Top 10 Free iPhone Games

If you’ve managed to get yourself an iPhone and haven’t smashed it yet, you’ve probably noticed that the iPhone isn’t preloaded with any games (to me that’s one good reason to smash it) so here are top 10 free iPhone games: 1- Shredder iPhone Chess2- Diamenty which is basically Bejeweled, my favorite online game EVER!3- Sudoku, the world’s favorite logic based number placement puzzle.4- Checkrz

Top 10 Free iPhone Games

If you’ve managed to get yourself an iPhone and haven’t smashed it yet, you’ve probably noticed that the iPhone isn’t preloaded with any games (to me that’s one good reason to smash it) so here are top 10 free iPhone games: 1- Shredder iPhone Chess2- Diamenty which is basically Bejeweled, my favorite online game EVER!3- Sudoku, the world’s favorite logic based number placement puzzle.4- Checkrz

Carnival of the Mobilists 98: Hey Google, Trick or Treat?

Photo by Toby Ord. License information here.

[Edited to fix a typo; I apologize if you get a second copy in your feed.]

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists comes just after Halloween, a holiday when (at least in the US) people are disguised in costumes and kids fantasize about all the great candy they're going to get.

In the spirit of the holiday, Google has been keeping its mobile plans in disguise, and many of the Mobilist authors are speculating about the candy we'll get from them:

Skydeck makes some very interesting predictions about what the Google phone OS will do, and how much Google will subsidize it. I especially like the financial analysis.

In the second part of a three-part post, Abshishek Tiwari speculates about the services that might be included in a Google phone.

John at Nellymoser gives a long discussion of Apple and Google's efforts to open up the mobile ecosystem.


Other goodies in the bag...

Taptology does a nice job of comparing the buzz-building skills of Nokia and Apple to the buzz-killing behavior of Motorola and SonyEricsson.

Barry at StayGoLinks argues that the mobile web will take off when voice can be used as an interface to it, and gives a nice roundup of some recent voice-related technology announcements. Barry, I hope you're right. But speaking as a frustrated (non)user of Dragon Naturally Speaking, I'm not holding my breath.

Tarek Speaks Mobile enthusiastically reviews the new update to the Nokia N95, and says Motorola could learn something from it.

C Enrique Ortiz discusses the US mobile industry and the power of the operators.

Mob Happy rolls out a mobile version of its site, and discusses the traffic that resulted.

Xellular Identity reviews the various pricing and service plan options for ringback tones around the world. I had no idea there was so much diversity.

Vision Mobile gives a very detailed discussion of efforts to make mobile phone software customizable and flexible. It's an excellent overview.

Should schoolchildren in New York who perform well in class be given free cellphones and prepaid minutes as a reward? Yes, says Judy at Golden Swamp. She reviews the controversial proposal in New York and gives some interesting thoughts on the potential use of mobile phones in education, based on her own experiences.

Post of the Week. It was a hard choice. Although Vision Mobile's post is very detailed and worthy of consideration, I chose Golden Swamp as the Post of the Week because it gave me an interesting new perspective.

Next week the Carnival will be at Ubiquitous Thoughts.

Almost 150,000 iPhone Owners Jailbreak with One Step "AppSnapp"

A few days ago we told you about AppSnapp, a single-step process for jailbreaking iPhones running firware version 1.1.1 that doesn't require a PC and improves the overall security of your iPhone. With all that going for it, it comes as no surprise that AppSnapp was, to say the least, very well received by the iPhone community.According to iPhoneAtlas, in the three days that have elapsed since

O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit: No Cave of Wonders

There is so much happening in the Web world that I went into this year's annual O'Reilly Web 2.0 event hoping it would be like Aladdin's Cave of Wonders--full of bright shiny new companies that did amazing things, each more enticing than the last.

Instead, the conference was more like a United Nations conference, full of important people talking about important issues, but not a lot of surprise or dazzlement. The name "summit" really does fit. That’s not the fault of the folks at O'Reilly; their conference has just grown in stature so much that it attracts CEOs from huge companies as speakers. By definition those people are very careful about what they say, and don't make major announcement at an industry conference.

So while it was interesting to see people like the CEO of AT&T, we didn't necessarily learn a lot. But there were a couple of highlights worth passing along…

The full article is on the Rubicon Consulting web site, here. There's no registration required. From a mobile perspective, the highlight (or lowlight) is a quote from VC Ram Shriram on what a mobile software company has to do in order to get funded.

Alexander Amosu Luxury Phones

A mosu Luxury Phones has created the worlds first diamond Apple Iphone. This extraordinary piece of craftsmanship has 420 brilliant cut diamonds with a total of 5.65 carats (colour F, VS). The iPhone bezel is available in steel, 18 carat white or yellow gold, with options of white, black or pink sapphires diamonds. The Apple iPhone comes with one year free international concierge service making

Alexander Amosu Luxury Phones

A mosu Luxury Phones has created the worlds first diamond Apple Iphone. This extraordinary piece of craftsmanship has 420 brilliant cut diamonds with a total of 5.65 carats (colour F, VS). The iPhone bezel is available in steel, 18 carat white or yellow gold, with options of white, black or pink sapphires diamonds. The Apple iPhone comes with one year free international concierge service making