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	<title>TiPb &#187; iphone 3gs</title>
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		<title>Titanium iPhone 3GS Mod &#8212; Elegant and Armor Plated</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2010/02/25/titanium-iphone-3gs-mod-elegant-armor-plated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rene Ritchie</dc:creator>
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According to Engadget, Martin Schrotz decided to pull a Colossus on his iPhone 3GS and transform the simple plastic backing into armor plating of nigh-invulnerable (and 3G friendly!) titanium alloy. 

Check out the video for more, and let us know if this has you hoping Apple goes back to unibody metal for the 4th gen [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/02/25/titanium-iphone-3gs-mod-elegant-armor-plated/">Titanium iPhone 3GS Mod &#8212; Elegant and Armor Plated</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>According to <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/iphone-3gs-mod-ditches-plastic-cover-in-favor-of-titanium-vestme/">Engadget</a>, Martin Schrotz decided to pull a Colossus on his iPhone 3GS and transform the simple plastic backing into armor plating of nigh-invulnerable (and 3G friendly!) titanium alloy. </p>

<p>Check out the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-titanium-iphone-is-real-really-real-video/?s=t5">video</a> for more, and let us know if this has you hoping Apple goes back to unibody metal for the <a href="http://www.tipb.com/4th-gen-iphone/">4th gen iPhone</a>&#8230;</p>
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		<title>iPhone 3GS Beats Nexus One on 3D Frame-rate Test</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2010/02/15/iphone-3gs-beats-nexus-3d-framerate-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rene Ritchie</dc:creator>
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Even though it&#8217;s almost 6 months newer, Google&#8217;s Android Nexus One isn&#8217;t producing the same frame-rate as Apple&#8217;s iPhone 3GS according to a Distinctive Developments test. In fact, it&#8217;s lagging behind. The reason? iPhone 3GS is using Neon floating-point optimization and the Nexus One isn&#8217;t.

Add this to the capacitive screen performance, multitouch keyboard, and It&#8217;s [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/02/15/iphone-3gs-beats-nexus-3d-framerate-test/">iPhone 3GS Beats Nexus One on 3D Frame-rate Test</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Even though it&#8217;s almost 6 months newer, Google&#8217;s Android <a href="http://tipb.com/iphone-nexus-one/">Nexus One</a> isn&#8217;t producing the same frame-rate as Apple&#8217;s <a href="http://tipb.com/iphone-3gs/">iPhone 3GS</a> according to a Distinctive Developments test. In fact, it&#8217;s lagging behind. The reason? iPhone 3GS is using Neon floating-point optimization and the Nexus One isn&#8217;t.</p>

<p>Add this to the <a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/09/iphone-wins-touchscreen-performance-duel-moto-droid-nexus/">capacitive screen performance</a>, multitouch keyboard, and It&#8217;s interesting to see what Apple got right months or years ago, that others haven&#8217;t finished or polished even today.</p>

<p>They may seem small or minor, but when taken as a whole those details create the user experience iPhone owners enjoy.</p>

<p>Video after the break!</p>

<p>[<a href="http://distinctivegame.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/dd-tech-talk-1-nexus-versus-iphone-3gs/">Distinctive Development</a> via <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/iphone-3gs-pitted-against-nexus-one-in-3d-frame-rate-test-video/">Engadget</a>]</p>

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		<title>Fox News: Apple in Talks With AT&amp;T for iTablet, Verizon for iTablet and iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/22/fox-news-apple-talks-att-itablet-verizon-itablet-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/22/fox-news-apple-talks-att-itablet-verizon-itablet-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rene Ritchie</dc:creator>
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Fox News is once again weighing in on the iTablet &#8212; and the iPhone &#8212; claiming sources within AT&#38;T and Verizon are telling them negotiations to carry the device(s) are getting hot and heavy:

According to the story, there would be two versions of the iTablet/iSlate/iPad, one supporting AT&#38;T&#8217;s fast GSM/HSPA network and the other supporting [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/22/fox-news-apple-talks-att-itablet-verizon-itablet-iphone/">Fox News: Apple in Talks With AT&#038;T for iTablet, Verizon for iTablet and iPhone</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/21/verizon-att-carry-apple-tablet/">Fox News</a> is once again weighing in on the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/itablet/">iTablet</a> &#8212; and the iPhone &#8212; claiming sources within <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/att/">AT&amp;T</a> and <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/verizon/">Verizon</a> are telling them negotiations to carry the device(s) are getting hot and heavy:</p>

<p>According to the story, there would be two versions of the iTablet/iSlate/iPad, one supporting AT&amp;T&#8217;s fast GSM/HSPA network and the other supporting Verizon&#8217;s reliable CDMA/EVDO network. Both would likely have WiFi and access to associated WiFi hotspots. Verizon&#8217;s version might also be subject to tiered pricing.</p>

<p>Additionally:</p>

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  <p>According to a source at Verizon, Apple has been in talks with &#8216;the big red map&#8217; to offer the tablet on its robust CDMA network. Additionally Verizon is in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to its network by late spring or early summer, but specifics haven&#8217;t yet been finalized.</p>
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<p>An iPhone on Verizon makes increasing sense for Apple. At a certain point, everyone who prefers AT&amp;T as a carrier, or is willing to live with AT&amp;T as a carrier just to have an iPhone, will have an iPhone. For Apple to grow their customer base, they&#8217;ll need to expand to a network that supports those who want an iPhone but aren&#8217;t willing to go to AT&amp;T just to get it. The king of that hill is Verizon. Apple has broken exclusivity almost everywhere else. It will have to do it in the US, and LTE is too far out to be a logical change-point.</p>

