iPhone Interfaces

Leading technology developers for mobile devices, Paragon Software Group, has launched the world-famous Merriam-Webster’s Dictionaries application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application consists of one explanatory and two bilingual – Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries.

The database contains over 476,00 entries with more than 143,000 etymologies detailing word origins, 100,000 quotations and 1,100 synonymy paragraphs. You can access the dictionary anywhere without an Internet connection. The Merriam-Webster’s French-English Dictionary provides the most extensive coverage of Canadian French words and phrases.

CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, Ralph De La Vega, took a few moments at Web 2.0 to talk about the broadband limits regarding the iPhone 3G and the economy’s effect on AT&T.  From what he said, they are ready to take on larger broadband limits.

The U-Verse portion of AT&T is taking a beating, it is down 499,000 subscribers from this time last year.  AT&T’s wireless business is doing extraordinarily well due to the iPhone 3G. In the most recent quarter they added 2 million subscribers. “Customers want more speed and we have the capability to deliver that.”
This means that they now have the resources to start focusing more bandwidth toward an iPhone 3G tethering plan. At this time it would be more profitable as tethering is in such high demand.

Shortly after we see the first iPhone keyboard, another one surfaces.  This one is far less attractive and seemingly less portable. The advantage this one has over the other is Bluetooth connectivity. The picture make it appear to be very large in comparison to the other ones on the market, making it hard to carry around.

One of the major issues that iPhone haters bring up when trying to put it down, is the onscreen keyboard. A lot of people just don’t adapt to it very well. It appears that this may not be as strong of an argument as it once was with a new 3rd party add-on keyboard.

Lucasfilm Ltd. has released their official Lightsaber Unleashed application in the App Store. We quickly downloaded it and dove in to what has become a very fun and interesting application.  When you open the application you are taken to what looks like an ad for another StarWars game.

After selecting Lightsaber you are taken to a screen that allows you to either select one of 5 characters or create your own. The selectable characters include Darth Vader, Rahm Kota, Maris Brood, The Apprentice and Shaak Ti.  You can view a full screen picture of there character as well as read a bio about them. The color of their Lightsaber is displayed as a shadow to their picture.