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Take heart all you iPhone users, the day of the MMS on the iPhone is almost upon us, so says AT&T. This Friday, September 25th, you’ll be able to MMS to your heart’s content after you update through the iTunes app.

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Navigon announced live, real-time traffic capability for its MobileNavigator for iPhone, available in October for North America. What’s cool is that it uses real-time speed data from drivers on the road as well as more conventional methods (traffic cameras, radio network, etc) to provide highly accurate traffic conditions.

The Navigon Live Traffic iPhone app will be available in October for $24.99 ($19.99 for the first four weeks).

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Today Apple announced the availability of their iPhone OS 3.1 update. The update is free to all OS 3.0-enabled iPhones/iPods and includes the following highlight features:

• Genius recommendations for Apps - Get recommendations for apps you might like based on apps you’ve already downloaded
• Genius Mixes - Have iTunes create up to 12 playlists based on what’s already in your library. You don’t even have to choose a sample song
• Download ringtones wirelessly - Choose from thousands of iPhone ringtones on the iTunes Store and buy them with a tap
• Organize Apps in iTunes - Use iTunes on your computer to drag apps onto virtual Home screens, then sync them to your iPhone

But that’s not all, folks. The update also includes the following features/updates:

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Great news for all you texting fanatics: Today AT&T announced MMS capability for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users. On September 25th, users will receive an update via iTunes that’ll enable this feature. So why did it take so long? According to AT&T, they wanted to deliver the “best possible experience” and prepare for the diluge of MMS traffic (and I believe them).

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For those of you keeping OS 3.0 for fear of breaking the jailbreak, fret not!; for it’s been confirmed that the current redsn0w and ultrasn0w utilities work on the 3.0.1 update. And patch it quickly because the SMS vulnerability which 3.0.1 fixes is a doozy. Yep, it’s a pain, but keep in mind you’ll have to jailbreak and unlock the phone after you update.

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Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone is now available for download through the Apple App store. The $99.99 app is now available for only $69.99 until August 15th and performs all of the functions you expect in a turn-by-turn standalone GPS. The USA map data (all 2.9Gigs worth) fits onto your iPhone so (very thankfully) NO monthly fees are required. Other features include:

• Reality View Pro
• Lane Assistant Pro
• Speed Assistant
• Day/Night mode
• Home/Favorite shortcuts
• Points of Interest (POIs)
• Voice guided, turn-by-turn directions
• Accelerometer-assisted automatic horizontal to vertical mode
• Multi-touch zooming
• Real signpost display

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Hold the freaking iPhone! Wasn’t it just yesterday that Apple announced that their app store had reached the 1 billion app download mark?  Today they issued a press release stating that they’ve already achieved 1.5 billion.  I guess the iPhone 3GS really escalated the handset to that next level of popularity or perhaps the free apps are just getting that much more popular.  At this rate they’ll be at 2 billion before the end of October and probably sooner considering their growth rate.  Can someone chart this please?

Currently, the app store offers over 65,000 apps in 77 countries and has 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer program.  That’s means we should expect many more apps very soon, right?

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Apple released their iPhone OS 3.1 update to developers. So what’s new in this release? Not much for you consumers as this seems to be a developer oriented update. Check out what’s new:

• Around 15 new OpenGL toys for handling 3D models
• VideoEditorController API, which should let third party apps call up the video editing UI
• Video picker API, goes hand-in-hand with the above
• Plenty of obligatory “It seems faster!” reports
• Some are claiming that MMS is now enabled by default, though still not functioning properly on AT&T. Seems strange to us that this would come via an OS update and not a carrier file update

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The iPhone dev team has recently announced they’ve found the 24Kpwn exploit on the new iPhone 3GS, the same exploit found on the iPod Touch 2G. Talk about retroactive bugs, but in this case it’s a really ‘good’ one. Expect a jailbreak and subsequent unlock utility for the iPhone 3GS in the near future.

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Yep, it’s finally here, folks, the Apple 3G S, in all its updated glory, is available in retail stores across the globe. If long lines are any prediction, expect strong sales over the weekend. In fact, AT&T is stating demand is exceeding expectations with “hundreds of thousands of customers” who have already pre-ordered the new device.

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