<p>The rest of the article contains an amusing amount of bickering between the carrier rivals, with AT&amp;T implying <em>any</em> network would have problems with the 7000% data spike that comes with the iPhone.</p>

<p>No matter what happens, we&#8217;re hoping for multiple carriers, as that would be a multiple win for US consumers.</p>
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		<title>Tiffen Introduces Smoothee Steadicam for iPhone 3GS</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/18/tiffen-introduces-smoothee-steadicam-iphone-3gs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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Do you have dreams of being the next Spielberg but the only video camera you own is your trusty iPhone 3GS? If this is the case you can now rest easy as Tiffen recently introduced the Smoothee Steadicam. The Smoothee utilizes a counterweight construction in the same fashion all other professional models work, just expect [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/18/tiffen-introduces-smoothee-steadicam-iphone-3gs/">Tiffen Introduces Smoothee Steadicam for iPhone 3GS</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Do you have dreams of being the next Spielberg but the only video camera you own is your trusty iPhone 3GS? If this is the case you can now rest easy as Tiffen recently introduced the Smoothee Steadicam. The Smoothee utilizes a counterweight construction in the same fashion all other professional models work, just expect this to be a whole lot cheaper.</p>

<p>This accessory is not going to fit in your pocket or purse but we are positive some of our creative readers could put it to good use. No release date or price are available at the moment but you can see it in action after the break!</p>

<p>[Via <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/tiffen-smoothee-brings-steadicam-to-the-iphone-3gs/">Engadget</a>]</p>

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		<title>2009 TiPb Editors&#8217; Choice Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/01/2009-tipb-editors-choice-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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Happy New Year and welcome to the iPhone blog&#8217;s 2009 TiPb Editor&#8217;s Choice Awards for the very best (in our opinion!) iPhone and iPod touch apps and accessories released in the last year!



Smartphone of the Year: iPhone 3GS (by default)

We&#8217;re not really doing Smartphone of the Year since, unlike our sibling sites, Apple has so [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2010/01/01/2009-tipb-editors-choice-awards/">2009 TiPb Editors&#8217; Choice Awards</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Happy New Year and welcome to the iPhone blog&#8217;s 2009 TiPb Editor&#8217;s Choice Awards for the very best (in our opinion!) iPhone and iPod touch apps and accessories released in the last year!</p>

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<h2>Smartphone of the Year: iPhone 3GS (by default)</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/06/iphone_3g_s_hero_compass.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/06/iphone_3g_s_hero_compass-200x200.jpg" alt="iphone_3g_s_hero_compass" title="iphone_3g_s_hero_compass" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9443" /></a>We&#8217;re not really doing Smartphone of the Year since, unlike our sibling sites, Apple has so far seen fit to only release one new iPhone each year. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t think the iPhone 3GS isn&#8217;t terrific. It is. Even if we consider the smartphone space as a whole, even if we put it up against the best Android, BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm, and Windows have to offer, while it might get bested &#8212; even eclipsed &#8212; in certain specs or feature sets, there&#8217;s still nothing that brings it all together in so appealing a mainstream package as the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/iphone-3gs/">iPhone 3GS</a>.</p>

<p>From its butter-smooth interface now with &#8220;s as in speed&#8221; to its singular build quality to its incredible ecosystem to its 120,000 apps for anything and everything, even if we did do this category &#8212; which we&#8217;re not &#8212;  the iPhone 3GS would still be our pick for Smartphone of the Year. So there.</p>

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<h2>Competition of the Year: Palm Pre and webOS</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/01/iphone_palm_pre_ufc.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/01/iphone_palm_pre_ufc-200x200.jpg" alt="iphone_palm_pre_ufc" title="iphone_palm_pre_ufc" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6658" /></a>Make no mistake, the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/iphone-droid/">Droid</a>, the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/blackberry/">BlackBerry</a> Bolds and Tour and Storms, the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/27/competition-nokia-maemo-announces-n900/">Nokia N900</a>, the Windows Phone <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/07/competition-htc-hd2-handson/">HTC HD2</a> &#8212; each brought it in their own way (hey, it&#8217;s why we do the <a href="http://www.smartphoneroundrobin.com/">Smartphone Round Robin</a>), but each mostly brought it with hardware specs like 480p displays, or services like free navigation. They made good things better.</p>

<p>Palm brought it with a whole new OS, one that combined amazing visualization for multitasking with brilliant notification handling, and sidestepped the developer divide by using web technology as their SDK. If the iPhone woke up a complacent smartphone industry, Palm made sure they stayed awake another year. Sure the hardware could have been harder core and there was that whole iTunes sync brouhaha, but that combined with the &#8220;years in the desert&#8221; to go from PalmOS to webOS, made Palm even more of a comeback story, and who doesn&#8217;t root for Rocky? That&#8217;s why the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/iphone-palm-pre/">Palm Pre</a> is our competitor of the year!</p>

