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Popular smartphones, like the Apple iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry, play an important role in driving the people for mobile game downloads, says the findings of comScore. The total number of Americans downloading mobile games increased by 17 percent in November, last year. Out of them 8.5 million people were those wireless subscribers who used to download at least one game per month.

This is because of the intuitive controls, as well as large and clear display with excellent graphic capabilities, that advanced smartphones like the iPhone, Windows Mobile phone and BlackBerry models offer. The Apple iPhone 3G 16GB has already been recognised as a potential mobile gaming device that is as efficient as Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). According to the research conducted by comScore the number of smartphone users downloading mobile games during November 2007 to November 2008 quadrupled and the game downloads by basic handset users declined by 14 percent because such mobile phones do not feature awesome graphics, high fps and speedy processing. The Apple iPhone is the most preferred smartphone for mobile gaming and accounts for 14 percent of total game downloads.

Mark Donovan, a senior analyst at comScore commented, “The rapid growth in smartphone adoption in the United States has provided a boost for mobile gaming, as 34 percent of those downloading a game in November did so using a smartphone. Last year, not one smartphone appeared in the top 10 devices used for mobile downloads. This year, six out of 10 are smartphones, excluding devices with smartphone-like functionality, such as the Instinct and Voyager, which also make appearances.”

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Have you got a large collection of DVD movies and videos but don’t have enough time to spend enjoying them? Do you also have an Apple iPhone? If yes, then you are not out of luck completely. You can now convert any DVD file into a format that is accepted by the iPhone and enjoy all the pristine quality content on the move. All you need is the Xilisoft DVD to iPhone Converter to optimally use the DVDs.

The Xilisoft DVD to iPhone Converter can rip DVDs to iPhone MP4 video, MP3 audio, AAC and M4A audio. This is the main selling factor of this software. You can find any other DVD ripper and converter in the market but most of them offer full video to video conversion. However, the Xilisoft DVD to iPhone Converter delivers more flexibility in its operations. You can split a whole DVD file into different sections (like a VCD cutter) and then convert them. You can also extract the audio from a video file and then convert it into MP3.

User interface is excellent. There are lots of options that are provided to control the conversion process and define the output format. You can go for single conversion process or for a batch processing for your Apple iPhone 3G. The batch processing is further split into two parts. Either you can convert a same file into multiple formats or convert multiple files simultaneously.

Cartoonizeme is the latest application developed exclusively for the Apple iPhone. It allows iPhone users to explore the creative kid in them. It’s basically a photo editing application but with a twist. It adds cartoonish effects to any image loaded in the iPhone. Intended for use as a fun application, the Cartoonizeme app has got various tool and options that make the images look better, hilarious and cool.

With Cartoonizeme you can add moustache to a lady, make the lips big, add cool looking goggles to your photo, apply funny tattoos and stickers on the face and much more. It’s not quite as advanced as Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0, but you can still have a lot fun with the programme. A comprehensive yet easy to understand help guide is also included in the application, together with preloaded visual samples. So it’s really very easy to preview what a particular option do. Once you load the Cartoonizeme in the iPhone and run it, it will ask you whether you want to take a new photo or add effects to an existing one. If you are taking a new picture then you have to save it first. After that you can customise it the way you want.

Cartoonizeme offers different types of hair styles, skin tones and stickers. The stickers are found in three different categories namely facial features, accessories and word bubbles. The facial features contain different options that can be used to change the eyes, mouth, nose, lips and apply scars, wigs and other things. Under accessories you will get different subcategories that have loads of items such as funny goggles, caps, t-shirts, beard etc. Finally the word bubbles can be used to add caption. All the stickers are resizable and you can also adjust their opacity.

Redshift has recently launched two new Bluetooth adapters that can be used to add Bluetooth functionality to mobile phones and music players including the Apple iPhone and iPod. Once connected to any device, the adapters let you stream music or other files to another Bluetooth enabled device such as speakers, car stereos, headphones and much more.

