Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom’s co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom’s navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, 2009.

The TomTom solution combines two new TomTom products to provide users with state of the art in-car navigation on their iPhone 3G:

The TomTom navigation application for iPhone; an Apple version of TomTom’s award-winning turn-by-turn navigation software, including IQ Routes and latest maps from Tele Atlas; The TomTom car kit for iPhone; a specially developed car kit for secure docking, enhanced GPS performance, clear voice instructions, hands-free calling and in-car charging.

The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple’s OS 3.0 operating system. Details regarding pricing and availability for both the application and the TomTom car kit for iPhone will be made available in advance of the products’ launch later this summer.

Check out Apple’s key note speech. Scroll to 1:22 minutes for the TomTom for iPhone demonstration. Or watch this video from TomTom:

Tags: iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0 Software, Cell phone, App Store, GPS, TomTom, TomTom iPhone car kit, iQ Routes

Avaiable for the iPhone and iPod touch only: Normally you would have to spend 103$/year to read WSJ in a stadard browser. On the iPhone/iPod touch it is totally free!

Just like the BlackBerry app released last year, the WSJ iPhone app's home screen provides scrolling headlines and thumbnail images of that day's Journal content in a few different categories—"What's News," "Markets," and "Editors' Picks." Hit "More," however, and you get pretty much every category covered in the dead tree version.

The WSJ videos and streaming radio content is also available from the app, and at the bottom you will see an add, currently from Oracle, and hopwfully it will stay this way and continue to be a free and wonderfull app for the iPhone.

The WSJ app is a free download, requires an iPhone or iPod touch running at least the 2.2 firmware. We can confirm that it runs on 3.0 beta 3 firmware as well.

Get it here: WSJ - The Wall Street Journal (Direct iTunes app store link)

Tags: App Store, Cell phone, Apple, iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0 Software, Mobile Phone, Smartphone

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To get MMS an tethering to work on your iPhone with the iPhone OS 3.0 software beta, you need to update your carrier file (.ipcc). There a lot of carrier files floating around on the web, and I have tried to collect a few pointers.

How to update the carrier file on your iPhone with iPhone OS 3.0 software

• First of all: Your phone doesn’t need to be jailbroken!
• Next open iTunes with your iPhone 3G connected via USB.
• Sync you iPhone
• Click the Check for Update button while pressing the Option key.
• Navigate to the downloaded carrier bundle and select it
• After a few seconds your carrier settings have been updated.
• Restart your iPhone 3G

• Try out Tethering by going to Settings > General > Network > Internet Tethering

Iphone carrier files for MMS and Tethering:
(make sure you download with Firefox - NOT Safari!)

Danish cellphone providers
c4d.dk/
Telia, TDC, 3, Sonofon and Telmore

UK cellphone providers
O2 UK carrier file

Austrian, german, and Swiss providers
www.iphone-notes.de
Base, E-plus, T-mobile, Vodafone, O2, Swisscom, Orange, A1, Tele.ring, Sunrise

If you have the iPhone 3.0 beta and cannot find your apprpriate carrier (.ipcc file) then you can learn how to make your own IPCC file at gist.github.com/81465

Tags: iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0 Software, Cell phone, Mobile Phone, MMS

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After joining the iPhone Developer program connect the iPhone to iTunes and do the following:

• MAC: Hold Option Key and hit Upgrade button with mouse click
• Windows:Hold Shift or Ctrl Key and hit Upgrade button with mouse click
• Should open browse window on mac or windows, navigate to the file you downloaded and double click it.
• After that just let it run and home everything works fine.

Advance preview of 100 new features.
For iPhone owners, it just keeps getting better. When iPhone OS 3.0 arrives this summer, it will introduce over 100 new features, including the ability to:
▪ Search your iPhone
▪ Cut, copy, and paste
▪ Send photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
▪ Read and compose email and text messages in landscape

iPhone SDK 3.0 beta
With over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK 3.0 provides developers with a range of new possibilities to enhance the functionality of their applications. New APIs also provide support for applications to communicate with hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch.
* MMS messaging is available only on iPhone 3G; fees may apply. MMS may not be available in all areas.

See more about the mountainbiking gadgets on www.illuminant.dk or the good life on www.livsnyder.com

Tags: How to, Cell phone, iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0 Software

If you want the best smartphone on the market, then you must look no further because
iPhone is the best smartphone around!

I have now had the iPhone for 4 months and it is everything I expected. Have tried several phones in the past; Nokia E90, Sony Ericsson P series but nothing matches the Apple iPhone...it simply is the best smartphone on the market.

The iPhone is sleek, it slides into almost any pocket, it has a brilliant screen, fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser.

The App Store is great...Tap into it and you’ll find applications in every category, from games to business, education to entertainment, finance to health and fitness, productivity to social networking. These applications have been designed to take advantage of iPhone features such as Multi-Touch, the accelerometer, wireless, and GPS. And some are even free. You can download them wirelessly and start using them right away.

Email is awsome...and looks and works just like email on your computer. With support for popular email servers and providers — including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL — and most industry-standard IMAP or POP mail systems, iPhone puts email in your pocket. it even gives you push email for enterprise, so you can Receive and respond to work email fast on iPhone. New support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync gives you push email that arrives automatically. The push support push contacts for enterprise. With support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, iPhone gives you push contacts and lets you access your company’s Global Address List.

iPhone 3G is also you iPod...with its beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display and Multi-Touch controls, iPhone is also one amazing iPod. Browse your music in Cover Flow and watch widescreen video with the touch of a finger. Scroll through songs, artists, albums, and playlists with a flick. Browse your music library by album artwork using Cover Flow. Even view song lyrics that you’ve added to your library in iTunes. Get a call while listening to music? A pinch of the microphone on your iPhone headset pauses the tune and answers the call.

If you have’nt got it already, go get it!

Tags: iPhone, Smartphone, Apple, iPod, Mobile Phone, Cell phone, Microsoft Exchange Activesync