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<h2>Apple Innovation of the Year: $99 iPhone 3G</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.30.50-PM.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.30.50-PM-200x200.png" alt="iPhone 3G $99" title="iPhone 3G $99" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18052" /></a>Last year Innovation of the Year was easy: the App Store. Now, two-billion downloads, well over <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/04/official-apple-announces-100000-iphone-apps/">100,000 apps</a>, and almost universal imitation not just from the Android Market, but now from <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/05/update-iclones-blackberry-app-world-price-tiers-excewhat/">BlackBerry App World</a>, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/06/competition-microsoft-unleashes-windows-mobile-65-phone-market-place/">Microsoft Windows Marketplace for Mobile</a>, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/02/18/dear-apple-steal-features-nokias-ovi-store/">Nokia Ovi Store</a>, Palm webOS App Catalog, and who knows what else, it&#8217;s still far and away the market leader, if the idea itself has long passed being led. Not that Apple didn&#8217;t try in 2009, with the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/17/apple-iphone-30-massive-news-roundup/">iPhone 3.0 Sneak Preview Event</a> the undoubtedly innovative in-app purchases (including <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/15/apple-introduces-inapp-purchase-free-app-buhbye-lite-demo/">free apps no longer needing to stay free</a>) and accessory access via the dock and Bluetooth. Push notification tops the candidates list as well. It isn&#8217;t he full-on multitasking some still demand, but it covers 90% of the functionality at 20% of the battery drain (<em><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/07/06/batter-life-20-push-notification/">ahem</a></em>) and hey, even some multitasking smartphones don&#8217;t handle push notification yet. </p>

<p>But no, we&#8217;re going with something more important even if less interesting. The <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/10/iphone-3g-apple-reinvents-99-budget-smartphone/">$99 iPhone 3G</a>. Sure, it&#8217;s last year&#8217;s model, but it&#8217;s got the latest <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/iphone-30/">iPhone OS 3.x</a> on it and most importantly it redefined &#8212; and disrupted &#8212; what was considered a budget smartphone and forced every other platform and player to lower prices and reconsider the &#8212; frankly crappy &#8212; handsets they offered for cheap. Up front cost shouldn&#8217;t mean much to people on contract for $2000+ over two years but it does. Getting under $100 was huge for Apple. And for consumers, who&#8217;s previous budget choices were the likes of Palm Centro, BlackBerry Pearl, or WinMo&#8230; whatever, it was huger still. That makes the $99 iPhone 3G our Apple Innovation of the Year.</p>

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<h2>App Store App Innovation of the Year: Augmented Reality</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/10/funda_house.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/10/funda_house-200x200.png" alt="layar reality browser" title="layar reality browser" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13562" /></a>Last year <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/google-mobile/">Google Mobile</a> snuck in some private-API wizardry (later made all nice and legal by iPhone 3.0) to make voice search so good we thought we were in Star Trek. This year Apple announced accessory access and all sorts of new API&#8217;s and developers certainly didn&#8217;t disappoint. Some of the most amazing new iPhone Apps weren&#8217;t new to mobile, however. <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/23/quick-app-redlaser-barcode-scanner/">RedLaser</a> reads barcodes and finds competitive prices amazingly well, but Android had that first. Likewise <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/24/full-qik-live-iphone-video-streaming-broadcast-app-store/">Qik</a> is finally streaming live, but geeks were doing that from the N95 a couple years ago. Still, with everything from the latest <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/24/quick-app-apple-itunesapple-tv-remote-adds-gesture-support/">Apple Remote</a> to <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/17/gift-song-apples-100000-apps-commercials/">Zipcar</a>, it&#8217;s harder then ever to single one app out.</p>

<p>So we&#8217;re singling out a category &#8212; <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/augmented-reality/">Augmented Reality</a>. Take a live camera view, add location services and &#8212; one day, visual recognition &#8212; and layer data on top of it. Hold your iPhone camera up to a restaurant and the menu pops up for you to read. Point it west and see the tweets of the physically closest people you follow. Point it at your friend and get a reminder you owe him $5. We&#8217;re not sure if it&#8217;s just trendy concept or will really, truly prove functional one day, but just like Google Mobile made us think of Star Trek, this combines several cutting edge technologies in such a way that it makes us think of a dozen sci-fi heads-up displays and gorramit if we don&#8217;t want that future today.</p>

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<h2>UI Gem of the Year: Tweetie 2 &#8220;Pull Down to Refresh&#8221;</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/tweetie_refresh.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/tweetie_refresh-200x191.png" alt="tweetie_refresh" title="tweetie_refresh" width="200" height="191" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17527" /></a>Too small to be the overall innovation of the year, this category is for the tiny little tweaks that never the less make all the difference. Lots of developers continued to make drop-dead gorgeous iPhone apps in 2009, including Tapbots&#8217; latest <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/15/pastebot-brings-robotic-clipboard-awesomeness-iphone-cut-copy-paste/">Pastebot</a>, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/08/quick-app-twitterrific-20-iphone/">Twitterrific 2</a>&#8217;s ability to hide so much functionality behind so sensible a layout, and <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/23/preview-facebook-30/">Facebook 3.0</a> finally showed how to do massive social networking right on a local app, and Apple even rolled out new Voice Recorder and Compass app interfaces. It was something much simpler, however, much more insidious that got inside TiPb&#8217;s user experience this year. </p>

