I say "iPhone," it hears "sex." As to how the new Google app on the iPhone can confuse those two words, I'll never know. Apparently, it has trouble understanding British accent. The app confuses the word "iPhone" with a lot of other words too, find out more.

iTextUploader v1.0.2 is a brewed app for your iPhone that serves as backup utility for your SMS. Find out what it can do for you and how it works after the jump.

Who would've thunk? Halo Wars dumped for iPhone games? Certainly possible, but not at the forefront of gamers' imaginations,  yes? Apparently, it is very possible, and in fact is an actual reality. Two members of the Halo Wars team has jumped ship to create their own company for the iPhone as a gaming platform. Find out who and why at the full article.

The RiP Dev team resuscitates the Installer homebrew apps for your iPhone after quite a while of inactivity. Expect more updates coming your way as they work to get this project back on track. But before that, see what's new in this latest update for Installer 4.0b9

It looks like developer Richard Shearman has released another update for dTunes. This info wasn't included in the dev's post when we reported about dTunes v2.6, so we're guessing this is for v2.6.1. Hit the full article for a look at what's new.

Market researcher, the NPD Group, found that at least half of the owners of portable entertainment devices use their gadgets pretty much the same, if not more than they did 3 months ago. In other words, some people love their portable playthings more today than yesterday.

iD Software's Carmack once said that the iPhone is more powerful than the DS and the PSP combined. Adding insult to injury is Apple's Greg Joswiak, who says that iPhone gaming is doing extremely well, and that the Nintendo DS and the PSP are a thing of the past.

More bashing after the link.

Oooh, ready for the latest iPhone Firmware v2.2, are we? Yeah you better be. While we still have to get confirmation of that rumored features list (e.g.over-the-air podcast updates and a whole slew of added functionality to the Maps application), here's something equally cool: according to the iPhoneHellas website, the new firmware will go live come Friday of next week: November 21. Why, that's just a few days away from now!

Sure, static wallpapers are fun, but haven't you ever thought about using a video as your iPhone's wallpaper? If the answer to that question is yes, then vWallpaper is the app for you. Just in time too, as the app's finally out of beta and now works with firmware 2.x.

Version 1.0.4 is out for Matt Rajca's (aka Matt342) native Google Reader for iPhone, Gazette. This release is the final update to v1.0 and you can expect v2.0 to come out after this one. For more info, head on to our full article after the jump.


Download: Gazette 1.0.4