Smart Phones of today

As some of you may know, a company called Proximi has released the first, rich text editor for the iPhone called MagicPad. The most notable thing about MagicPad is the ability, for the first time, to copy, cut and paste on the iPhone.

This is something iPhone users have been craving for a very long time and finally, we see a solution that just might work. MagicPad is a good demonstration of what this company is trying to accomplish, but their ideas soar much higher than just MagicPad. MagicPad is proof of only the little of what they can do. Proximi has come up with methods on how to build a rich text editor throughout the iPhone. This concept blew me away when I saw it.

Please take the time to watch and understand just how brilliant their presentation is:

First Look – MagicPad from Apple iPhone Apps on Vimeo.

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Intelliborn has updated their site saying they have finally released their IntelliScreen app to firmware 2.0. To view the complete list of features read on.

Features:

• View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather from your iPhone ?Slide To Unlock? screen
• Taskbar Icons for Missed Email, SMS, and Phone calls
• Customizable Alert Reminders – Don?t forget about a missed call, unread email, or unread SMS
• Vibrate, Sound, or Flash Alerting with Alert Quiet Time
• Smooth scrolling across each item to quickly glimpse at your data
• Tap-To-Check Email when you view the unlock screen – no need to ?Refresh? from Mail.app or wait 15 minutes
• Go directly to the application of your choice with a ?Swipe?
• Precise International Weather (by Zip) provided by Weather Underground.com
• News Feeds include Yahoo!, CNN, BBC Fox News, and Reuters
• Add your own Custom RSS Feed
• ESPN Sports Feeds include MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Men?s Football and NCAA Women?s Basketball
• Customizing your IntelliScreen? is easy! Choose which content you want to view and where
• Customize your Layout by pinching and pulling content
• Mail and Text Messages can be shown only if new items are available
• Skinnable – Customize to the way you want IntelliScreen to look

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Do you have an iPhone and hate paying for Internet access at the airport? Want your laptop to work in any Park or public place?

With tethering software, users can connect their iPhones to their laptops and utilize the 3G network they pay for through their AT&T data plans to get Internet access to their laptops. It?s really a rather wonderful thing, and is available on other networks like Verizon.

An app called NetShare from Nullriver briefly appeared in the iPhone app store in the evening of July 31st, for a price of $10. Unfortunately, it was gone in twenty minutes, and raised the hackles of more than a few iPhone users who want to fully utilize the bandwidth they have purchased and own.

But not so fast! The app is back in action here in the afternoon, noontime PST at this link. We don?t know if Apple is going to keep it up, or if AT&T has relented, but for now, it is available again. This would be the first legal way iPhone users have had to tether to their laptops.

I?m not sure if this works with Windows laptops or not. There is a note on the iTunes store that says it?s complicated to set up for Windows users, but apparently does work.

This may violate the AT&T terms of service, but it?s not known whether or not they can detect its usage. Word is that first-gen iPhone users who have unlocked tethering haven?t been caught.

Good luck!

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Apple has equipped some of its developers with the tools needed to begin authoring iPhone applications that can receive data over the internet, like instant messages, even when they?re not running.

The capability to produce these applications, sometimes called background apps, has been atop the wish lists of iPhone developers, mainly because Apple prevents the iPhone from running more than one application at a time.

That means that an instant message conversation in AOL?s free AIM app for the iPhone would abruptly terminate should a user receive a phone call. The user wouldn?t receive any new incoming messages until the phone call was over and the AIM application was relaunched. The same would happen if a user clicked on a web link sent via instant message, triggering the Safari app to launch and the AIM app to quit.

Apple?s argument against traditional background-capable applications is a sound one, and one that?s in the best interest of iPhone users. During the company?s recent developers conference, iPhone chief Scott Forstall noted that implementations of background applications on rival mobile operating systems are largely flawed in that they lead users to believe that they?ve quit applications when those apps remain open.

This in turn eats at battery life, where the iPhone 3G is already limited by power-hungry 3G and location services, and also weighs on processor performance with each additional application that continues to run as a background process.

To solve this problem, Forstall said Apple was developing an alternative to background applications known as a ?Push Notification Service? that developers could tap through a series of APIs, or easy to use programming functions, beginning in September. Instead of allowing potentially dozens of third party services to simultaneously access an iPhone directly, the push service would funnel all transmissions from developers? servers through a central Apple server, which would then relay the data to iPhones through a single persistent and well-managed background connection.
iPhone’s push notification service
Apple?s overview of its Push Notivation Service.

Through this technique, Forstall said developers can push badges to icons (like the email count indicator seen on the iPhone?s Mail icon), notification sounds, or pop-up text alerts like those that currently appear when an iPhone receives a text message. This management system was also developed to scale easily with larger apps, the exec said.

The first beta release of iPhone Software 2.1 last week whet the appetite of iPhone developers waiting on the push capabilities when it included some references to the feature. However, a second beta that arrived last night finally includes a rough implementation of the push services API, according to MacRumors.

?This is the second beta of the iPhone SDK targeting iPhone OS 2.1, including bug fixes to iPhone OS as well as an early implementation of the Apple Push Notification Service API,? Apple said. ?This API is not yet integrated with a live push server.?

Only a select group developers are reported to have received the latest beta, which as Apple noted, isn?t fully functional. Still, the iPhone maker has two months left to meet its self-imposed deadline to roll out Push Notification Service tools to its broader developer community. If it makes good on its promise, the first background-conscious iPhone applications should start cropping up on the App Store later this fall

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Well since I blogged about the TOP 10 current iPhone Apps the next step was to publish the Top 5 Most Wanted iPhone Apps of the moment. While some are just around the corner from release Some others we’ve still got a month to wait for. And it’s going to givesome real competition against Installer 4.0.

SO HERE IS THE LIST:

1. DATACASE One of the big complaint I have against the iPhone is the inability to use the device as a portable storage. I really hope that I could use my iPhone to store files temporarily and access them anywhere as you could with a flash drive or portable hard disk. This dream will soon come true with the announcement of DataCase.? DataCase is an iPhone App that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a ?hand held wireless drive?. You?ll be able to drap and drop files from your computer (both Mac and PC is supported) to your iPhone and vice versa. What?s more, you?ll even be able to preview your files on the iPhone. This App will be released on July 28th and will cost you a mere 6.99 USD.

2. WordPress for iPhone -? this is one of my most anticipated iPhone App. Users of the other popular blogging platform, TypePad, already has a iPhone client available via the iTunes App Store and we just can?t let them get all the fun with blogging on the iPhone. The good news is that based on the video on the Official WordPress Blog, it looks like the app is ready for prime time and will see the light of the day anytime soon.

3. Slingbox Player - For those that don?t know what a Slingbox is, you can check it out at their website. In short, the Slingbox, as it?s name suggest, is a box that you hook up to your internet connection and cable service, allowing you to stream live TV from the box to your Slingbox client from anywhere where there?s a connection. Sling Media have already announced the development of the Slingbox Client for the iPhone and we can expect it to appear on the App Store within the next couple of months.

4. Spore – Ok, I know, this is not exactly an application, but nonetheless will be distributed via the iTunes App Store. Spore is a popular game that allows gamers to create their own creature within the game. This is highly anticipated, however, no release date have been set as of this post.

5. GPS Navigation – It turns out that point-and-turn GPS navigation application will be in fact allowed on the iPhone and various companies are already working to bring this feature onto the device. I think the iPhone is very suitable for being a GPS device as it?s large 3.5 inch screen will be very suitable for showing maps and direction. Although there are various popular phones on the market with this feature already, such as the HTC Touch Cruise, it?ll still be great to have this on the iPhone.

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