<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s totally <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/09/app-walkthrough-tweetie-20-twitter-client-iphone/">Tweetie 2</a>&#8217;s terrific &#8220;pull down to refresh&#8221;. Apple built the wonderful, tactile feeling elasticity of the &#8220;rubber band&#8221; effect into iPhone 1.x but never did much with it. Developer Atebits took it and made it a simple, intuitive way to request new data from an internet server &#8212; in this case update your Twitter timeline. That many of us now try to use it to reload a page in Safari, or get new messages in Mail, or refresh anything and anything that feels like it <em>should</em> refresh when we pull down shows just how simple and intuitive it is. Sometimes it&#8217;s not the big once-and-a-while&#8217;s that make the difference, it&#8217;s the little use-it-all-the-times. </p>

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<h2>Camera App of the Year: ReelDirector</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.01.17-PM.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.01.17-PM-200x200.png" alt="ReelDirector" title="ReelDirector" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18048" /></a>iPhone 3GS brought a much improved camera and video recording, amazingly improved photo software, and even trim-able video recording. A lot of apps took advantage, both of the old gear and the new. Leanna covered <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/07/tipbs-top-5-iphone-photo-apps/">five fantastic ones</a> earlier, and since then a couple have even come around to offering video for the iPhone 3G.</p>

<p>But if video is the new still, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/31/reeldirector-updates-soundtrack-import-iphone-video-editing/">ReelDirector</a> ups the ante from Apple&#8217;s trim to full-on (for a mobile) video editing. From titles to transitions, soundtracks to Ken Burns effects, it may not be Final Cut Pro but it&#8217;s definitely a fun first cut. </p>

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<h2>Productivity App of the Year: Documents to Go Premium</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.34.52-PM.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-31-at-5.34.52-PM-200x200.png" alt="Documents to Go" title="Documents to Go" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18053" /></a>Over two and half years in and some are still foolish enough to call the iPhone a toy. Unless, of course, they mean the iPhone can make even productivity work more fun than it has any right to be.</p>

<p>Documents to Go, which updated their flagship app to <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/31/documents-premium-powerpoint-gmail/">Premium</a> and added PowerPoint editing and Gmail attachment support at almost the last minute gets our vote. Even though Apple still hasn&#8217;t provided a universal document repository, or file picker (the way the picture picker works for images), Documents to Go continues to push the boundaries of what an Office-style app can do on the iPhone.</p>

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<h2>Social App of the Year: Twitter Clients</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2010/01/m2-medly.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2010/01/m2-medly-200x200.jpg" alt="Twitter WebApp" title="Twitter WebApp" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18097" /></a>If <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/23/preview-facebook-30/">Facebook</a> had gotten push notifications, if <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/06/skype-comments-att-policy-change-allowing-voip-3g-network/">Skype</a> had actually gotten 3G access, this category might be even harder to decide than it already is. Likewise notification enabled IM clients such as <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/01/quick-app-updates-beejive-im-iphone-31-group-chat-meta-chat/">BeeJive</a> that now has group chat is a social powerhouse.</p>

<p>But those iPhone twitter clients just. won&#8217;t. stop. We already mentioned Tweetie 2 and Twitterrific 2, but there&#8217;s also <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/21/birdfeed-twitter-client-iphone-12/">Birdfeed</a>, and both <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/25/follow-friday-twitbit-22-edition/">Twitbit</a> and SimplyTweet made it into our staff<a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/28/tipb-picks-year/"> picks of the year</a>. And yeah, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/16/quickapp-tweetdeck-twitter-client-iphone/">TweetDeck</a> is on the iPhone now as well. In addition to the general-purpose clients, we have apps like <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/04/13/quick-app-birdhouse-twitter-notepad-iphone/">Birdhouse</a> that excel at writing and <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/29/reportage-twitter-radio-tuner-version-15/">Reportage</a> that make reading manageable. Heck, even <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/04/twitter-eats-dogfood-previews-mobile-webapp/">Twitter&#8217;s own WebApp</a> got a great makeover. </p>

<p>Twitter exploded in 2009, and the quality of iPhone Twitter apps exploded right along with it. They&#8217;re all so good, again we can&#8217;t pick just one, so we&#8217;re naming them all the social networking apps of the year!</p>

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<h2>Navigation App of the Year: Navigon Mobile Navigator</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/IMG_0822.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/IMG_0822-200x200.png" alt="Navigon MobileNavigator" title="Navigon MobileNavigator" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17468" /></a>Another of app category made possible by iPhone 3.0 is turn-by-turn GPS navigation, and it didn&#8217;t take long for top of the line, premium-priced market leaders like <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/16/tomtom-turnbyturn-navigation-iphone-beginning-international-app-stores/">TomTom</a> to come on board (and with <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/25/120-apple-online-store-tomtom-car-kit-iphone/">car kits</a>!), and subscription services like the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/02/app-review-att-navigator-iphone/">TeleNav-powered AT&amp;T Navigator</a> have come on board, but low-cost, crowd-sourced alternatives have also flourished. And even with the 800lbs gorilla of the newly announced <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/28/google-working-free-ad-supported-turnbyturn-navigation-app/">Google Maps Navigation</a> staring them down all searchy and free, they&#8217;ve continued to update and innovate.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/09/navigon-mobilenavigator-updated-traffic-live-inapp-purchase/">Navigon&#8217;s MobileNavigator</a> has been helping push the pace of those updates and that innovation. Whether it&#8217;s text to speech or live-traffic, this maps-on-board solution took iPhone 3.0&#8217;s APIs and didn&#8217;t run &#8212; it drove.</p>

