As promised a couple of days ago, Google has just updated the iPhone version of the Google+ mobile app. The updated version pretty much has all the new features introduced to the Android version of the app including the ability to join Hangouts using your iPhone and the renaming of the Huddle instant messaging to more »

Apple has just announced that as of today, there is now a total of 15 billion apps downloaded from the App Store! These figure include all apps downloaded on iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch by the more than 200 million users. As of today, the App Store has more than 425,000 more »

In April 2010 Opera Mini 5 was launched for iOS with support for iPhone and iPod touch and saw 1 million downloads in 24 hours. Today Opera Mini 6 is launched for iOS with support for the iPhone 4 Retina Display, and the iPad (both 1 and 2). The new version of the mobile browser more »

Square, the company that’s trying to change how you pay for things is trying to make purchasing items at stores just as easy as purchasing songs from iTunes. The new Square apps add functionality that was missing before, and brings us closer to that dream of easier purchasing. The new Square 2.0 app makes it more »

One of the best app developed for Nokia phones, Sports Tracker is finally arriving for both iPhone and Android phones. If you’re like me who has never used a Nokia smartphone for a long time now, Sports Tracker is actually built on the world’s biggest tracking communities boasting of more than 70 million km tracked more »

Carrying an iPhone can be frustrating when your friends show off their Android phones with Flash that can watch all the web videos they could want. Sure, many site are now offering HTML5 options, but not all of them are. In just two days you’ll be able to play those Flash videos on you iPhone more »

It would most likely be safe to assume that most people are aware of the Amazon Kindle and the coinciding iPhone/iPod touch app. There is another app out there, which is actually one of the most downloaded for the iPhone. Stanza, an eBook reader with support for a wide range of formats, got there long more »

Who would have predicted this: 16 months after its introduction the iPhone is #1 in sales in the US displacing the RAZR, beating Windows Mobile in smartphone sales and still going strong. Now, we learn there is no bubble of interest in the iPhone applications that can run on the phone, demand continues to grow.

“It’s unbelievable,” says Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. “It’s a differentiator. We think in ’09, it’s going to be a $1 billion market place and Apple will probably take about 30 percent of that. There’s virtually no operating expense for them. They just approve the apps. It increases our confidence that” Apple can make these numbers.

What will all this success do to the phone market? To our lives? Read on to glimpse at my guess.