Got an older iPhone or iPod touch kicking around? Already jailbreak it for unofficial goodies? You can then install Android 2.2 as a dual-boot option on that device, through the Bootlace  application available in the Cydia market. The Android packages download over the air, and you're left with a home screen icon that quickly reboots you into Android whenever you want to jump across the great smartphone divide.

Note from Adam: I've been following this Android-on-iPhone business pretty closely, and currently Android on the iPhone doesn't fully support power management, which means it's a hack more for fun than for practicality. When it is a more fully supported hack, though, you can bet you'll see a guide here.

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The Apple iPhone 3GS is an upgrade to the iPhone 3G, offering a faster processor, longer battery life, an internal compass, voice control features and an improved 3.0-megapixel auto-focus camera with video recording capabilities. The handset takes advantage of the OpenGL for high-quality 3D graphics for faster and improved mobile gaming. Users can watch more videos, listen to more music, browse the Internet or keep using their favorite apps even longer. The iPhone 3GS also supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for faster networking speeds. It runs on Apple's new iPhone OS 3.0 software and has the ability to cut, copy and paste text. It also features a new built-in digital compass for instant navigation. The Compass app shows travelers which way they are headed and rotates as they change direction. The compass is also integrated within Maps, so it automatically orients any map to the direction they are facing.

Main Features

Physical

• Microsim now standard
• Full stainless steel body with glass front
• Proximity sensor for dimming control and auto answer
• 24% thinner than previous 3GS

Display

• New ‘retinal display’
• 960×640 resolution
• Only 22% fewer pixels than iPad

Internals

• New battery
• Quad-band radio
• 3-axis gyroscope
• Proximity sensor

Camera Changes

• 5 megapixel rear camera
• VGA front-facing camera
• 720 HD recording
• iMovie for iPhone

If you’re waiting to get your hands on an iPhone 4, you’re surely aware of the disastrous situation surrounding the release of the device – and the problems continue, with yet another delay having just been announced – after AT&T stopped all sales for the device. As you may remember, the device was originally delayed to July 2 for many of those who had placed a pre-order. The new date is now July 14.

The information comes straight from Apple’s website, though it only says that the new release date is for orders placed today – it doesn’t say anything for those who’d ordered previously. There are also some rumors going around about Apple Store iPhone 4 orders that have been canceled through e-mail.

It seems that the popularity of the upcoming iPhone 4 has contributed to this small failure. It could, of course, be the result of problems on AT&T’s side, but it’s doubtful at this point. Let’s hope there won’t be any more delays and July 14th will actually see the release of the phones.

From all appearances, Appl-gasm Apps seems to be on a mission to create the ideal Twitter app. Its latest offering, SneakyTweet, improves upon the developer’s TvvitterBug Twitter client. Despite some unique features, though, SneakyTweet suffers from some services that are difficult or nearly impossible to figure out.

Tweeting on the Sly: Among SneakyTweet’s stand-out features are geolocation capabilities (including the ability to disguise where you’re tweeting from) and a tweet-encoding feature that, frankly, is hit or miss.

After you download SneakyTweet, go to the Settings app and enter your Twitter account information. The app supports up to five different screen names. Once that data’s in place, you can launch SneakyTweet and dive into its many customization options.

Similar to TvvitterBug, SneakyTweet’s main screen has five tabs, with 12 feed options. Depending on your preference, you can assign different timelines, different retweet feeds, direct messages, favorite tweets, and on and on. A button in the top left corner with gears printed on it opens up all of these options.

There is also a List function, which you can use to create custom feeds with only certain friends. You can also assign a tab to display a feed of a trending topic you’re interested in tracking.

Once your display settings are in order, SneakyTweet offers another layer of customization, this one involving your own tweeting. The app provides a simple keyboard tab for composing a message, along with a toolbar tab for all of the fancy stuff.

You can tweet pictures (choose from four different Twitter picture services) as well as shorten URLs using TinyURL. All you have to do is type in a URL, tap the URL button, and watch it transform. You’re supposed to be able to post video as well, but I found that every video I selected would freeze the app or appear to load but not show up in the tweet.

