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The new iPhone 3GS has officially been announced. With tons of juicy features and we will be covering them in detail in the coming weeks as soon I get my hands on one.

Here are some of the important features announced

• Video - 30fps VGA video with in-phone editing support
• HSDPA - 7.2Mbps on supported carriers
• Camera - 3 megapixel, autofocus, autoexposure, tap to focus, better low light sensitivity
• Improved battery life - in Wifi mode, Internet surfing mode, etc
• Turn-by-Turn direction support - in Google maps and via apps like TomTom
• Performance - reporting almost twice the speed in most operations
• Colors - Black and White

iPhone 3GS Videos

• New iPhone 3GS TV Ad
• iPhone 3GS Guided Tour

Pricing in US

iPhone 3GS has been announced at the following prices and will be available on June 19.

• 32GB iPhone 3GS - $299 with contract
• 16GB iPhone 3GS - $199 with contract

The current iPhone 3G will continue to be available at

• 16GB iPhone 3G - $99 with contract

So, the $99 iPhone rumor was correct after all. It was a little disappointing to not find the front facing camera but the rest of the features are enough to make me go out and buy a 32GB iPhone 3GS! How about you?

If you have been holding off on buying a iPhone so far, I’d say iPhone 3GS makes a pretty good case for buying one.

iPhone OS 3.0

iPhone OS 3.0 will be available on June 17th for download via iTunes. And you can read about iPhone 3.0 new features here. if you have a jailbreak iPhone, please wait until the Devteam releases Quickpwn 3.0 or Pwnage 3.0 before updating your iPhone OS!

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It’s great that the iPhone can receive so many Internet radio stations that I can listen to anywhere I am with the 3G connection.

Wouldn’t it be great if I could play that huge selection through my car’s speakers?

Now, I could. With a FM Transmitter.

What is a FM Transmitter?

If you are unaware of this cool little device, it’s time to learn what it is. A FM transmitter is a small dongle that you could plug into your iPhone or iPod (dockable models) and all your music will be transmitted in a FM radio channel of your choice. Now, you just have to tune your car radio to that station to listen to music from your iPhone/iPod.

HHI All-in-One FM Transmitter

Features

• Hi-Fi Stereo FM transmitting at 88.1-107.9MHz
• iPhone hands free supports taking through car soeaker system
• Charge your iPhone/iPod
• Flexible goose pipe fitting to make it convenient for any car make/model
• Standard USB-A output socket also provides charging for iPod shuffle, Zune, mobile phones, GPS and other devices as well
• High quality silicone gel on the sides and back to prevent scratches

HHI FM Transmitter sells for $35.99 and you can drop it down to $24.99 with the coupon code ‘ifmall‘. This deal ends March 31.

Here are a few more good FM Transmitters

• iPhone and iPhone 3G Fm Transmitter with LCD Display
• Griffin iTrip Auto FM Transmitter and Auto Charger for iPod (Black)
• iTrip Style FM transmitter with Car charger & REMOTE for iPhone 3G iPod Touch 2nd Gen iPod Nano 4th Gen.
• TuneBase FM for iPhone or iPod

Whichever one you choose, enjoy the new found freedom and the huge addition to your listening pleasure while driving.

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Amazon recently just launched their new Kindle 2 (Latest Generation wireless reading device) and priced it at $360.

Amazon just launched a free iPhone Kindle App that lets you read Amazon eBooks with your iPhone or iPod Touch.

You can read any Kindle-compatible book you’ve purchased from Amazon’s catalog in your iPhone or iPod Touch. In fact, you can read the first chapter of any book for free if you want to try out the App without buying a book from Amazon Kindle.

It has a lot of the Kindle features like resizing text, bookmark pages, viewing notations you made on Kindle, etc.

The price point for Kindle is kind of out of my league at the moment and I have my entertainment budget lined up for stuff elsewhere this year.

But, the iPhone Kindle App creates a sweet spot where I can buy and read eBooks on my iPhone from the vast eBook Catalog with one of the most competitive pricing elsewhere.

If you already own a Kindle or planning to buy Kindle 2, the iPhone App makes a compelling statement.

Reason - WhisperSync. This feature automatically keeps track of where you left off in each book and it allows you to pick up from that spot in any Kindle-friendly devices you may have. You can leave your Kindle 2 bedside in the night and pick up on the reading on your way to work in a train/bus from your iPhone.

