Remember GooSync, the service that allows you to sync the data from Google Calendar with your phone’s calendar? You certainly do — we’ve already covered them in a couple of posts earlier this year.

Now they’ve announced that their service — used by more than 100,000 people worldwide — is supporting the Apple iPhone. Yap, that means you’ll be able to access your GCal entries right from the beautiful interface of the built-in Calendar application on your iPhone.

I’m still not sure how this all works, but being the GooSync user for more than a year, I’ve learned to trust them. So go ahead, point your browser to GooSync’s website and take it from there…

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So, with T-Mobile Germany forced to sell unlocked iPhones (at least for now), Debitel’s got a plan to help snatch-up some potential unlocked iPhone customers. Debitel provides its customer with leased network time from its German counterparts, and they’re offering a €600 bonus to all new iPhone customers. The sign-up bonus should help bring the unlocked iPhone’s €999 price tag down to a more manageable €399 - the same price that T-Mobile Germany charges for on-contract iPhones.

Debitel’s deal should appeal to Germans interested in an unlocked iPhone but wary of the prohibitively high price point from T-Mobile (which is probably T-Mobile’s intention). But then again, Debitel will probably require iPhone customers to sign a contract to get that €600 sign-up bonus - so the only advantage to signing with Debitel would be that you have an unlocked iPhone once your contract expires. Which would you choose - a T-Mobile locked iPhone with Visual Voicemail and unlimited data for €399, or an unlocked iPhone that’s essentially locked to Debitel’s network sans Visual Voicemail for the same price?

Of course, that unlocked iPhone is likely to be obsolete by the time Debitel lets you off their contract.

[Via: Engadget Mobile]

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In a move designed to compete with AT&T, German mobile operator will offer a large rebate on the iPhone. This should open up the German market quickly for iPhones.

Debitel — which resells airtime it buys from T-Mobile and rivals Vodafone (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research), O2 (TEF.MC: Quote, Profile, Research) and E-Plus (KPN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) in Germany — said on Tuesday it would pay the difference in price between an unlocked iPhone and one locked to T-Mobile.

T-Mobile has an exclusive deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in Germany, but was ordered by a court last week to offer customers an option to buy an unlocked iPhone.

It agreed to do so — at a price of 999 euros, compared with 399 euros for an iPhone locked into a T-Mobile contract.

The move is expected to rapidly increase sales for Debiel when the unlocked phones go on sale.

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In terms of real-world applicability, this might be the most useful iPhone application to date. So, just what is this uber-useful third-party iPhone app? Well, it’s called “iLevel,” and it is, well, a level.

iLevel makes use of the iPhone’s integrated accelerometers to function as a digital level for all your picture-aligning, table-building, driveway-leveling needs. Ok, you probably wouldn’t use your iPhone to help level your new concrete driveway, but you could if you wanted to…

Grab iLevel from the iApp-a-day source in your Installer.app. What, you still haven’t installed it yet? What are you waiting for? Go here, run Installer.app, then install the iApp-a-day from the “Source” list, and then find and install iLevel. What are you waiting for? That picture ain’t gonna straighten itself, now is it?

[Via: iPhone Atlas]

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Tags: apple, iphone mobile phone, iphone, gadget

It seems that Apple has heard our pleas to stop talking it up and get their official iPhone SDK out into developers’ hands. Well, in all actuality, Apple probably wasn’t responding to our singular call for the iPhone SDK, but we’ll take what we can get.

Electronista is reporting that Apple has started seeding the official iPhone SDK to a select few developers. An extremely lucky few software developers are reportedly getting rough-draft versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch Software Development Kit. We’re not sure exactly what comprises the iPhone SDK, but the “special” few that have the pleasure of using the SDK have confirmed that it creates native applications and works in much the same way as Google’s OpenSocial - acting as a middle-man between the iPhone OS and the programmer.

However, programming applications for the iPhone OS will not be the same as on the Mac OS X - the SDK has it limits. Again, details on the SDK’s capabilities are not yet known - the developers have reportedly only been working on the SDK for a couple weeks. And, as such, there is no available release date for any iPhone SDK-sourced applications.

It makes sense for Apple to choose a few high-level developers to get a head-start on programming native applications for the iPhone prior to the official iPhone SDK release in February. Having native applications up and running at the time of the iPhone SDK’s release is a prudent move on Apple’s part. We suppose Apple learned from Google’s Android announcement - you know, the super-hyped mobile phone platform from Google that soon lost steam and fizzled out due to lack of marketable hardware and software. Apple could keep third-party iPhone applications on the hype-radar by releasing working applications at the time of the SDK’s launch.

Bring on the iPhone SDK!

[Via: Electronista]

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With the French iPhone launch just days away, the nation’s Apple-partnered wireless carrier is speaking up about its iPhone sales goals. Orange has announced that it expects to push 100,000 iPhones out its doors by the end of this year - merely a month after the iPhones launch on November 29. Orange Wireless’s CEO, Didier Lombard, stated that he expects sales numbers to reach “a little under 100,000″ by December 31 - amounting to approximately 3,000 iPhones being sold every day.

