iPhone cases that don’t add bulk but still keep your iPhone protected are absolutely necessary. As much as some would like to think they can baby their iPhone to death and protect it from all harm, it doesn’t always work that way.
iPhone 1.1.4 Update is Out. You can get it now from iTunes. Remember, if you have jailbreaked or unlocked your iPhone, don’t install it. If your iPhone is clean, have fun. We will keep updating this space with our discoveries. Apparently, the 162.1MB update “fixes bugs and supersedes all previous versions.” Update: I have got into my Apple Developer Connection and there’s no sign of the iPhone SDK. Yet.
If you have yet to find speakers that satisfy your needs for your iPhone, these portable speakers from LiveSpeakR might be worth checking out. If you also own an iPod Touch, the speakers work for that as well giving them even more use.
ZodTTD’s snes4iphone v1.0.0 was recently released and it works surprisingly well. After a few games of Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World it’s obvious this emulator has come a long way. While in-game audio is still missing, background music plays fine. Gameplay is fairly smooth with frameskip enabled, and the emulator supports landscape and portrait display modes. Perhaps the best feature is the well implemented save system. Basically, you’re not going to beat any crazy speed runs using snes4iphone, but it’s a nice distraction for the bus. [ZodTTD via BGR]
Arik Hesseldahl of Business Week claims that a source tells him the official iPhone SDK will be delayed by one to three weeks, much like the recent delay in the Apple TV 2.0 upgrade (2 weeks). Apple hasn’t made any official statement, but there’s only a week left for them to hit their previously-announced “February” release date. To lend credibility to this rumor, Arik points to the fact that Business Week was the first to report on Apple’s eventual announcement of the official SDK back in October. [Business Week]
For those that rely on their iPhone for photographs, it might be important to try to squeeze as much quality as you can out of it. Personally I’d just rather take my actual camera, I never have been satisfied with any phone’s quality of pictures. However, for some it doesn’t matter as much to get high quality, just to get as much picture as they can out of the iPhone.
Just when you think you’ve seen the iPhone perform its last magic trick (making you eggs benedict, solving the inverse Galois problem, a brief appearance on Dancing With the Stars) something like this comes along to make your jaw drop just a little bit more. Touchpad for the iPhone is built on top of VNsea, but instead of allowing you to navigate your desktop on the device, it becomes what is essentially a wireless, remote trackpad, which gives you direct access to your system as if you were using a mouse or touch device for input. It sounds interesting in description, but looks amazing in execution — check the video after the break to see what it does, then go get the app loaded up and try it yourself.
The Price: $199.99The Verdict: The hook here is the iPhone-friendliness of the product. While testing the T612, GSM buzz never occurred once, making good on Altec Lansing’s claim. The dock also mutes the music when a call comes through, so you can hear your ringer and pick up the call (the T612 doesn’t have speakerphone, to be clear).
On the audio side of things, the T612 is powered by two 3-inch drivers and two 1 -inch tweeters. The dock sounds good enough if you only listen to pop songs at a moderate volume that don’t go too crazy with highs or lows. When you start to venture outside the musical comfort of Celine Dion, heavy bass has a hollow sound, and if you turn it up too loud, everything gets really muddy. Of course, you can adjust the bass and treble to remedy this, but then the music loses some of its punch. Also available is a wall mount, but you have to pay an extra $3 to have it shipped, and it doesn’t look all that great. $199.99 seems a little steep for this dock (especially compared to Logitech’s $150 Pure-Fi Anywhere ), but if you really need to dock your iPhone as a music solution, and you can’t stand to deal with the interference (or putting your phone in flight mode), maybe this is for you.
The Gadget: Altec Lansing’s T612 iPod/iPhone dock, which shields against interference caused by GSM phones. Meaning you can run your iPhone through speakers without that annoying blipping.
Apparently in China they have gotten fed up with waiting around on Apple to finally release the iPhone to them. After the iPhones leave the Chinese factory and get shipped off smugglers are snagging them and bringing them right back to China.
Apparently some iPhone owners are having issues with their signal strength which is due to the SIM card not fitting all that well. Which can be catastrophic, at least in our minds, we can’t have any of that weak signal holding us back. No one likes to repeat themselves fifteen times.