<h2>Action Game of the Year: N.O.V.A</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-8.59.03-PM.png"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-8.59.03-PM-200x200.png" alt="NOVA" title="NOVA" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17714" /></a>If there was a theme to iPhone and iPod touch gaming in 2009 it was the maturing of the platform that brought both big franchises and games very much akin to the big franchises. There are literally too many to list (though Jeremy <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/15/tipbs-top-5-actionarcade-games/">started</a> and Chad focused in on <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/26/tipbs-top-firstperson-shooting-games/">FPS</a>&#8216; a while back). </p>

<p>But N.O.V.A brought &#8220;Halo&#8221; to the iPhone. Maybe we should have found something more original, more uniquely dependent on the iPhone&#8217;s specific technologies. But N.O.V.A brought &#8220;Halo&#8221; to the iPhone.</p>

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<h2>Racing Game of the Year: Real Racing</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/11/Real-Racing.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/11/Real-Racing-200x200.jpg" alt="Real Racing" title="Real Racing" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-14725" /></a>Given the accelerometer, racing games are just such a natural fit for the iPhone and iPod touch that it&#8217;s no wonder there are so many great racing games for the platform (Chad&#8217;s <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/12/2nd-annual-tipb-grand-prix-the-top-5-racing-games/">picked out</a> a top 5 already!) And with iPhone 3GS and iPod touch G3 level horsepower and OpenGL 2.0 no doubt there&#8217;s even better ahead (hey, we&#8217;ve seen a glimpse of it already).</p>

<p>For now, however, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/07/01/wednesday-fun-video-iphone-3gs-real-racing-tech-demo/">Real Racing</a> is where it&#8217;s at. Our 2009 Grand Prix winner is also a racing game of the year.</p>

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<h2>Puzzle Game of the Year: Ramp Champ</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/10/ramp_champ_0621.PNG"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/10/ramp_champ_0621-200x200.PNG" alt="ramp_champ_0621" title="ramp_champ_0621" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13241" /></a>A lot of great puzzle games have hit the iPhone, from <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/02/app-review-peggle-iphone/">Peggle</a> to <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/stoneloops-of-jurassica/">Stoneloops</a> to Bejeweled 2 and Tetris, to well almost every great puzzle game that could come to the platform. In 2008, however, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/17/lightning-review-trism/">Trism</a> showed you could do an iPhone-proper puzzler and do it incredibly well. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/12/quick-app-ramp-champ-skeeballstyle-game-iphone/">Ramp Champ</a> took a flick at it in 2009, with gorgeous graphics, one of the best implementations of in-app purchases to date, and arguably too much challenge for its (or rather its players) own good. There maybe puzzle games with bigger brands, more levels, and perhaps even better physics, but when we think about what we love most about iPhone software &#8212; indie developers, attention to detail, love of UI &#8212; Ramp Champ lands squarely in the bullseye.</p>

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<h2>Jailbreak App of the Year: ProSwitcher</h2>

<p>Even post-<a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/iphone-30/">iPhone 3.0</a>, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/applications/jailbreak-apps/">Jailbreak</a> continued to fill gaps in functionality like theming, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/26/bluetooth-keyboard-iphone-jailbreak-btstack/">BT keyboards</a>, <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/24/quick-jailbreak-app-smartscreen-widgets-lock-screen/">lockscreen widgets</a>, notification management, and &#8212; of course &#8212; <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/22/jailbreak-unlock-iphone-3g3gs-blacksn0w-mac-edition/">unlocking the iPhone 3GS</a>. If Apple won&#8217;t do it, it&#8217;s been proven time and time again the Jailbreak community will.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/27/proswitcher-iphone-jailbreak-multitasking-ui-10/">ProSwitcher</a> did the same, but looked especially great doing it. Take a Jailbroken iPhone, add Backgrounder to get your multitask on, and then manage the whole thing with Safari Pages-style &#8212; and yes, webOS cards-style UI candy. </p>

<h2>Bluetooth Headset of the Year: Blueant Q1</h2>

<p><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/10/IMG_1222-200x200.jpg" alt="blueant_q1_1" title="blueant_q1_1" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13762" />Apple raised the stakes in 2009 by adding iPhone 3.0 support for A2DP stereo Bluetooth &#8212; sort of. Apple forgot to add all the proper control protocols, so you can&#8217;t skip tracks, but boy can you still rock out. Now iPhone and iPod touch users can enjoy music (and adjusting volume), and excellent products like the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/31/prereview-motorola-motorokr-s9hd-a2dp-stereo-bluetooth-headset-iphone-30/">Motorola S9-HD</a> and the Jabra Cruiser speakerphone.</p>

<p>And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, our pick for BT headset of the year, the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/02/bluant-q1-recieves-firmware-update-enables-a2dp-audio-streaming/">Blueant Q1</a> got an update &#8212; really, how often to BT headsets get firmware update?! &#8212; to enable A2DP. It&#8217;s a premium product, just like the iPhone, but with voice control, and support for two phones (for you dual wielders), it&#8217;s also a fantastic one.</p>

