Last week we posted that German Parliament members had replaced paper for iPads and now Denmark is following suit: Parliament members are getting ‘free’ 16GB iPhone 3GSs. All 179 members and around 1,000 staff have each been given their free iPhones.
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Denmark’s Parliament To Get Free iPhones
iPad is T3’s ‘Gadget of the Year’
Apple has received an award for the iPad in the UK’s T3 Gadget Awards. Not just any award, but the ‘Gadget of the Year’ award.
DeNA Acquires Ngmoco For $400 Million, Expands to Android Devices
The rumor was going around since a few weeks, now it’s official: popular “iFunded” iPhone game developer ngmoco has been acquired by Japanese mobile giant DeNA. The deal was closed at around $400 million which, if I’m not mistaken, should be the biggest deal ever involving an iPhone developer. DeNA is Japan’s biggest and most successful “mobile social games” company, and from now on it’ll lead (e.g. pay for) the efforts of ngmoco in the western market. Read more
Lighty, Simple Flashlight App for iPhone. 10 Codes Up for Grabs
Sometimes you don’t need a full-featured app to accomplish a simple purpose. Hell, you just need a simple app that does one thing and does it exceptionally well. You don’t want to pay for stuff you don’t need. That’s a very basic App Store rule.
Lighty does just that. Amongst the crowded panorama of flashlight apps for iPhone, Lighty is a well designed, minimal app that lets you turn the iPhone’s light on and off. It’s clean and it’s got a huge button in the middle of the screen. What else can I say? It comes at $0.99 in the App Store. If you’re looking for a minimal flashlight for your iPhone, we have 10 codes to give away. Just leave a comment below, and that’s it.
Winners will be announced tomorrow. Good luck! Read more
Life Web Browser 1.5 Introduces iPhone Version and…Pull To Refresh?
Life is an alternative web browser for iPad I reviewed back in June. The app was quite nice, but I ended up uninstalling it due to its numerous bugs. The feature set was interesting, though:
Life Web Browser tries a different approach, and it does so by telling us that we don’t need tabs and pages, we need to swipe.
Aseid Ghaffari and his team found out that users don’t find Safari’s behavior with new links exactly comfortable. Apple’s Safari forces you to go back and forth between a dashboard with thumbnails of pages, and another take on the subject such as iCab’s desktop-like tabs didn’t impress Ghaffari either. If it’s not about copying the desktop and it’s not about changing pages, then it definitely must be about gestures – the developers thought. So there you have it, you horizontally swipe between “windows”.
The latest 1.5 update, approved and released a few days ago, introduces iPhone support (the app is now Universal) and a couple of new options such as “Open sites” and pull to refresh for webpages. What, really? Read more
Monitor and Geotag Your iPhone Data Usage with DataMan
If you have an iPhone and a contract with your carrier (of course you guys in the US do), then I guess you’re obsessed with data usage tracking: how many messages can you send per month? What’s the threshold for mobile internet access? How much have you consumed this week? Depending on the country and carrier, the experience can be terrible. Fortunately, I have a pretty good plan with 3 Italia over here (4 GB internet / month, 400 SMS, 800 minutes voice) so I haven’t really worried about keeping track of my usage - I understand, though, that this is a problem for many.
DataMan by XVision is probably the most complete app to monitor and even geotag your daily, monthly and week data usage on your iPhone. Read more
Watch Videos While Surfing on Your iPad
Who said you can’t ‘multitask’ on an iPad (without installing the iOS developer beta)? Geeky Gadgets has a tutorial for a DIY HUD adapter/dock that holds your iPhone on top of your iPad. View media on your iPhone and surf the web on your iPad at the same time. Read more
Yahoo! Messenger 2.0 Available With Video Calling
Announced last week, an update to the official Yahoo Messenger app has just been released in the App Store. The new 2.0 version brings video calling to the iPhone, thus directly competing with Apple’s FaceTime…if you’re a Yahoo! Messenger user. Among other features, multitasking and support for iOS notifications.
Check out the changelog and screenshots below, go download the app here. Read more
Retinasizer Forces iPhone Games To Render in Retina Graphics
It sucks when you buy a $4.99 (or even more) game for your iPhone and you find out that the game doesn’t support the Retina Display. How is that even possible, 5 months after the release of the iPhone 4? I don’t know, but we might have a solution here: Retinasizer, a free tweak available in Cydia, can force games to run natively with high-resolution graphics on the Retina Display. Read more