Get In My iPhone

Oliver Starr has a good read up today:  He’s tracked what appears to be more evidence that Apple has a handful of personal privacy concerns buzzing around its digital lifestyle ecosystem.  Apparently, the iPhone tells Apple a lot more than Oliver is comfortable with them knowing.  Check it out.

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Seadragon, a photography application that demonstrates the graphics acceleration of the iPhone is available now. While this puppy won’t allow you to send MMS messages with your photos, it does provide a nifty alternative to the iPhone’s already excellent photo-browsing capability. Download it from the app store.

The app was created by Microsoft’s Live Labs group, a creative research arm of the Seattle giant whose purpose has been, since 2006, to accelerate Microsoft’s development efforts online. Previous accomplishments of the group have included creating Seadragon support for Ajax, a standards-based web development technology that dominates LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development, but has yet to surface in the walled garden of Microsoft platforms.

Look for more from Microsoft on the iPhone, including advanced speech recognition technology, in 2009.  Pic provided by TechFlash.

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Making international long distance calls on your iPhone just got a whole lot cheaper, courtesy of those clever cats over at Truphone. Interestingly, while this new iPhone app does use minute-stealing to connect calls at a cheaper rate to overseas destinations, it apparently does NOT steal minutes using VoIP or 3G on the iPhone itself. Instead, calls are routed to a local phone number operated by Truphone first, and once inside Truphone’s network, are routed to the international destination using Voice over IP.

Truphone users will be prompted, at the time they dial an international number, whether or not they’d like to use Truphone to handle the call. Very clever.

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A full-blown 4 GB iPhone for $99?  Unlikely, our sources say.  Over the weekend when rumors broke of an ultracheap iPhone for the proverbial Wal-Mart shopper, we laughed.  Apple’s low-end iPod touch for three times the retail price of an iPhone?  We don’t think so.

However, getting iPhones into Wal-Marts is an important strategic move for Apple, just the same.  There are a lot of folks shopping at Wal-Mart who’ve never been, and will never go, to an Apple store.

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Eighteen months ago, when the ’sphere was abuzz with posts about Joost, I downloaded it, blogged, played with for a few days, and then it more or less faded from my radar. I’m not as big on TV watching as many, and Joost lacked a lot of the social features that made YouTube and Hulu so effective for me.

But, while the YouTube experience on the iPhone is pretty cool, Joost offers one thing YouTube doesn’t: commercial content. So I installed Joost from the Appstore this morning. My expectation that it wouldn’t work on 3G was confirmed as soon as I fired it up. A quick trip to the Settings panel and my WiFi was re-enabled.

Within moments, I was watching Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in a 4-inch-screen version of Men in Black. It took about 20 seconds for the film to begin streaming. The quality was great and there were no burps during playback.

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