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<h2>Case of the Year: Otterbox Defender</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/06/4082.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/06/4082-200x200.jpg" alt="OtterBox Defender" title="OtterBox Defender" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9605" /></a>Apple can&#8217;t win. They change the design of the iPhone 3G and people with iPhone 2G cases complain their old accessories don&#8217;t fit. They keep the iPhone 3GS in the same duds, and people complain it&#8217;s boring. But at least the case makers could concentrate on better rather than different, and better they have. From the soft-stylings of the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/23/iskin-solo-iphone-3g-iphone-3gs/">iSkin solo</a> to the gloss of the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/30/casemate-barely-case-iphone-3g/">Case-mate Barely There Chrome</a> and the utility of the<a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/12/16/iphone-golla-bags-iphone-cases/"> Golla bag</a>, there&#8217;s  definitely a &#8220;case for that&#8221;.</p>

<p>And if we&#8217;re talking case, and we&#8217;re talking protection, the Hummer of cases, the battle-armor of protection, is the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/01/05/review-otterbox-defender-series-iphone-3g/">OtterBox Defender</a>. It&#8217;s not for those who just want a sticker or a skin, a splash of color or the smell of fine leather &#8212; it&#8217;s for those who want their iPhone survive. And it&#8217;s our case of the year.</p>

<h2>EPIC FAIL of the Year: Capricious App Store Rejections</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/stories/2009/03/app_store_church_lady.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/03/app_store_church_lady-200x200.jpg" alt="app_store_church_lady" title="app_store_church_lady" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7433" /></a>No doubt the App Store is such a smash hit that even Apple was unprepared for the tsunami of submissions they&#8217;re now facing. The numbers are staggering, but not as staggering as the growth rate. But choosing to be a gatekeeper comes with it the responsibility of being a <em>good</em> gatekeeper. It&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s store and they can fill it&#8217;s virtual shelves with what they want, but when the developers who make the apps those shelves are being filled with lose faith &#8212; when they no longer trust Apple&#8217;s rules, or realize there are no consistent rules being enforced, even if Apple and mainstream users don&#8217;t lose out, the platform does. Sure, they&#8217;ve made some small improvements inside iTunes connect and with the RSS feed, but they&#8217;re slow to the point of being arduous.</p>

<p>Some developers have been frustrated enough to leave the iPhone. A few returned only because the competitions&#8217; development environment, install base, and user experience wasn&#8217;t competitive enough&#8230; yet. But that &#8220;yet&#8221; could change at any moment. And if the best and brightest developers are making the best and brightest apps for Android rather than the iPhone, that&#8217;s not a loss to Apple&#8217;s bottom line, it&#8217;s a loss to their heart.</p>

<p>That&#8217;s why <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/rejected-apps/">rejected App Store apps</a>, specifically the capricious, opaque way in which they&#8217;re continuing to be rejected, is our epic FAIL of the year.</p>

<h2>Story of the Year: iTablet</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/mac_touch1.jpg"><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/12/mac_touch1-200x200.jpg" alt="iTablet Concept" title="iTablet Concept" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17846" /></a>We&#8217;ve mentioned most of the other big stories already &#8212; the still amazing Jailbreak journey, the still disappointing App Store rejections. And then there was the leave of absence, and triumphant return of Steve Jobs.</p>

<p>But iTablet/iStlate was the story that wouldn&#8217;t quit, however, and the rumors, speculation, and rampant geek <em>want</em> built and built throughout 2009. We&#8217;re not even sure actually announcing the device (which may just happen in 2010) could have been a bigger story &#8212; anticipation is just that powerful. Whether (more likely when) it ultimate comes out, Apple&#8217;s mysterious, mythical, magical, maybe <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/itablet/">iTablet</a> is our story of the year.</p>

<h2>Bring on 2010!</h2>

<p>Well, that&#8217;s it &#8212; TiPb&#8217;s Editor Awards for 2009 gone and done! What will we see in 2010? Who knows, but we&#8217;re excited to find out!</p>

<p>Did you agree with any of our picks? Disagree? What would YOU have given the nod to? Feel strongly about it? Tell us &#8212; or tell us off &#8212; in the comments! (And we&#8217;ll have our next Readers&#8217; Choice Awards coming up later in 2010 so you can put your apps where your opinions are as well!)</p>

<p>Happy New Year</p>

<p>&#8211;The iPhone blog team</p>
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		<title>Time Magazine Ranks the Moto Droid Ahead of the iPhone 3GS</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2009/12/09/time-magazine-ranks-motorola-droid-iphone-3gs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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Time magazine has made the Motorola Droid its number 1 gadget of the year while our beloved iPhone ranked in at number 4 behind the Barnes &#38; Noble Nook e-reader, and the Dyson Air Multiplier. What pushed the Droid to the top of the heap of these gadgets was the combination of its Motorola hardware [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2009/12/09/time-magazine-ranks-motorola-droid-iphone-3gs/">Time Magazine Ranks the Moto Droid Ahead of the iPhone 3GS</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944278_1944287,00.html">Time magazine</a> has made the Motorola Droid its number 1 gadget of the year while our beloved iPhone ranked in at number 4 behind the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook e-reader, and the Dyson Air Multiplier. What pushed the Droid to the top of the heap of these gadgets was the combination of its Motorola hardware and Android 2.0 software.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>&#8220;A smartphone operating system isn&#8217;t all that satisfying without an actual kick-ass smartphone wrapped around it. Now Android has one: The Droid is a hefty beast, a metal behemoth without the gloss and finish of the iPhone, but you don&#8217;t miss it. The Droid&#8217;s touchscreen is phenomenally sharp and vivid, it has an actual physical (not great, but good enough) keyboard, and best of all, the Droid is on Verizon&#8217;s best-of-breed 3G network. It&#8217;s Android&#8217;s first credible challenge to the iPhone.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The reason why the iPhone 3GS ranked in at number 4, well to put it simply, was the lack of new features.</p>