These services are pretty standard in all good Twitter clients, but SneakyTweet has a few unique extras. Like many other apps, it uses geolocation but you’re also able to disguise your location by typing in where you’d like to be. Hopefully none of your followers really thinks you’re tweeting from Antarctica.

Another unique feature is Sneaky Tweet’s Streaming-Tweet capability. This option is particularly welcome—I’ve often found myself debating whether to publish a two-part tweet in order, or write the sections backward so they show up in a logical order on my feed. SneakyTweet lets you type tweets as long as you want, then breaks them up into multiple messages that read top-to-bottom.

The app’s last—and sadly, most unintuitive—special feature is TweetSecret, a function that allows you to protect your tweets so that only certain followers with your magic code can read them. When I submitted an encoded tweet using TweetSecret, though, it showed up as a garbled message with a lock icon next to it.

You can tap the blue arrow within the app and see your profile with a box for a decode key. Originally I thought it was a place to set my code, so I typed something in. But I still couldn’t read my own encoded tweets, and when I tried to delete the code, the app wouldn’t let me.

Ordinarily, this is where I’d consult the help section, but SneakyTweet doesn’t have one. There are no tips in the App Store and the SneakyTweet Support link within the store is broken as of this writing (though it’s easy enough to add “.com” to the improperly entered URL). After all that, you’ll learn that the Applgasm site’s only support involves a demo that still doesn’t explain where to enter someone’s code in order to see encrypted tweets. And, of course, there’s certainly nowhere to unlock tweets from Twitter’s Website.

Suffice it to say, SneakyTweet needs a major update. Though most of its functions are intuitive, the app is already flush with options, so a help section certainly wouldn’t spoil any simplicity. The app is also crash prone, possibly because it has so many things are going on at once. SneakyTweet is packed with great functions and its $3 price would be a great deal, if only all of these features worked.

If you use Google’s Picasa web albums to share photos, you’ll want to be able to access that online photo-sharing service from your iPhone or iPod touch. Uvento’s iPicasso app is a simple way to upload and view your photos from your mobile device.

The simple interface of iPicasso makes the app easy to use without being distracting. When you launch the app for the first time, you’re prompted to enter your Picasa login credentials. After you do that, you’re greeted with a list of the albums that you have created. As you view an album via iPicasso, you can easily edit, delete, or comment on photos. You can also e-mail a link to the album or send an individual photo.

If you prefer to create a new album from your iPhone—say you’re on vacation without your computer and you’d like to have a new album of images from your trip—you can easily do that by tapping the familiar Plus (+) button in the top corner. You can name the album, add details, and choose the privacy settings. The only hiccup that I noticed was that the album thumbnail didn’t appear until I actually accessed the album from a browser (on the iPhone or desktop).

Uploading is a critical component of any photo service’s mobile app, and that’s handled very easily in iPicasso. When you’re ready to upload your images, you simply tap the Uploads button on the bottom navigation bar. You then select which album you would like to upload to and choose either to take a new photo from within the app (if you’re using an iPhone with a built-in camera), or, more likely, to select an existing image from the Photos app.

After selecting your image, it’s added to an upload queue—handy for when you want to upload more than one image at a time. Once your queue is complete, you tap the final Upload button, and all the photos get added to your Picasa album. One missing feature involving uploads is the ability to name the image. You can go back and edit the image name from within the album, but it would be a nice time-saver to be able to do that when you upload your images.

iPicasso has room for minor improvements. But if Google’s Picasa photo service is your online photo sharing outlet, you’ll be pleased with this simple and functional app.

An office app for the iPhone and iPod ouch that lets you edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in .doc and .xls formats. (Note that the app’s name is pronounced “Office Squared,” and that the ”2” appears as a superscript when you’re searching for it on the App Store.) iPad search

Office2 also provides integration with Google Docs, letting you edit Google Docs documents and spreadsheets from within the app. You can also access, move, and delete documents stored in Google Docs, iDisk and any WebDAV server.

The Office2 word processor lets you view, create, edit and save documents in Word 97-2003 (.doc) format. It also supports character formatting, tables, images, searching of text within documents, undo and redo up to 100 undo levels, and auto-correction and auto-completion.

