Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Friday, October 10, 2008
5 (Yes, 5) Landscape Email iPhone Applications Released
iPhone Tech World Tour Announced
Ad Industry Eyes The iPhone
Smartphone showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. the iPhone
All Hail King iPhone
5 (Yes, 5) Landscape Email iPhone Applications Released
The Apple Blog's Darrell Etherington reports:
In what must be related to an internal policy decision on behalf of Apple, yesterday saw the release of five separate applications (Compose, TouchType, Sideways, Lettera, and Wide Email) that allow you to compose emails in landscape mode.
Each application boasts the ability to type out email text using the much more user friendly (especially for those of us with meaty fingers) landscape iPhone keyboard, which should dramatically decrease the need for rewrites. The apps are not themselves email clients, more like notepads with the ability to export to the iPhone's native mail application.
For the full report, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/4qojhb
iPhone Tech World Tour Announced
The Apple Blog's David Appleyard reports:
Apple have announced a new series of developer events aimed at those creating software for the iPhone. The event will be touring various locations in the USA, as well as Europe, Asia and India, starting with Paris and San Francisco on October 22.
For the full report, visit:
http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/09/iphone-tech-world-tour-announced/
Ad Industry Eyes The iPhone
Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram reports:
Where there are eyeballs, there are usually ads. And the most eye-catching gadget of late has been the iPhone, which can now run thousands of software programs available at Apple's App store.
More than 100 million apps have been downloaded since the store launched in July, according to Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500). Those numbers have caught the attention of advertisers who see social networking widgets, restaurant locators, mobile games and other apps as prime real estate.
The mobile ad market is expected to grow to $12 billion by 2013, up from an estimated $1.72 billion for 2008, according to research firm Informa Telecoms & Media. Most of the industry's efforts have focused on inserting ads in mobile websites, accessible through cell phone browsers.
For the full report, visit:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/08/technology/mobile_ads.fortune/index.htm
Smartphone showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. the iPhone
Network World's Brad Reed reports:
Not content to stand by while AT&T , T-Mobile and Sprint generate all the wireless hype, Verizon last week announced that it would be supporting Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm smartphone on its network come November.
RIM's first touchscreen device features a "clickable" screen that the company says simulates the feel of a physical keyboard. The Storm can connect to either EV-DO Rev. A or HSPA 3G cellular networks and features 1GB of onboard memory storage and a card slot that allows for up to 16GB of additional storage.
But while Verizon (and Vodafone in Europe and elsewhere) is hoping that the BlackBerry Storm will be its own "iPhone killer," questions remain about whether the offering can match the popular Apple consumer device in several key areas. Here's a look at how the Storm stacks up against the iPhone in terms of call quality, data coverage, price and more.....
You can check it out at:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/100908-storm.html
All Hail King iPhone
MotleyFool's Dave Mock says:
Only weeks after its launch, I floated the opinion that Apple's iPhone 2.0 was already a hit, regardless of all the supposedly serious flaws that junkies and bloggers were highlighting. Now it looks like there's some statistical confirmation -- research firm NPD Group has crowned the iPhone 3G as best-selling consumer smart handset in the U.S.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/10/09/all-hail-king-iphone.aspx
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