Make Your iPhone Go Round With WindowPlaner

by Sebastien on Jan 5, 2010

Wanna give a rounded look to your iPhone? There’s a jailbreak app for that! It’s called WindowPlaner and it will help you make your iPhone look a little bit more like the Palm Pre.

As you can see on this image, WindowPlaner simply makes the edges of your iPhone screen a little smoother by rounding them out.

It’s definitely not a break-through app, but it’s always nice to have new tweak for our favorite device, isn’t it?

Have you tried it yet? Share your thoughts in the comments.

 

Battle of the Giants: Nexus One, iPhone, and Droid Compared Side by Side

by Sebastien on Jan 4, 2010

The folks over at iSmashPhone came up with some nice graphics showing Google’s Nexus One, the iPhone, and Droid side by side.

I’m probably getting a Nexus One when I go back to the States as it seems that it has some potential to finally give a little competition to the iPhone.

What do you think?

 

iPhone App Giveaway: 5 Copies of Pro Surfing to Win

by Sebastien on Jan 3, 2010

The developers of the Pro Surfing game for iPhone and iPod Touch were so stoked to make it in my list of 45 favorite apps that they decided to give a few copies to iDB readers!

How Can You Win?

Pretty simple:

  • First, retweet this post on Twitter (see RT buttons at the top and bottom of this article)
  • Write a comment on this page and tell us who your favorite surfer is and why.
  • Make sure you leave your Twitter username in your comment because that’s how winners will be notified.

Restrictions? Yes unfortunately this giveaway is only available to people in the US. Don’t ask me why! That’s a stupid restriction from Apple.

I’m traveling a lot lately but I’ll do my best to notify the winners by Monday night.

Good luck, bra :)

UPDATE: Congrats to the winners of the Pro Surfing iPhone app @inthepit @seaslate @samaritan88 @Larissa_chaja @WilliamAleman Check your DM :)


 

iPhone Stuff You Missed This Week

by Sebastien on Jan 3, 2010

The following is a summary of the articles that were posted on the blog this past few days.

If you like any of them, please make sure you retweet them or leave a comment :)

Enjoy!

 

10 Predictions For The iPhone In 2010

by Sebastien on Jan 2, 2010

With a new year always comes lots of new resolutions. The beginning of the year is also a great opportunity to make predictions on what’s going to happen. I am no Nostradamus but I’d like to share with you a few of my predictions for the iPhone in 2010.

Apple will not divorce AT&T

I know we all want the iPhone to be offered on more than just one network in the US (Verizon anyone?) but I doubt it will. As I said before, Apple has an exclusive agreement with AT&T and breaking it would cost too much.

Fierce competition from Android

Android will kick ass in 2010! I believe so much in Android that I am starting an Android blog soon. Oh and I am also getting the Nexus One as soon as I get back in the States. Apple knows that Google will give it all in this new phone, which is why Apple will have to step up its game.

Improved battery life

Let’s be honest, the iPhone battery sucks. We know it.  Apple knows it and they know they have to come up with a better battery for the next model.

A 5MP camera

There has been rumors that the next iPhone will be equipped with a 5MP camera. I believe this rumor is true. 5MP is still below the industry standards but it’s still better than the poor 2MP camera we have now.

64GB of storage

This one is a no brainer. The next iPhone will come in either 32GB or 64GB of storage. That’s just normal evolution of things.

A louder speaker

What did you say? I said the new iPhone will have a LOUDER SPEAKER. Seriously, the sound on my iPhone is just pathetic. Once again, Apple knows it and will fix this.

New design

Let’s face it, the iPhone 3GS is just an intermediate product between the iPhone 3G and the next generation iPhone. Apple didn’t even bother giving the 3GS a facelift. I think 2010 will change. Be ready to see a breathtaking design for the new iPhone.

No 4G for you!

The name of the new iPhone will not be iPhone 4G. The iPhone will also not be 4G ready. Only a few markets offer a 4G cellular data network and it wouldn’t make sense for Apple to implement this at this time.

300,000 apps in the App Store

It took a year and a half for the App Store to reach 100,000 apps. I predict it will take less than a year to reach 300,000. Everyone and your mom is developing iPhone apps now.

Apps running in the background

Just like they did with copy/paste, Apple will wait the last minute to give us this basic feature. They have to because all other major smartphones do it. I also predict Apple will rip off ProSwitcher and implement a very similar functionality in iphone 4.0.

What are your predictions for the new iPhone in 2010?

 

My iPhone’s Resolutions For 2010

by Sebastien on Jan 1, 2010

Happy New Year everyone!!!

It seems that the best thing to do to start the year off right is to make resolutions. So I sat down with my iPhone and asked him what were his resolutions. Here is what he said:

  1. I will not allow cracked applications to run on my OS.
  2. I will not freeze or crash.
  3. I will change my root password so hackers can’t get into me.
  4. I will keep my jailbreak and unlock for as long as I can.
  5. I will lose weight. Goal is to lose 50 MB of apps I don’t use.
  6. I will try to get in touch with my cousin Android.
  7. I will learn something new (ie. how to run apps in the background).
  8. I will get organized. I might even install PogoPlank.

What are your iPhone resolutions?

 
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