Makayama has released a new native iPhone application called VoiceDial. As you can probably guess from its name, the application adds voice dialing feature to the iPhone, but also allows users to start applications and open Safari bookmarks without touching their shiny handset — all they have to do is say it and Makayama’s app will take it from there.

The interesting thing about VoiceDial is that it isn’t free. So far virtually all applications we’ve seen — except Navizon — have been developed by iPhone enthusiasts and were offered as a free download. Entrance of the established developer like Makayama to the space is certainly encouraging to the iPhone users, even though they’ll have to pay $27.95 or 19.95 EUR in order to download VoiceDial… More information is available from here.

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The graphics of the Nintendo games is just not good enough for your iPhone/iPod Touch? How about Super Nintendo? Do I hear yes? If that’s the case you’ll be glad to know the SNES emulator is about to hit iPhone, iPod Touch - big time!

It’s still in beta and currently it’s not available for all of us. Still, if you’re eager to be one of the first ones that will take the “SNES experience” with you, feel free to join the forums and donate a few bucks. Afterwards, you’re ready to go. Forget that, even if you’ll be using the application later — when the final version rolls out — you should still donate. It doesn’t cost much and helps the developer continue doing his thing.

Anyway, the short demo video of SNES emulator in action follows after the jump.

[Via: Engadget Mobile]

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Are you the giving-type? Do you like to help others for the betterment of society? Well, you might be interested to hear that you can help Skyhook Wireless map WiFi hotspots in your area. If you’ll recall, Skyhook is the company that provides the iPhone’s v1.1.3 Google Maps’ My Location feature with WiFi hotspot location data, so contributing to their database should make the iPhone’s Google Maps My Location position-data more accurate and useful.

Here are the instructions on how to go about adding your positional data to Skyhook’s database (from iPhone Central):

1. Find your location as latitude, longitude

First we need to determine the location of the AP. Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) and find the location of your access point on the map. Center the map (double-click on it) on the location and then enter the following into your Address Bar:

javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

This will open a prompt giving you the latitude,longitude of the center of
the map. Copy and paste that into an email. If you are having problems there is a little more detailed tutorial here.

2. Find the MAC Address of your wireless access point

Next we need to get the MAC Address of your AP. This can be tricky, so its best to use software to find it. We recommend NetStumbler and iStumbler on Windows and Mac respectively. You can download the programs at the following links:

Windows: http://www.netstumbler.com/
Mac: http://istumbler.net/

Find your AP in the list and the associated MAC address for it. Now paste the MAC address in the email.

Now you should have a MAC address, latitude and longitude. Its good to recheck the location by pasting the latitude, longitude back into Google Maps to make sure its the right location. Once you verify it, send us the information and we’ll add them to the database. It may take up to a week before the AP is available when using your iPhone or iPod touch.

Just make sure you add accurate data, okay? It would be ashame to actually lose positional resolution because a bunch of dimwits decided it would be funny to add inaccurate WiFi hotspot data.

[Via: iPhone Central]

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With Apple’s China-bound iPhone aspirations reportedly on the ropes (or not, depending on who you talk to), it makes sense for Apple to look to other Asian markets that might do well to launch an iPhone.

Well, Apple could very well be looking to the Thailand as the next mobile market to get blessed with the iPhone’s graces. Thai telecom Advanced Info Service (AIS) is reportedly in talks with Apple. Assistant marketing VP, Prattana Leelapanang, confirmed yesterday that his company is negotiating the revenue-sharing model that has been rumored to be a point of contention in China.

Now, Thailand isn’t the biggest of mobile markets, especially compared to China. But, it doesn’t hurt to spread the iPhone-seed around the globe. We just hope Asia gets the iPhone before the 3G iPhone launches.

[Via: Apple Insider]

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What has our society come to when drug-dealers and calorie-counters look for pocket scales that embody the new hotness in the cellphone industry? Who are we kidding - calorie-counters? This thing’s marketed at illicit-substance traders - drug-pushers, drug-dealers, whatever you want to call them.

The iPhone-shaped scale is being offered for $52.49 and features, well, an iPhone-shaped “expansion cover.” We like the attempt at the iPhone-homescreen look. Everyone else is jumping on the iPhone bandwagon, what’s to stop a pocket-scale manufacturer from doing the same?

Now, does this thing work with current jailbreak solutions? We imagine that could be a useful feature for anyone in the drug-trafficking business.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what this is doing on a mobile-related post, it’s shaped like an iPhone. That qualifies as mobile-related in our book.

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Well, that didn’t take too long. It feels like we were just talking about the iPhone development community having cooked up a rather complicated jailbreak solution for the iPhone v1.1.3. Unfortunately, the jailbreak method wasn’t ready for prime-time because us mere mortals apparently didn’t have the mental facilities to deal with the jailbreaking minutiae.

