The iPhone User Guide

More-Thing have this little battery in a box device for pretty much every device that charges via USB, iPhone included. The 4000mA cell will provide your device with days of battery power without needing a wall socket. Nice.

VERDICT: 82%

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More-Thing have created this mini face stickers, which protect the top and bottom of your FRONT ONLY part of your iPhone 3G.

VERDICT: Ummm….

The official line from More-Thing:

Give your iPhone 3G a new look in seconds and protect it from abuse at the same time.

Show off your iPhone 3G with the Face off, almost impossible to detect, clear transparent screen guard offers ultimate protection against scratches and dirt.

The Face off offers a high visible light transmission, which has minimal effect on the brightness of your iPhone or iPod display. It reduces the strain of your eyes by filtering the UV light emitted from your display.

Our printed The Face off use cast vinyl with a special patented adhesive that allows you to remove and reapply the Face off.

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Right click and Save to your desktop, or on iPhone 2.0, simply hold down your finger over the image and save the image to your iPhone Gallery.

iPhone Wallpaper from Cycne

First we heard that the iPhone was as powerful as the (old) dreamcast… Now Doom creaters iD have an even stronger case. John Carmack from iD Software, the makers of Doom, Wolfenstein etc etc has boldly claimed that the iPhone has the power of a PS2 or XBox.

Forbes.com says:

“We have a title we want to develop exclusively for iPhone,” he says. “I’m not announcing anything specifically, but it would be a graphical tour de force.”

Anna Kang, president of id Mobile, adds “it would not be a new IP,” meaning the game would have roots in id’s existing catalog, which includes the “Doom, “Quake” and “Wolfenstein” franchises.

One of the biggest appeals of the iPhone, says Carmack, is that it can handle big games that are 10 megabytes or more. By contrast, the sweet spot for traditional cellphone games was around 300 kilobytes. Carmack wiggled around those rules of thumb and has produced a 2.5 MB version of “Wolfenstein RPG.”

That makes the iPhone look like a big open field. The hard part, Carmack concedes, will be reigning himself in.

“The iPhone, as a device, is in the same generation power-wise as the PS2 or Xbox,” he says. “The graphics are a little lower but the RAM is a lot higher. … You could easily spend $10 million on an iPhone game, but the market just can’t support that yet.”

This app is still awaiting approval for the app store, but MagicPad shows how Copy and Paste COULD WORK on the iPhone, if Apple allow it.

The new version of the NES Emulator for iPhone uses the accelerometer in place of the standard D-Pad used on consoles, this means that the likes of Mario can now be tilted in a specific direction to make him run left or right.

Obviously, this is not on the app store for copyright reasons, so if you’re brave, get installing Cydia on your iPhone and jailbreak it to play.

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Saw this on Gizmodo today:

Yesterday ZDnet broke the story that Virgin would be launching the iPhone 3G within two weeks, but without any official confirmation, it was stuck into the “rumour” basket.

Today, Giz can happily confirm that Virgin will be launching the iPhone, hopefully as soon as Friday this week (although that’s not confirmed yet). So if you’re planning on getting yourself an iPhone in the next few days, you probably want to wait, especially if you’re a data fiend.

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