Mobispine, the developer of iPhone app, RSS News Reader has announced that they have developed an iPhone app which will bring the much awaited MMS feature to the iPhone. Mobispine is offering a white-labeling solution to carriers where they will brand their true MMS application for each carrier and distribute it via the App Store so that they can deliver the MMS feature to their iPhone customers. [via iphonehack]
17. November 2008
Blackbeard’s Assault iPhone Preview from Jim Warhurst on Vimeo.
An upcoming game has piqued our interest. We could call it a Puzzloop clone, but its really quite different, and actually a lot more polished. Use your multiple cannons to match 3 balls or more at a time (in a Puzzloop style) however, you’ve got two cannons and it works quite well. We love the surround graphics, it’s really well designed, and much more reminiscent of a video game from a big console. It feels like a full game, and that, we feel is something lacking at the moment on the iPhone.
Blackbeard’s Assault only costs $2.99 and is available now
14. November 2008
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 to bring customers what they want in a cellular service, iPhone owners have been asking for a tethering plan for over a year not but AT&T could not deliver because of the network. Ralph De La Vega said, “Regardless of how many billions of dollars AT&T pours into their 3G network, it hasn’t been stable enough to handle all you iPhone users,” AT&T is simply worried as to how well the network will hold up to millions of users all jumping on at one time.
They have never has such an issue because there has never been such a huge rush in data use in their history. There is still no word on an official launch date. Here are the details on the iPhone tethering plans:
At least they are developing this with Apple, so hopefully, this update will come in the form of a downloadable app from iTunes that will then be rolled out globally. [via macblogz]
13. November 2008
Rumour has it that the iPhone update we’ve been talking about for a while now, is slated to drop on the 22nd of November. To recap, iPhone 2.2 is the version with:
11. November 2008
Clearly this is an app for those of you who have Jailbroken your iPhone, but the great news is, now you can torrent directly from your iPhone (probably best to do that in a wifi zone!) and then play the downloaded files direct in the dTunes player.
Well worth checking out if you love TV shows and movies and download using torrent software usually on your Mac or PC.
11. November 2008
Apple sure is taking the high road with the success of the iPhone. Once again Apple has beaten RIM and their Blackberry line in terms of reliability. Apple has managed to come out on top with two models when RIM has an entire collection of handsets.
9. November 2008
Gym Technik is an innovative online service allowing you to use your smart phone as your workout journal. While you workout, Gym Technik tracks the weights, the reps, and your body stats all through your mobile smart phone.
Use your computer to access the Internet and organize your workout routines using our extensive exercises library. Define all your workouts online with each being the exercise routine you perform at the gym. When at the gym, login to Gym Technik using your mobile phone and pick from the list of your already defined workouts.
Simply start a workout and enter in the stats for each exercises performed. All your stats sync to your web account automatically allowing you to analyze your data with our informative progress charts and then allowing you to enhance your workout routines as necessary.
Any changes you make to your workout routines on the web are all automatically synced with your mobile smart phone login.
The system works really well, and whilst I was reticent about using a web app over an actual iPhone app, it works really well. I’ll definately be using it at the gym this week.
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The iPhone headphone socket has a little contact switch inside it that tells the iPhone to switch from external audio to headphones audio when plugged in. Sometimes this can get some dust or fluff underneath the contact and the iPhone or iPhone 3G can get jammed in headphones mode.
To cure this, one suggestion from Apple Technicians is to insert and retract the headphone jack a few times to dislodge the dust or fluff and clear the contacts in the iPhone.
Be gentle, you don’t want to break your iPhone or Headphones.
DISCLAIMER: We accept no responsibility if your big strong hands break your iPhone in the process. 
Independent developer Bas Tossings has released a charming new iPhone game called Loopy Laboratory. While it’s not entirely perfect, after playing too many half-finished games and glorified tech demos, it was refreshing to finally see a game with some depth and character. One iTunes reviewer has described this as a remake of Chip’s Challenge/Tile World which it does seem to resemble though the developer says he was inspired by a number of older puzzle games which came together for this project.
The gameplay video shows a few of the early levels (3, 6, 7) and a later level (31). Note that the conveyor belt does not video tape well (grey moving walkway). [toucharcade]
Black Mamba Racer is a $3.99 2D overhead racer in which you skid and slide your way around 25 racing mission across 9 different tracks. While the graphics may look primitive, the gameplay is surprisingly fun and challenging. iTunes App Store
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20. November 2008
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