In this week's news; the App Store reached the
hundred grand mark for approved apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch and Google gave iPhone Gmail users
as much room as they could possibly need for their outgoing messages. The iPhone made its way to China, but
without Wi-Fi or much of a
subsidy. Apple bought advertising rights to a
Chicago bus-stop and
responded to Nokia's complaint. iTunes 9.0.2 was released and did little more than
break the Palm Pre's sync again.
If you're a tap-maniac up for a challenge, check out
Metallica Revenge, what
Tyler called "the most difficult Tap Tap Revenge ever." Harvard Medical released an app to help with the
swine-flu epidemic and Adult Swim melded
another Flash game for the App Store. Disney made a
new app available for free and
WordPress 2.0 was released as a new app, not an update to its predecessor. EA Mobile and Hasbro previewed some
exciting new games and
NBA League Pass, an awesome app allowing basketball fans to stream NBA games over Wi-Fi and 3G, is available now. Comixology's Comics started selling
Marvel classics, MumboJumbo
responded to the StoneLoops!
controversy, and the old-school, nostalgic hit
Doom Classic debuted in the App Store.
In other news, Verizon
posted losses this quarter while both Apple and AT&T reported big profits. Rumors
preceded the announcement of a
Google Navigation app, appearing first on the the Droid but the iPhone will most likely get it, whenever
Apple allows it. Sprint is taking
another stab at an App Store and
George Hotz announced his plans to release an
iPhone unlock this week, while refusing ten grand for it
on principle.
We reviewed
Vonage,
Stick-Fu,
Poppi,
Finger Physics,
NBA Live,
Mixology,
GoSATWatch, and
plenty of Halloween apps.
AppNN's How-to's for the week included:
making the most of your battery life,
get an app refund, how to
edit photos with multiple apps, make a
MacGyver-like iPhone stand out of an
airplane barf bag, and
unleash your iPhone's full power.
