March 19th, 2010
Finally there is some official word on when the iPhone 3GS launching in India. Reuters reports that Airtel has confirmed a deal with Apple Inc to sell the iPhone 3GS in India. Delayed for several months now, the 3GS was expected launch last year in August, however given the green signal by Airtel now, we await the pricing details and availability.
While iPad is launching in two weeks, we are still waiting for the 3GS. Would you buy the 3GS or skip it in favor of the iPhone 4G?
Categories: Apple, Tech Industry News, iphone |
Tags: 3gs airtel india, 3gs india, 3gs india launch, airtel, airtel 3gs, Bharti Airtel, india, iPhoen india, iphone | 3 Comments
February 26th, 2010
iControlPad did impress us a lot when we first saw it on iPhoneHelp. The gaming pad for iPhone is now under mass production and would be soon available in two versions. (more…)
Categories: Apple, Gaming, Videos, Wow Gadgets, iphone |
Tags: External Gaming Pad for iPhone, gamepad, icontrolpad, iphone, iphone gaming, iPhone gaming console, iphone gaming pad | 3 Comments
January 15th, 2010
The 2010 Nokia UI that we saw earlier is the S^4 UI Concept Proposal submitted by Nokia. Symbian OS 4 is expected to be launched by NOKIA along with some sleeky models most probably sometime in 2010 itself. The inspiration of this OS is taken from Android but we know where the actual push comes from, its the “iPhone”. Latest version of Symbian OSes are built and tested out on QT which have the capability to support hybrid, touch screen and other model phones.
Nokia is working on building clean and interactive (more…)
Categories: Softwares, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: Android, iphone, nokia, nokia touch phone, symbian 4, Symbian OS, touchscreen | No Comments
January 10th, 2010
For those who you who restrained themselves from buying an iPhone for not having a physical keyboard, here is a solution. But how effective is this solution? or is it worth? You decide.
ION have introduced this detachable QWERTY keyboard for iPhone. Dubbed iType, the keyboard has a slot where the iPhone can be docked and then the phone is ready to accept the text input. Simple? Well, its not as simple as it sounds. The catch here is that iPhone OS does not take text inputs from an external device. The solution from ION is a companion application that accepts the text input. This text can then be pushed to mail or can be copied to clipboard for use later.
As of now, there is no official price tag on on the device. But MobileCrunch reports that it would be costing $100. We suggest you take a look at the BTstack Keyboard and BTstack mouse that lets you connect your existing wireless keyboard and mouse to the iPhone, that too Free!
Categories: Accessories, Apple, iphone |
Tags: accessory, external keyboard for iphone, ionaudio, iphone, iphone keyboard, ipod touch keyboard, itype, keyboard | No Comments
December 1st, 2009
Motorola Droid, the closest competitor to the iPhone, tried to gain some publicity through the iPhone platform (Update: the author didn’t meant to imply that Motorola pushed this app via the developer). The handset, which is the first one to be powered by Android 2.0, introduced an application for the iPhone. The app obviously didn’t make it through the AppStore censors.
The iDroid application developed by Sawvv App did nothing but advertise the Motorola Droid through the AppStore. It showed the glowing red droid eye on the home screen. A click on the droid eye would show the different features of the Motorola Droid in bullet points. The features mostly included the ones that were the shortcomings of the iPhone, such as the slide-out QWERTY keypad, the ability to run multiple applications, and the (more…)
Categories: Android, Apple, motorola |
Tags: Android, idroid, iphone, iphone app, motorola droid | 5 Comments
November 30th, 2009
When it comes to the ‘real-fake’ phones from China, some of them really make big news. While the OPhone made the news for being the closest clone of the iPhone, I personally liked the Nokia E97 for an awesome design. This time around, we have the “Nokia-iPhone” coming straight from the re-engineering (read copying) department from another Chinese manufacturer, via the supplier EEMOBI.
Dubbed the Cooli902, this handest features (more…)
Categories: Apple, nokia |
Tags: china mobile, chinese fake, cooli902, fake iphone, fake n97, iphone, iphone clone, nokia iphone, nokia n97 | No Comments
November 20th, 2009
I was naturally excited about the new Blower App for the iPhone. This thing uses the iPhone speaker to blow out air that as per the app description Blow out candles, Blow herbs away, Refresh your skin during hot summer nights! And seeing the youtube video demonstrating how the app works wasn’t enough for me. So I decided to put this thing to test myself. Here is the result.
Note: I tried this with my 2G iPhone. Will try to do this with a 3G if I get a volunteer 
– Video of this attempt is coming on YouTube shortly below (though the camera memory gave up on me, I have a few seconds to show).
(more…)
Categories: Videos, Weird or not?, iphone, mobile app |
Tags: app store, blower app, burnt iphone, iphone, iphone app | 1 Comment
October 6th, 2009
The iLickIt iPhone application is exactly what it sounds like. The iPhone screen will show some food that the user has to “wipe” using his/her tongue…yes literally use their tongue.
