iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps, up from 9 Pages

This is going to be a relief to iPhone users who have exhausted all 9 pages on their iPhone. Currently iPhone doesn’t allow users to add more than 9 pages of apps on their springboard, i.e., max 144 apps. This feature was shared by TheLoopBlog. Therefore with 3.0 OS coming this June, we will have 11pages on our iPhone springboard and that will allow 180 apps to be installed. DAMN COOL :)

iPhoneTabloid – Interesting Aggregator that Pulls Tons of iPhone News and Rumors

If you are one of those iPhone followers who end up opening over 5-7 websites every morning to get a complete update on iPhone news and rumors, there seems to be a solution for this problem. I found this Aggregator website called iPhoneTabloid.com, which pulls up RSS feeds from websites like iPhone Dev Team, ModMyi, AppleInsider, Engadget, Gizmodo and many more top iPhone websites all in one page.

http://iphonetabloid.com/

Next-Gen iPhone to be Showcased on June 8: Rumor

iphone nextgen Next Gen iPhone to be Showcased on June 8: RumorOne is thing is sure, Apple will be unveiling Next-Gen iPhone very soon with tons of new features. Silicon Alley has shared some more info on this very news. The Next-Gen iPhone along with the final version of its iPhone 3.0 software might most probably be announced on June 8, the first day of Apple’s 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

More important: Will Apple CEO Steve Jobs present — or at least make an appearance — at WWDC? His medical leave is not scheduled to end until “late June,” so maybe not. But we wouldn’t be surprised if Steve made a cameo, either to show off the new iPhone or to announce that he was retiring as CEO.

How to Downgrade iPhone Firmware v3.0 back to 2.x

This method is pretty trick. Quite a few users havent been able to downgrade to 2.x firmware using this method. But few have been successful. You need to try this out only if you have upgraded to v3.0 firmware. Currently this 3.0 firmware has been released to iPhone developers only. But developers who had jailbroken iPhone have bricked their iPhones due to this upgrade. I found this on bigboss:

Step 1) Shut off your iPhone and then enter DFU mode. Instructions here.

Step 2) Restore your iPhone in iTunes to v2.2.1, 2.2, or such. Remember you will need to hold shift and click restore in Windows, Option-restore in OSX. If you need to locate the firmware to download, look here. If you need help on how to restore in iTunes read this guide.

Step 3) Your restore will get an error message. It should be one of these: 1011, 1013, 1015. If you get something less than 100, you did not enter DFU mode correctly and need to retry from step #1 of this guide. If you get 160x something else went wrong. The 1011, 1013, 1015 type error codes will be a failure to write the baseband and will be expected. After this, your iPhone will remain in recovery mode. Note: on 2g iPhone you probably should not get a restore error since the 2g baseband is not updated by the 3.0 update so there is no reason for the baseband update to fail.

Mar AppsOnDiscount – Top 3 Games that just went down to $0.99 – Mar ‘09

Here is my second list of Top 3 Games under a dollar for this month of Mar ‘09. As I mentioned in one of my previous post, I just love digging into the AppStore to get really cool games and apps that go unnoticed. And I love playing games that go down on it’s price temporarily or permanently and with a high rating & high reviews.

1.
Chopper – $2.99 $0.99 [AppStore]

Complete your mission and return to base, while avoiding enemy fire from tanks and bazooka wielding mad men in this action packed side-scrolling helicopter game. Play through twenty levels in each of four difficulties. Tilt to fly, and touch the screen to drop bombs or fire your machine gun.
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2.
BurnBall – $1.99 $0.99 [AppStore]

Tilt the phone to move Roy around the screen. Capture 75% of the screen from the robots to advance to the next level. Advance through the levels to Dr Gray’s lair, rescue your friends, and destroy his Gray Gun! Features tribal (team) play, online high scores, 3 difficulty settings, BurnBall power-up, exploding robots, and more.
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3.
Match Me – $3.99 $0.99 [AppStore]

Match Me is a memory matching game that makes time fly! You will find yourself playing for hours and hours, trying to unlock all levels and make higher and higher scores.
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Lite version of Sway goes live on AppStore

Sway from Illusion Labs was one of the most talked about iPhone Game on AppStore. The original Sway costs $4.99. If you dont want to invest 5 bucks in a game that you dont know if you would fall in love with, try this cool lite version for free. The game has the same controls as the paid version, but limits the user to only 3 levels and 2 characters. Isnt that enough to get a hang of this game. As I am writing this post, my iPhone is downloading the lite version. Will share with you all my experience paying Sway very soon.
Sway Lite – Free [AppStore]

Help Lizzy save her friends by using the power of your thumbs in this amazing bouncy physics adventure. The right part of the screen controls the little creature’s right hand and the left part control its left hand.

Cydia Store Goes Live – AppStore now has some competition

Though Apple might sue Cydia anytime soon, there is going to be some competition for AppStore. Cydia Store went live last evening making it possible for jailbroken iPhones to buy apps directly from an alternative store other than AppStore. Lets wait and watch Apple’s reaction to this challenge. Infact just a while back Apple had told the U.S. Copyright Office that it believes jailbreaking an iPhone is violation of the DMCA and infringes on its copyright. Apple had informed the Copyright Office that the exception request by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was unacceptable as the very act of jailbreaking the iPhone results in copyright infringement.

http://iphoneindia.gyanin.com/2009/03/08/cydia-store-goes-live-appstore-now-has-some-competition/

iPhone Dashboard Might Become a Reality

Dashboard feature in iPhone? Can this happen? It might… Atleast on jailbroken iPhone. If this happens, I will jailbreak my iPhone :) .

What this can do to iPhone:
• Create a ‘widget’ layer for iPhone OS.
• Model it like Dashboard on OS X proper
• Load & display widget bundles

Tumblerette is now the official Tumblr iPhone App

All you Tumblr fans, rejoice… one of the most popular photo sharing application, Tumblr has a new iPhone app – Tumblr [AppStore]. Infact Tumblerette has joined hands with Tumblr and reincarnated itself into Tumblr iPhone app. Tumblerette used to cost $1.99, but now Tumblr is Free and does everything that one can do on Tumblr website. Here is the official definition – Tumblr makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.

Mario Styled App ‘Bounce On’ is on 50% Discount – Grab It

My favorite Mario styled app ‘Bounce On’ [AppStore] is on a 50% discount till March 7th. I have been waiting for this offer. I loved the lite version, but dint want to spend 4 bucks for this game. This is awesome :) . With an average rating of 4.00 and with 152 reviews, Bound On is one of most talked about game on AppStore. There is an free version called Bounce On Lite. Try this version[Lite version AppStore link] and if you like it, go for the full version.
Bounce On – $3.99 $1.99