Agent 18 has announced the debut of its iPhone 3G cases – EcoShield and FlowerVest. The first one, EcoShield, is made of a scratch resistant hard-plastic derived from recycled plastic bottles. It’s one of the thinnest cases on the market, yet it offers enough rugged protection to protect your iPhone 3G. EcoShield is available in…
CellSpin goes iPhone; Allows mobile blogging, posting to social media/network sites on the go
CellSpin has recently announced support for the iPhone. Now users of Apple’s shiny handset and iPod Touch can capture audio, photos and text, or select existing media on the iPhone, and publish it media to their favorite blogging, social networking, photo sharing and/or auction sites simultaneously. Aside from allowing users to blog or post their…
iPhone Voice Dial app hits AppStore
In case you’re missing voice dialing on your iPhone, you’ll be glad to know a third party application which enables the mentioned feature is now available on AppStore. I haven’t tried it myself, but I guess there’s no much fuss when it comes to voice dialing. Record your voice, assign it to a contact and…
iPhone 3G hits melting-point, burns sleeping dude’s leg
The iPhone 3G is the new hotness. It’s so hot, in fact, that iPhone 3G hopefuls are still hitting backorder-walls at Apple Stores nationwide, three weeks after its initial global launch. But, we’re speaking in metaphorical terms here. Metaphorical terms, that is, unless you’re MacForums user LonginottiFilms. He’s apparently had his iPhone 3G get so…
Analyst predicts RIM to reign in growth and lose AT&T’s favor
Research In Motion (RIM) has seen impressive growth in the enterprise-oriented smartphone market during recent quarters. The BlackBerry maker’s bullish performance on Wall Street underpins the firm’s 70% smartphone share on AT&T and 107% year-on-year growth as of Q1 2008. But, Credit Suisse analyst Kulbinder Garcha believes RIM’s stock price is significantly over-valued. Why? RIM…
Quake founder John Carmack: iPhone better than dedicated gaming systems
If you have an iPhone or, better yet, an iPhone 3G, you’re probably well aware of how powerful the iPhone is as a media, web surfing, and gaming platform. Pairing a powerful set of processors and graphics acceleration technologies with the huge multi-touch display has made for a mobile gaming platform unlike any other currently…
NetShare for iPhone 2.0 OS – iPhone EDGE / 3G tethering made easy
For all you out there willing to shell out a few bucks for the convenience of hassle-free iPhone tethering (”tethering” is a method that allows your laptop to use your mobile phone’s wireless data connection to surf the web, check email, etc.), a new iPhone application has hit the AppStore… again. NetShare, the iPhone application…
Use your iPhone as car performance meter – G-tac and Dynolicious for performance tracking
Proud of that hot, new ride you just bought yourself? Sure you are. But, whether you’re just mashing the throttle in a straight line or carving up the twisties, sawing the wheel back and forth in search of grip, you’re probably wondering just how fast you’re actually moving. Well, iPhone owners need wonder no more.…
New iPhone 2.1 OS SDK beta brings background notification tools to developers – Push background notification coming soon
Forget multi-tasking, push background notification is where it’s at. With the limited resources available to mobile devices, running multiple applications in the background can tax the CPU, drain the battery faster, and lead to system instability as multiple applications fight for memory allottment and CPU cycles. Apple has seeded a new iPhone 2.1 OS SDK…
AT&T rolls out Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for iPhone 3G
It’s happening all over again. Just as we saw with the original iPhone, AT&T is offering their hard-of-hearing customers the option to use their new iPhone 3G as a text-messaging communications device with none of the voice-call costs. The Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) has come to the iPhone 3G. AT&T isn’t going to make their…