(more…)
Categories: Entertainment, Humour, Weird or not?, mobile app |
Tags: ilickit, iphone, iphone application, ipod touch application, weird | 2 Comments
September 24th, 2009
The console wars are all set to enter a new phase. Consider the evidence: Microsoft has revealed the Xbox 360 Elite and is readying a much more radical device for late 2010, complete with the player-as-a-controller Project Natal. Sony has come out with a slimmer PS3 and is looking to come out with UMD-less PSP Go in a month or two, even while working on bringing out a motion-sensing edition of the PS3 a bit later (yep, with the PS3 wand).
There is a name missing out there, right? Well, yes, it is that of the company that is actually been leading both Microsoft and Sony by the nose in the console business over the last year and a half – Nintendo. The Wii made fair mincemeat of the PS3 and Xbox 360, while the Nintendo DS has pretty much buried the Sony PSP.
But will that state of affairs continue? Both Sony and Microsoft are working hard to neutralise the Wii’s motion-sensing edge and the (more…)
Categories: Gaming, Reviews |
Tags: Apple, DS, iphone, ipod touch, microsoft, nintendo, ps3, sony, wii, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment
August 1st, 2009
Apple and AT&T have been really nasty with apps that competes / tests either of the two companies own services. Even the VOIP applications on the App Store like Skype cannot use the AT&T’s 3G network to make calls. Such a policy has been put in place to protect ATT’s limited 3G capacity. Given that there are millions of iPhone users registered with ATT, any app that Apple approves on the AppStore can affect AT&T’s business or put its 3G network to test. The most recent app to be banned from the App Store is the Google Voice.
Google Voice assigns a single phone number to (more…)
Categories: Apple, Google, Softwares, Tech Industry News |
Tags: app store, apps tore, att vs google, fcc, google voice, google voice iphone app, google vs apple, iphone, iphone app | 4 Comments
July 17th, 2009
Apple has updated iTunes to version 8.2.1 and fixed “important bugs”. Apple’s latest update of iTunes has blocked the Palm Pre sync. Which means the Palm users would no longer be able to download music from iTunes. A spokesperson from Apple has confirmed this, calling the iTunes-Palm Pre sync a ‘bug’ in the previous versions of iTunes.
“iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides a number of important bug fixes,” says Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “It also disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre. As we’ve said before, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with unsupported digital media players.”
The two companies have been going through some issues over touch technology. The action would definitely cause some inconvenience to the Palm Pre users who (more…)
Categories: Apple, Softwares, Tech Industry News |
Tags: iphone, itunes, itunes 8.2.1, palm pre, palm vs apple, sync | No Comments
July 7th, 2009
Apple certainly had grand plans for the iPhone platform. Powered by a great hardware+software duo the Apple phone is all set to innovate beyond our expectations. Various patents filed by Apple over the years (and recently) gives us a clear idea of what the company is planning. Your dream gadgets are being designed and in great style.
Long back we heard how Apple planned to make stolen iPod’s unusable for thieves. Here the stolen gadget won’t charge up unless authenticated. The technology is not yet implemented but for the moment iPhone 3.0 does offer a GPS based locate option. A series of recent patents give us an idea of what Apple has (more…)
Categories: Apple, Future WIP |
Tags: Apple, biometric security, fingerprint, future, innovation, iphone, patents | 1 Comment
June 30th, 2009
iPhone 3GS is certainly the most powerful / fastest iPhone ever made but it seems people are not just content with that. So here is an attempt to convince us that the iPhone 3GS might well be waterproof! The videos shows a person dropping his 3GS in the swimming pool while shooting a video.
Next probably they will say its even bullet proof
Via
(more…)
Categories: Apple, Videos, Weird or not? |
Tags: 3g s, 3gs, apple iphone, iphone, iphone 3gs, waterproof | 2 Comments
June 14th, 2009
Forrester Research’s independent study has found out that iPhone users are younger, educated more affluent and even more productive than average smartphone user or non-iPhone user.
The study was conducted on 32,228 iPhone users back in 2008. The study says that those who use an iPhone are more active and browse more Internet than other phone users.
Ted Schadler, found that the iPhone users are “more than twice as likely to access the Internet from their phone as working Blackberry, Palm, or Windows Mobile device owners.” Many employees involved in the study said that they prefer to use an iPhone at work, even if its not been provided by the employer.
The study was conducted before the $199 pricing iPhone 3G was announced. About one and a half year back started study mostly surveys the 1st gen iPhone users who has to shell out $499 upwards for the Apple phone. The pricing explains the iPhone users being richer than the others. iPhone users being younger and more educated can also be understood.