Anyway, word on the street has it that the iPhone Dev community has drummed up an end-user-friendly version of the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak. It seems that the current, easier iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method is about as complex as the iPhone v1.1.2 jailbreak - which is a good thing. Unfortunately, us iPhone users will have to wait until Apple releases the official iPhone SDK before we get the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak in our hands.

The reasoning? The iPhone Dev community doesn’t want Apple to patch the jailbreak exploit with the inevitable firmware update that should follow the release of the iPhone SDK. And, we completely agree - it’d be great to have a fully jailbroken iPhone that can support both official iPhone applications and the grass-roots third-party iPhone applications that we’ve become somewhat attached to - a public v1.1.3 jailbreak method could very well mean that Apple will kill the jailbreak solution and lock-down the iPhone for official application-use.

In either case, we can’t wait for official third-party apps to play alongside our Installer.app-sourced third-party applications.
[Via: iPhone Atlas]

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Secondary battery with charger and as docking for iPhone.

US$42.00 from brando

Features:
On/Off button to access the secondary battery when on, off use iPhone battery.
90 degree flip as Docking for iPhone
Connect the charge cable to charge the iPhone and secondary battery simultaneously.
Light indicator show the working process. Light on for using the secondary battery and charge the

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That iPhone v1.1.3 firmware not meeting your expectations? Is multiple-contact SMS text message support, Google Maps with “My Location,” WebClips, and homescreen customization proving to not be worth sacrificing your third-party applications?

Well, you’re in luck. If the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware isn’t as great as you expected it to be, then you’re more than welcome to downgrade to the v1.1.1 firmware - granted, your iPhone will no longer function as a phone.

If you want out of the iPhone v1.1.3, follow these steps:

1. Download iPHUC
2. Download the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware package here
3. Extract the package to your desktop (or anywhere that you’ll easily remember - you’ll have to enter the path to this folder, so keep it simple)
4. Connect your iPhone/iPod Touch to your computer - quit iTunes if it opens up, or if it’s already running
5. Execute iPHUC
6. Enter “recovery mode” in iPHUC by issuing the command “enterrecovery” (without quotes, obviously)
7. Issue the “filecopytophone” command to copy the v1.1.1 firmware to your iPhone/iPod Touch - it should look something like this:
   filecopytophone c:\WTF.s5l8900xall.RELEASE.dfu
   or
   filecopytophone \Users\IntoMobile\Desktop\v1.1.3downgrade\WTF.s5l8900xall.RELEASE.dfu
8. Hit “Enter”
9. Issue the “cmd go” command and hit “Enter”
10. Quit iPHUC
11. Fire up iTunes and click “OK” when it prompts you about your iPhone/iTouch being in recover mode
12. Restore your iPhone/iTouch to the v1.1.1 firmware by Option-Click (Mac) or Shift-Click (Windows) on the “Restore” button
13. Locate and choose the v1.1.1 ipsw file
14. If you get a 1015 error, issue the “cmd fsboot” command in iPHUC

You now have a fully functioning and jailbreakable iPod Touch or a jailbreakable iPhone that doesn’t make phone calls. Good luck!

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Having owned the Nokia N93, I know that having a phone with the optical zoom is a great thing. That being said I find all those “optical zoom addons” for regular camera phones quite interesting. They are not big, hence are easy to carry around…

Today we’re presenting you with the optical zoom addon for the iPhone. The Conice 6×18 Zoom Attachment may look kinda ugly compared with the device it should be mounted to, but for $15 you can hardly find the more useful accessory for your shiny handset. As you can guess from the name of it, this baby adds 6x optical zoom, allowing you to comfortably spy on others from a safe distance. Not that we’re suggesting you should. It’s just an option.

[Via: MobileWhack]

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All those European-iPhone naysayers are sure to love this little tidbit coming out of the UK.

The Financial Times is reporting that “people familiar with the situation” have indicated that O2 UK, Apple’s British iPhone partner, has moved something like 190,000 iPhones out its doors in the first two months of iPhone-sales - which is pretty much on track with O2’s goal of selling 200,000 iPhones in the first 8 weeks of sales.

O2 declined to comment on actual sales numbers, but has said that it is “delighted with the response to the iPhone, which has seen unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction,” adding that the Apple iPhone is O2’s hottest-selling mobile phone “by a significant margin.”

The report comes amid speculation that iPhone sales have been sluggish in the UK. But, this new report seems to fall in line with Ben’s assertion that the iPhone has sparked an upturn in O2’s subscriber-count. We all know that the iPhone lacks in the features department, but that fact actually makes a stronger case for the iPhone’s impact on the global mobile phone market.

Well done, O2. Now, just make sure you snag the 3G iPhone contract, ‘kay?
[Via: MacDailyNews]

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