That’s it, I REALLY want an iPhone now…
You don’t need Steve Jobs’ permission to watch TV on your iPhone any more. And you don’t need to pay the cable company twice. A native Orb client for the iPhone and iPod Touch popped up on the installer networks overnight, and Orb confirms that it’s official.
The client software allows you to watch live TV on an iPhone or Touch wherever you are, in addition to your music. You’ll need a TV card or adaptor for your PC, of course, to get the live TV. So provided you have an internet connection, there’s no need to perform DIY transcoding using software such as Visual Hub. The client will even transcode the video stream nicely for 2.75G Edge networks. Orb does in software what Sling Media does in hardware.
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Dan in the office has Fring on his Nokia and it seems pretty cool - this looks quite useful, let’s just hope the call quality gets improved though (3G should help this out).
Sure, the iPhone is cool looking, works out a lot, and is really good at math… but it can’t do VoIP, can it? Well, yes it can — and you can, thanks to a company called Fring and a piece of ingenious software (for jailbreakers only). Using the native app, it’s now possible to place and receive calls via your WiFi connection, thus making AT&T CEOs cry like little babies. Besides doing Skype and the like, the app also lets you connect for chats via MSN Messenger, ICQ, GTalk, SIP, Twitter, AIM, and Yahoo!, which should make this an attractive package even if you don’t want to harness the raw power of IP telephony. You can get the application for free by loading up Installer with the company’s repo. Check the video after the break to see the magic happen.
Check out the link for a video of it in action.
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Ohh, now the question is - do we wait for the 3G version or not… (I think this - if it is true - is a pretty good sign that the 3G version is around the corner).
O2 will cut £100 off the price of the Apple iPhone tomorrow, it has been claimed. Carphone Warehouse is said to be planning to match the move.
There’s no official confirmation yet, of course. The claim was made today by website Mobile Today.
If O2 and CW do knock £100 off the price of the iPhone, taking the handset’s price to £169, it will undoubtedly further fuel speculation that carriers are clearing out stocks of the 2.5G phone ahead of the widely anticipated introduction of a 3G version in June.
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I somehow managed to miss this one. Quake 3 running on hacked iPod Touch’s! They keep making it harder and harder to resist an iPhone/iPod Touch…
Future generations will most likely divide the timeline of history at this point: when Quake 3 achieved motion-sensing, wireless network play on two iPod touches. Just think, less than a year ago we were salivating (or at least mildly enthused) at the prospect of rocking Doom on this thing, and now Quake 3 Arena is yours for the taking — or at least will be once we get any sort of hard info on this app.
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I’d looked at Handbrake a while back but the GUI was far too confusing for a simpleton like me. It seems like it’s been cleaned up quite a bit now and looks rather useful! (The little video giving an overview of how to work things helps too!)
Handbrake is one of those applications that we adore here at TUAW HQ. It makes converting DVDs into a variety of digital files a snap (though only use it with DVDs you own. Don’t be pirates, kids). Chris Breen, of Macworld fame (and an amateur astronomer it would seem) shows us how to use HandBrake like a pro. Breen goes a step beyond ‘use the presets’ and delves into what many of the options HandBrake offers up actually do, and how they impact your files.
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I really thought that Android was going to be a complete turkey, but after watching some of the videos up on YouTube it does look like it could be quite promising. If someone releases some decent hardware at a reasonable price the iPhone could have some competition…
I like the look of the iPhone - I want one even. But it’s hardly the single greatest invention of the year… Thankfully someone out there has put some reasonable thought into this:
Invention of the year. Take some time and dwell on that statement for a moment. Not invention of the month. Not invention of the week. Not gadget of the year. Invention of the year!
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The iPhone may be “pretty” but it certainly does not reduce pollution, protect people from hurricanes, distributes solar energy, or allow an amputee to have a finger.
This is not to say the iPhone isn’t amazing but to give it Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year is truly an embarrassment to the magazine.
Definately gadget of the year - but no way invention of the year. There are much more worthy examples in the article, let’s face it, the iPhone won because it’ll sell magazines. I sometimes wonder about the culture of today…
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Great news! Straight from the horses mouth, (well, Steve’s anyway) Apple have announced that an iPhone SDK will be coming in February.
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
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Update: if that dissapears (as there seems to be no permalink for this article), have a read of Mac Rumors copy of the whole article.