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.

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

The long awaited new features in iPhone OS 3.0 have been sneak previewed to a iPhone users and app developers today. And there are MANY new features...

For iPhone users, that number is more than 100—the amount of new features Apple promises in iPhone 3.0. Topping the list is the ability for users to copy and paste information—including text, blocks of HTML, and photos—in the iPhone’s built-in apps. Users will also be able to copy and paste between applications. Third-party developers will have the ability to add copy-and-paste functionality to their apps as well.

iPhone 3.0 will also bring Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) support for sending and receiving photos, contact information, audio files, and locations; a Voice Memos app to record, edit, and share audio files; Spotlight search capabilities; CalDAV and .ics calendar support; the ability to sync notes via iTunes; stereo A2DP Bluetooth support; auto-fill; anti-phishing technology; and extended parental controls.

iPhone OS 3.0 wil be around some time this summer at a price of 9.95 USD.

Read more at Macworld

Tags: iPhone, Apple, OS X, iPhone OS 3.0 Software