developers worldwide over an Internet-based service. This new addition marks another significant milestone for the company, which released the first generation of the iPhone device last year at the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment Conference in San Francisco. With this release, DeviceAnywhere brings the only solution to the mobile marketplace that offers developers a simple, direct connection to more than 1500 mobile devices - now including first and second generation iPhone handsets, to optimize their development efforts without having to physically acquire the devices.
With the addition of the new iPhone 3G, DeviceAnywhere users will also be able to capitalize on the latest new features available on the device. For example:
* Users can test downloading their application through the AppStore
* Users can test how fast their Web sites loads on the 3G network
DeviceAnywhere will be demonstrating the iPhone on DeviceAnywhere at the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment Conference in San Francisco, CA (September 10-12) in Booth #751.
According to William Ho, Research Director (Wireless Services) at Current Analysis: “Applications have become a major part of the iPhone’s appeal since the arrival of the App Store. Whatever the issues that Apple has faced over the performance of the iPhone 3G, it has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of application developers who have been creating more and more applications for the platform.”
DeviceAnywhere is a revolutionary online service used by thousands of mobile organizations and their developers. It provides access to real mobile handsets that are each connected to live networks. These devices are accessible remotely over the Internet, allowing users to interact in real time to ensure all development, porting, testing, and monitoring needs are met. The DeviceAnywhere service uses actual, physical handsets to provide developers with the same experiences as having the devices in hand.
“With the addition of the iPhone 3G to DeviceAnywhere, we are leveling the playing field for application developers around the world,” commented Faraz Syed, CEO of DeviceAnywhere. “It can be tough, not to mention expensive, for developers to get hold of the right devices on the right networks, so this should come as welcome relief for the many application developers who are building apps for the iPhone platform .”
To access the iPhone 3G, simply register to trial DeviceAnywhere, please visit www.deviceanywhere.com. Once registered, users have access to three free hours on the system. Existing users are able to access the iPhone 3G through their standard DeviceAnywhere subscriptions. Additional DeviceAnywhere features - such as monitoring and test automation - are also available on the iPhone 3G, empowering users to more efficiently create better applications and content for the marketplace.
We all have them: lists. We all need to check ‘em off. We all have iPhones. Mmm, okay, all of us cool people. 
But seriously, if you are an iPhone/iPod Touch user with the need to keep better track of your lists and you’re not apt to just buy away on the App Store to find the best one, then you may want to read our latest review of SplashShopper.
The popular list program that has graced BlackBerrys, Palms, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as desktops, for some time now comes to the Apple made smartphone! If you were a fan of it on those platforms or you’ve never even heard of this application (not sure how that’s possible), then you need — no must — read this review before making your purchase. Heck, even if you’ve bought a list application, still read this. You may ditch it for SplashShopper.
Those familiar with last.fm with an iPhone will be excited to know that 2.0 is just around the corner and SvenOnTech as a full video demo of it. Leaked on last.fm’s site, SvenOnTech obtained the QuickTime video and is now making it available here on our site. The 3 minute and 35 second video runs through pretty extensively the features of last.fm 2.0. Most noted in the video is the cleaner and better streamlined interface. With an icon bar on the bottom for Bio, Tags, Similar Artists, Events, and Top Listeners, one will be able to quickly move around last.fm. With the ability to link in contacts from the iPhones address book and an extensive Events calendar to find when your favorite band, or newly discovered band, is playing near by, last.fm 2.0 looks to be very promising.
For those unfamiliar with last.fm, it is self-described as, “A music service that learns what you love… Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.” Play music and it learns what you like and makes suggestions of other bands you may like. The idea is that you’ll discover a band that you’ve never heard of before that you love.
With the newest version just around the corner, this should prove to make last.fm even more popular than before.
One of my early complaints with the first generation iPhone, which remains to this day, was the inability to send my “card” to another iPhone or smartphone user. Just days before the purchase of the Apple phone, I was able to transmit my contact card to any other Windows Mobile or Symbian user via Bluetooth or even Infrared. So why wasn’t this greatest phone ever allowing me this same convenience? Well, with no IR port and a severely retarded Bluetooth stack, it just wasn’t going to happen. What a shame and yet another ding against the Enterprise user by Apple.
Tapulous, a group of guys in Palo Alto (home to Apple CEO Steve Jobs), have thought that iPhones should be able to share contacts. Not just your contact but any of your contacts. The makers of the widely popular Twitter application for the iPhone, Twinkle, will be releasing a new application called friendBook. In its third application for the iPhone (the other the popular game Tap Tap), Tapulous brings a more powerful contacts manager to the iPhone. Not only will one be able to trade contacts, but better manager them right on the iPhone away from the connected computer. Easily find duplicates, merge contacts, and even dial a member of your virtual black book by a picture of the person, friendBook is surely to be a hit once on the App Store.
There is no immediate release date or pricing details for friendBook but rumor has it that the application has already been submitted to Apple and is merely awaiting approval. So look for it through the week and download it quickly! Who knows, Apple may deem this “bad” and remove it like it did Netshare. 
Next up, 2.1. The rumors have cut-n-paste and MMS as new features as well as the push-notification API available for third-party vendors for use with such programs as Instant Messaging.
If you’re like me, you have most likely noticed that new sweet 3G iPhone drains a lot faster than the life changing 1st Generation iPhone did. Now I find myself plugging in my 3G into the car charger anytime I’m in my truck. I feel like I’m reverting to my Windows Mobile days.
