If you thought there were scant details about the iPhone heading to China when the news first broke, you haven’t seen anything yet. When we heard about the iPhone heading to China, there were some details to go along with the story at least even if they weren’t official.
Apple have tweaked their App Store policies to allow for in-app purchases in free applications [iPhone developer link]. Contrary to initial rules that only paid applications could offer users paid content, subscriptions and digital services within the software, the change now means that developers can release, say, a free “Lite” version with an option to upgrade, within the app, to the full title.
With the proliferation of hacks for Apple’s smartphone it’s hard to keep on top of what’s most impressive, but we’ve a feeling that putting Expose onto the iPhone 3GS makes a decent argument for being near the top of the list. It’s the handiwork of Steve Troughton-Smith, who you might remember from first identifying the iPhone OS 3.0 tethering hack and then going on to jailbreak the CDMA Palm Pre.
Update: Tom of Ocean Observations, a Swedish design firm, has been in touch to let us know that the original idea for Exposé on iPhone emerged from a video concept some of his team came up with. Check out that video after the cut.
Video demo after the cut
TomTom has been talking up its Car kit for the iPhone for a while now. Navigation fans in Europe can starting today pick the car kit up on the TomTom web store and from the Apple online store. It would be hard to have missed the specifications of the iPhone car kit, but in case you have, they are as follows.
Adobe have released Photoshop Mobile for iPhone, and as you’d expect from the title it offers straightforward on-device image editing for iPhone and iPod touch owners. As well as basic crop, rotate and flip tools, there’s also saturation and tint control, exposure and vibrancy tweaking and various filters and effects.
We’re just a few weeks away from the formal launch of Windows 7 and I’ve been using the final build for some time now. It’s very nice and I’m sure most of you have seen it, used it or read about it to death. What I want to talk about over the next few weeks is various parts of Windows 7. One of the most intriguing parts of the new OS that Microsoft has talked about for some time has been the integration of touch features. While vendors such as HP have done their own touch implementations in the past (HP has gone as far as to offer their own touch-based SDK for developers) this is the first time since Microsoft unveiled their touch platform offering, Surface, that we’ve seen the OS vendor incorporate true finger-touch features directly into the OS.
If you’re a player in the cellphone space then the J.D. Power Wireless Satisfaction Survey is your equivalent of the Miss World contest, and it looks like once again it’s Apple wearing the smartphone crown. The iPhone took first place in the smartphone study, both in the consumer and business segments, and neatly keeping RIM’s BlackBerry range in second place.
I’m not sure what gives with all the iPhone alarm clocks/speaker docks that have turned up this week. All of the sudden there is a plethora of them hitting the market. Today Yamaha unveiled a couple iPhone/iPod docks of its own called the TSX-70 and the TSX-W80.
If you spend time at the gym fighting to lose your love handles and get in shape, odds are you are watching the scale for signs that all your efforts are paying off. With everything today going high tech, it makes sense that our scales would too. Dvice has its hands, or feet in this case, on the slick Withings Connected Body Scale.
LG have announced a new home cinema system, and if you’re a fan of globular satellite speakers and have an iPod then this might be worth a look. The LG HB954SP Blu-ray HCS packs a Full HD 1080p video and 5.1 surround sound audio system into a compact, blue-tinged box, with 1,000W of audio tuned by ear-wizard Mr Mark Levinson.
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