iPhone Buzz Week in Review – Week 5 2009





The week started with news that Adobe and Apple are working together to create Flash for iPhone, according to Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen. Despite it’s not so easy and really up to Apple, but Narayen said that he was “pleased with progress”.

flash-player-iphone1In the ocean of the social networking services, especially among dekstop-based users, Facebook is quite popular. And it also goes with mobile users.  It’s reported that Facebook for iPhone is the service’s most popular application.

Once famous rapper, spoken-word poet, interpretive dancer, trendsetter,  Internet Empresario  MC Hammer launches its own iPhone app called Hammer Time. Hell yeah!  ”U Can’t Touch This” is on the list!

Whatever you call it  — iPhone Pro,  iPhone One,  iPhone ’09, etc –  seems the next-gen iPhone is now around the corner. AppleInsider wrote about the hint of new iPhone in June. Apple is planning allowing iPhone apps running in the background, according to MacRumor today. Will it be implemented in the next-gen iPhone?

Nine-year old Singaporean kid writes an application called Doodle Kids for Apple’s iPhone. Lim, who is in fourth grade, developed the painting software which is originally dedicated to his younger sisters.  Just touch the iPhone’s touchscreen to draw and then shake the phone to clear it.

Google’s just-announced Latitude, a service that lets you see your friends on a map and get in touch, is “coming soon” for the iPhone and iPod touch. Vic Gundotra, vice-president of engineering with Google’s mobile team, expects an iPhone version of this service will follow “very soon.”

Gizmodo points us to a new concept of the next-gen iPhone. The site also called this concept phone as “iPhone 4G”. The features offered are quite interesting, but not the design.

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It’s a great idea if we could access literature’s greatest works right from our iPhone, right? Thanks to Google Book Search, over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone.

Not just one, but three new iPhones will appear in 2009, according to an analyst with the Canadian research firm Canaccord Adams.  Seems this news confirmed the Dubai’s launch of the next-gen of iPhone and the-once-rumor iPhone Nano.

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