The Bluetooth adapter for iPhone and iPod comes with A2DP function and supports AVRCP profiles. You can use it to easily take out the music files from your Apple device and collect it on another Bluetooth enabled gadget, like the Sony SRS-BT100 Bluetooth speaker. Besides this, the adapter also adds remote control functionality so that you can control the playback via your speakers or headphones. Using the adapters you can also connect the music players and phones to the car stereo. Devices like iTrip depend on the FM frequencies so that it can broadcast music from the iPod and play it through the car speakers. The Bluetooth adapter resolves this issue and there is no need to rely on the FM signals anymore. You can uninterruptedly listen to your favourite tracks whilst driving. The RXS Bluetooth adapter is ultra light weight and portable. It weighs just 4.5 grams and measures 43.5 x 15 x 6.6mm only. It can receive wireless signals within a range of 10m.

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Barack Obama is all set to step in the White House and a grand inauguration is waiting ahead, which will definitely attract millions of spectators all over the world. However, if you are not in the town at that moment or do not have the tickets to inauguration or simply don’t have time to sit in front of the TV set, then no need to get disappointed if an Apple iPhone resides in your pocket.

Ustream, the well known video streaming website has launched an application that once installed in the iPhone can catch the live telecast of the inauguration and render it right on the phone’s display. This application will also let the user to chat with the other iPhone users using the same service whilst watching the Obama swear his oath of office. This unique app once again shows one of the major advantages the iPhone possesses over its competitors like the BlackBerry Storm or Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Right now the application can only be received by those who login to the Ustream site but the company will release it for the iTunes Application Store soon.

John Ham, Ustream’s founder wrote on his official blog, “Ustream has developed an application for the 3G iPhone that allows you to watch Ustream anywhere, with everyone. Regardless of where you are at and what you are doing, you can choose to be in the moment with others in a shared live experience around a live event. If you are out-on-the-town and know that a guest speaker at a major conference is going live and want to watch live and be-in-the-crowd, then you can with this application.”

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The Apple iPhone is a great portable device by any means. Be it communication, games or multimedia, the iPhone can handle a variety of tasks with ease and run various useful applications from the Apple App Store. It’s popular all over the world and since its launch it has achieved great success in the field of telecommunication. Recently the iPhone was credited with the honour of being a great gaming console too, apart from a mobile phone. Developers have started making touch sensitive games specially for the iPhone and now the device is being perceived as a potential mobile resource for educating students around the globe too.

Big coloured touchscreen with great resolution, multimedia capabilities, Wireless connectivity and a huge iTunes library, all these features make the iPhone the perfect device to educate the youngsters specialising in different fields. Application developers for Apple iPhone are now focusing on the development of various types of study materials, project simulators and mock test applications that can be easily loaded into the iPhone and can be used by the students anytime they want, just by tapping and sliding their fingers on the iPhone screen. From basic to advanced, the iPhone can hold all types of study materials. For example, it can handle basic flash cards as well as SAT vocabulary that could help the pre-med students to memorise the amino acids.

Most of the teens and young adults are in favour of accepting their iPhone as their tutor. This may be because of the audio/visual aids the iPhone offers and makes the learning an interactive process. This way the students will learn fast and retain the knowledge for a longer time.

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According to analysts Generator Research, Apple is all set in the next five years to grab at least forty percent of the market around the world, racing ahead of Nokia smartphone devices. Generator’s research head Andrew Sheehy says the strategy that will be adopted by Apple to develop the App Store and iPhone will be similar to that of its digital music platform namely the iTunes and iPod.

Sheehy goes on to say that in keeping with the mobile industry’s requirement of a platform similar to those developed by outsiders which are fully integrated and sport an API accessible on terms that are favourable to third party developers, Apple’s platform currently is one of the best.

At a time when some of the established companies in the market are cutting down on development costs, Apple has the right amount of competency, resources and motivation to invest in spurring the growth rate of its iPhone. According to Generator, this will be taken care of with Apple’s 33 percent gross margins and over $25 billion cash reserves.

