iPhone Buzz Week in Review - Week 47 2008

Pocket Jockey may sounds a little perverse but in reality it?s one of the weirdest games we have found on the iPhone. The game itself is your typical horse racing game, but it is played by shaking your iPhone vigorously. If you?re in a Wi-Fi area you can also play ...

Apple launches ?iPhone your life? site

Are you looking for good iPhone application recommendations? While you could look at our App Store section to find reviews, you can also head over to a new section on Apple’s website. “iPhone Your Life,” as it’s called, allows you to see applications as they relate to different parts of your life, and what app [...]

Surprise: Apple releases 2.2 iPhone firmware

Shockingly, Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 firmware in the middle of the night (yes, that’s a bit odd, but who knows with Apple). The latest update is available in iTunes for existing iPhone owners. The update includes:
Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
- public transit and walking directions
- display address of dropped pins
- share location [...]

Free iPhone ringtones web app

iPhonesTalk.com is pleased to announce the release of our free personalized iPhone ringtones web app. Currently with 10 different ringtones to choose from with more coming soon you can personalize each ringtone with your choice of name.
The ringtones range from down right irritating, hip hop and country style to the more civilized Butler announcing your [...]

Control your Rovio with your iPhone

Many of you iPhone owners will not be able to control yourself when you see the new Rovio by WowWee on store shelves. This radio controlled beast is more for adults and offers many fantastic features such as live video camera and even allows you to speak through it. With no ...

Cheat the law with NMobile

For any of you out there that have trouble avoiding speed traps, NMobile is the application for you. This application shows you the location of speed traps, red light cameras and radar locations. All of these locations are then displayed on a map for you.
Using your internal GPS in conjunction ...

Get ready to race with Pocket Jockey

Warren Stringer has created a new multiplayer horse racing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you just cant seem to get away from the racetracks this application will hold you over till your next visit.
Shake your iPhone to make the horse run faster. By the end of a ...

Classic Gaming comes to the iPhone with Crystal Quest

iSoft makes you pay for landscape keyboard for SMS

It is very inconvenient for the iPhone to only have a landscape QWERT keyboard in Safari and not in any other mode. For over a year nothing has been done as far as updates or application to remedy the problem. iSoft has been the first to set out and bring ...

More details surface regarding AT&T?s iPhone tethering plans

AT&T Mobility CED, Ralph De La Vega, has recently announced the arrival of the tethering plans for the iPhone. We all knew that AT&T has been working with Apple to bring an official tethering plan to iPhone customers, but no previous details have been leaked. AT&T has always done their best ...

Cosmic One brings addictive gameplay to your iPhone or iPod Touch

oeFun has just announced the release of Cosmic One for the iPhone and iPod Touch, this game is one of the simplest puzzle games around today. Just choose whether to use your left or right thumb on your on your way to addictive gameplay. Cosmic One is your literally a pick ...

Surf Report by Oakley and Surfline becomes surfers new best friend

Oakley and Surfline announced the release of an application for the iPhone that will provide surfers with worldwide access to the latest surf reports. This application gives you real-time information from Surfline, in media rich format. This release just happens to be free, it includes community updated information, surf and weather ...

Raisix Inc. launches ColorMatch for the iPhone

The ColorMatch iPhone app is the easy way to take the guesswork out of matching dress shirts, neckties, dresses, accessories, upholstery, wall or house paint and more. ColorMatch is an inexpensive iPhone application for professionals and non-professionals alike that instantly finds perfect color matches at home, in a store, or on location in a [...]

Real in a big catch with Flick Fishing for the iPhone

Freeverse has followed up the popular Flick Bowling with the second game in their line of Flick Sports games: Flick Fishing. The motion controls of the fishing rod and reel seem like they’d work well on the iPhone with its gestures and tilting capability, and with dozens of species of fish to catch, seems like [...]

Multitrack audio recorder called FourTrack, available for iPhone

Macintosh developer Sonoma Wire Works has released a new audio application called FourTrack for the iPhone and iPod touch that can record audio, and it targets musicians who wish to experiment with songs on the iPhone. As the name suggests, the app has four tracks that are recorded at 16bit, 44.1kHz and have no length limit [...]

