IntelliScreen, a very nice iPhone app released, Beta.
Well, when I saw this app, my thoughts were, wow. Well it’s very cool, you can guess it’s feature from the image to the left. It places usefull information on Locked Screen of your iPhone. It’s very usefull, now you don’t need to unlock it, you can read recent news, email, check weather and see calendar events right there. Well, it’s very usefull. I won’t place here the information how to install it, or more features, because you can find it all here. Attention! It’s in Beta yet, so I don’t suggest you to install it. I will place a little review of mine here.
Well I have installed it right when I first heard of it. Firs thing that bumped in my eyes, was a Pop-up of this program, “Read Before Purchasing”, and I wasn’t promted to purchase anything. This means the program is commercial, and it will cost some money and be avaliable in the App Store. Secondly, it fetches weather from some shitty weater network that doesn’t have my town (well most likely this means that my town is shitty :)) The program is usefull, but lets face it - it will consume more battery. If it will check for news feeds, sports feed, e-mail and weather, on the background, it will consume your power. If not then you will have to wait for it to load the data, in the mean time you could just unlock you phone and do it yourself.
Official specs of Xenium aka X800 aka iPhone by Philips.
Do you remember that iPhone Clone, Xenium by Philips? Well it was in the Rumors category, now it’s offcial. No price yet, neither release date. And again it’s Called iPhone Killer, but not by RIM now, by Philips (when will the kill the iPhone by the way? They never tell…). So let’s look at the specs now:
Display: Type TFT touchscreen supports 256K colors, 240 x 400 pixels, 2.9 inches
Ringtones: Polyphonic (64 channels) or MP3, Vibration
Memory Expansion: MicroSD
Data: GPRS Class 10 (32 - 48 kbps)Connectivity: Bluetooth v2, USB,
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS
WAP 2.0, XHTML Browser
Appearance: Black Color, Customizable themes.Entertainment: 2 MP Camera with Autofocus and Video, JAVA, Media Player, Office Document Viewer, Organizer, Loudspeaker
Battery: Stand-by Up to 850 h, Talk time Up to 8 h
Now, let me ask the question, how are they gonna kill the iPhone with no EDGE and no 3G? Crazy guys. Well if you are reading this, then most likely you are from US, so let me tell you that what concers mibile phones, Philips is oriented to Asian market, so you won’t have the chance to kill the iPhone :)
Breaking News, Rumors Are True, 3G iPhone Will Come In Two Colors!
iPhone Black is now appearing in the model selection popdown menu on AT&T’s customer screen. Must be this one slipped just like AT&T free WiFi for iPhones last week. There is alot of mess in AT&T. Spokesperson declined to comment this. There is no other information than this screenshot, but I’m pretty sure this means iPhone will come in two colors and will be in plastic body. However, this is pretty sad that iPhone won’t come in red color, which also has been rumored by casing layouts.
New 3G iPhone Photos Discovered, iPhone is getting thicker.
New, almost looking like real 3G iPhone photos are discovered at Chinese iPhone website WeiPhone. The phone meets all the specs that were posted previously. We can clearly see it is getting thicker and wider, and has a 3G Camera to the left. This is not the iPhone itself, most likely these are just bodies. Looks like they are being made of plastic, or painted aluminum, without chrome on the borders. If someone knows Chinese and you can translate what do they say on Chinese website please let me know 
Well this photos only look real, no any confirmation, but the fact that they match 3G iPhone case layouts and photos come from China, where they do assemble iPhones, those may be true. We can just wait for MacWorld this summer.
Sprint is throwing away $100 million dollars.
You can watch their commercials at gizmodo.com, Spring made couple of ads that showcase it’s domination over iPhone. It’s based on it’s internet speed and map localization. Which means their Samsung phone has 3G and GPS in it. They are throwing away $100 million dollars on this compaign, which will be pointless in the matter of weeks, when Apple will introduce new iPhone with 3G, and most likely with GPRS. I really don’t think that this is a good idea for sprint to throw money away like that, they could make a cheaper plans instead of that, or keep this money :)
Xenium, juicy iPhone clone by Philips.
Hello world, my name is Xenium, I am a new phone by Philips. I am being developed by Philips for a long time and promised to have a long battery life, but after meteoric iPhone success creators of mine think it would be best idea to make me just another iPhone clone. I’m not pretty sure yet but I have all the features you can find on the iPhone, even orientation sensor. Maybe god will bless me with 3G, anyways I don’t think much about myself, only that I won’t have any buttons, but I will definitely have and Edge To Edge touchscreen. I also have hip name, Xenium, and may I suppose I will go out of order after couple months of use, just like all Philips products. Thank you for your attention, keep an eye on me.
3G iPhone Has a Videocall Camera
Here is a fresh layout for manufacturers of iPhone’s cases. Well there are alot of cases that don’t fit your phone perfectly, thats why you have to buy cases from a well-known companies, like Marware. And these companies are getting device’s specs to make a fitting cases. So company should provide them with as little detail as possible. Here is what they got for the new iPhone, as rumored by iLounge. Look at the top right sketch, it has different sensors arrangement, with third hole added. Why would they need one more hole? For a videochat camera, thats the only explanation by far!
New Fake 3G iPhone look Fresh From the France
This is it, I totally don’t believe in it, so does gizmodo, but hey, isn’t it nice to think that new 3G iPhone is going to look alot better than some guys want it to be. I think it’s time for Apple to announce that damn 3G iPhone, so those rumors were stopped. This one looks like Chinese fake tPhone with rubber coverage. Apple has a habit of doing everything shiny, well I wish new iPhone will look just exactly like the old one, so I won’t be bothered to change my current ;)
And if you think the front of this fake rumor looks more that awful, try back:
And thanks for iphon.fr for showing us their endless imagination skills.
iPhone killer comes, beware Apple!
Blackberry 9000? Promised to come this May, this phone should play a big role for the R.I.M. because since the iPhone their sales have fallen down, plus iPhone is going enterprise - which R.I.M. can’t afford to happen, today’s most “enterprise friendly” phones are Blackberrys.
It’s not going to be a touchscreen as it seems, because R.I.M.’s CEO Mike Lazaridis says:
“It’s hard to type on a piece of glass.”
To me it sounds like:
“It’s hard to type on a piece of shit.”
And you know why? Because Apple is getting a big creamy piece of their pie now, Sad R.I.M., R.I.M. not happy! Here is smartphone sales chart: 
Awaited spects are a little better than the iPhone’s, but basically. So let’s wait for it.
P.S. Here is an interesting quote from recent NYT article:
Two independent developers writing software for coming R.I.M. devices say that a touch-screen BlackBerry is in the works, and that R.I.M. engineers privately refer to it as the A.K. — for “Apple Killer.”
P.P.S. Where is Android?
New iPhone SDK Beta - Yes to Backgrond Processes?
The most dissappointing thing in SDK was that Apple limited software to run as a background process, which means, you won’t be able to have programs such as Instant Messagers, or maybe apps for themes and many more possabilities. Here is the quote of an developer who has reviewed latest SDK Beta 4:
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.