IPhone news and information

Archive for May, 2008

Filed under: Productivity, Internet Tools, iPhone

I've tried a lot of online time-tracking solutions and have personally come to love Harvest for its simplicity, good looks and -- more than anything -- the great tools they provide to make punching in and out simple enough that people might actually do it. They've had a Dashboard widget (also available for Yahoo! Widgets) for some time which allows for insanely fast job tracking, whether entering it in post or starting and stopping a timer. You can even use Twitter from your phone to stop a running job timer if you forget. As of last Thursday, though, you can handle all of your time tracking and expense logging through a spiffy iPhone interface.

I have high hopes for the opening of the App Store and the veritable bounty that the Mac developer community will be able to offer. In the meantime, I'm really enjoying the number of highly-useful sites that are offering iPhone portals, and the companies and developers that are stepping up to provide services for a device which they must agree is not a passing fad.

Thanks, Danny!

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Filed under: Accessories, Developer, iPhone

After the game demos shown at the iPhone SDK, event a lot of folks have been very eager to get their hands on some serious games for the iPhone. Most of the attention has been focused on the motion sensors and touchscreen, but Nintendo's consoles notwithstanding buttons are a mainstay of serious games and the iPhone's poverty of physical buttons has had some of us worried about the long term potential of the platform.

Now a new accessory may go a long way towards alleviating those concerns. The iControlPad is an iPhone accessory that adds physical buttons and joypad. It slides onto the iPhone like a case (providing some protection) and offers a PSP-style form factor. The hardware interfaces via the Dock connector and is already supported by some of the emulators that run on jailbroken iPhones. They're also planning full SDK support once iPhone 2.0 ships, presumably next month.

The iControlPad is still in development and is not yet for sale. However, they are offering development kits to qualified developers.

[via Engadget]

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iPhone World

Myxer offers free (ad supported) iPhone ringtones, mp3 clips iPhone World, Canada - 52 minutes ago Myxer, a company providing ad-supported mobile content, launched support for the iPhone through their website at www.myxer.com. iPhone users can now access ... Apple settles iPhone touchscreen lawsuit iPhone World all 20 news articles

AT&T: No 3G iPhone prices set yet Computerworld, Norway - 29 minutes ago AT&T, Apple's sole iPhone partner in the US, hasn't set a price yet for the next iPhone, the company's chief financial officer told reporters Thursday at a ...

The Tech Herald

AT&T: No 3G iPhone prices set yet Computerworld, Norway - 3 hours ago AT&T, Apple's sole iPhone partner in the US, hasn't set a price yet for the next iPhone, the company's chief financial officer told reporters Thursday at a ... AT&T shows thinking on new iPhone subsidy CNNMoney.com 3G iPhone Will Be Able to Handle 42Mbps Wireless Speeds, Exec Claims PC World AT&T to determine pricing on 3G iPhone? IntoMobile VentureBeat - iPhone Matters all 45 news articles

Free magazines for your iPhone and iPod Touch Inquirer.net, Philippines - 17 minutes ago At the moment, all you need do is head on to zinio.com/iphone on your device to get full, free (for now, otherwise it’s US$5 per issue), hi-resolution and ...

Filed under: Rumors, iPhone

An unusually-large shipment of 188 mysterious containers has arrived in North America from Apple's manufacturing partners in China. The contents? "Electric computers," a term that Apple has never before used on its customs declarations.

Additionally, 67 of the containers were destined for Canada, landing in Vancouver, BC.

These containers are not to be confused with Apple's regular flotilla of shipping destined for the west coast. Typically, those containers are labeled as having "desktop computers" inside on their customs forms.

ImportGenius.com speculates that each container could contain up to 40,000 units of new iPhones.

Either that, or the UNIVAC I ordered finally arrived.

Thanks, Ryan!

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Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals

iPhone gaming aficionados -- your wildest dreams will soon be coming to fruition. Apparently, CraigX (one of the masterminds behind the Pandora project) is also busy whipping up a physical control pad add-on for the Apple device. The peripheral -- dubbed the iControlpad, of course -- will attach to the dock connector on the bottom of the phone and wrap around the sides, and is said to provide a PSX-like feel. The pad's site claims that compatibility is already built in to popular iPhone game emulators, and units are being sent out to other developers as well. The model pictured here is a prototype design -- but frankly, they had us at "Hello."

[Thanks, Andy]

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Wall Street Journal Blogs

Why the iPhone Means So Much To Apple Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago While we’re on the topic of Apple, Michael Mace, a principal at Silicon Valley strategy advisory firm Rubicon Consulting, argues that the iPhone is crucial ...