And, to help move more iPhones than its European counterparts in Germany, Lombard has promised that Orange will be selling unlocked iPhones at a price that’s significantly lower” than the 999 Euro ($$1,485 USD) price tag that T-Mobile German is charging for their iPhone. Recall that the iPhone’s future in France was put in jeopardy due to French telecom regulations that required all wireless carriers to offer unlocked versions of their handset.

We think it makes sense that France’s Orange would offer the unlocked version of the iPhone at a lower price-point than Germany’s T-Mobile. It seems that T-Mobile is only offering the unlocked iPhone to comply with a temporary court-ordered injunction, which T-Mobile is actively seeking to get overturned - so unlocked iPhones in Germany are something of a stop-gap solution, and is perhaps even discouraged from being purchased through the incredibly high price. In France, however, Orange will have to offer the unlocked version of the iPhone without question, and so will likely be giving customers more incentive to buy the iPhone, locked or unlocked, from Orange.

Orange’s subsidized (read: locked) iPhone will command 399 Euro and will require a 2-year contract that starts at 49 Euro per month for 120 minutes and 50 SMS text messages. Interestingly, customers opting for a 1-year contract will initially pay the same price for the handset, but will be charged about 4.50 Euro more per month for service.  We’d love to see this sort of tiered-contract offering from US carriers - it would be easier to pay a few bucks more per month than to shell out a couple hundred more dollars upfront in order to keep contracts down to a reasonable length. It’d be great to pay the same amount for the cellphone and just pay an extra $8 per month in return for a 1-year contract.

[Via: Apple Insider]

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Tags: cell phone, iphone cell phone, iphone mobile phone, iphone

The latest iPhone update didn’t really do anything impressive for our iPhones. Sure, that TIFF-image security hole was patched, but it was more of a headache for third-party iPhone developers than anything else. Or was it? One iPhone hacker noticed that the last iPhone update contained some interesting code hidden within. These code strings seem to indicate (and confirm previous rumors) that Apple is cooking up some sort of online-based (most likely iTunes-based) rental scheme.

Here’s the code-of-interest from the “lockdownd” file:

pumpkin:~ pumpkin$ strings /usr/local/share/iphone-filesystem/usr/libexec/lockdownd | grep -i rental
trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not retrieve FairPlayID
trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not initialize FairPlay context
trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not verify the rental bag response: %d
load_rental_bag_request: Could not retrieve FairPlayID
load_rental_bag_request: Could not initialize FairPlay context
load_rental_bag_request: Could not generate rental bag request
load_rental_bag_request: Could not create mutable dictionary
load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFData from request message
load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFArray
load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFNumber from indice
RentalBagResponse
RentalBagRequest
pumpkin:~ pumpkin$

Is Apple planning on launching a movie-rental section for the iTunes Store? We’d pay maybe a buck, or two, to rent a movie for our iPhones, and slightly more for a full-fledged (higher-resolution) version. Anything more expensive than that, and you can bet we’ll be keeping our online movie rental subscription. Act

[Via: World of Apple]

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Tags: cell phone, mobile phone, iphone apple, iphone mobile phone

Well, it looks like Vodafone is about to get what they’ve been seeking. The mobile phone carrier has successfully prompted the German government to look into whether or not rival carrier T-Mobile’s iPhone exclusivity deal breaches German wireless regulations. T-Mobile has already complied with the temporary court order, and is offering unlocked iPhones for almost $1,500 - but the upcoming hearing on November 29 may allow T-Mobile to resume selling iPhones locked exclusively to their network. On the flip-side, we could see T-Mobile forced to permanently offer unlocked iPhones to the German masses.

Of course, the T-Mobile / Vodafone showdown is scheduled for the same day that France’s Orange will be launching their own iPhone (November 29). We’re expecting Orange to offer unlocked iPhones in order to comply with French telecom regulations for a hefty price - so no matter the German court’s decision, krauts in need of an unlocked iPhone may still be in luck. We’ll be watching this court-battle, stay tuned.

[Via: CNN]

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FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- A Hamburg court will hear the case on T-Mobile Deutschland’s German marketing rights for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone November 29., the court said Friday.

Vodafone Deutschland, a unit of Vodafone PLC (VOD), earlier this week filed an injunction with the court, requesting a legal assessment of T-Mobile’s marketing rights to the iPhone.

Vodafone objected to the fact that the iPhone can be used only on T-Mobile networks, and questioned the company’s pricing packages, which were tied to binding contracts with T-Mobile.

Following a court order, T-Mobile has made changes to its iPhone offer, but has said it expects its marketing model to hold up in court.

T-Mobile is a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DT).

Company Web site: http://www.t-mobile.com

Tags: mobile phone, iphone mobile phone, iphone cell phone, apple

We’ve already covered two virtual keyboard applications for Windows Mobile devices - PocketCM Keyboard and TouchPal. Now, Vito Technology is also releasing its own version of such application, giving users of the Windows Mobile powered devices yet another option to choose from.

According to Vito, their newly launched ZoomBoard allows users with touchscreen enabled smartphones to quickly and accurately type with their fingers. The application sports such features as screen sliding for accurate typing and zoom preview, making misprints hardly possible.

ZoomBoard is free to trial and the full version costs only $9.95…

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Tags: iphone mobile phone, apple, cell phone, iphone cell phone