Absolutely, Andy Rubin already talked about, and he confirmed it will support advanced 3D graphics.

Will there be an Android device, built by HTC, with a processor from Qualcomm that is nearly twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS? Yes. Just take the HTC HD2, which has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inside, compared to the 600 MHz processor inside the iPhone 3GS, slap the latest version of Android on it, and there is your mythical Google Phone.

What next Ashok Kumar? Are you going to tell people that the next version of Android, the one after Flan, will be called Gelato and it is going to power the new Google Phone? It’s going to be 4 times faster than the iPhone 3GS, has the ability to tell you where the nearest café serving a hot steaming cup of decaffeinated “shut the fuck up” is, and best of all adds the ability to purchase said cup of coffee with Google Checkout!

Aside from being preloaded on the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm2 and getting rolled out on the original Storm, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s search engine, Bing, is continuing its spread on mobile. An over the air download link for the BlackBerry Tour 9630 version has bubbled up, the 8530 Curve2 is apparently preloaded with it (though I don’t see it on my unit), and a knowledgebase article is talking about new features in the 8300-, 8500- and 8800-series. If you haven’t tried it yet, Bing offers voice-enabled search, GPS-enabled local search and directions, suggested results as you type, and top news. Windows Mobile and BlackBerry seem to be getting the royal treatment right now, but it would be pretty interesting to see Bing on Android at some point. Obviously Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will be ruling the web search roost for some time still, but considering Bing’s recent partnership with Wolfram|Alpha, Microsoft will at least be able to offer an interesting alternative. To see if you can nab it on your device, head to m.bing.com/download from your mobile browser.

[Bing via BerryReview]

RIM’s desktop app for syncing up your BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)’s media card with iTunes and Windows Media Player has just been updated to version 3.0, now allowing two-way picture syncing. That means not only will your pictures be automatically offloaded to a particular folder, but if you’ve taken some nice pictures with a real camera and want to have them on your BlackBerry, they’ll be pulled in. Of course, those pictures might be a little large for your media card, so you can opt to have them mobile-optimized. If you’re anything like me, you’ll let your mobile pictures pile up on the memory card for awhile until it strikes you to sideload the pictures onto your desktop, and then you’ve got a sizeable backlog to organize and upload; hopefully Media Sync mitigates some of that hassle into manageable chunks. To get started, go ahead and download the updated BlackBerry Media Sync for free over here.

Denmark. Beautiful country, filled with beautiful people, and one of the leaders in green thinking. Like many countries in Europe, Denmark’s public toilets are not free. This explains why no one goes out for a nice walk on Sunday morning, those are not rain puddles if you catch my drift. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is looking to make paying to pee a bit easier by enabling SMS payments on several toilets in Gråbrødre Torv, Hans Knudsens Plads and Borgergade. This luxury will not cost you anything extra. The fee is still 2 Danish Krone ($0.40), plus whatever it is you pay your operator to send an SMS. UNWIRE and Låsepartner City are the two companies responsible for deploying these new fangled pieces of technology, and they’re going to collect some data over the next 6 months to decide whether or not they should deploy more text to piss public toilets. I’m a little ashamed of you Denmark. Urine has been proven to be a fantastic fertilizer. Why not simply put trees next to taxi queues, liquor stores, and night clubs?

[Via: Textually and The Copenhagen Post]