The iPhone firmware 2.2 is here, here are the updates:
Enhancements to Maps -Google Street View*, Public transit and walking directions, Display address of dropped pins and Share location via email.
Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
Enhancements to Mail- Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email and improved formatting of wide HTML email
Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
Improved stability and performance of Safari
Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings
Update is now available at Apple site now.
Google has developed an app for iPhone which give the phone advanced voice recognition. The application is capable of answering location related question (example like: Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and search local data from the address book.
The thing works by recording the soundbite, uploading to Google’s servers which will crunch the data and return an answer “within seconds on a fast wireless network”.
It is a free application, should be available through iTunes store. Video after the break. Read more…
mophie has announced its new juice pack for iPhone 3G. This battery extender is equipped with a rechargeable lithium polymer battery within a comfort-grip case with a soft-touch, non-slip finish. This battery extender will give you extra 350 hours of standby time / 6 hours of talk time on 3G / 12 hours of talk time on 2G / 6 hours of Internet use on 3G / 8 hours of video playback, / 28 hours of audio playback. While your iPhone 3G is shoved into the juice pack, you can simultaneously charge and sync your iPhone to iTunes without the need of removing it. The mophie juice pack is available online or in stores at an MSRP of $99.95. More pictures after the break. Read more…
Are you kidding me? China Mobile might be asking Apple to take off the 3G capabilities and the WiFi feature from the iPhone 3G. Alright, thing goes like that. According to CNET, China Mobile wants Apple to ship the iPhone with WiFi and 3G chips disable is because of….competition. China Mobile is planning to get their own 3G network based on a homegrown Chinese standard for third-generation networks that is not compatible with the widely used W-CDMA standard ~ that is also expected to be used by China Mobile competitor China Telecom. But why taking off the Wifi feature? That will be an inconvenient phone for traveling.
[via Slashphone]
Loves cupcakes? There were super Mario cupcakes ago? Now we have the iPhone cupcakes by Nick Bilton and Danielle Bilton, a set of 12 cupcakes is baked as a tribute to the iPhone. These cupcakes were entered in a Cupcake Decorating Championship at Ignite NYC and have won first place. So what are they going to do with the cupcakes now?
[via Gizmodiva]
Are you looking for the in-car charger for your iPhone? Here’s one, compatible with your iPhone/iPhone 3G. Shove it in the cigarette lighter socket in your car and get your iPhone charging up. It’s available for $7. More pictures after the break. Read more…
Remember the Brightonnet BI-IPEN? It’s available for sale, at $14.17. Yeah, for ladies with long nails to text on iPhone or iPod Touch. The Pen top is made of resin and conductive and will never scratch the liquid crytal panel of iPhone / iPod touch.
I thought they were scratch proof (video here)? I heard that there are some complaints of scratched screen.
Spring was installed to gives the stylus pen special flexibility. On other end, there’s a cap which you can pull off and your will find a pin on the cap where you can use it to take out the sim card slot from the iPhone.
More pictures after the break. Read more…
It was revealed at the Apple’s “Let’s Rock” even. The Need for Speed Undercover is available for iPhone. It will be released in North America on the 18 November and in Europe on November 21st. Demonstration after the break. Read more…
Remember the mystery cute Chinese girl iPhone worker found in a new iPhone? That cute girl has been identified, I found the news in Yahoo. Some ask (me one of them) will she gets fired by her boss? The answer is no. Story goes like this.
Foxconn a Taiwan based company assembles the iPhones for Apple in Shenzhen in southern China, Reuters did call to them but received an unanswered call at the end.
Identified, Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun told the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong that the cute girl had been identified but her details would not be released and she had also been assured by her bosses that her job was safe, yeah!
According to Liu, the photos were taken in the testing department as part of a normal procedure. So far there’s one iPhone was known to be affected.
She’s famous in the internet now I guess. Happy for her.
Wow this is cool! iPhone.ru has modified the iPhone, replacing the Apple logo at the back with a glowing one just like the one on MacBook.
“The battery doesn’t suffer a lot, you can adjust the glow level in Settings menu”
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