iPhone Buzz Week in Review – Week 7 2009





If you have a bunch of favorite social networking accounts and you want to access them easily on your iPhone, this new app called Xumii will help you do that.

xumii1Seems live television could be making its way to the iPhone. PacketVideo (PV) announced its mobile video application for the Apple’s  iPhone, allowing iPhone users to watch operator-branded TV and on-demand video.  Hmm, are you addicted to YouTube? Definetly you need this app. TubeJunkies is an app made just for YouTube addicts. You can subscribe to video channels and never miss any new videos uploaded.

Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering at Google, demonstrated an offline-capable webapp for the iPhone 3G that allows full access to a user’s GMail even while the handset is in airplane mode.  The app – which Gundotra described as a “technical concept” – relies on HTML5′s AppCache and Database standards, keeping an on-device store of not only the user-data but the software itself.

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Yeah, you might be asking: iPhone 3G or HTC Magic?  Chris Davies of SlashGear has wrote an early comparison of these devices. Check-out some pointers here.

Mozilla and Skype also joined in to endorse a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to iPhone jailbreaking –which is a practice that Apple Inc. considers against the law.

Despite the fact the iTunes store currently sells South Park’s television show, movie and an uncensored version, but the South Park for iPhone has been rejected by Apple.

Are you a fan of  the nineties hit-maker The Presidents of the United States of America? The pop band has released a $2.99 iPhone app that contains four of their albums plus live tracks, demos and regular updates. Any song you like can be bought from the iTunes store directly from within the app.

A turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone, the G-Map application, already exists in the App Store. There is no monthly fee required and no internet or wi-fi connection needed. Each application (XRoad Co.’s G-Map U.S. West and G-Map U.S. East) will cost you $19.99.

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A recent study found that most free iPhone apps are rarely used after the first day they’re downloaded. According to analytics company Pinch Media, which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple’s App Store, only 20 percent of users go back for more the following day.

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