Orange sells 30,000 iPhones

Orange who is the newest carrier in the UK to begin selling the iPhone has reported sales of 30,000 iPhones in the first day. The iPhone has been in sale on O2 network for 2 years, it is over whelming to see that after 2 years of the phone being out people are stilling jumping at the change to get one. Apple said last month that they were just now catching up with the demand for the 3GS and I guess its apparent that the demand is still there. Is this a hint as what is to come in the future of the iPhone in the US?

On another note the Moto Droid is reported as selling 100,000 in its launch weekend.

Universal Studios going iPhone with this seasons Blu Ray releases

Universal Studios is set to release a whole bunch of new blu ray movies that include the Pocket Blu app. Universal has announced the release of Bruno, Funny People, 9, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Public Enemies, and Inglourious Bastards, as blu ray versions that will ship by Christmas. The pocket BLU app, offers iPhone and iPod users touch further enhancements to the Blu-ray experience, and social BLU, which offers Blu-ray users more ways to interact with Facebook and Twitter through an Internet-connected Blu-ray player. We will more than likely see other movie studios jumping on the bandwagon if this turns out to be a huge success.

Apple Release 10.6.2

Apple early released there second update to 10.6. It is available thru software update and is recommended for anybody using snow leopard. The update fixes many bugs. It is also said to improve MobileMe syncing for iPhone and improve iDisk with the iPhone.

Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade

Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the decade.

Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Congrats to Steve and Apple for all their accomplishments in this past decade. Where would we all be with out the iPod?

ATT and Apple planning on releasing an 8Gb iPhone 3GS?

According to  the BoyGeniusReport, Att and Apple maybe be releasing and 8gb 3GS just in time for the holidays. This would definetly help ATT and Apple sales with the upcoming android phones hitting the market. Also Blackberry is also releasing some new handsets before the holidays, this would be a good idea for ATT and Apple to increase sales thru the holiday season. What do you guys think about an 8gb 3GS?

So Officially the App Store has over 100,000 approved apps

Apple has announced that the app store now has over 100,000 approved apps for your downloading pleasure.

“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.”

This is a huge accomplishment for Apple, the iPhone and iPod Touch and what they have down to help stimulate the mobile world. Congrats to Apple. Let me know what are you most have apps in the comments.

Google Maps coming with Turn By Turn Navigation

In case you haven’t heard Google today announced that Google Maps will now feature voice guided turn by turn navigation. The service is free and will offer Ad support for advertisement. At launch Android 2.0 will be the only devices capapable of the addition of voice navigation, but according to Gizmodo, Google:

implied they are working closely with Apple now on [Google Maps Navigation].

So maybe we will be seeing the new feature added into iPhone 3.2. One can only hope.

Wi-Fi Direct coming in future iPhones

Apple has gotten into the Wi-Fi direct game. It basically allows user to directly connect to another device similar to bluetooth. You  dont need a router to be the middle man for two devices to connect. It will would be great for multiplayer gaming. According to AppleInsider:

The new Wi-Fi Direct standard is intended for both consumer electronics and enterprise applications. It will include WPA2 security, and management features for enterprise environments. The new technology will use roughly the same power, provide the same data rates, and offer the same range as current Wi-Fi products.

It will be interesting to see if Apple can get it into the 4th generaton iPhone

iPhone to get FM tuners?

Rumor around the net is that Apple is planning on launching a radio app for the iPhone 3gs and the 2nd and 3rd generation iPod Touch. There are talks that they will release an app through. The radio would be able to do song tagging; which if you like a song you can find out who sings it, the name of the song and album. It will also allow direct downloads from iTunes. This is would be a nice feature to add to iPhone to make it that much better, but I for one would never use it but it may be nice to have.

Map Quest released there new GPS App today

Today Map Quest released a turn by turn navigation app. The app offers a 14 day trials for $.99 which is nice. After the tiral period you have a couple different opions to chose from. They offer a $3.99 for a month of use; $9.99 for 3 months of use or for $29.99 you get a years worth of use.

According to MapQuest, features of the application include:

• 2-D and 3-D moving maps to help people follow the route as well as spoken directions with street names
• Route optimization to avoid areas with accidents, construction or other events affecting traffic
• Full route corridor download at the beginning of the journey enables the application to quickly re-routes in case of a missed turn, regardless of network coverage
• One-tap search for businesses along a route via a palette of on-map widgets in categories such as hotels, shopping, gas stations, coffee shops, parking garages and more
• More than 16 million points of interest and maps for the U.S. and Canada

For a video demo of the app check it out here. Let me know if you guys think this is the Navigation app of choice.