Nokia’s smartphone market share is predicted to fall to 20 percent by the year 2013 as compared to the current 40 percent. Nokia smartphones, like the Nokia E71, are not expected to hold out against the iPhone. Other major players will be substantially affected as well.

According to Sheehy, the available resources will be made use of by Apple to get ahead of competition. Apple could ship at least 77 million iPhones by 2013 spanning different models across various market segments.

Up until now the two most popular handheld consoles are undoubtedly the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. The PSP is very popular around the globe, though it has seen a recent slump in gaming titles, and trails the DS Lite in terms of sales. In its weakened state the PSP has even been challenged by the Apple iPhone, and iPod touch, which could threaten to overtake it. Apple is putting extra emphasis on turning these two handhelds, one a phone and the other an MP3 player, in viable gaming platforms.

A new and aspiring gamer looking for a handheld console can easily get confused while making a choice between iPhone and PSP. It’s really hard to compare them as both of them offer spectacular gaming on the go. The only factor which can help is individual’s taste and preferences. Both the PSP and iPhone, and Apple iPod touch as well of course, render awesome graphics and quality sound. Apart from this both the consoles have a number of games released for them and both the devices can be used to enjoy and store multimedia. The only differentiating factors are the other functions offered by these two handhelds, controls and the cost.

If you want to make and receive the calls, apart from gaming, then naturally the iPhone is a good device to have. However this involves lots of monthly expenditure in the form of mobile subscription plan. Apart from this the iPhone’s cost itself is much more than the PSP. So if you are no interested in making calls then definitely go for PlayStation Portable. Besides this the PSP is a console that is optimized for gaming only. So ergonomically, it’s more comfortable to pay games on it instead of playing on the iPhone. PSP offers D-pad, four action buttons and joystick. However, it does not offer touch screen gaming like the iPhone.

Technology is restlessly moving forward at a fast pace day by day. Sometime back people were amazed as soon as the Apple iPhone hit the market and now it is being used by millions of Apple fans. If you are one of them, then there’s another surprise for you this X-Mas. Microsoft, usually an Apple nemesis, has recently launched the Seadragon Mobile application exclusively for the iPhone.

This is amazing because the Microsoft and Apple are the two big competitors in the technology market but still the Microsoft finds the iPhone appropriate to handle its Seadragon Mobile application. iPhone users can use this application to view large images on their phone just by tapping their fingers on the touch screen. The development of this application took place in the Microsoft’s Live Labs and it’s the first application MS application launched for the Apple’s product. The Seadragon Mobile application comes with 50 high quality images (up to 10 gigapixels). The users can zoom in and out via touch screen.

The reason behind choosing the Apple iPhone for the Seadragon is that it is potent enough to display multi-resolution images. So unfortunately, fans of Nokia smartphones or the BlackBerry 8100 Pearl, will likely have to wait to get their hands the app. Another main reason why Seadragon was released excluively for the iPhone, is due to both the iPhone’s popularity and exceptional graphics processing, which is a prerequisite for the Seadragon app. Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Lab said, “The iPhone was the obvious mobile choice for Seadragon. It is the most widely distributed phone with a graphics processing unit. Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. I couldn’t just pick up a Blackberry or a Nokia off the shelf and build Seadragon for it without GPU support.”

While the latest and most innovate mobiles, like the BlackBerry Storm or G1 Google phone are always the ones making the headlines, we tend to overlook less exciting and more generic models. However, one so-called generic model has made itself particularly exciting and attractive on account of its spectacularly low price. The pay-as-you Motorola W180 is going on sale for a ridiculously low price of only £2.88, and offers far more than you would expect for such cheap mobile.

When we say the Motorola W180 offers far more than you might expect, you shouldn’t get your hopes up over MP3 playback or a built-in GPS, but all the essentials are on board. These include an FM radio, full ringtone compatibility, and a long battery life to rival even high-end smartphones. It should be mentioned that the phone must be purchased from Carphone Warehouse with £10 of Orange credit, which actually brings the grand total to £12.88. Even so, that is still far far cheaper than the iPhone, and great for anyone who is really hurting during these tough economic times.