Apple is out with the latest AppStore figures and the numbers are impressive. Here’s the recap. Since the official launch of the AppStore on July 11, 2008: iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded more than 100 million applications and games More than 3,000 applications are currently available Over 90% of all apps and games…
Report: RIM still leads US smartphone market, Apple takes second place
All the doom and gloom surrounding the US economy’s downward spiral into recession apparently isn’t enough to stifle the US smartphone market. While the rest of the US suffers from weak consumer spending, the smartphone market is a veritable “shining star” of hope. For the January to July 2008 period, NPD Group reports that overall…
Apple’s vision of future multi-touch includes voice, sight, finger-recognition
Leave it to the pioneers of multi-touch in the mobile space to apply for a patent on all future versions of multi-touch. Apple’s latest patent filing suggests that Cupertino is working to integrate more than just touch-based input modalities in to future versions of multi-touch. The problem with the current multi-touch setup is that it’s…
Spore Origins due to hit iPhone this week, likely a let down
Spore hit the Apple Keynote stage all those months ago to show iPhone 3G hopefuls what kind of gaming experience to expect on the iPhone 3G and iPhones running the iPhone 2.0 OS. Spore Origins, alongside Sega’s Super Monkey Ball, promised to usher the iPhone and iPhone 3G into the world of mobile gaming. Unfortunately,…
Snow Patrol to release interactive album as iPhone application
There’s no slowing down the iPhone and the AppStore. As popularity for the Apple smartphone and its integrated AppStore continue to grow, companies and musicians alike are looking to new ways to market themselves with an iPhone-twist. The latest group to take advantage of the iPhone and AppStore’s popularity is the Irish band Snow Patrol.…
Apple rejects fart-joke iPhone application
Talk about a lame excuse. Apple, long known as the tech-company that does whatever it feels like doing, has rejected an up-and-coming iPhone application on grounds that it provides “limited utility.” Granted, the iPhone application, Pull My Finger, does little more than generate a “fart” sound, Apple’s rejection of the application is a disturbing move.…
DIY homemade iPhone document scanner
The iPhone as a document scanner? No way! It’s nigh impossible to hold an iPhone still enough and at just the right distance from a document to take a clear picture of said document for digital safe-keeping. That is, unless you’re rocking this DIY (do-it-yourself) homemade iPhone document scanner. Digital warrior and University of Cincinnati’s…
Even Steve Wozniak jailbreaks his iPhones
The latest evidence that Apple has to seriously give more thought to its iPhone SDK development guidelines comes to us in the form of Steve Wozniak’s “pwned” iPhone. The picture you see below shows Woz holding an iPhone that bears the telltale boot-logo of a jailbroken, “pwned” to be more precise, Apple handset. With Pwnage…
AT&T sees massive data network outage on East Coast
AT&T has been struggling to keep up with demand on its data network since the launch of the iPhone 3G. Tests and speculation have all but absolved the iPhone 3G of any inherent defect as the root of sluggish data network performance on AT&T’s 3G network. At this point, AT&T’s recently upgraded 3G network is…
O2 unveils iPhone 3G Pay and Go pricing, launch date
We knew O2 has wowed to offer the iPhone 3G sans any contracts as a “Pay and Go” device. However, when we covered the story in June, other than this information we hardly knew anything else. Now we have more details to report. First the pricing – O2 will sell the 8GB and 16GB iPhone…