Imagine this - Start your iPhone, Hit Google app and then say “Which is the best Chinese Restaurant in Bangalore”. Google would then immediately fetch list of top rate Chinese Restaurants around your current geo-location. Google is going to launch this free app within next day or two. This is a part of Google’s artificial intelligence initiative. Google is going to bring Voice-Recognition search exclusively for iPhones. AppleInsider has some more insights:
Google as early as today is expected to introduce a free application for the iPhone that lets you search for information, directions, or virtually anything else by speaking into the handset, eliminating need for the keyboard entirely.
“The service can be used to get restaurant recommendations and driving directions, look up contacts in the iPhone’s address book or just settle arguments in bars,” wrote the New York Times’ John Markoff, who profiled Google’s broad speech-recognition efforts while breaking word of the new offering.
Though the driving direction will not happen in Indian cities, because Google still hasnt activated driving directions in map.app. Recommendations and other basic search will surely be there.
Some features of this app is well suited for US iPhone users:
The new app is said to be an extension of a much broader artificial intelligence initiative at Google that has seen the tech heavyweight hire many of the top speech recognition experts in the world. Another developmental service, GOOG-411, serves up business phone and address information.
NYTimes has exclusive coverage on this app:
Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
This game is not available in Indian Store. But if you are using US iTunes Store and you like playing chess, you are lucky. This classic game is free for a limited time. “Chess With Friends” usually costs $4.99, is free for a very limited time.
Chess with Friends is a true multi-player gaming experience designed exclusively for your mobile phone. This is the first chess game on the App Store that lets you keep playing, even after you close the app! It’s “correspondence style” chess at its best, and it’s a *perfect* fit for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
- Need an opponent? Pick a friend directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch’s contact list!
- Make a move anytime, anywhere. Chess With Friends works over Edge, 3G or Wi-Fi.
- Play multiple games with your friends at the same time!
- Let our servers find you a game automatically with the “Random Opponent” feature (and don’t worry, it will keep searching for an opponent even after you close the app!)
- Your games list automatically refreshes every time you launch the app. Check the list and make your moves.
- “Pass and Play” to challenge a friend in person.
- An intuitive interface makes playing chess a breeze. This is the chess game you’ve been waiting for!
If you want to play an interesting Wii like game with your friend, try this game - iDarts. Its go a Wii like accelerometer control to throw the dart. Pretty cool idea. Usually costs $0.99, but is free for next 24 hours. So go for it now. Click here to download the app:
Either getting together with a bunch of buddies to play, or practicing alone, it’s a fun way to kill some time. Now you can enjoy the same dart games you’ve come to love, on your iPhone and iPod Touch!
Freatures include:
- Play in either landscape or portrait modes.
- Play with up to 4 friends, or play alone against the competitive CPU player.
- Stunning 3D graphics, running at a sizzling pace for fast and responsive action.
- Accurate physics model makes your dart move just like in the real world.
- Quit the game anytime ( got a phone call? ) and return to where you left off.
- Aiming, throwing force, throwing direction, all done using the iPhone motion sensors. Just pretend the iPhone is a dart, and you’re set!
- 3 CPU levels of play ( and no, none of them will ever shoot perfect games! )
- Artificial intelligence adapts to different strategies depending on difficulty of play and point spread.
- Success requires a good strategy in darts. We’ll give you shot hints during game play, to help improve yours.
Get ready for Fastlane Street Racing [AppStore link] a high speed arcade racing game on the go. Weave through traffic in winding city routes and improve your driving on high speed race circuits. Incredible sense of speed and beautifully rendered surroundings makes Fastlane Street Racing one of the most polished racing titles available on the iPhone.
Key features:
5 Game modes
High detail 3D graphics
Advanced lightning and effects
10 Original cars
8 Fun and challenging city routes
2 High speed race circuits
6 Challenge tracks
Save replays
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Armado - $4.99
Guide Armado [AppStore link] as he rolls, jumps, and crashes his way through this action packed journey. Armado is a young armadillo who becomes an unsuspecting hero in an adventure that takes him from sunny woodlands and snowy peaks, to firery volcanic mountains. As he navigates this treacherous terrain he’ll need to be quick on his feet and fast on the roll. No adventure is complete without a host of obstacles and enemies, and he’ll have plenty of those along the way.
FEATURES:
- Easy to pick-up and play
- Rich 3D environments
- Accelerometer and touch controls
- Many kinds of creatures, booby-traps, and goodies along the way
- Tons of visual effects
- Online leaderboards easy to view in-game
- Publish your scores to the leaderboards with just one touch
If you are expecting Cut-Paste feature to added to iPhone with the upcoming 2.2 firmware, you might be wrong. Most of the blogger community feel cut-paste feature in iPhone might still take time. But if you are looking for quasi cut-paste feature desperately, check out these two apps in AppStore. Should help you in some way or the other for sure. TextGuru is my fav. I had downloaded it when it was on discount for $0.99.