As Amazon’s Kindle service expands to more mobile devices, this feature is going to be kick-ass.

With Amazon moving into the iPhone eBook market, it’s time the other players stood up and took notice as the competition is going to be really stuff from now on.

If you are a iPhone eBook app writer, what do you think about this development?

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There are tons of shopping list apps and just list apps in the AppStore.

Mister Lister proclaims that they are taking the trouble out of creating and managing shopping lists. They might be on to something as I do find it hard to keep up with my shopping lists.

So, I figured I’d give Mister Lister a try.

Mister Lister sets itself apart from other shopping list apps by remembering what I buy. This makes creating shopping lists so much easier to create as it makes it simple by showing only the items I care about.

So anytime I need to create my shopping list, i just need to simpy see he list of items, change quantities and start shopping!

You can also create a sticky list and make a list always be at the top. Yu can even copy or email a list!

You have to try it to really appreciate the simplicity of this app and actually make iPhone help you with your shopping list.

And guess what? Mister Lister is FREE all day today (01/16/09) and is only $0.99 for one more week if you missed it.

If you are a Twitterer, you could also get updates/news with deals like these by following us at @TopiPhone.

What is your favorite shopping list app?

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How many times have you had to remove your gloves when you were using your iPhone or iPod Touch this winter?

My answer: way too many times. The touch screen in my iPhone 3G is the best feature ever but I can’t quite get to everything with my gloves on.

That’s when the I was luckily contacted by the creator of this ingenious gloves - Etre Touchy and he sent me these to try on.

Now, this is about the only glove I use when I am out using my iPhone. Etre Touchy gives me a fun and practical way to keep my hands from freezing yet leave my thumb and index fingers open so I can do everything with my iPhone!

In fact, it even helps operating our recent Canon SX10 IS - digital camera purchase with ease when we shooting outdoors.

Plus, as you can see in the picture it is pretty stylish as well! Don’t you think? At $22.74, this is definitely worth a buy considering the annoyance we go through trying to work our iPhone or iPod Touch.

I was looking in Amazon for other options as well and here is a few I found that look promising for this winter. Here are a few:

• Freehands® Leather Gloves for IPhones
  Also with open thumb and index finger but the cover flips back for only the times you need
• Lowepro Lycra Photo Gloves with Control Dots
  The control dots in your fingers help with the touch screens

I’d love to hear how you manage to use your iPhone in the winter. Wouldn’t one of these gloves make a lovely gift for your better half?

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So, atleast part of the iPhone rumors were true.

Walmart has officially started selling iPhone 3G at select stores. Walmart becomes the second third-party retailer in the US to sell iPhone 3G besides Best Buy who even offered an iPhone buying guide.

Although earlier rumors pointed at Walmart and even Costco to sell a cheaper version of iPhone 3G, possibly a 4GB iPhone for $99, that part proved to be untrue.

Walmart is selling iPhone 3G 16 GB with a 2 year contract for $297 and the 8GB model for $197. With Walmart catering to a wider range of consumers, Apple could actually end up selling more iPhones this way. We’ll have to wait and see how this changes the game.

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Our beloved Amazon.com has launched their own native iPhone & iPod Touch App. This takes shopping or looking up items at Amazon.com a breeze with your iPhone.

Without further adieu, a few features of the Amazon iPhone App

• On launching the app, you see your wish list and your login for Amazon
• With the Search tab, you can search for anything in Amazon
• Search results are shown as a list in descending order of relevance
• You can see different categories by tapping the ‘By Category’ button
• In the Product page, you can see full product description as well as customer reviews
• You can add products and remove products easily from your shopping cart

Amazon Remember’s

Amazon iPhone App has a cool experimental feature - Amazon Remembers tab. With this feature, you can take a picture of any item and send it over to Amazon. In a few minutes to a few hours, you will get a link to the Amazon product page to that item or something that closely resembles that item.

You can see the picture of our cordless phone. The first one is the one I sent and I received an email notification that a match was found. In about 5 minutes. And it rightly

The best thing is the results are saved in Amazon site so you can later review those at home for further research. This can be very useful when you are out shopping and help you remember to look up this item later.

One caveat with this feature is that the results are returned by humans working in the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. So the accuracy could be questionable and so is the time period in which you get the results back as this service become popular.

[Obvious plug: We have our own Amazon Store - Shop link at the top, where we feature hand picked deals for iPod Touch & iPhone]

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