If you’re still holding your breath for Apple to enable some sort of turn-by-turn GPS navigation functionality on the iPhone, you might have to keep on keepin’ on, as they say. Ever since Apple released its GPS-toting iPhone 3G, the world has been waiting for a bona fide navigation application with turn-by-turn directions. The GPS…
Apple iPhone Prototypes Fetching Big Bucks on eBay
Ever want to get your hands on an iPhone prototype? Thankfully someone out in Illinois has a few prototypes kicking around, and both are up for sale on eBay. A working version has a matte plastic screen, while the other doesn’t seem to be working at all, and could be used best for parts I…
Cydia developer planning Cydia App Store for jailbroken iPhones!
Talk about taking matters into his own hands. Soured by Apple’s restrictive iPhone SDK and increasingly delayed turn-around times for new iPhone developer contracts, one iPhone developer is preparing to take Apple’s venerable iPhone App Store head-on with an AppStore alternative. Dubbed the “Cydia Store,” in reference to the jailbreak application repository “Cydia” that comes…
Apple’s slow iPhone app turn-around discouraging new iPhone developers
A double-edged sword. That’s what the iPhone AppStore is fast becoming for Apple’s PR team. On the one edge, we have an incredibly popular and lucrative iPhone App Store that has seen something like 25,000 applications (6,000 of which are games) being offered to iPhone owners. Surely, that’s a pretty sharp edge. Unfortunately, there’s this…
Apple iPhone developers running out of time?
With iPhone developer contracts only outlined for a one-year period, iPhone developers who jumped on board the good-ship iPhone App Store in its earliest days are now facing a dilemma – they’re contracts are set to expire within the month and Apple has yet to announce an official contract-renewal mechanism. Apple previously told iPhone developers…
Over 6,000 Games Now Available in the Apple App Store
If you ever had any doubt that the iPhone was the premier mobile gaming device, I’ve got some cool news for you this morning. Turns out that more than 6,000 iPhone games are now available via the App Store, and those numbers are growing quick. Currently 6,165 games are available. 1,485 of those titles are…
Apple AppStore hits 25,000 apps?
This isn’t offical, hence the question mark at the end of the title. However, according to 148Apps.com, which keeps a running count of all the iPhone app submissions, more than 25,000 applications have been submitted to the Apple AppStore since May 2008. More precisely, at the moment of this writing the total number was 26,024!…
Katana for the iPhone Gets an Update
Appliya has updated their ‘Katana‘ app with some new features. What is Katana? It’s a simple and fun little app that turns your iPhone into a sword, much like those ‘light saber’ apps that were popular awhile back. Good clean fun really. The update has added the following: updated sounds automatic sheathing disabled by user…
UK Girl Band ‘The Mentalists’ Perform Live With iPhones and iPod Touches In-Hand
Here’s a cool one. The UK girl group ‘The Mentalists‘ were recently caught on film playing a cover of ‘Kids’ by MGMT on only their iPhones and iPod Touches. Check out the video to see for yourself. I have to admit, when I first hit play I thought the song was going to be a…
China Unicom chairman confirms Apple iPhone talks!
Here we go again. Apple has been trying to crack the China market with its iPhone for almost as long as the iPhone 3G has been around. With multiple rounds of reported negotiations between Apple and Chinese wireless carriers having fruited little more than speculation, the folks in Cupertino have yet to lay claim to…