MacWorld 2008 will be held in January in San Francisco and this is where all the rumors will either confirm or burst. The last one coming down the pipe is TomTom to offer a GPS module on the iPhone. You can see that we already have a spy shot of the application working but since the Dutch manufacturer didn’t bother to answer we keep it in the rumors shelves.

Probably Apple is going in the right direction, now that Google’s Android threatens to take over the open-source applications for mobile phones, and they allows third-party developers to take a peak inside the iPhone. Another reason is the possible partnership with Volkswagen that would create a car full of Apple gadgets, which means Apple is interested to win the car industry?

We’ll have to wait and see what’s up at MacWorld 2008.

Source: Engadget

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Holidays rush! Everybody is looking for something cool in order to offer a nice and fashionable gift. What could be more wanted than a high tech device? iPhone? Oh, yeah! iPod Touch? No problem. Apple’s latest iPod, looks alike the iPhone, but it doesn’t have so many features. However the Touch has a 3.5-inch touch-sensitive glass screen and is able to connect to Internet via built-in Wi-Fi.

I wouldn’t mind to receive one as a present. The Touch features a web browser for surfing the Internet and comes with 8 or 16 GB of storage. iPhone’s applications work perfectly with iPod Touch. So there is a lot of entertainment provided. It plays photos, videos and music, and you also have YouTube. The gadget retails for $299(8GB) and $399 (16GB).

I would certainly opt for the Touch against a Zune or Sony mp3 player, even the price is higher. I have heard about many people who put the Touch on their wish list for Santa. The player can substitute the iPhone in those countries where it wasn’t launched yet.

via Apple news

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If you haven’t heard yet Google Docs and Google Calendar were released on cellphones some time ago with the main target, iPhone owners. With such a big market (lots of units sold) and users that loves the brand with a clean and simple application Google just optimized more of their mobile solutions for the iPhone.

The new Google homepage is now updated with a tabbed bar on top that can easily send you to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Reader and their other mobile applications. It doesn’t look like the Android but it’s still something that will win a lot of people.

via GoPaulTech

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Today iPhone has landed in Europe, more exactly in UK and in Germany. Although many fans have come for the big launch, Europeans were not so enthusiast as Americans. Some shoppers formed cues in front of the retail stores. By 5 p.m., Deutsche Telekom AG, which owns T-Mobile, announced they sold more than 10,000 iPhones in Germany. The British carrier O2, doesn’t want to disclose the exact number of the sales for this Friday.

Even the iPhone has been expected for six months, there were complains about its price. For instance in Germany the 8GB version retails for $587, on top of a contract through T-Mobile starting at $72 a month and a $37 “installation” fee. In UK, the same model costs $566, while in US it retails for $399.

In France, the gadget-phone will be released on November 29. Orange will be the retailer for the iPhone. There are no news about launching in the other countries across Europe.

Apple Store UK

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Are you familiar with the iPhone? You’re right, I don’t know where that came from, of course you are. If you remember the buzz it created when coming on the market, sales and the time it passed before we got our hands on it, I think Time’s Magazine award for The Invention of the Year will not come as a surprise to you. Indeed, it’s the iPhone.

They managed to find five reasons - as the iPhone would need reasons - to make this nomination. The first is the design, because from early project stages it was all about the idea of a “pretty phone”. Other phone manufacturers where always putting design on second place so that’s where the iPhone won people’s hearts.

Other reasons to declare it the best invention of 2007 have been the touchscreen display, OS X platform that drives it, a future projection of what will happen to it if we think of the iPod and the fact that it will make other phones better.

What do you guys think?

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