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Heat Your Hands With Your iPhone

Amaete Umanah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:24:05 +0000

iPhone Developers are constantly looking for new things to come up with. Pocket Heat, which can turn your iPhone into a real heater. But how?The app puts your iPhone at 100% of its power processing capacity in all its systems, which makes the components to overheat. There’s another application like this, called iHandWarmer, but Pocket Heater wins on design principle enought.

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Andriod hits 20,000 Apps

Amaete Umanah — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:45 +0000

There are now more than 20,000 Android applications and games, according to statistics from a site that tracks the platform’s marketplace. According to AndroLib, Google’s open source mobile platform gained 3,544 new applications and games in November. The site estimates that 37.8 percent of the 20,033 currently available apps and games are paid-for, with the rest being free. By way of contrast, Apple’s more mature iPhone platform has around 100,000 available apps and games.

Magellan’s GPS Car Kit for iPhone and iPod Touch: $130, coming next month

Amaete Umanah — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:32:20 +0000

Earlier this month, Magellan was looking to one-up TomTom by outing an iPod touch / iPhone GPS car kit of its very own, but a few critical details were missing: namely, a price and a release date. Thanks to a new product listing on Amazon (capped after the break). The unfortunate part here is that Magellan has somehow managed to produce a cradle that’s actually more expensive that the ludicrously overpriced TomTom variant, but those willing to part with $129.99 can place their order now and look for a December 11th ship date. Click here Magellan Premium GPS Car Kit for iPhone and iPod Touch