A narrator talks about how he doesn’t mind being on hold because he can check his email, pay some bills and download games from the App Store.

A woman narrator tell us how she used her iPhone to capture video of her child’s first steps and shared them with her family.

Since Apple has now come out with the iPad the big question is – will the Apple iPad have the success that the Apple iPhone has? First let’s compare the two products – both the iPhone and the iPad pretty much have the same applications available such as the internet, email, photos, maps and watching videos. The iPad is much larger than the Apple iPhone and one of the greatest advantages with the iPad is that you can see the websites as a whole page and view pictues in a larger scale as well as looking at google maps in a more broader view.

With the iPad you will not have to do a lot of scrolling unlike using the Apple iPhone. The iPhone has great capabilities but it is a lot smaller than the iPad and that is what makes the iPad more desirable to use because of the larger view you can get from it. The Apple iPhone even though it is smaller and more compact it is easier to carry around with you but that still doesn’t compare to the iPad as far as usability – being able to view content in a larger view.

Even though most people are out for what is convenient for them such as being able to carry around the iPhone in their pocket or in a small carrying case it still doesn’t compare to the larger iPad as far as being able to view web pages and other applications in a more broader area. That being said the usability of the iPad very much outweighs the convenience of the Apple iPhone. Most people are used to using their home computers and will appreciate the iPad in a sense that the iPad is like carrying around a portable computer with all of the up to date applications.

The Apple iPad is going to be a great success and is the next best thing to a personal computer compared to the iPhone. Who knows, the Apple iPad may even in the future replace the use of the notebook computer as far as using it for business purposes and more.

CTVOlympics.ca
This is the official iPhone app for the Vancouver Winter Olympics that gives you complete coverage of all the breaking news and medal updates along with a comprehensive TV schedule.

Download CTVOlympics.ca from iTunes

2010Guide – Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: The Official Mobile Spectator Guide
This is a useful iPhone app if you are in Vancouver and plan to watch the events live.

Download 2010Guide – Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: The Official Mobile Spectator Guide from iTunes

SportLogik
This is an iPhone application that will be of great use to those of you who are new to the winter games arena.

Download SportLogik from iTunes

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
The iPhone app is a great guide to take you through all the venues hosting the Winter Olympics.

Download Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from iTunes

1. Sweethearts
Write a special message to your loved one on Valentine’s day.

Download Sweethearts from iTunes

2. iLoveHim/iLoveHer
iLoveHim/iLoveHer ensures that your valentine is always just a couple of taps away.

Download iLoveHim/iLoveHer from iTunes

3. ValentineMaker
Create adorable Valentine’s day cards with pictures from your iPhone photo library.

Download ValentineMaker from iTunes

4. iWrite: Love Poems
iWrite features eight different Valentine’s-appropriate styles of poetry.

Download iWrite: Love Poems from iTunes

5. Valentine – Postage
This app has a lot of high quality e-card designs and lets you easily insert your own pictures into its templates.

Download Valentine – Postage from iTunes

6. Creative Romantic Ideas
This app is more than a little cheesy, but it has some genuinely good ideas.

Download Creative Romantic Ideas from iTunes

7. Be Mine Hearts
Shake your iPhone to get a different heart (and message), add your own note at the bottom, then send it in e-mail.

Download Be Mine Hearts from iTunes

8. Send eFlowers
Flowers are a Valentine’s Day classic for a reason, and this app allows you to send virtual flowers to everyone you care about (or even people you don’t) with the touch of a finger.

Download Send eFlowers from iTunes

Norwegian company Opera is ready with a new 5 Opera Mini browser for iPhone. They will show ot on Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

The message is bold: Opera claims that Opera Mini is faster than Apple Safari. The developers are positive that this is due to the use of compression which shrinks a web page with up to 90% before it sent to your mobile device.

Opera Mini 5 will have other nice features such as tabbed browsing, automatic management of passwords and others. Synchronization between the desktop browser and mobile browser is also provided.

Opera already had some success in placing its Java-based cell phones such as BlackBerry or on the Android smartphones. Debut of the new Opera Mini will be next week before a narrower audience.

About a year ago Adobe and Apple announced they would work together to provide users of Flash to iPhone and iPod touch. As you may guess the project is clearly not advanced much since we have not heard anything about the subject. Instead, relations between the two companies are very strained and Steve Jobs even called Adobe “lazy”. We do not know what in fact they do work in Adobe but it appears that in December the company’s servers have been targets of 7 million queries for iPod touch and iPhone to download the software. If this is not a figure that can motivate Adobe to work faster and Apple reconsider their position to allow the standard in mobile phones we really do not understand what could be motivating.

Apple released its final report on the final months of last year. According to them, sales of Mac computers are a total of 3.36 million which means an increase of 33 percent in last quarter. iPhone sales also jumped double and they are 8.7 million smartphones sold.

According to CEO of the company Steve Jobs, his company is worth over 50 billion U.S. dollars.

Screenshots appeared in the Internet and specifications of the expected operating system iPhone OS 4.0. It will be used on iPhone 3G and 3GS except the first generation iPhone, reports website Boy Genius Report.

The new OS will support multi-tasking and its interface will be significantly changed from previous editions. Apple is expected to introduce the system on January 27, simultaneously with a tablet PC.

Earlier this month Cupertino announced that planned a special event in late January. It is assumed that personally CEO-Steve Jobs will show the “new product” from Apple. The demonstration will take place in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, appleinsider.com spread the news that a tablet from Apple will see it was not until June, but not the end of January. The newspaper even hot right price points, but still shrouded in mist product and it is 999 dollars.

Apple’s “new work” really will be a device that combines the capabilities of the iMac and iPod Touch and more like the player than a computer. Building on processor ARM, will serve as a widget games, surfing the Web, watching videos and reading electronic books.

Korean operator KT Telecom announced an exclusive contract with Apple for the realization of next-generation iPhone. In an interview with representatives of the operator became clear that the fourth generation cult smartphone will be equipped with dual-core processor, improved graphics chip, OLED-display, video chat feature and removable battery. KT Telecom is preparing to start implementation of the iPhone 4G in April this year and the models will initially be limited only to corporate clients and high-volume sales of the new model will begin in June.

The processor, which will be used to create iPhone 4G, it can be assumed that it would be ARM Cortex A9 – dual-core chip with a frequency of 2 GHz. In addition, reportedly tested by Apple and RFID-chip, which can take its place in the future iPhone.

Raytheon Company is the largest contractor to the U.S. Army and it has undertaken a difficult task to turn the smartphone into a modern instrument of warfare. Raytheon will develop a series of applications that are designed for soldiers involved in military actions in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first scheduled program is called One Force Tracker. Through satellite positioning and connection with mobile networks the program will display constantly renovated map of the battlefield on the screen of the Soldiers’ iPhone. It will be depicted the actual positions of friends and enemies.

Applications will run on regular iPhone devices. In terms of hardware they will not be diffirent from ordinary iphones. The goal is to save money.

On the Internet there were rumors that the Apple already placed orders with Foxconn for the production of Apple iPhone 4G, which will probably appear soon.

According to the data published the fourth generation mobile device will include in itself a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus. Other specifications are not yet clear but probably there will be slight changes in the body of the phone. However, the basic design will be preserved.

It is not yet clear when it will appear but there are rumors that this will happen in March when it is expected to appear with the tablet iSlate.

The premise of the game involves some secret plans stored on a USB flash drive which Springfield’s illuminati decided to hide in a doughnut and entrust to Waylon Smithers. Smithers naturally loses the doughnut and Homer gives chase, since it must be a pretty good doughnut for everyone to want it this badly.

iPhone 3G S is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet and we think people will love the incredible new features including autofocus cam…

Like Google, from Microsoft also decided to run special application for the iPhone, revealing more opportunities for search engine Bing. Bing for iPhone can be downloaded from today.

