If you’re an iPhone app developer, you probably already know how fickle Apple is about accepting your apps. But you should now know that you should not try to scam the gadget giant.
Chinese developer Molinker has been booted from the App Store, and oh yeah, their 1000+ apps too. They were caught buying 5-star ratings in exchange for free copies of their apps.
There’s a new poker app looking to be the king of the poker games world (at least on the iPhone): World Poker Tour Texas Hold’em. While it’s very similar in ways to existing poker apps already out there, it puts together a total package of features that other apps haven’t quite managed to pull off yet.
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Now that you have your home automation all tricked out, and you got yourself an iPhone, how do you control your HA system from your God-phone?! Not to worry, iLinc is an iPhone/iPod Touch app that lets you do just that.
For example, you can control up to 1000 INSTEON or X10 devices as well as up to 1000 ‘scenes’. You of course need some way to make your devices accessible to the Intenret, and either the ISY-99i controller or the INSTEON PowerLinc controller will do the trick.
There are 2 versions, the iLinc Lite can only control 1 device, but it’s enough to get you started testing. iLinc Pro will let you control all of your devices and also works with the USB/Serial PowerLinc.
By the way, this isn’t the only iPhone app available to control your home automation devices.
Price: iLinc Lite: Free, iLinc Pro: $19.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
It seems like an incongruous pairing, but Radio Shack (aka The Shack) is set to carry the iPhone 3G and 3GS in Dallas and New York City by Thanksgiving, and then nationwide in 2010.
Of course, if you can’t wait, you can still get an iPhone at Wal-Mart or Best Buy OR you could get yourself an Android handset instead.
Well, well, well. AT&T has just decided to reverse their prior stance and allow iPhone users to use Skype and other VoIP apps on the cellular networks. VoIP apps would work when the iPhone was on a WiFi network, but not when connected to the AT&T network.
Certainly, this is good news for consumers, but you do have to wonder why they decided to change their position. It’s quite likely that given the FCC’s current investigation into the competitiveness of wireless services, that AT&T decided to jump the gun on them being branded anti-competitive.
Interested in playing some poker on your iPhone but noticed that there aren’t apps for your favorite poker sites? Then take a look at this quick guide on what you can do to get around the Apple restrictions on ‘gambling’ apps.
USAA, a privately-held bank, is about to roll out an updated version of their iPhone app that will allow select customers to ‘deposit’ checks without having to mail in or step foot into a bank. Customers will photograph both sides of the check with their phone and then a few touches later, voila!
USAA has had check scanning capability for years now and this is just the next step. Expect other larger banks to follow suit quickly.
Zensify is an app available for both iPhone and iPod Touch that brings together all your social networking sites in one, easy to view page enabling you to view all your social network updates simultaneously without having to load each page individually.
Currently only available for iPhone and iPod, if you dig a little deeper to the sole investors of Zensify – Ipex – they say that other mobile platforms will be supported later this year. Stay tuned.
Engadget received confirmation that AT&T will in fact offer tethering with the iPhone.
Today at WWDC it was announced that 22 carrier partners in 44 countries would offer tethering, but the assumption was that AT&T would not provide tethering. With no official announcements, the question now turns to when AT&T will offer with speculation occurring when AT&T rolls out their 7.2Mbps HSPA network.
Now if Apple could work on copy/paste functionality…
Also announced at Apple’s WWDC was the latest update to the iPhone OS to 3.0 which will come out in less than 10 days on Jun 17. Oh, but that’s not as big as the new iPhone 3G S model being released 2 days later.
The iPhone 3G S 16GB will be $199 and the 32GB will be $299, while existing 8GBers will sell for $99. New in the 3G S is a digital compass, video recording, voice control and a better camera.
Engadget has some (painfully) detailed coverage of today’s keynote with screenshots, or you can see the whole presentation on Apple’s site.