<p><blockquote>&#8220;Take the iPhone. Make it faster. There, you&#8217;re done. Yes, the 3GS has a better camera — with video. And it has a compass and voice control. Those are all improvements over the original.&#8221;</blockquote></p>

<p>So there you have it folks, in the past the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/07/03/iphone-3gs-1-smart-phone-ratings/">iPhone and awards</a> have gone hand and hand. As it stands now, the iPhone is no longer an award winner. Hopefully that all changes come this June/July.</p>

<p>What do you think? Should the Droid have gotten the nod?</p>
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		<title>AT&amp;T Now Offering iPhone 3GS Refurbs Online</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/27/att-offering-16gb-iphone-3gs-refurb-online-4900-32gb-14900/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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Just in time for the holidays AT&#38;T is now offering up refurbished iPhone 3GS devices online for a discounted price with free overnight shipping and no activation fee. Both 16GB and 32GB flavors are offered as well as both black and white models.

The 16GB model is on sale for $49 while the 32GB is going [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/27/att-offering-16gb-iphone-3gs-refurb-online-4900-32gb-14900/">AT&#038;T Now Offering iPhone 3GS Refurbs Online</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Just in time for the holidays AT&amp;T is now offering up <a href="http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phones/pda-phones-smartphones.jsp#sku4160233_a|||typcat1003=cat1003">refurbished iPhone 3GS devices online</a> for a discounted price with free overnight shipping and no activation fee. Both 16GB and 32GB flavors are offered as well as both black and white models.</p>

<p>The 16GB model is on sale for $49 while the 32GB is going for a cool $149.00. Of course the regular two-year contract is mandatory along with new activation if you want these low prices. </p>

<p>If any of you are in the market for a iPhone 3GS on the cheap, this is the deal you may have been looking for. Any takers?</p>
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		<title>An iPhone Blogger&#8217;s Trip to the Dark Side with Verizon&#8217;s Motorola Droid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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Much has been said about Verizon&#8217;s latest addition to their smarthphone arsenal, the Motorola Droid, some good and some bad. I decided to pick one up and decide for myself. It&#8217;s been a little less than a week that I&#8217;ve spent with my Droid and I must say, I&#8217;ve actually come away quite impressed. Now [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/12/motorola-droid/">An iPhone Blogger&#8217;s Trip to the Dark Side with Verizon&#8217;s Motorola Droid</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Much has been said about Verizon&#8217;s latest addition to their smarthphone arsenal, the <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/droid/">Motorola Droid</a>, some good and some bad. I decided to pick one up and decide for myself. It&#8217;s been a little less than a week that I&#8217;ve spent with my Droid and I must say, I&#8217;ve actually come away quite impressed. Now by no means am I saying the Droid is the best looking device on the market, nor is it the perfect smartphone &#8212; that simply does not exist. But what we have here is a very solid effort by Motorola. Sure Apple is at the top of the game in regards to UI, ease of use, speed, etc&#8230; but they have to play some major catch up with the release of their next iPhone &#8212; namely on display, notifications, and multitasking.</p>

<p>For the full run down follow me after the break!
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<h2>Display</h2>

<p><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/11/IMG_1245-400x300.jpg" alt="Droid_display" title="Droid_display" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15032" /></p>

<p>I want to start with the first thing that really pops out when you turn the Droid on &#8212; the display. I will admit I never had issues with the screen on my iPhone&#8230; until the Droid came along. The Droid&#8217;s display has a resolution of 480&#215;854 and is 3.7-inches of pure delight. So much so that after using the Droid for almost a week now when I look at the screen on my iPhone everything on it comes across as being blurry. </p>

<p>Apple, we all beg of you, please make <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/10/tipb-predicts-iphone-hd-in-2009/">Rene&#8217;s dream of an iPhone HD</a> come to life by giving us a better screen on the next version of iPhone. Pretty please&#8230;</p>

<h2>Notifications</h2>

<p><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/11/IMG_12401-400x300.jpg" alt="Droid_Notifications" title="Droid_Notifications" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15036" /></p>

<p>The way the Droid handles notifications is not something new but rather a staple of the Android OS. Like many of you, I feel the iPhone does a very poor job with any sort of <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/push-notifications/">push notification</a> whether it is a incoming text message or a sports score. So poor in fact that if I receive a sports score and then a text message right afterwords I have no way of knowing the sports score <em>ever</em> came through! On the Droid I can get all the scores pushed to the device and have email, text messages, etc and a simple swipe down on the screen reveals every single notification. I&#8217;m not sure about any of you but how the iPhone handles push notifications is getting pretty old at this point.</p>

<h2>Multitasking</h2>

<p><img src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/11/IMG_1251-400x300.jpg" alt="Droid_multitask" title="Droid_multitask" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15042" /></p>

