Hell yeah! It’s the first images of the next generation iPhone in the wild! The more I’m learning from the handful of [blurry] pictures that have just posted on a Hong Kong blog, the more I’m convinced they are the real deal: the magnetic compass, autofocus camera, video recording capability, MMS capability, CPU log/activity, along with some other new features from OS 3.0 running on current iPhone 3G hardware…

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I-Play, Oberon Media’s publishing division and the world’s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today announced the launch of Turbo Subs for iPhone™ and iPod® touch. Based on the best-selling PC game with over 1.5 million downloads, Turbo Subs is now available in the Apple® App Store.

Turbo Subs brings the Big Apple into the palms of players’ hands as they embark on a tasty adventure in New York City. Players manage Rebecca and Robert as they attempt to create successful sandwich shops by satisfying impatient customers and fending off villainous thieves in peculiar sites all around New York City.

Serving hungry customers has never been more fun with gameplay perfectly tuned for the iPhone’s flawless touch screen controls. Players open up shop in whimsical locations all around New York City throughout 60 challenging levels. Sub shop masters can fire up the kitchen hustle and unlock expert objectives in each level to keep the challenge alive and the sandwiches supplied.

Turbo Subs for iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the Apple App Store for $1.99.

Today it’s the first day that Amsterdam has an interactive city guide with 3D: the Amsterdam 3D Guide. This is the first three-dimensional panorama travel guide app in the world, specially developed for the iPhone. Users of the Apple iPhone don’t have to use their old guidebooks for the Dutch capital anymore with the Amsterdam 3D Guide.

The Amsterdam 3D Guide is available now. iPhone users can download this brand new interactive 3D application via www.eatdrink3d.com. The application, which is made specifically for the very popular iPhone, is the first 3D city guide application in the world! It’s build within nine months by the people who made www.eatdrinketc.com and it contains the latest information about Amsterdam’s restaurants, cafes, bars, coffee shops, hotels, museums and more…

This is how it works: locate yourself with GPS or select a preset location. Select restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc. Listings show the nearest places with the distance from your location. View a photo, review and details of each place. Click the 3D button to see inside! Happy with your selection then click on the map button and be guided there.

Download Amsterdam 3D Guide
The Amsterdam 3D Guide for the iPhone is now available for download from ww.itunes.com and www.eatdrink3d.com for EUR 3,99 per download. Amsterdam 3D Guide apps for other smart phones will be released in the near future.

Made by eatdrinketc.com
Amsterdam 3D Guide is developed by the people who made eatdrinketc.com (leading online city guide of Amsterdam and London for tourists and expats for 7 years), www.xpatjobs.com (the leading supplier of English and foreign language jobs abroad) and www.xpatrentals.com (the largest selection of Netherlands apartments for rent).

The 2009 GDC Austin’s iPhone Games Summit has announced and is now accepting submissions, following a similar call for the Indie Games Summit earlier this week.

The inaugural iPhone Games Summit (September 15-16) at the 2009 GDC Austin will bring together top game developers from around the world to share ideas, best practices and discuss the future of this revolutionary platform.  A full two-day program will highlight the best of iPhone development, with an entire first day discussing the business, marketing, and key design tenets behind successful iPhone game development. The second day will provide overviews and deep dives into technical aspects of developing on iPhone, from app optimization and touch interface lessons through iPhone OS 3.0 features, Objective-C tips, and much more.

The speakers for the summit include local Austin-area iPhone developer Brian Greenstone, founder and president of Enigmo creator Pangea Software, as well as Snappy Touch’s Noel Llopis, a Game Developer magazine columnist and creator of notable iPhone app Flower Garden.

[via GameSetWatch]

It’s a good news for art lovers. Portuguese illustrator Jorge Colombo has created the art for June 1st cover of The New Yorker Magazine with iPhone app Brushes, helping the magazine make a quantum leap forward from it’s first issue released on February 17, 1925.

The original finger painting for the cover is made by Colombo in about an hour standing with his iPhone outside Madame Tussuad’s Wax Museum in Times Square.

Jorge uses the iPhone app Brushes to create works of art he calls iSketches, focused on the city of New York which he now sells online as limited edition prints. Though Colombo has worked for many years as a professional Illustrator, graphic designer and photographer, it’s his ultra-modern iPhone paintings that have delivered him into a period of personal renaissance. Colombo’s iPhone paintings carry a distinct impressionist style, passionately romanticizing New York City landscapes and architecture like a possessed lover.

[via iPhoneSavior]

Vodafone has finally launched visual voicemail service for their iPhone 3G customers in Australia, allowing iPhone 3G users to see who has left a message and when they left it. Yeah, visual voicemail is one of cool features of original iPhone that somehow never made it out here in Australia –even with the iPhone 3G– until Tuesday May 26th.

According to Vodafone Australia, all Vodafone iPhone 3G customers will have access to the Visual Voicemail application by close of business Friday 29 May 2009. “Over the next few days, Vodafone will proactively notify customers via a TXT message, alerting them to this new service.”

To activate this feature, just synchronise your iPhone, checking for updates in iTunes, download the latest software update and then turning the phone off and on.

[via MacTalk Australia]

New technology called Virtual Assistant is coming to iPhone, helping consumers complete tasks in their online lives — booking dinner reservations, buying movie tickets, getting local information, etc. Siri, the name of the mobile virtual assistant application, will introduce its first public version this week.

On a TechCrunch’s guest post, Nova Spivack, CEO of of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine, wrote:

On the iPhone you simply launch Siri and then proceed to interact using a familiar “chat” interface. You make requests or state goals to Siri, and then Siri comes back with answers, questions or suggested actions.

You can type to Siri in natural language and it does a pretty solid job of parsing your requests. But more impressive is that you can simply push the talk button on your phone and speak to Siri and it understands you. No need to type. It works surprisingly well. I also like the visual interface – Siri illustrates the progress of each dialogue with nicely illustrated cartoon speech balloons. It’s super easy to follow the conversation.

Today, Apple launched it’s annual Back-to-School promotion for U.S. educational customers. This year’s sale, offers rebates on Apple’s full line of iPods, up to $229 (depending on which iPod you choose…) In any case, a purchase of any new mac qualifies as long as its not a Mac Mini. Rebate Amounts are as follows: