The same guys who had first shown us the iPhone 4G assembly have done up another video with half the focus and twice the Coldplay. Particular attention is drawn to the casing, where we can again see the gap where a forward-facing camera would fit, but we also see the tinted lens through which the…
Remember The Milk’s iPhone app updated with auto-complete, smarter auto-syncing, bulk uncompletion, toggle auto-rotation, and more
The popular task management service Remember the Milk has updated its iPhone application. Without further ado, here’s what’s new: Auto-competition for the “Smart Add” field – you don’t have to remember all those shortcuts anymore. Smarter auto-syncing – which means that now RTM will wait several seconds after you’ve made a change, and then automatically…
New Apple patent reveals NFC enabled iPhone [And iPod Touch, iMac, Apple TV and Apple Remote]
See that funky looking N in the top left hand corner of that iPhone? That’s the official NFC, now known as N-Mark, logo. Apple patent 20,100,082,784, which was filed in September 2008 and published last week, is called “System and method for simplified resource sharing” and that’s exactly what NFC enables. When two NFC devices…
ABI: 6 billion apps will be downloaded in 2010
The smartphone application space is going to explode this year, as ABI Research said there will be nearly 6 billion apps downloaded this year. That’s a sizable jump from last year, when 2.4 billion mobile programs were downloaded. This skyrocketing growth is due to the larger overall adoption of smartphones as well as the introduction…
iPhone OS 4.0 to Feature Video Calling?
Take this with a grain of salt, but iPhone OS 4.0, which will be announced on Thursday, may have video calling capabilities if this screenshot from a retracted O2 UK iPhone page is to be believed. It seems like a strange feature to include, since no iPhone, even the much-lauded iPad, doesn’t have a forward-facing…
Mobile Gmail gets Buzz
Google is making a hard push to make Buzz a bigger part of your life and it has integrated the service with the mobile version of Gmail for Android and iPhone. “Now, you’ll see buzz in your inbox on your phone just like you do in the desktop version of Gmail, complete with the little…
Netflix app coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
Don’t feel left out if you don’t have an iPad because the official Netflix app will soon come to your iPhone and iPod Touch with all the movie-streaming goodness you expect. “Terrific response to our news today about Netflix on the iPad,” said Steve Swasey, VP of corporate communications, in a blog post. “For those…
Verizon CEO says he wants the iPhone, but it’s Apple’s call
In news that should shock no one, Verizon Communications’ CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the nation’s largest cellular carrier is open to carrying the mega-successful iPhone. “It’s their call,” Seidenberg said at a conference. “Eventually, it’s our view we’ll get to carrying Apple.” Verizon’s CEO also said he has told Apple he wants to offer the…
Rogers Navigator for iPhone Now Available in the App Store
The Rogers Navigator App, which we told you about a little while ago, is now available for iPhone 3G and 3GS users via the App Store. The app itself is a free download, but if you want to subscribe to the service you’ll need to shell out $4.99 per month (ouch). Powered by TeleNav, Rogers…
Survey Says: BlackBerry Users Looking to Android and iPhone for Mobile Bliss
I usually give most surveys and research a grain-of-salt disclaimer. Sometimes because I don’t believe (or want to believe) the results, other times because the source of the information is not really credible. I’d like to attach the same sort of disclaimer to this little bit of info, mostly because, well, I just don’t believe…