iPhone Buzz Week in Review - Week 35 2008

News in the world of the iPhone has slowed a bit now that we’ve passed the launch phase, but there’s still plenty of tidbits and info to fill the pages of iPhone Buzz. With that said, let’s take a brief look at what that past week has held in store.

The App Store was in the spotlight once again that week as several new apps were announced. iVerse Comics will be coming to the App Store soon, which allows users to access comic books via individual icons on their iPhone home screens. An LED football game, that is very reminiscent of the old handheld games is on the way, too. BeeJive, which was previously called JiveTalk, offers a more functional IM experience and is even outfitted with background notification should Apple activate it.

We got our hands on a leaked video that showed Last.fm v2.0 in action and Sharpcast’s SugarSync was revealed to be a MobileMe alternative for those who are fed up with the Apple cloud. Most interesting of all, however, is a possible Steve Jobs e mail that revealed an official tethering function might be coming to the iPhone soon.

The reception issues that dominated last week’s news carried by into that week when a series of independent surveys revealed iPhone 3G performance varies by regions and the networks themselves are what need fixing, not the

phone’s internal antenna. by the course of these tests, Orange France admitted to capping their 3G speeds, but now promised to raise them. We additionally got a good look at just why the 3G is so slow. It seems all iPhone users need to update to the latest firmware version–otherwise the users with the old version will continue to bog down the network.

Two new worldly goods plans from AT&T were made available to iPhone users on Wednesday and though its intent was to lower prices, it’s still rather steep. A security flaw was revealed that week as well that made it so even password protected phones could be hacked by a few taps of the home button. But not to concern, Apple has admitted to the flaw and will include a fix in the next update.

If you’re keeping up with the Dev Team, you already known Pwnage Tool 2.0.3 is already out. Plus, a grade new iPhone magazine will be released on September 9th called iPhone Life that gives readers the scoop on the latest news, reviews and more.

Finally, that week we featured a review of the BlueAnt V1 Voice Control Bluetooth Headset, which features voice activation functions. And though the audio wasn’t quite as good as it could be, that headset offers functionality like to other.

[Source] Brenda Stokes

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