Ahem. Steve Litchfield here. Yes, me, of 3-Lib and The Phones Show and All About Symbian notoriety. Matt Radford has been called away and it seems I’m next in line of succession here at All About iPhone to assemble this week’s best writing in mobile. My pleasure.
I wanted to emphasise a few things about All [...]

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One of the things I miss on my iPhone is the ability to simply send some contact details to someone else.

In this article, I’m going to look at four applications that - to varying degrees - add that functionality. All of them are available from the App Store.

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I’m really eager to see what John Carmack can do with the iPhone. Back in August, the designer of such classics as Doom and Quake stated that he believed the iPhone to be as powerful as Sega’s Dreamcast console and almost as powerful as the PS2 or original XBOX. Admittedly, Kroll and Cro-Mag are both [...]

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Over the weekend I switched All About iPhone RSS feed to Feedburner. The old feed address should still be fine, but if you want to switch, the new address is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/allaboutiphonedotnet

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Judy Breck at Golden Swamp is hosting the latest Carnival. It features some great writing on the future of mobile, especially “The iPhone and Android Platforms as Validators“, showing how both platforms are developing.
There’s also a post from AAi’s James Burland on adding Genuis-style recommendations to the App Store. A genius idea, in my opinion [...]

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iPhone update 2.2 sees the introduction of Google Street View. This stunning virtual reality feature added to the desktop version of Google Maps last year was first shoehorned into the Android based G1. How does it perform on the iPhone? Let’s find out…

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It’s hard to believe that the industry has moved from the basic cell [...]

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OK, it’s a fair cop, the photo below isn’t representative of a real solution, but its vision is something that iPhone fans have been crying out for almost from day one. Almost every Nokia S60 smartphone comes with the right drivers for a Bluetooth keyboard, i.e. you power the keyboard on and simply start typing [...]

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Background push notification is Apple’s solution to the problems created by refusing to grant multi-tasking to 3rd party applications. Keeping a persistent IP connection to the iPhone to forward third-party server notifications will enable IM clients and other social networking apps such as Twitterrific to operate in a much more useful fashion.
Obviously, this will be [...]

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It all started when the John at ZingMagic, creator of Chess Professional for every other handheld platform since time began, buzzed me that Chess was now available in the iPhone App Store. I used ‘Search’ to find it and discovered another dozen versions of Chess at the same time. Wow. Talk about competition!
Hmm…. One way [...]

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Back in January I conveyed my excitement for the coming iPhone revolution…
“This month the iPhone will be transformed. At present the iPhone is a refined phone, a first class iPod and a capable internet device. By this summer it might well have been reborn as the smallest, lightest, thinnest and cheapest Mac OSX computer. If [...]

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