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A 5 minute video showing Opera Mini in action on the iPhone. It remains to be seen if this will ever make it into the App Store.


Opera Mini was today submitted to Apple’s App Store. The software was announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Opera Software claims that their browser will perform up to six times faster than Safari.

Check out the full press release and video after the break.


Microsoft just released an update to its Bing search app for the iPhone. However, the app is still only available for U.S. residents.

  • Bookmarks and improved web browsing:  you can now bookmark maps, directions, web sites, businesses, search terms, even the weather report, and get to the bookmarks right from the Bing home page.
  • Sharing: you can share interesting results with your friends using e-mail.
  • Copy and paste URLs: you told us and we listened! We now support copying and pasting URLs.
  • Parental control on search settings: we helped make search safer by letting you set a SafeSearch level and create a passcode so it can’t be changed. This is a benefit for parents who want to make sure the kids are only going to safe sites on their devices.
  • Search history and private search: you can now view and edit your search history.  You can also search the web without saving your history on the device using private search.
  • Explicit location setting: let your iPhone find you or set a specific location so you can search near there (super useful when you’re going to travel to another city and want to find things around there).
  • Tighter integration of contacts in directions: Bing now autosuggests contacts from your address book when you enter start and end locations in directions.
  • Support for 1st generation iPod touch devices: we now support all versions of iPod touch.

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In the depths of the current iPhone SDK lays evidence of a Video Chat feature, that will most probably be used in future iPhones. This means that we will in fact see a front facing camera on the coming iPhone.

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Google today released a new version of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. The changelog can be seen in the image above.


Here’s an interesting passcode hack for the iPhone. Actually, this one isn’t even a hack, since it has been made with Apple’s own tools and can be used on a non-jailbroken device. 9to5mac used Apple’s Corporate Development kit to make this.

The hack will let you use letters in your passcode, and it forces you to combine numbers and letters in it, and will not let you use sequences of any kind. For instance ‘abcd1234′ is not allowed, when ‘adbc4132′ is allowed.

To apply this hack, you just simply have to open this file with your iPhone. If you ever need to get rid of this, simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ and remove the file.


Apple has quietly raised the app download limit over 3G to 20MB. According to 9to5mac this update has hit at least Germany and Canada, and I can confirm that it is also 20MB here in Finland. So I guess we could call it global.


A homescreen comparison between Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and webOS. The phones compared in the video are iPhone 3GS, Google Nexus One, HTC HD2 and Palm Pre.

Video after the break.


Jay Yarrow wrote in an article for Business Insider that Google is paying Apple $100 million a year for the default search engine deal on the iPhone.

Another interesting fact about Yarrow’s article, is that he basically kills the rumor about Apple entering the search business with its own Search engine.


iPhone repair site iResQ has posted a few photos of what appears to be the fourth-generation iPhone’s parts. What is interesting about these, is that the front of the phone is a little bit taller, and has some soft of reflective surface on the top. No-one knows what this reflective surface will be used for, but I can’t even come up with a wild guess about its function.

Leaks like this should always be taken with a grain of salt, since there have been so many mis-leaks in the past. A few more pictures after the break.