Global typing contest for all iPhone users

Idle Hands is a free iPhone app that runs a global typing contest for all iPhone users, and also gives them plenty of opportunity and instruction to improve their typing. You can practice as many times as you like, but in the end it all comes down to a single, global championship where you have to [...]

Webster?s Dictionaries application released in App Store

Leading technology developers for mobile devices, Paragon Software Group, has launched the world-famous Merriam-Webster?s Dictionaries application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application consists of one explanatory and two bilingual ? Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries.
The database contains over 476,00 entries with more than 143,000 etymologies detailing word origins, 100,000 quotations ...

iPhone gets Bluetooth mini-keyboard

Shortly after we see the first iPhone keyboard, another one surfaces. This one is far less attractive and seemingly less portable. The advantage this one has over the other is Bluetooth connectivity. The picture make it appear to be very large in comparison to the other ones on the market, ...

De Vere?s Unveil Angels Tears Diamond Encrusted iPhone 3G

Diamond jewellers, De Vere?s of London have unveiled their beautiful diamond encrusted iPhone 3G, the ?Angels Tears?. This stunning Art Deco inspired Apple iPhone has been created by De Vere?s founder Philip De Vere in memory of his mother who died of ovarian cancer. A number of examples are being ...

Free voice dialer for iPhone is super accurate and requires no voice tags or training

Say Who is a free voice dialer for the iPhone and has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands users. It's super accurate and requires no voice tags or training. Just speak any NAME in your contact list, including nicknames and company/business contact names. You can say entire names, or just ...

Game Grip case being released soon for the iPhone

Marware has announced plans to release the Game Grip case for the iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The case will retail for $49.99 and is available for pre-order online on their website right now: http://www.marware.com/PRODUCTS/iPhone-3g-cases/Game-Grip
Equipped with secure feeling silicone grips, the Game Grip provides you with a more handheld game console experience using your iPhone [...]

Wal-Mart announces a custom iPhone website

Joining the ranks of other companies eager to get on the iPhone bandwagon, Wal-Mart has debuted an iPhone-ready web site that’s just about fully functional. Users surfing to http://www.wal-mart.com will be automatically redirected to the iPhone version of the web site if they are using an iPhone. Once on the site, users have an option [...]

Archade Hockey to hit App Store soon

Ben Jackson, Owner and Technical Director of Brainjuice, LLC, spoke about an iPhone application called Arcade Hockey. The application is a table hockey game that is apparently a ton of fun.
The game is set to release into the App Store in early to mid November, no word on how much ...

Apple says no to Opera Mini

Many mobile phone enthusiasts can testify that Opera Mini is a really nice mobile web Browser. Reports have surfaced stating that Apple has rejected an Opera Mini application for the iPhone. Chances are Apple will say that they refused it because it copies a feature that the iPhone already ...

Live Podcast Downloading will be added to Firmware 2.2?

TUAW posts a screenshot from the iPhone 2.2 Firmware Beta 2 that has been provided to developers that seems to indicate that Apple will be delivering live podcast downloads on the iPhone (and iPod Touch). Speculation is that this may be why Apple rejected the Podcaster application a month or so ago. The “Get More [...]

New 2.2 firmware may be seeking more ratings and input from app users

iPhoneHellas.gr, iPhone news site, has released a screenshot from the latest iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 which reveals that Apple may be seeking to increase customer participation in reviewing iPhone and iPod touch apps in various situations. Specifically, the latest 2.2 beta firmware will ask users to rate an application if they decided to remove/uninstall them from [...]

Networking site LivingSocial launches iPhone app

If you?ve ever found yourself in an new neighborhood, wondering if a particular restaurant is any good, or in the book store trying to decide what should be next on your reading list, you’ll probably be an avid user of LivingSocial?s new iPhone app. The idea behind LivingSocial is simple: share your opinions on a variety [...]

Access Hotmail on your iPhone with mBoxMail

Have a Hotmail account and want to read your e-mail on your iPhone? Previously there was a lot of trouble doing this for various reasons, but now mFluent just came out with a new app called mBoxMail that makes this elegant and simple. It not cheap at at $9.99 but it works slickly and eliminates the [...]