The app has a pretty nice interface and includes almost all of the features offered in the original version of the search engine. Bing for iPhone opens with a different wallpaper every day. In addition showing interesting quotes. You can search for photos, videos, maps, news and more. Results page also has a very interesting design. Overall, the application is very beautiful and very easy to use.

According to TechCrunch, the application works perfectly and has no bugs. Bing for iPhone can be downloaded from the Apple App Store.

EA’s Need For Speed Shift is already in App Store. Here is a gameplay video of the game.

The application allows access to IMDb’s full offerings, boasting information on over 1.5 million movies and TV shows and over 3.2 million celebrities.

The application also offers access to trailers and photos for a wide variety of movies, as well as information on movie showtimes and TV listings.

iPhone and iPod touch are not the most convenient devices for long sessions with your favorite games. If you are keen, however, and still looking for a convenient solution, you can try with accessories iHandstick. It has the shape of the Playstation controller and promises to make long gaming sessions more comfortable. Price is $ 16.99.
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F1 2009 features all the teams, cars and drivers from the 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

Race all 17 officially licensed circuits: Feel the exhilaration of speeding around iconic circuits like Monaco, Spa Francorchamps and Silverstone, or enjoy dramatic night racing at Singapore.

Stunning graphics: The world of FORMULA ONE comes to life with faithful recreations of motorsport’s most advanced racing cars and authentic, world famous circuits.

Monopoly, one of the most popular board games in the world, is now available for iPhone. It is a colorful game with an interface that is very simple to understand.

The user interface as been managed well and is very simple to understand.

However, the game play needs some getting used to which shouldn’t be too difficult if you have already played the board game.

The character token is well designed 3-D object and are quite animated. Such as the running sumo wrestler as seen in the screenshot below.

Download Monopoly for iPhone

Swiss developer of applications for the iPhone introduced a program called SpyPhone, which acts as a Trojan horse. Special in the case is that the application can enter even a locked iPhone in theory.

SpyPhone works with public API, which is provided by Apple. The program is able to steal passwords, address book information, e-mail accounts, photos, history of browser Safari, etc.

SpyPhone don’t need any backdoor Trojans support. The application uses the basic functions of the iPhone to get to needed information. Relies on detailed data that each program has access once fell into a iPhone.

All actions SpyPhone run in hidden mode and without the knowledge of the owner of the phone. The application can be configured to send the extracted information by e-mail to a hacker.

A group of American students create an orchestra in which musical instruments are the only mobile phones branded iPhone, announced BBC.

Students from the University of Michigan alone written software programs that synthesize various tones. Some of the sounds that issue phones to remind traditional musical instruments, but others are completely unique. Music that the orchestra will perform is also composed by the students themselves.

Phones are connected to speakers, musicians who have hung around their waists. The first concert of the orchestra is scheduled for the ninth of December. It will commemorate the completion of quarterly lessons that had students in Georg Essl – computer scientist and musician.

“Mobile phones are a very good platform for studying new forms of musical performances” says Essl.

In Mirror’s Edge, you play as Faith, a member of a secret group known as “Runners” who act as couriers for information that cannot be transmitted in other means due to the totalitarian regime that has taken over and implemented a policy of extremely intrusive surveillance across the game-world.

Already heavily in Internet rumors emerged about the existence of the iPhone OS version 4. In some of them say that the mobile device will have a front camera for video calling. Other rumors do say will be increased capacity on the phone.

There is still no accurate data for hardware changes, but it appears evidence of testing of the new OS. In the photo below clearly visible versions was released so far.

Currently, it is clear only that from Apple only tested the new software and (most likely) hardware without clear indications of when it will appear on the final version.

Typically, from Apple to announce new models in January and put them on sale in June. It is expected the company to continue its traditions.

Because the iPhone’s camera is on the rear of the device, only one-way incoming video calls are possible, although the application will support two-way video calling if the iPhone and iPod touch gain front-facing cameras in the future.