New York, NY – Affle today announced the launch of Pinch, its unique smartphone messaging product which redefines the way users discover friends, message them and access a host of location based value services. Pinch is a unique blend of iMessenger, iContacts and iLocation Sense services packaged together to provide an easy way for smartphone users to text their friends with rich animations, pictures, emoticons and push notifications. Hence for sending Pinch messages users don’t need to incur any SMS/MMS charges.

Bellaire, Texas – Help for millions of headache sufferers is as close as their phone. BetterQOL, the developers of iHeadache, a popular headache diary app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are giving away 10,000 free downloads beginning June 6. iHeadache is a comprehensive electronic headache diary that delves into a complete analysis of the headache. It classifies analyzes and tracks all facets of headache pain, including symptoms, triggers, disability and medications.

Rome, Italy – Treebune srl today is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its Pushme.to messenger, now capable of connecting the iPhone app with any browser for a real-time messages or images exchange, without mandatory registration.
Pushme.to is an iPhone/iPod touch application, now free for a limited time.

In the words of E.Shimalsky, Treebune’s CEO:

Toronto, Ontario – MobileFolk, the leading smartphone-enabled market research solutions company, is excited to announce the launch of OrangePanel 1.0, the first paid surveys application for the iPhone platform. OrangePanel allows users to complete surveys and earn cash and rewards on the go – on the bus, at school, at work, or anywhere they bring their iPhone.

San Francisco, CA – WaterField Designs, an innovative leader in custom laptop sleeves and designer bags and cases for consumer electronics, today announces a new, custom-fitted Suede Jacket case for the Nexus One. The minimalist WaterField Suede Jacket(TM) made from scratch-free Ultrasuede(TM) provides a snug but comfortable fit specifically sized for Google’s newest smartphone. Through February 28, 2010, WaterField Designs will donate 5% of all Nexus One case sales to the international medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, for Haiti earthquake victim relief.

San Francisco, California – WaterField Designs, an innovative leader in custom laptop sleeves and designer bags and cases for consumer electronics, announces a new, custom-fitted Suede Jacket case for the Motorola Droid. The minimalist WaterField Suede Jacket made from scratch-free Ultrasuede(TM), provides a snug but comfortable fit specifically sized for Motorola’s newest smartphone.

Xperia X1, Sony Ericsson
If you’re still waiting for that elusive day when Apple decides to make its iPhones available in Canada, forget that and check out Sony Ericsson’s latest entrant in the field.

A Windows Mobile device that offers iPhone-like features such as the touch-screen and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, the Xperia X1 was announced by Sony Ericsson at the Mobile World Congress in Spain with availability in selected markets expected in the second half of this year.

US phone sales over the course of 2007 grew substantially and saw the iPhone register a significant percentage all by itself, according to new data from The NPD Group. With roughly 146 million phones trading hands over the period, Apple’s shipment of about 3.7 million iPhones during the year equates to approximately 2.5 percent of the entire market, or sixth place. The top rankings remain largely unchanged from last year and see Motorola leading sales with about 32 percent of sales, down slightly from 33 percent the year before; Samsung gained signicantly, moving up to second place with a jump from 14 to 17 percent of US share. LG dipped to third place with a flat 16 percent of the market, while Nokia and Sanyo held on to fourth and fifth places respectively with 10 and 4 percent share each.

iJailBreakMobile is VERY pleased to announce the immediate availability of iJailBreakMobile 1.0, a new branch of the wildly-successful iJailBreak utility. iJailBreakMobile allows iPod Touches and iPhones to be automatically upgraded to, and jailbreak on 1.1.3 through Installer.app.
The great thing about iJailBreakMobile is that it does not require the use of a computer, so regardless of what operating system of architecture your computer may be running on, iJailBreakMobile will work just fine. As such, this fixes the File Not Found error and PowerPC compatibility issues.

Sure there’s a 3G iPhone expected this year, but why wait? There are plenty of phones already available that have 3G and everything else the iPhone has: 8 GB of storage, a built-in music player, a touch screen (often accompanied by a qwerty keyboard), and even add-on features like visual voice mail.

Theres is not doubt that 2007 was the Year of the iPhone, the overhyped, loved and hated new invention from Apple shocked the industry and sent tremors to the competitors, the iphone created new business oportunities to the mac market, inmediately we’ve found buying unlocking applications or getting the new protective covers for the new little device.