iPhone App Review

If you missed out on yesterday’s app giveaway, which one user called “epic”, I still have a few apps leftover and Lingopal is one of them! I just reviewed Lingopal a few days ago and it’s pretty great as phrasebooks go… 42 languages, spoken translations, and it’s all local (as in no internet needed). Impressive!
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As an old man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Herman, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on Route 280. Please be careful!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Herman, “it’s hundreds of them!”
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The FCC has written to Apple, AT&T and Google questioning the rejection of Google Voice and related applications from the iPhone App Store.

Fitting graphics, appropriate sound effects, and game that gets surprisingly challenging as you progress through its 28 levels makes Bed Bugs a fun addition to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Most people still fumble when trying to figure out how much of a tip to leave at the end of a meal, especially when they are in a group and everybody decides to split or worse pay individual amounts. While the iPhone and iPod touch both have built-in calculators that can make bill splitting and [...]

HTC said its 2009 revenue will fall short of previous guidance due partly to slower-than-expected sales of Android and Windows Mobile smartphones.

The latest version of this Twitter client gets some needed improvements while also adding support for push notifications. But some flaws remain.

Apple on Friday released iPhone 3.0.1, which fixes the SMS vulnerability demonstrated by security researchers earlier this week.

If you’re itching to try Google Voice, but haven’t received one of the coveted private beta invites, a Menlo Park, Calif., company called 3jam is offering an alternative.

This week, 3jam announced an open beta of its new voice forwarding and transcription service that bears a striking resemblance …

Originally posted at The Download Blog

When it comes to numbers, the App Store is unquestionably a success. But Dan Moren thinks there’s a deeper flaw in it, one that’s hard to reconcile with Apple’s long-standing image of thinking different.