The Office2 spreadsheet works with Excel 97-2003 (.xls) and handles multiple worksheets with unlimited rows and columns, searching and sorting of cells, cell formatting, cell types, and pane freezing among other spreadsheet necessities. Office2 uses the iPhone’s touch screen effectively, letting you tap and drag to change row heights and column widths, and tap cells to compose formulas.

Those of you cringing at the thought of doing any sort of document or spreadsheet work on an iPhone or iPod touch will probably do best avoiding this app—or hold out for an iPad and its customized version of the iWork apps—but for those who often need to review and edit documents and spreadsheets while on the go, this app could make life easier.

There are three major comic-book buying apps for the iPhone: Panelfly, Comics, and iVerse Comics. And there are also a bunch of comic-reading apps for the iPhone, my favorite of which is ComicZeal.

Now, I don’t want to tell these developers what to do. But I will. Developers, download the software-development kit for the iPad and get iPad versions of your apps working on the device for its launch!

There will be a lot of debate about the iPad’s viability as a product. Will it sell? Will it make a good e-book reader? Will it save the newspaper industry? And we’ll probably debate all of those items in the coming days.

But for now, let’s take a moment to consider the humble comic-book lovin’ geek. The iPad may be the best device yet invented for the reading of digital comics. The iPhone is nice, but its screen is just too small — zoomed out, a comic page is unreadable. Zoomed in, there’s a whole lot of panning around going on.

But the iPad’s 1024-by-768-pixel display, while in the unfashionable 4:3 aspect ratio, is just about the right shape for a comic-book page. And the iPad packs enough pixels that comic pages should be readable at full-size on the iPad. At worst, the panning around should be kept to a minimum.

A comic page shrunk down to the iPad's screen resolution should still be quite readable, as this extremely cropped sample image suggests.

Presumably these developers are already on the case. I know the guys at Comixology, makers of Comics, are: on Wednesday they posted a comics-on-iPad concept video. My reaction: their demo relies a bit too much on their pan-and-scan interface, which works great on the iPhone but seems kind of unnecessary on the iPad. Still, I’m sure there’s plenty of room for innovation and interface variation when it comes to comics apps on the iPad. I can’t wait to try them all!

Just as expected, today Apple announced their iPad tablet. It's not everyday that you see news about something other than mobile phones at our homepage but considering the hype that one this generated we just couldn't help ourselves.

The tablet is actually running a UI very similar to the iPhone's and is compatible with all its apps. However it can only use its 3G connectivity for data transfers so it doesn't quality as a phone.

The saga of the EyeTV iPhone app—which riveted the nation only slightly less than the saga of Balloon Boy this weekend—is over. Version 1.0.1 has landed in the App Store, sparing users—and more specifically, AT&T—from inadvertently watching live TV and recorded programming over a 3G connection

As you may recall from over the weekend, EyeTV developer Elgato Systems reported on Saturday that its mobile app, which works in concert with the EyeTV desktop software to stream TV to your iPhone or iPod touch via W-Fi, had gone missing from the App Store. The developer had inadvertently left some code in the 1.0 version of the app that enabled users to get streaming TV over the 3G network—something AT&T frowns upon.

Adding to the confusion, the app re-appeared on Sunday, still listed as version 1.0. Elgato said it had submitted an update to Apple that removed the offending code.

That update is now available from the App Store, and it does more than just appease AT&T. According to Elgato's release notes, EyeTV 1.0.1 fixes a problem where audio continued to play after users left Live TV mode. For iPhone 3.1.2 users, the update also fixes a crash that occurred after zooming and changing channels. The EyeTV software is now compatible with DVB and ATSC programming guides, and it adds other general stability and performance improvements.

That kerfuffle resolved, the only remaining issue involves AT&T—as in whether the carrier will continue to insist on blocking third-party apps from streaming video over its cellular network. AT&T has its reasons for not wanting live video going out over its network—in the case of SlingPlayer Mobile, the company said it feared video streaming would use up too much network capacity, creating congestion for other users. That some of Slingbox's apps for other mobile platforms work just fine over 3G only slightly weakens that argument.

AT&T has already reversed its position on VoIP on the cellular network, allowing Internet phone applications such as Skype to place calls via 3G after resisting the idea at first. Could the carrier change course on video-over-3G as well?