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First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released

Posted by Zonk on from the first-or-third dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A third-party native application for the iPhone is now available. Gizmodo discusses the real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. It is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing. What is it? Ironically enough, MobileTerminal, 'a terminal emulator application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client application.' The iPhone dev revolution has just started."

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  1. Re:IPhone Revolution? by sokoban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spare me. OpenMoko is an open platform that nobody cares about.

    It does look cool, but without an Apple sized hype-machine and good support from cell phone companies and service providers I don't see it taking off.

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  2. Re:Revolution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh, like, did you not notice the iPhone has only 3 physical buttons and one control surface, whereas every other smartphone is littered with buttons? Did you not notice the relatively huge screen for such a pocketable device? Did you not notice the lack of a stylus? Did you not notice that the UI morphs to meet the needs of the current task? Did you not notice the use of gestures to control the device and the use of visual feedback? Did you not notice how the user interacts via a built-in accelerometer? Did you not notice the visual voice mail? Did you not notice the accurate rendering of web pages using the built-in browser, and the equally accurate rendering of HTML e-mail? Did you not notice how easy it is to pan and zoom?

    Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were blind.