The Iphone Spot

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The title says it all – and though I’ll believe it when I see it, according to Fortune magazine it’s 100% true. They claim on plugging the Pre into a Mac, iTunes recognized the device just like an iPhone/iPod Touch and synced “flawlessly” to it. This seems to be a direct attack on Apple’s claim to “aggressively protect” it’s Intellectual Property.

Not only is Palm Pre allegedly infringing the iPhone’s patents, but Palm has found some way out to make the Pre sync with Apple’s own Music store as well!

According to the source, all the music syncs perfectly except DRM’ed tracks purchased earlier. Now, the question arises – how did Palm get ahold of this technology, which was pretty confidential? The answer is quite clear – from Jon Rubenstein. He had been a top exec at Apple, and is rumored to have been fired because of his argument of adding a physical keyboard to iPhone. In fact, a recent argument has arisen that the Palm Pre is in fact his vision of an iPhone!

Palm might not be able to sneak that easily, as this has some significant legal implications – and we already know Apple is the Lord of Lawsuits. What do you have to say about it Apple?

On the other side, Apple might just ignore this as it is them who benefits from it by selling more music…

via modmyi

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A couple of new functions in the iPhone software OS 3.0 have been found. One is the option to reverse text. The other is to make reviews for songs.

In OS 3.0 you can cut, copy and paste text is a new option available. There is now a button with two arrows on it. Clicking on it will cause the selected text to reverse. Languages as Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left. You can change the direction of the language with just one click. And whenever you deleted a piece of text or did something else, you can undo your action by shaking. In this case you will be asked to undo the reversal of the text.

The second option is to wright reviews for songs in the iTunes Store. From you Mac or PC you can write reviews for songs, podcasts etc. in the iTunes Store, but it was not available for the iPhone, until now. The picture below shows this option. Right now, people with the OS 3.0 beta installed can only read the reviews, but not make reviews of their own. You now get the message “Reviews of clients are not available at the moment…please try again later”. This will be fully accessable when the OS 3.0 is released. via iphonefreakz