There are now well over 100,000 apps available for iPhone and iPod touch, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free.

The following list showcases our ten favourites, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more.

If your favourites aren’t covered, tell us all about them in the comments. Read the rest of this entry

After the World’s most expensive iPhone, UK based designer is here with the iPod Supreme which is touted to be the most expensive iPod Touch on this planet.

Limited to only three pieces it is clad with 149 grams of 22 carat gold with the hallmark Apple logo made from 53 shiny VVS1, colour F diamonds.

The outer section of the iPod has 300 diamonds, the main navigation button has 12 diamonds which surround a single cut pink diamond of 2.1 carat. Read the rest of this entry

Airline passengers who sneak in cell phone calls, play with gaming devices or listen to their mp3 players during takeoff or landing probably won’t cause a plane crash, but they may risk a confrontation with flight attendants. Federal agencies and airlines typically err on the side of caution — even though researchers and aircraft companies have found almost no direct evidence of cell phones or other electronic devices interfering with aircraft systems.

Frequent flyers know the familiar drill of only using certain electronic devices at cruising altitudes. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asked the RTCA, an independent industry standards organization, to study the issue of electronic devices on airplanes in 1992. Read the rest of this entry

A British designer has produced the world’s most expensive iphone - featuring almost 200 diamonds and costing £1.92 million. The casing of the exclusive iPhone 3GS Supreme was created using 271 grams of 22 carat solid gold.

The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds totalling a massive 68 carats while the Apple logo on the back is made from a further 53 gems.The front navigation button is made from a single diamond of more than seven carats.Designer Stuart Hughes, from Liverpool, Merseyside, took ten months to make the phone after it was commissioned by an anonymous Australian businessman. Read the rest of this entry

The 21-year-old hacker, Ashley Towns, has written a worm - a type of self-replicating computer program similar to a virus, that changes the iPhone’s wallpaper to show a picture of 80’s pop singer Rick Astley and displays the message “ikee is never going to give you up”.

Mr Towns told Australian television that he created the virus to make users aware of the danger of not changing the default password for their phone. Read the rest of this entry

We’re running out of wired bandwidth and the Internet is going to die. We all know that.But now comes the doom-and-gloom revelation that we’re also running out of wireless spectrum for our cordless communications.One investment firm even put an expiration date: By 2015, we’ll be in a “crisis” condition when it comes to wireless communications.

The reason should be obvious: Devices like the iPhone have turned consumers into mobile data junkies, and they’re gobbling up wireless services like they’re going out of style. (Cisco says wireless data traffic will double every year from hear on out, to 66 times the current level by the time we hit 2013.) Read the rest of this entry

Believe it or not, the Nokia 3210 is now over 10 years old. Selling over 150 million units, the 3210 was the first mobile to truly hit the big time and it was many people’s first time phone.

Who doesn’t remember playing Snake and composing a personal ringtone on the 3210? Back then, phones were used for making phone calls, texting was a new phenomenon and WAP was so hi-tech it was scary.

Equally scary is the notion that actually if you were born in the ’90s, you’re probably too young to have any knowledge of such exciting times. Still, the phone industry is now so humungous it’s worth over $24bn in India alone. Some stats suggest that the global mobile industry will be worth $200bn by 2012 – that’s $33 for every human being on the planet. And what’s driving this recession-beating performance? It’s the technology, stupid!

So here we have the 5 best mobile phones of the current crop : Read the rest of this entry