Gizmogs

It's cute that someone has made a Stylophone simulator for the iPhone, but there's no way I'm about to pay $6 just to dink around with a simulation of what was, let's face it, a fairly annoying little musical instrument in the first place.

iStylophone product page [VeryCoolSoftware.com]
Dübreq iStylophone purchase link [iTunes] (Thanks, Daniel!)

As wonderful as the iPhone is, it leaves out anyone visually impaired. This Silicon Touch iPhone case works in tandem with an app to allow special accessibility functions like text to speech and moon type tactile feedback. The case is engraved with modified bas-relief buttons each corresponding to a modified home screen on the iPhone. None of the phone’s functions are compromised. Multi-touch and finger flick scrolling are all intact. BRILLIANT!

In another hardware conquest for the Linux platform, it has been successfully ported to the iPhone. While the current version is not much more than a working, beta version, it does prove that a Linux iPhone is a viable proposition.

As Gizmodo points out in the headline of their article, this may be the start of an Android iPhone. Oh, the irony is fantastic.

For much more geeky details, take a look at the blog, and/or the video.

Keep your entire friends network in your pocket with the new Netlog app for iPhone and iPod Touch! Check what your friends are doing, check out their pictures, sign their guestbooks and send them messages. Take a picture with the built-in camera and upload it straight to Netlog! Or add your GPS location to your shout! You can expect more features in the near future.

With the lightning efficiency of a neurosurgeon lopping out the medulla oblongata and replacing it with an Arduino installed in an Altoids tin, the Dev Team have released a quick update to their QuickPwn tool, allowing iPhone users to upgrade to a jailbroken 2.2.

There's some caveats: if you've got an iPhone 3G and have any hope of carrier unlock, don't upgrade. The iPod Touch 2G still isn't supported. But I upgraded my jailbroken iPhone 2G the other day without a hitch, so everyone should be safe.

Incidentally, I'm a big fan of the new App Store "update all" button.

You knew it was only a matter of time. The iPhone Dev Team had been bragging that they already had the iPhone 2.2 Firmware jailbroken before it was even released… and guess what? Earlier today they released QuickPwn and PwnageTool for the iPhone 2.2 Firmware! The Dev Team had been hard at work picking apart the beta-release version of the latest OS.

Just a day after the new iPhone Software 2.2 has been released, the guys at the iPhone DevTeam have managed to crack it, and QuickPwn 2.2 has been released for Mac and Windows.

As well as the release of Quickpwn 2.2 for Mac and Windows, they have also released Pwnage 2.2 for Mac.

Adobe demonstrates Flash 10 running on Google Phone, something not available on the iPhone yet.

As expected, the iPhone Dev Team has revealed a further update on their progress with unlocking the iPhone 3G and preparation from the coming iPhone firmware update version 2.2. Jailbreakers, in case you were wondering whether it you should update your jailbroken iPhone to 2.2 once Apple prompts you to do so in iTunes, here is what the iPhone Dev Team themselves said…

Are there times when you wish anything that comes out of your mouth could be “Googled” just as quickly? If you got the iPhone, then it’s now possible through the help of Google’s speech recognition app for search.

Lutron, the company behind the popular dimmer switch from the ’60s, is working on an iPhone app that will allow its respective users to control the lights in their home from the comfort of their iPhone/iPod Touch. As expected, the future app which will be available in January, will boast iPhone-like easy to use interface, allowing users to control how bright they want it to be from across the room.

Apple’s iPhone was the top-selling handset in the United States in the third quarter, according to new data from NPD Group.

Read the original here:
iPhone 3G - the top selling handset in the US market in the 3rd Quarter

I love the guys over at iSuppli… So when they took apart the T-Mobile G1, the techno-dweeb inside of me got giddy and started laughing.

They took the unit apart piece-by-piece, and calculated the build of materials (BOM) cost. As you can tell from the lovely title of this post, the BOM cost of the device is $143.89. I should note however, that this estimate includes only the component and material costs for the G1. This doesn’t account for other expenses including software, R&D, manufacturing costs and more.

When I first got a chance to use the keyboard on the iPhone, I found it quite hard to use. I mean, there’s just this tiny keypad and you have to hit the keys exactly. Not to mention that there is no tactile feedback.

I don’t personally own an iPhone, but if I ever had to use one to send and receive very important emails, I would definitely want to have the BTKeyMini. The BTKeyMini is a Bluetooth keyboard designed for the iPhone as well as the iPod Touch.

Tethering iPhone to work as a 3G modem for a laptop (or a PC) is not new. Users with jailbroken iPhones have already been doing that. But now AT&T Mobility’s CEO Ralph De La Vega revealed his plans to introduce iPhone tethering for AT&T users. He did not divulge any pricing or release date so our best guess says that it will coincide with iPhone firmware update to 2.2.

It goes without saying that the tether plans for users will be higher than the regular data plans assuming they will consume more bandwidth than normal iPhone surfers.