Thankfully, Mophie, makers of external batteries for iPods and the 1st generation iPhone have updated its Juice Pack to work with the “twice as fast and half the price” iPhone! Giving your demanding 3G iPhone 350 hours of standby time, 6 hours of 3G talk time (12 for 2G), 6 hours of 3G Internet use, and 7 hours for Wi-Fi. The Juice Pack will give you much needed juice. Your iPod audio will now play for more than a day at 28 hours and you’ll get 8 hours of video play. Splendid, no doubt?
Ross Howe, Sales and Product Development Director for mStation/mophie says in its press release that, “Since its debut, power users of the iPhone 3G have demanded a product that will boost battery life for extended on-the-go use” . Howe continues, “juice pack 3G delivers this exceptional battery enhancement while keeping the unique style and feel of the iPhone intact.”
You can pre-order your Juice Pack for $99.95 at Mophie’s web site now.
That said, what about iDisk? I mean, all my Macs happily share documents, files, and such via the synchronized “disk” in the Mobile Me cloud. Why can’t my iPhone have access to it? I mean, the iPhone can already handle many document types and via QuickTime other multimedia files. So, browsing ones iDisk hierarchy shouldn’t be a problem at all, right? I mean, the column view was made for the iPhone! To be able to realize while at a business meeting that you forgot some information from a document and then be able to say, “Oh, I’ll just look it up via my iPhone on the iDisk,” would be a life saver! Or being able to show videos off to your friends at a party by just simply logging into to your iDisk. Speed shouldn’t be an issue with 3G or Wi-Fi, right?
Apple, I hope you’re on the same track that I am and that you’re just simply being very secretive as usual. I hope, along with my cut-n-paste, this will be coming in the firmware update 2.1. Please tell me it’s so! If not, please add this to your list ASAP!
(PS: I know I can log into the web site and do this, too, but come on, we want native support!)
SvenOnTech has confirmed with co-developer, David Teare, of Agile Web Solutions that 1Password for the iPhone has already been updated to handle stability issues in the current 1.0 version.
Teare told SvenOnTech that fixes are not the only thing in version 1.2 that will make users happy. New in 1.2 will the inclusion of search, originally found in the bookmarklet version of 1Password used prior to the App Store release. Another lost feature, auto-form filling within Safari, may also make a return in a future version invoking the native 1Password application to fill the form within Safari. An exciting feature that may come as soon as 1.3 could be auto-sync. Any time a change is made on the desktop application, it would immediately send it to the iPhone keeping 1Password users up to date.
1Password for the iPhone is currently free, however, this may not be the case for ever according to Teare. So, download your copy now from the App Store in iTunes or from your iPhone and have access to all of your important data securely today!
For all you Twitter fanatics (yes, that’s me), there is something better for the iPhone. No, it’s not Twitterrific Premium as much as I would hope. It’s called Twittelator and unlike the former, you don’t have to pay for this to get the ad-free copy. Yes, Twittelator is free.
The great folks at Big Stone have decided that we all need a better Twitter client for the iPhone, and while I’ll readily admit it’s not as nice looking as Twitterrific, Twittelator works terrific! I immediately noticed that new tweets are rapidly displayed when you open the application. One of the biggest annoyance of Twitterrific is how it NEVER remembers my last position in the tweets list, so I tested that next on Twittelator. Guess what? It remembers. Nice. Thank you!! Another issue in Twitterrific is the keyboard disappearing when you hit the tweet ballon. No issues here.
The picture tweet works awesome as well. How many times have you lost pix for upload on Twitterrific due to a poor data connection? No worries mate, you just grab the picture from your photo library in Twittelator. Again, nice! You can also take a new picture within Twittelator as well. Twittelator fully resizes your picture to look normal on twitpic (see my first twitpic for proof.) Dude, did Big Stone like fully think this stuff out or what?
If you’re wishing brightkite would hurry up with its native iPhone app, don’t worry, Twittelator will get your geo-location down for you. Not as detailed as bkite, but still, nice.
Twittelator has an easy entry method to add all your friends into a tweet, built-in search for things or people near you, as well as the ability to see everyones tweets, featured tweets, or favorite ones. The great organization and in-depth information on each user far more than makes up for the not-so-fancy interface. And really, it’s not bad; we’ve just been spoiled by Twitterrific.
Now I have to see if Twittelator will make the long haul, but man, it’s already done a better job than Twitterrific. So much so, that I’ve just deleted it from my iPhone. If Big Stone wants to charge for this, I’ll pay!
SvenOnTech has been informed by Agile, makers of the popular wallet program for Mac OS X, that it is concentrating all its attention on a native iPhone application. In an email to SvenOnTech, Agile told us, “We are currently focusing on the imminent release of our native iPhone/iPod touch application”. Agile feels this will elevate many iPhone user complaints of crashing Safari browsers due to large data sets that the ingenious bookmarklet hack has difficult handling. With the native application, 1Password will be able to easily bring up data quickly and without crashing. Additionally, 1Password for the iPhone will be, “providing a lot more features and flexibility,” Agile told SvenOnTech.
SvenOnTech has requested a review copy and will be sure to let you know how it fares against the Safari version and if it replicates the ease and effectiveness of the desktop version. Keep your eyes here and on our Twitter feed!