Over the weekend the iPhone CoPilot satnav application became available costing just $34.99. TomTom iPhone has now been launched and is available on the iTunes store in the US costing $99.99.

Can the more expensive price of $99.99 beat the CoPilot application? I think possibly yes as TomTom is a big and trusted name when it comes to satellite navigation. [Read more…]

CoPilot Live is now available from the iPhone App Store. CoPilot is a turn-by-turn satnav package built for the iPhone that allows both iPhone 3G S and 3G users to navigate anywhere in the US.

CoPilot for iPhone has launched with an aggressive price of just $34.99. This makes it the cheapest of satnav apps available for the iPhone as others are priced at $69.99 upwards. [Read more…]

Hidden deep within Palm Pre’s WebOS a bit of code was found that is actually for a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard seems to have 2 options available in that it can work both portrait and landscape.

It was found by some coders who were snooping around looking for hidden features in the Pre’s operating system. The pre-alpha keyboard has been tested across all apps and was found to work on all programs and fields within programs. [Read more…]

BGR’s ninjas found out some more details about the Dell Android phone. The specs could be as follows…

It will probably have a 3.5 inch display with a resolution of 640×360 pixels. GPS will be built in, a MicroSD slot for expanding storage capacity and a 3 megapixel camera.

The phone will be a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and the phone will measure 58 x 122 x 11.7mm. Full list of known details after the jump. [Read more…]

Another report of an iPhone Explosion is moving around the web today. This time the report comes from France where a French teenager claims to have been hit in the eye from a flying bit of glass caused by a screen exploding.

The report also mentions that the phone made the traditional hissing sound which followed by the screen breaking. Another report was recently mentioned a couple of weeks back from Liverpool where an iPhone was heard to be hissing and apparently jumped several feet in the air after being thrown out to the garden.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission in California also has documents outlining another 15 cases of burns cases as a result of people chilling out with their iPod tunes.

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Before we begin I must mention that you really shouldn’t try this test at home as this particular LG Crystal is slightly different to the normal versions at retail.

The LG Crystal shown in the picture here has been modified with a transparent food membrane making it completely waterproof. Check out the video below. [Read more…]

iPhone owners now have Duke Nukem 3D that they can download and play. Duke Nukem 3D is a classic first person shooter from a number of years ago and works quite well ported over to the iPhone.

The iPhone version uses slider style controls with a TapShoot function. It’s different to other games but according to those who have tested it, it works well (after learning the system). [Read more…]

If you are a Windows Mobile (Windows Phone I should say) fan, then you’re in for some good news. HTC are bringing two new HTC phones to Verizon. A third handset also gets an updated render of what it could look like.

First off is the HTC Touch Diamond 2 that is codenamed Whitestone. This is the phone pictured on the left and has the following features… [Read more…]

Apple recently rejected the new Google Voice app in it’s app store which caused a bit of a stir in the industry. The FCC jumped in to this last week. All that aside, it has started to annoy developers that Apple have such a heavy hand on this matter. It appears that more and more developers are moving over to an underground app store for the iPhone called Cydia. This is the app store which is home to apps that Apple doesn’t approve.

The 5 month old store is run by Jay Freeman and is currently growing at a tremendous rate. About 10 percent of the 40 million iPhone/iPod Touch users have logged in to the store to download software. About 470000 users per day connect to the store which is an increase of just a few months ago that saw 350000 per day. [Read more…]

LG recently created a video demonstration showing off the LG Crystal GD900. The Crystal is one of the next phones to be launched and it’s most striking feature is the transparent slide down keypad – hence the Crystal name.

The transparent keypad not only allows you to enter enter alpha numeric/characters, it also acts as a touchpad too that allows you to scroll through the S-Class menu system. [Read more…]

It appears from rumours that Rogers in Canada is starting to ship 8GB iPhone 3G S’ to their stores.

It seems like the older iPhone 3G models at 8GB are slowly going to be replaced and the old version replaced with a new $99 version (at least we hope the price is the same). [Read more…]

Apple have now fixed the iPhone’s SMS security flaw. This fix secures the phone from a remote attack that could have been exploited. The patch is available via iTunes update.

If you are unaware what the vulnerability is on the iPhone then read on. Last week a couple of researches found out that by sending an iPhone a string of text messages that it could give them access to your iPhone. The text messages sent included executable code which was embedded in the iPhones memory opening it up for remote access. [Read more…]