News tagged ‘mobile’

Google has launched an optimized version of Google Books for the iPhone. This means that iPhone owners now have instant access to 1.5 million books, browsable by genre or searchable by, well, any criteria you like. And instead of serving scans of the pages as in the desktop version of the service, the mobile web app sends bandwidth-friendly plain text.

Here is a link to GooGle Books.

via wired

Google announced a new location tracking feature of Google Maps that will allow you to share your current location with your friends and family. The new service is called Latitude.

While launching initially on BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian S60, Google hopes to release an iPhone version soon.

via macrumors

Google has just announced a new way to manage your Gmail Tasks from your mobile device or your iGoogle homepage.

Why would you need T9 on iPhone? Well if you still want it, it will be avaliable in Cydia soon.

Just in case you want it so much, that you cannot wait:

1. Download it ispmultitap.deb
2. Upload to iPhone (via iFunBox for example) to /private/var/mobile
3. Run MobileTerminal and type:
   su root
   alpine
   dpkg -i ispmultitap.deb
4. Enable T9 in keyboard settings.

via iSpazio

According to a report from ABI Research, Apple’s iPhone now represents 1.1% of the worldwide mobile phone market and grew in dramatically from just 0.3% during 2007. The reports shows that the numbers put Apple on par with HTC and slightly ahead of Sharp.

Nokia leads the market with 38.6% share with Samsung in a distant second with 16.2%. Apple’s closest rival RIM (Research in Motion) is slightly ahead of Apple with 1.9%.

via worldofapple

It is called iMobileCinema. This Safari plugin is avaliable in Cydia for jailbreaked iPhones. Just add Cydia repository d.imobilecinema.com. Still in beta, but works! Watch the video:

Google Mobile App is updated to version 0.3.144. Guess what developers put is what's new section?:

"Bug fixes. Enhanced version number.".

Nice. Here is an AppStore link.

We wrote about Google Mobile App. Here is a demo video:

Google Mobile App (AppStore link) is updated with voice control support.

Features include:

1. Voice search - Speak your queries instead of typing them.
2. Search with My Location - Search for nearby businesses and more without specifying where you are.
3. Saving suggestions for web site shortcuts, like Wikipedia articles, search history, word completions.
4. Fast access to Google services like Mail, Earth, Photos, Talk, Reader and more.

Voice Search is supported only on iPhone, and works best for North American English accents. Other languages coming soon.

Citrix is porting XenApp to the iPhone. XenApp is a remote Windows application that is presently available for Mac, Windows and some mobile platforms. XenApp allows users to remotely log into their corporate networks to access their Windows applications.

The functionality seems similar to existing VNC clients for the iPhone, but Citrix's XenApp apparently transmits window display information rather than the raw graphics (wikipedia link). This is much better than VNC over network connections such as 3G and WiFi.

Michael Koppelman is an iPhone developer and model rocket enthusiast. He decided that combining his two hobbies together would be a good idea. He created an app that constantly polled the iPhone’s GPS and accelerometers, logging them to a file and then transmitting the data from the GPS over the web so that the unit could be located if it became lost.

Here is a 3D plat with data from GPS:

More graphics and video:

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Intel showed off a prototype handheld based on Moorestown, its upcoming Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform designed to enable a new generation of ultra-thin, touchscreen devices with extensive battery life.

Moorestown will consist of a system-on-a-chip (SOC), codenamed "Lincroft," which integrates a 45nm processor, graphics, memory controller and video encode/decode onto a single part. The platform will support a range of wireless technologies including 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and mobile TV.

The divice will be avaliable sometime in the 2009-2010 time. Here is a video with presentation from IDF:

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This is a video from myPhoine 2008 conference. Young developer Erik created Boot Camp for iPhone.