TextGuru is an advanced, desktop class, multi-function text editor. No other app lets you get down to serious text editing like TextGuru does. Features include:
- Cut, copy and paste
- Find and replace
- Autosave
- Read Microsoft Office Documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) in both landscape and portait modes
- Read PDF Files in both landscape and portrait modes
- Integrated file sharing, visit our website for more details
- Search within the text of your entire document collection
- Pastebin support with Pastie and Sprunge
- Email entire documents or share pastebin links with anyone
- On-demand web preview of web documents
- Display documents in any of the 22 fonts available on the iPhone
- View binary files using either hex or ASCII representation For more check out - http://brancipater.com/blog/
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MagicPad delivers the form & function you’ve been waiting for to the iPhone! Don’t retype information from one note to another, simply highlight the text and paste it anywhere you choose. Features:
- Copy, Cut & Paste: easily move text within a note or to a brand new note
- Rich-Text Editing: customize text with 6 different fonts, 5 sizes, 8 colors, and 4 effects
- Email: send your rich-text creations to yourself or share with friends
Its been a long while since I added AppsOnDiscount update on my blog. Not many good apps have gone on discount of late. But here are a few good ones that have just gone on discount/temp free:
Fingeric - $1.99 - Free - AppStore
Playing this game U are forced to use three fingers to accomplish an action (one or two fingers are also supported ). What actions do we have to choose from?… a tap, a double tap, slide, hold and our favorite, rotate action
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing - $9.99 - $7.99 - AppStore
Asphalt 4 is a car racing game. Race against your friends in the exclusive Wi-Fi multiplayer mode.
SciFly: Dogfight - $2.99 - $0.99 -AppStore
SciFly is an action packed 3D flying game for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Mastermind - $2.99 - Free - AppStore
Famous board game finally available as a native iPhone app
Rolo - $2.99 - Free - AppStore
Rolo is brain challenging, addictive and enjoyable puzzle game with adorable graphics and funny sounds
Real Soccer 2009 - $9.99 - $7.99 - AppStore(only for US iTunes users)
iPhone finally gets the sports simulation that soccer fans have been dreaming about
Fire Tail - $0.99 - Free - AppStore
In order to complete a level you have to conquer at least 15% of the territory and visit over 50% of map checkpoints.
Cosmic One FREE - $0.99 - Free - AppStore
Use your catcher at the bottom of the screen to capture the falling tiles. Simply move the catcher by turning it with your thumb to match the symbol of the falling tile. If you want to drop the tile faster for more points, tap the top of the screen.
I am sure so many of us would be waiting for 2.2 firmware update. iPhoneHellas.gr has shared this information on its website. As per reliable sources its going to be 21st November when 2.2 firmware would be released.
Here is the list of features as per iPhoneHellas that would come with 2.2 firmware release:
- New look for the Safari with the Google search bar now occupying its own space on the title bar
- Toggle On / Off to disable the auto-correction
- 461 Japanese emoji icons
- Support for new languages.
- Line-in audio is activated and can be used through the headphone jack
- Google Street View, Google Transit information - Routes public transport, Walking directions, Location sharing.
- App Store: ‘Categories’ now shows the icons of the applications instead of the list, In each page of the application has been added by a button ‘Tell A Friend’ & ‘Report A Problem’, Added the possibility of scoring the application when the user chooses to delete from the device, Added the possibility for direct downloading of podcasts from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.
After Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle, Tapulous have come up with another cool and innovative app called Photo Collage. This app helps users to participate in the world’s largest expression of photographic creativity. View, rate, and save beautiful photos caught in the moment. Meet interesting people nearby and throughout the world. A must have app for sure. Moreover its for Free [AppStore]
Photo Collage
Picture the world. Participate in the world’s largest expression of photographic creativity. View beautiful photos caught in the moment, and meet interesting people from your neighborhood and around the world.
Features:
- View photos taken just recently from the world, your friends and nearby
- Upload photos as you take them (while also storing them on the phone)
- Maintain a photo gallery of your shots
- Vote on people’s photos
- Follow people’s photostream
- Communicate with people you meet on Collage through the Twinkle app
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called iPhone in Bangalore, India from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over this.
Nuts to an extent that I have started my own blog on iPhone. I will be covering various developments happening around Apple iPhone. Will cover everything and anything which is even remotely connected to the iPhone. But will put more emphasis on iPhone news and buzz from an Indian perspective.
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). What actions do we have to choose from?… a tap, a double tap, slide, hold and our favorite, rotate action
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