We are now officially in hurricane season and with one large tropical storm under our belts already we now have Gustav headed our way. Fortunatly, Weather Underground has developed an iPhone-specific version of their mobile site including a tool that tracks tropical storms. The Weather Underground mobile site’s URL is http://i.wund.com, and you can access their tropical storm page at http://i.wund.com/tropical.
The new iPhone OS 2.1 beta 1 update is going to add improvements to the GPS feature on the iPhone.(Don’t confuse this with update 2.0.1, is a bug fixer for the current firware). With these new improvements, your phone will not only know where you are, but also what direction you are going and how fast.
On July 11th were going on a road trip! We want to see you when you finally get your new iPhone 3G and instead of you all coming to us, we decided to come to you! We’ll be bringing video reports and interviews from eager iPhone 3G fans throughout central Texas.
A spokesman for TomTom, the Dutch navigation device maker, announced that they already have a version of its navigation software running on Apple’s iPhone and that it plans to sell the software to consumers.
Google Earth is not currently available as an app for the iPhone but Google Earth developer Frank Taylor recently got a chance to check out a 3D Earth app from Earthscape. He was gracious enough to post a YouTube video of the app and from here it looks pretty impressive. A very nice feature uses the iPhone’s tilt sensors to navigate in 3D!
Reports are that the most recent version of the iPhone 2.0 beta has added a “Location Services” feature that encompasses what appears to be GPS-based Google Mapping which works for geotagging using the phone’s camera app. This shot I can assure you is not legit. I know this because I just created it in Photoshop (and did a very poor job I must say). If this is true it will be a rare late arrival for Apple because other smartphone users have been geo-tagging with their devices for years. This fact should not remove the obligation of iPhone users to condescend those using lesser devices of from clapping Apple on the back with a good ole attaboy.
