The company called Spoonjack recently launched iBone – the so called “Pocket Trombone for iPhone and iPod Touch.” The application allows users to play-a-long with music from their iTunes library, and also with songs from the iBone Songbook. Here’s how it works: Touch the display or blow into the microphone to produce a sound. Slide…
Analyst Says iPhone is More Enterprise-Ready than BlackBerry
Sorry, it’s hard to not do a spit-take after reading that. Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler has gone on record touting the iPhone as a superior enterprise mobility solution for a few reasons, primarily because appealing to end-user demand before management criteria results in greater gains. For example, if employees have their own handsets rather…
iTraffic Free Climbs to #1 Spot Among App Store Freebies
The puzzle game ‘iTraffic Free’ from Christian Bonnin has climbed to the #1 spot in the free apps section in the App Store (at least from where I sit, up here in Canada!). The app is the free version of ‘iTraffic Jam’ (available for $0.99) also from Christian Bonnin. The object of the game is…
Get Your Pinball On: Freeballin’ for iPhone
Love pinball? Looking for the best Pinball game yet for the iPhone? Freeballin’ might be the iPhone app you’ve been looking for! Freeballin’ features 4 fully-featured pinball machines named Tiki Trouble, Monsteropolis, Dreams & Nightmares and Neometric. Progress your way through each machine to take on boss battles, and climb your way up to the…
Orange France launches “TV from Orange” iPhone application, service
Orange has recently launched a new mobile TV offering for its iPhone owning subscribers in France. The deal includes a native iPhone app called “TV from Orange,” which allows interested users to access to around 60 TV channels such as French national, TNT and thematic channels. The carrier is saying the streaming will work even…
Apple orders 4 million new iPhones?
New rumblings along the mobile grapevine are pointing towards 4 million new iPhones being prepared to blitz the smartphone market come mid-2009. The Chinese-language China Times is reporting that Apple has placed orders with component integrators to ship some 4 million new iPhones by the end of June 2009. This latest speculation bodes well for…
GVDialer Plugs Phone into Google Voice
We’ve seen screenshots of Google Voice in a mobile web format, but a recent comment pointed us to GVDialer, a new third-party app that lets you plug into the service previously known as Grand Central on your mobile. The main features include: One number – Present your Google number as your Caller ID on outgoing…
Unlocked Apple iPhone 3G for $799 at Buy.com
Want to pick up an unlocked iPhone that comes with full Apple warranty and iTunes update capability? Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to worry about jailbreaking ever again! Well, now you can thanks to the folks over at Buy.com. It’ll cost you a pretty penny ($799) but this deal is for real. No…
Trend Micro launches free, secure mobile browser for Apple iPhone/iPod Touch
Trend Micro wants some ride on the “iPhone wave,” hence they’ve recently announced their first iPhone app called Trend Smart Surfing to enable secure browsing on the platform. Now, don’t get this wrong – there’s nothing wrong with the built-in Safari browser. What Trend Micro tries to do is make the web surfing even more…
Audi releases 2nd iPhone app – Truth in 24
Their first iPhone application, Audi A4 Driving Challenge, was obviously a success (nearly 3.2 million downloads) when we see them releasing another one. Yap, we’re talking about the famous car maker Audi, which has a new offering in the AppStore. The so called Truth in 24 driving app “challenges iPhone and iPod touch players to…