Apple has just posted a minor incremental firmware update for the first-generation iPhone, iPhone 3G and the iPod touch. Labeled as the “iPhone Software Update 2.2.1″ and available in iTunes when you connect to sync your music or media player, the updated software brings “bug fixes and improvements.”
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It’s rather sad that Bluetooth file transferring coming to a modern smartphone by way of a third party application is something that warrants coverage, but that’s what you get when the smartphone you’re talking about is the iPhone. Its lack of ability to conduct Bluetooth file transfers is just one of the many things we wish were not left off of the original iPhone and when we saw that it wasn’t coming to firmware 2.0+ we were quite surprised. Thankfully it looks like Bluetooth file transfer is almost a reality for iPhone users everywhere. No, the application is not made nor endorsed by Apple and it certainly won’t find its way to the App Store, but if you have a jailbroken iPhone you can grab iBluetooth as soon as it is released into iSpazio repository on Cydia. Hit the jump for a video.
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Despite the fact that Symbian has gotten pretty gray up top over the past few years, it is still the world’s most popular smartphone operating system by a huge margin. S60 is incredibly capable and versatile, and Nokia has consistently pumped out solid hardware to carry it. That being said, it is hardly the most exciting mobile OS on the block these days and there are plenty of areas where S60 could use a solid adrenaline shot. Chris Woods of Mind-Flip, creator of the popular TextQuick app for S60 handsets, has targeted one such area and plans to use a bit of iPhone trickery in an effort to create a better user experience. We all know Apple can be a bit sneaky at times and one such example is the manner in which apps are launched. Mobile processors can only do so much in the age of the app, and finding a way to fill the time gap between launching an application and being able to use an application is something that Apple addressed well with the iPhone.
When the user taps an icon, the iPhone immediately zooms in to a JPEG that resembles the running application. While the handset is zooming in it is also launching the actual application in the background, the theory being that the app will be alive and ready to rock by the time the JPEG zoom animation is complete. Sure some apps take longer to load than others but by using this system, Apple is able to minimize the amount of time the user is staring at a screen while nothing is happening. S60 users are very familiar with this ‘empty’ time – click on an app to launch it and more often than not you’ll be staring at a motionless display for 1-3+ seconds before anything at all happens. It will be interesting to follow Woods’ efforts as he attempts to apply this concept to S60 in a project dubbed Venus, as the Symbian OS is certainly not going to make this an easy task for him.
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iPhone cases come in all manner of shapes, sizes, materials and colors. If you can’t find a case to suit your own personal style, then you probably need to get a style 
Other than Vaja though, there aren’t too many case manufacturers that go out of their way to give you choices when it comes to how your case is made. Now the folks at Element Case are offering iPhone owners some interesting options with their new CNC-machined and injection-molded cases.
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As was indicated by a huge banner emerging today on Apple’s web site, iPhone users have now downloaded 500 million applications “in every category from games to business.” In addition, the App Store now features some 15,000 applications, eclipsing the offerings on rival mobile application stores by a large margin – including Google’s Android, RIM’s store and third-party applications for the Windows Mobile platform. The new data point also shows that the application store has doubled its average download rate…
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Apple has once again loosened its iPhone approval process to allow third-party web browsers into the App Store, those that rival Apple’s Mobile Safari which comes preloaded on the handset. As always, there’s a catch: Apple’s iPhone SDK strictly prohibits applications (web browsers included) from using their own frameworks. This means that all alternative browsers approved for App Store are and will be based on Apple’s WebKit framework that powers desktop and mobile Safari versions. As a result, browser like mobile Firefox (dubbed Fennec and based…
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Finding your way on the iPhone is a breeze now that Apple’s deployed their enhanced Maps application, complete with directions and other bells and whistles. But it also left us wondering why they didn’t enhance it with a news discovery feature so we could easily find the latest buzz surrounding us? Enter Radar, a new iPhone application that taps Outside.in’s premium location-based news content to deliver relevant news and real time discussions based on your current city, neighborhood or within up to 1,000 feet of your…
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Hot on the heels of the Slacker app for BlackBerry announcement the other day, comes a Slacker Radio application for the iPhone. I love my Slacker G2 Personal Radio, so I was anxious to check out how this free application on the iPhone compared to it.
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After suffering through virtual beer drinking, boobs and farts, Apple’s iPhone gets a new unique entertainment application dubbed iSteam. It turns your device into a foggy glass surface, perfectly mimicking a mirror after a hot shower. It will have earned a bunch of 22-year old kids $100,000 in one month, having already created a cult-like following and generating over 1 million downloads. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why it took iSteam barely a week since its December 30 release to overtake iBeer, iFart, Pull…
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Following recent release of SeaDragon Mobile for iPhone, Redmond-based software giant has released its second iPhone application – which is also free of charge. Dubbed TagReader, the application lets iPhone owners snap multicolored barcodes around them to get interactive and personalized business and personal content directly on their handsets, without having to type anything or do a web search. Instead, you simply snap a tag with your cellphone to automatically get things like movie times, videos, music, driving directions, contact details, retailers’ promotions, product details, bus…
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