<p>According to <a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/11/02/verizon-droid-feature-iphone/">our poll of what Droid feature would you like to see on your iPhone</a>, many of you would like to see the ability to multitask 3rd party applications. Apple&#8217;s response to your request has been that multitasking will kill your battery faster than you could ever imagine. Are they correct? Yes and no. Multitasking will have a negative effect on your battery but it&#8217;s not as much as Apple claims it to be. Apple needs to let the consumer decide for themselves. If they&#8217;d like to take a hit in the battery life department to be able to multitask 3rd party applications, why not let them? Give us the option and make everyone happy.</p>

<h2>Conclusion</h2>

<p>So what does this all mean for Apple, and for me? Will I be ditching my iPhone for the Droid? No. I could never leave all of you behind. But I will be keeping the Droid as it definitely has my attention. I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the Verizon network as AT&amp;T service is top notch where I live, but the three things I discussed above have me hooked and good. The Droid really is Apple&#8217;s wake up call in a sense. It&#8217;s finally a competitive enough device that it should force them to step up and greatly improve upon the iPhone next time around. While I would never tell any of you to do away with your iPhone I will tell you this, if you have a chance to pick one up and give it a whirl, do so as you are sure to enjoy it.</p>

<p>If you are interested in learning more about the Droid be sure to check out <a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/hardware-review-motorola-droid-verizon">Android Central&#8217;s full hardware review</a> as Casey knocked it out of the park. And if you&#8217;ve already tried the Droid, drop us a note in the comments and let us know how it treated you.</p>

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		<title>N64 Emulator Coming to Jailbroken iPhone 3GS/iPod touch Devices</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/07/n64-emulator-coming-jailbroken-iphone-3gs-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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We have some good news for all of you Nintendo fans out there as ZodTDD, the developer the Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator GpSPhone, has announced that they are currently working on an N64 emulator for the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch. Zodttd feels that the iPhone 3GS and the current iPod Touch contain the graphical [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/07/n64-emulator-coming-jailbroken-iphone-3gs-devices/">N64 Emulator Coming to Jailbroken iPhone 3GS/iPod touch Devices</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>We have some good news for all of you Nintendo fans out there as ZodTDD, the developer the Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator <a href="http://www.zodttd.com/wiki/index.php/GpSPhone">GpSPhone</a>, has announced that they are currently working on an N64 emulator for the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch. Zodttd feels that the iPhone 3GS and the current iPod Touch contain the graphical horsepower needed for N64 games.</p>

<p><blockquote><em>&#8220;You may soon see N64 on your favorite Apple device, But I can’t promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say. There’s hope though, with a 3D accelerated graphics plugin, as well as an ARM dynarec.&#8221;</em></blockquote></p>

<p>We would love to see this pulled off but the lack of physical buttons on the iPhone may prove to be a major issue. There currently is no release date set but regardless, we are looking forward to checking this one out.</p>

<p>[Via <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5395948/iphone-3gs-to-be-unofficially-renamed-nintendo-iphone-3gsn64">Gizmodo</a>]</p>
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		<title>Review: Marware C.E.O. Premiere for iPhone 3GS &amp; iPhone 3G</title>
		<link>http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/04/review-marware-ceo-premiere-iphone-3gs-iphone-3g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sikora</dc:creator>
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Marware&#8217;s C.E.O. Premiere for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. [$34.95 - TiPb Store Link] is a horizontal case with a belt clip and top flap. Either you love that style or you hate it, but there is no denying their popularity among iPhone owners. Marware has been making iPhone cases since day one and some [...]<p><a href="http://www.tipb.com/2009/11/04/review-marware-ceo-premiere-iphone-3gs-iphone-3g/">Review: Marware C.E.O. Premiere for iPhone 3GS &#038; iPhone 3G</a> is a story by <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb</a>.  This feed is sponsored by <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com">The iPhone Blog Store</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.tipb.com">TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog</a></p>
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<p>Marware&#8217;s C.E.O. Premiere for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. [$34.95 - <a href="http://store.theiphoneblog.com/marware-ceo-premiere/4A120A3800.htm">TiPb Store Link</a>] is a horizontal case with a belt clip and top flap. Either you love that style or you hate it, but there is no denying their popularity among iPhone owners. Marware has been making iPhone cases since day one and some pretty good ones at that. What did we think of the Marware C.E.O. Premiere?</p>

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<p>The Marware C.E.O Premiere has the classic horizontal holster case design that covers your iPhone in a textured, soft leather with quality stitching and an ultra-slim non-removable belt clip. The interior of the case is made up of microfiber cloth which is a welcomed addition that promises not to scratch your device while it is in use.</p>

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<p>The flap that encloses your iPhone stays closed with the help of Velcro. Though I would have preferred Marware to use magnets, the Velcro does it&#8217;s job. However, when I am in a quiet room and need to get to my phone I&#8217;d like to get it out in silence rather than hearing the sound of Velcro tearing open. </p>

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<p>The C.E.O. Premiere is designed only to provide access to the headphone port while your phone is inside. This design allows you to listen to music or take calls with the iPhones headset while you are out and about, but like all other cases of this style, no other controls can be accessed when the it&#8217;s is closed. Keep that in mind if it&#8217;s a deciding factor when you&#8217;re looking for a new case. </p>

<p>Marware was kind enough to include a decent screen protector in the package as well.</p>

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<p>If you prefer the horizontal case and can get past some of the Marware&#8217;s minor shortcomings, the C.E.O Premiere as it&#8217;s truly a quality case.</p>

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