But, iPhone users being more productive than non-iPhone user is based on the Internet usage of the iPhone users. The study says that the iPhone users connect to the Internet atleast once in a week thus validating the Internet rich capabilities of the iPhone platform.
Anyways, with too many changes in the iPhone since the study was conducted, Forrester Research plans to revisit the study to observe the changes in the user demographics of iPhone. Till then you can grab a $99 iPhone 3G and consider yourself young, rich & smart
via [AppleInsider]
Categories: Apple, Concept / Educative, Tech Industry News |
Tags: apple iphone, iphone, research, study, survey | 11 Comments
May 17th, 2009
Here is the latest buzz from iPhoneHelp.in
(more…)
Categories: Tech Industry News |
Tags: iphone, iphone news, iphonehelp | No Comments
May 13th, 2009
The makers of the plated and the Solid precious metal phones just don’t get tired of raising it to the next level. One thing that I just don’t understand that who buys these phone?
After the Solid Gold iPhone, the next obvious is the Solid Platinum iPhone for just $37,000.
What’s next?
via [Gizmodo]
Categories: Weird or not?, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: iphone, jewel phone, luxury, luxury phone, platinum iphone | 1 Comment
May 5th, 2009
Tired of flashing your expensive cars, watches and other useless stuff? Go ahead boy, time to replace your old gold plated iPhone with the new solid gold iPhone. Time to dig out some money from the money pit in the garden (£22,995) and grab this Solid God iPhone 3G 16GB.
What? Recession? LOL
Via [Mobiletor]
Categories: Apple, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: apple iphone jewellery, gold iphone, iphone, luxury | 2 Comments
May 3rd, 2009
Despite the success of the App Store, iPhone developers haven’t had the smoothest of journey in the past year. Developers have time and again protested against Apple’s appstore approval process. But what is frustrating some developers at the moment is the delayed payments from Apple. While Apple’s contract with the developers assures them payout in 45 days after the month end, some developers have claimed non payment since Sept / Nov 2008.
In recession time (otherwise aswell) we believe that cash rich companies like Apple should make extra attempts to pay their partners / developers timely. Apple recently celebrated successful sales of 1 billion Apps via the AppStore, but the people behind the development of these wonderful apps are hurt. The situation has gone so far for these developers that they are threating legal action against Apple for these delayed payments.
Me too I’m afraid. They owe me 1,000’s and some of us have families and houses to pay for 
[iPhone Developers Forum]
Apple certainly has thousands of apps and developers to take care of and it would certainly make sense for them to improve the payout system to accommodate this traffic. Hope things go peacefully and we keep seeing some amazing apps on the iTunes AppStore.
Via TechCrunch
Categories: Apple, Tech Industry News |
Tags: app store, apple developers, appsotre, developers, iphone, legal | 1 Comment
April 10th, 2009
After being sued for promoting iPhone as e-book reader, using camera sensor technology and over screen’s rendering process, this time its for infringing multi-touch patents.
Elan Microelectronics, a Taiwan based company, has sued Apple for infringing its two multi-touch patents. The company has filed a suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court at San Francisco. The company said that they have been negotiating with Apple for the last two years over licensing the technology. Elan Microelectronics’s Dennis Liu said, “”We couldn’t find a common viewpoint with Apple, so we decided we had to take action”.
The first patent in conflict is the U.S. Patent 5,825,352 , which relates to using two or more fingers for giving an input to a touch-screen. Apple has been using this multi-touch function in iPhone and MacBook Pro.
Other, U.S. Patent No. 7,274,353, relates to using touch to switch between text and handwriting input modes. This is too used in the iPhone.
And, we already know that Apple too has patented Multi-touch. Now whether the mistake is Apple’s or the Patent office is to be decided by the court.
via [TechTree]
Categories: Apple, Tech Industry News |
Tags: apple lawsuits, apple patent dispute, apple sued, iphone, patent dispute, sued | 2 Comments
April 10th, 2009
June ‘09 is very close and Apple is expected to launch the new iPhone. So most Apple news that we’ll be hearing for the next two months will be iPhone rumors. This is one of those.
In June ‘08 there were rumors that Apple placed a huge 50 million 8Gbit (Gigabit) NAND chips for the launch of the iPhone 3G that we use today (also the 2nd gen iPod Touch). This year the figure has doubled, this time its 100 million 8Gbit NAND chips from Samsung. The chips are later assembled to build 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB memory which can be seen in the next iPhone and other Apple devices.
The huge order for 8Gbit chips is expected to create a shortage for these chips in the market which may delay launches from other mobile manufacturers.
100 million 8 gigabit chips would mean a capacity of 12.5 million devices running 8GB memory. This would be equal to 2.25 million 16GB devices and 2 million 32GB devices.
via [iPhone Help]
Categories: Apple, Market Watch, Tech Industry News |
Tags: apple nand market, gigabit, iphone, iphone memory chips, nand chips | No Comments
