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O sweet jeebus, could it be? Why yes, that’s the “stylish plastic enclosure” promised for the partfoundry GPS module iPhone hack. At least, it’s the first rendered appearance. Initially peeped over at Engadget Mobile on Friday, the newly named locoGPS module requires a Jail Broken iPhone to work. A new video shows the SiRF Star III chip doing its positional thing in support of Google Maps. The $89 hack remains on track for a February 2008 release — you know, around the time when the official SDK launches and presumably… hopefully, an official iPhone GPS module is announced. Video after the break

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Consider the iPhone knockoff market’s bar officially raised. No longer is it enough to swipe designs and iconography, now you must master the fine art of infomercials to hock your wares. This iClone thinks different with maps, photos, a motion sensor (which apparently causes its users to keep shaking the thing like a maraca), orientation sensor, Bluetooth music playback (but apparently not stereo?), 1GB of memory (via microSD), and a whole lot of impressed, devout fans in the commercial. Video after the break.

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True, the tantalizing rumor of a TomTom GPS for the iPhone suffered a rather untimely demise, but not to worry — as a navigation aid, we figure the iPhone’s sizable touchscreen and dock connector just make too much sense for a GPS solution to not get willed into existence. Engineering firm partfoundry is taking a real (as in, confirmed) stab at developing a custom, purpose-built GPS module that slots into the iPhone’s port, delivering 16 channels of satellite reception to the software of your choice. Notice the “of your choice” there — it looks like partfoundry will be requiring jailbreaked phones and relying on the developer community to serve up apps capable of processing the module’s output and making use of it. The current plan is to get these bad boys out of the door in February, though they’re taking orders now for $89. Oh, and don’t worry, there are plans for a “stylish plastic enclosure” to bring the 1337 hax0r appearance down a notch or three.

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We’ve reported rumors about this should-have-been-in-the-initial-offering feature since well before the iPhone’s launch date and here we are, half a year down the road from iPhone day and we’re still kludging along with IMAP support. All that may be set to change with Apple’s recent job posting looking for an “iPhone Windows Outlook/Exchange QA Eng” in Cupertino. Of course, this new position may simply exist to help bolster the team working on the IMAP features in its “ongoing effort to improve your mobile mail experience” — but we hope not. We’re hoping that this will usher in the era of real push mail from Exchange on iPhone, and we’d be willing to bet the proverbial farm that there are a ton of others out there thinking the same.

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Well, would you take a peek at this? Not even a month after we pored over Volkswagen photos that certainly had a hint of Apple about them, images of the Land Rover LRX are surfacing and giving us the same kind of vibe. In a press release issued by the automaker, it notes that the concept vehicle will boast a couple of touchscreens, one of which is used to “control the LRX’s iPhone facility.” Additionally, you can catch an iPod docking station and a set of removable speakers on the tailgate, though we can’t say that’s the most convenient location we’ve ever heard of for such a device. Nevertheless, we should find out a whole lot more when it hits the Detroit Auto Show floor next month, and oh yeah, we hear Jobs has a wee gig of his own to handle around the same time.

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As the pic says ladies and gents, Apple has decided that if you’re clever enough to work in GarageBand — and really, aren’t we all? — you deserve custom tones. To get this working all you need do is grab at the fresh GarageBand 4.1.1 update released yesterday, select a cycle region in your song — a cycle region is just an area in the song’s timeline you want to repeat — then “share” and select “send ringtone to iTunes” option. Of course, your iPhone will need to be at version 1.1.2 to accomplish this little feat of magic, but we’re sure most of you out there have sorted updates by now. Enjoy the music and feel free to drop us a note with how things go.

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One of the things that I enjoy about this time of year is that the search engines release reports on what the most searched for words were during the past 12 months. Google just released their Google Zeitgeist 2007 Report (Yahoo did their one last week).

At Google the fastest growing terms globally were:

1. iphone

2. badoo

3. facebook

4. dailymotion

5. webkinz

6. youtube

7. ebuddy

8. second life

9. hi5

10. club penguin

There’s plenty more in the report though - food for thought as you’re looking at popular topics to write about.

For a company that makes a business of putting together handset and plan packages on other carriers’ networks, it only stands to reason that adding an iPhone package or three is probably healthy for the bottom line. Germany’s Debitel says that it totally wants in on T-Mobile’s unlocked iPhone action, provided that it proves “technically feasible.” It’s a little bitter that T-Mobile didn’t consult with Debitel and others before announcing the staggeringly-priced €999 unlocked iPhone, but overall “welcomes” the move. Welcome it all you want, Debitel, but unless you can somehow package that thing into a more reasonably priced offering on other carriers, there may not be much of a business model here.

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