New iPhone 3GS TV Ad: Avid

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Apple recently release a new iPhone 3GS TV commercial for all the sports lovers. This new application highlight 3 interesting sport applications and all of them can be found in the apple store already.

The first iPhone application highlighted on this new Commercial is called GolfShot: Golf GPS[itunes link] for $29.99. This application provides GPS aerial view and more then 15,000 courses worldwide mapped ready to play!

Next they show a really great application called MLB.com at bat 2009[iTunes link] for $9.99. If you love baseball then you would definitely love this application trust me! This application will allow you to check live scores so you will always know who is winning, game audio, and in game videos highlights. Also if you are a subscriber to MLB.TV you can watch the games live how cool is that!

The last application they show on the new commercial is TouchSports-Tennis 09[itunes link] for just $0.99. This great application lets you play tennis on 3D! perform incredible moves, 3 courts to choose from USA, France, or UK. It as great quality and awesome sound effects!

Sonar Ruler App

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Have you ever struggle measuring things around? Did you ever though of the idea of just using your iPhone to make this task even easier? Well if you did then this application is what you have been looking for.
Sonar Ruler is an experimental application that uses echoes to measure distances with your iPhone. According to the description "it uses the same principles the dolphins use to find food".

You should probably be asking your self how does this work? Well to answer that question this application sends short pulses from the speaker and it measures how long that pulse take to bounce of something and return to the iPhone.

Features:
Sonic distance measurement up to 60 feet
Set Units to feet, inches, or meters
Custom saved settings for measuring in different environments

If you like to measure things around then you should try this it looks really great but remember this is just and experimental app but "it can be quite accurate".

The application only cost $0.99 you can get it here(link opens up iTunes)

Discovery Channel on iPhone

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Discovery Networks have joined other networks to launch their new iPhone application.
With the Discovery channel application you will get new videos, daily news, stories, quizzes, photos, TV schedule and more.
The discovery channel iPhone application is the best way to experience discovery channel on the go.

The Discovery app will allow you to watch videos from well known networks like mythbusters, man vs wild, disty jobs, time warp, deadliest catch, cash cab and shark week. This application will also include a link to itunes so viwers can purchase their favorite shows.

Viewers can also enjoy incredible images from space, nature, extreme weather, animals and incredible cast members.

The application is completely free on the app store you can get it here (Link opens up itunes)

Wikipedia Mobile Now on The iPhone

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Wikipedia just release a mobile version application for the iPhone so you easily read and browse threw their millions of articles.
The description of the application clearly said that the applications is 100% open source and community built. So if you are a programmer you can help them out developed the application even further.
This application is base on being very simple and very fast. According to the description more features will come with time.
This application is available for the iPhone and iPod touch second generation and it requires the firmware version 3.0 or later

The application is completely free on the app store you can get it here.

Facebook 3.0 for iPhone

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Just exactly 11 hours ago Joe Hewitt announced on his twitter page that he uploaded the new Facebook 3.0 for iPhone to the apple store for review, this new application is still awaiting for approval. According to Joe Hewiit he will take the day off today and will work on Facebook 3.1 on Monday. Many people are excited about this new application with all the really cool new features.

Facebook 3.0 have no push notification in it; is still under development but you can expect it on Facebook 3.1.

The application as 15 new features and this features are:

1. The "new" News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

Source: Joe Hewitt Twitter

Tom Tom GPS for iPhone on New Zealand App Store

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Tom Tom GPS for iPhone one of the most awaited apps just made its entrance to the New Zealand app store. According to MacRumors four versions regional versions of the Tom Tom GPS for iPhone have appear in this store; U.S. and Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Here you can see some of the prices:

- U.S. & Canada [App Store]: NZ $124.99 (US $84.41) - Western Europe [App Store]: NZ $179.99 (US $121.55) - Australia [App Store]: NZ $104.99 (US $70.90) - New Zealand [App Store]: NZ $119.99 (US $81.03)

This prices only contain the application not the car mount, enhanced GPS receiver, built-in speaker, or power cables.
If you are interested in the car kit you will have to buy this separately. The package containing the software and hardware appear last month for pre orders on the UK store Handtech for a price of £99 (US $163.39).

source: MacRumors

iPhone 3gs and Palm Pre Owners Satisfaction Poll

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The Palm Pre and the iPhone 3gs are indeed great devices lets admit it. People have different thoughts about both, Palm Pre Owners love their device but how much compared to iPhone 3gs Owners. How many of does owners are satisfied with their device and how many of them are really satisfied. Well that's what we going to find out now.

On August 4-11 there was a survey of 200 3gs owners and 40 Palm Pre owners by RBC Capital and ChangeWave Research to see how many of those owners were satisfied and how many of them really satisfied.

According to brainstormtech 99% of the 3gs owners were satisfied of which 82% were very satisfied. In the same survey of 40 Palm Pre Owners 87% are satisfied and 45% of those owners described themselves as "really satisfied"

It seems interesting that the 42% of the Palm Pre owners who describe themselves as "really satisfied" customers are the highest score ever achieve by Palm Pre and the highest of all manufactures excluding RIM and Apple.

Source: Brainstormtech