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Gizmodo’s 20 Essential iPhone Apps

Fri, 15 Nov 2008 13:13:51 GMT

posted by desinformado

The team at Gizmodo.com has collected a list of the most usable and essential iPhone apps that they can’t live without. The list contains much of our favorite applications and more than could be found interesting to the vast majority of iphone users.

Making the list are:

Pageonce Personal Assistant
AOL Radio
Fring
Remote
AirSharing
Pandora
Google Earth

and more…

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Tags: Gizmodo, Google, Google Earth, Iphone, Iphone Apps, Pandora, Personal Assistant, Radio

Interview with Marc Edwards of Bjango

Tue, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:26 GMT

posted by nealmedia

AppCraver recently spoke with Marc Edwards from Bjango, the developers behind apps such as Darkenss, Jobs 1.0, Cities and Phases. He answered our questions about developing apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

1. When did you start developing apps for the iPhone?

Marc Edwards: We’ve been building small test apps since day one of the SDK release, started building Mac OS X Cocoa apps in late 2005 and started building OS X Dashboard widgets (as iSlayer) in early June 2005.

2. What was the inspiration behind your apps?

Marc Edwards: We generally just build apps that interest us. We had been thinking about doing Darkness for other platforms for quite a while and once we started playing with the iPhone SDK we realized that it would work well as an iPhone app.

Jobs was inspired by pure laziness! In the past when I’ve freelanced, I’ve hated keeping track of the time spent on projects. I’ve never found an app I’ve been happy with and I generally haven’t had my computer with me anyway. So… the iPhone seemed like the perfect platform to build something that was incredibly quick to use. Something that didn’t get in the way, but let you enter enough details that you could export and use it for invoicing. That’s what Jobs is.

3. How did you settle on your price point for the app?

Marc Edwards: Wasn’t easy to do. The rest of the market has really limited the range for most apps but you still need to find a price that makes building applications worthwhile.

We generally do this as the very last step.

4. How did you like the developer tools provided in the iPhone SDK? is there anything missing?

Marc Edwards: Coming from developing Mac OS X apps we were pretty happy with the SDK. There are some things from Mac OS X we would like to see make it to the iPhone eventually but Apple are doing a good job in general.

5. Is your company privately owned? Venture backed?

Marc Edwards: 100% privately owned. I’m not sure venture backing would help us much. It would let us pay for advertising from day one I guess. We’re going to have to ramp things up a little slower to begin with, but in the end we’ll be in complete control of the apps we build and how we treat our customers. It means we can spend days on a feature that we think everyone will enjoy, even if it doesn’t mean more sales.

That’s a good feeling.

6. What are some of the other iPhone apps that you like?

Marc Edwards: I’m a big fan of iZotope’s iDrum. It’s so much fun to use. Twinkle and Wordpress help twit and blog while on the move. Critter Crunch and Air Hockey are great little games.

7. What kind of features should apple implement in future versions of the iPhone / SDK?

Marc Edwards: Feature wise we are pretty happy already. We would like to see more Mac OS X classes make it to the iPhone and an easier way to distribute beta copies would be nice.
One thing I’d love to see is some of the iPhone innovations make it back to Macs. GPS and Skyhook enabled apps would be just as great on a Mac notebook.

8. What’s the development cycle for iPhone apps like?

Marc Edwards: Very similar to any other application, be it web, Mac OS X or another kind. We’ll usually discuss any ideas first, then mock up some interface ideas, then build some test code if there’s something that’s tricky, then just head straight into the app.

I think Dashboard Widgets have a lot of similarities to iPhone apps… they’re both small, focused and use visually rich interfaces. So hopefully some of our widget experience will help us. I think it has so far.

9. Are you working on any other apps that you will be releasing soon?

Marc Edwards: We currently have 4 apps on the store (Jobs, Darkness, Phases and Cities). We have updates for all of those in progress and we’re working on quite a few other ideas.

iPhone Firmware 2.2 to be released on Nov. 21

Tue, 12 Nov 2008 20:31:23 GMT

posted by desinformado

It looks like Apple is indeed pushing through with the release of iPhone firmware 2.2 and if the latest rumor is to be believed, we’ll see it go live on November 21st. Aside from the Google Maps Street View and new layout of Safari, you’ll also be able to turn off text auto-correction, download podcasts from the App Store, and use the headphone jack as a Line-in port when you upgrade to firmware 2.2. We’re not sure if this is the complete list of new features in the latest firmware for the iPhone, but unless Apple has done something to make it more jailbreak-proof (which I suppose is nearly impossible), then we’re almost certain that an iPhone 2.2 jailbreak won’t be far behind when it’s released on November 21.

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Tags: Apple, Complete List, Firmware, Google, Google Maps, Google Maps Street View, Headphone Jack, Iphone, Maps, New Features, New Layout, Podcasts, Proof, Safari, Upgrade

Most expensive phone: Continental 3G iPhone with emeralds & diamonds

Sat, 16 Nov 2008 02:08:12 GMT

posted by watsap

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Category: 3g iphone | Tags: most expensive phone continental g iphone emeralds diamonds

We’ve already told you different types of iPhones – gold, platinum, diamond and etc. The premier online boutique of luxury goods, Continental Mobiles has unveiled the world’s first iPhone set in VS1 quality diamonds and emeralds, which is a fascinating stone that possesses a pure verdant green hue. Hand tailored in England by experts most iconic and enviable phone ever conceived glows in green opulence with vivid green emeralds of a pure verdant green hue. Blending seamlessly with the 3G iP

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New iPhone firmware 2.2 in just 10 days?

Tue, 12 Nov 2008 07:18:15 GMT

posted by topiphonenews

The guys over at iPhone Hellas are now stating that the iPhone firmware 2.2 update that we have been hearing so much about will be launched very soon. Just how soon you ask? They say in just ten days on November 21st the update will be available. This news has undoubtedly gotten us very excited.

iPhone Hellas has been right far more often than not with upcoming release dates. They say the futures that have been seen in the beta releases will all be present in the official release. Such features as Google Street View, walking directions and over-the-air podcast downloads will make this update worth the wait.

We don’t think that one of the last minute features that Apple always throws in will include a copy and paste. Such a large feature would take more than 10 days to implement. Looks like we will have to wait till the 21st to see what they have in store. Man this is going to be a long week.

[Via SlashGear]