First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released

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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PSPhone DS

[theolein]

I recently saw an ad for an embedded game developer.... by apple. Requiring many years of experience etc yadda yadda yadda.

Here's the apple game dev ad.

This speaks legions to me, and it says Apple is not only going to turn the iPhone into a a cool smartphone, but they will also start selling games with it. IT has enough horsepower and screen real estate to take on the PSP..... and the DS, with the multi touch interface.

If it works and sells, Sony is going to shit big square bricks, Steve Ballmer is single handedly going to cause a world chair shortage, and Nintendo is going to be most challenged. Anything you can do with the DS, you can do with the iPhone.

Most, most interesting.

Re:PSPhone DS

[MorpheousMarty]

I am not a Nintendo fanboy, however you don't seem to understand the full lack of challenge ANYONE has brought to the Nintendo on the portable front. I heard at the peak of the last console wars they still sold a Gameboy for every PS2, Gamecube and Xbox sold, and that Pokemon accounted for 50% of all video games sales. But even if that weren't true, it's pretty clear that the DS currently is the most successful console, by a wide margin. I doubt anything but the most concentrated effort could take on Nintendo.

However Mac does sell about 10 million iPods a quarter lately, far outstripping DS sales. I started out sure that you were crazy to think Apple could do something dangerous to Nintendo with iPhone/Pod... but given the numbers... anything could happen if they release a touch screen iPod.

Re:Revolution?

[hax0r_this]

You've never invested in Apple right before MacWorld, have you? Its like profit! The way they fawn over every single product in Jobs' keynote address is CA$H

The iPhone has an SDK

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called HTML+CSS+JS.

I don't care for the iPhone, myself -- another closed proprietary system? I'll wait for OpenMoko.

But you kind of have to give them credit for one thing. If they had released an iPhone-only SDK, you'd see iPhone-only apps. By not releasing any SDK, and by releasing a real web browser for it, people are writing web apps designed for mobile devices. Which means they're not really tied to the iPhone.

I think that's kind of cool, actually.

Google's offering.

[delire]

I wonder if Google will give us a shell on their new Linux phone.

That said it'll be hard for them to beat the Phase 2 OpenMoko for developer fun.

Re:IPhone Revolution?

[mechanyx]

I want a phone running OpenMoko so that I can do the following things:

1) automatically check unknown numbers against whocalled.us type telemarketer lists
2) log ALL calls - especially useful to see how many times ppl from 1) have called you if you set it up to show while ringing
3) *MY* ringtones - they don't sell Wagner, Scriabin, Schnittke or death metal on those services - not that I'd want to pay for music I already own.
4) ringback tones
5) advanced blacklisting functionality
6) the ability to have my phone turned on to use as a clock or whatever without it being on the network so no one can call me (think movie theater or orchestral concert hall here)
7) things I haven't thought of yet

Re:Revolution?

[Sparr0]

The iPhone is everything the Nokia 770 could have been... if Nokia had the brains to *PUT A PHONE IN IT*.

PS: Yes, I got a 770 in the recent mass discounting craze. Yes, I love it. Yes, I use it for VOIP over EDGE... making it a phone.

Re:Functional

[mrchaotica]

Yeah, well they fixed that in newer Macs (and by "newer" I mean in the early 90's with OpenFirmware, not 2006 with the Intel switch).

Re:Revolution?

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps he noticed the price tag, the 2year contract, and the fact that its from AT&T...

Re:Revolution?

[tunesmith]

For me, it's a revolution just because it's the first product that has reached a critical mass point to make me less likely to use my laptop. I make my living from my laptop, and I'm kind of anchored to it, which affects my daily lifestyle. The iPhone reduces my need to open my laptop by about 60%. This changes my lifestyle dramatically. It's actually a bit traumatic (in a positive sense) and I haven't completely adjusted to it. I'm actually considering traveling more, taking more working vacations, taking up running... I don't know, it's like it has made *me* more portable without me having to discipline myself to be as such. The impact is difficult to measure.

The Real Question is

[Anonymous Coward]

i-emacs or i-Vi

Re:SWEET!

[Hes Nikke]

um... let me rewrite that for clarity:

don't forget that OS X (iPhone's OS) is derived from Mac OS X, which in itself has a pretty powerful TTS engine, that frankly sounds MUCH more human, though still not natural. i'd be kinda surprised if apple's TTS engine isn't already on the iPhone waiting to be used - especially since they've been putting some resources into it lately. [link - it's a shame they don't have the sample for alex posted anymore... you'll hear it in october!]