A bit of a roundup this afternoon as the cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, personal computer inventor Steve Wozniak, and advertising revolutionary Larry Page all give their opinions on iPhone vs. Android.

Martin Cooper went on CNN with this zinger:

“I think that the Android phones are catching up now, and the latest version of the Android phones are every bit as good, if not better, than the iPhone.”

Of course, the accuracy of statements about which is better are inversely proportional to their generality. Don’t tell us which, tell us why.

Apple’s Steve Wozniak on Korea Times offers a little of that:

“It’s difficult to find where things are (on Android phones). More and more, I feel like it is more like (Microsoft’s) Windows in which many different hardware vendors have installed different equipment on the same platform. The (Windows’) platform has to be very neutral and cannot be special. That’s the similar problem Android phones have,” he said.

“When you write an app for Android phones, there are so many platforms to consider. That’s the problem Microsoft was facing with its Windows years ago. People like Apple products because they are always predictable and work.”

Apple does a subset of features very well, but woe to you if you need something outside that subset. Google is currently doing as much as they can, even if all of it isn’t polished yet. Both are moving towards the same goal, just taking very different paths.

As if to highlight that, Google’s Larry Page went so far as to accuse Steve Jobs of distorting reality when it came to Jobs’ charge that Google dropped the gauntlet by deciding to compete with Apple:

"We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet-enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”

But it is reasonable to say Android was aimed squarely (pun intended) at Windows Mobile Standard before Apple launched the iPhone, and now look at who’s duking it out full-screen multitouch to full-screen multitouch.

We’ve just gotten a Nexus One running Android 2.2 Froyo here at TiPb HQ and we’re going to put it one-on-one with iPhone 4 and iOS 4. If there’s anything in particular you’d like to see, let us know in the comments.

[CNN via Android Central, Korea Times, Fortune, via 9to5Mac]

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Remember the little photo booths at amusement parks you would cram into with a bunch of friends to get a strip photos printed? IncrediBooth is an app designed to mimic that experience. It uses the front-facing camera on the iPhone 4, so this app is only available for the iPhone 4.

IncrediBooth has a simple and strait forward design. The photo taking screen shows a little window that displays what your front-facing camera sees and underneath is red button with a black dial around it. The black wheel is labeled with 1, 2, and 3 and indicates which effect you’re using. IncrediBooth does not provide the description of each effect, but through experimentation I discovered that effect 1 is black and white, effect 2 is a red tint, and effect 3 is a green tint. Tapping the red button initiates the photo session. InrediBooth takes 4 photos for a strip; there is no way way change this.

To view your photo strips tap “photos outside”. Here you can scroll through all the different photo strips you have taken. Tap a strip to see more details and share to Facebook, email, or photo library. Tapping a specific photo on the strip will allows you to share that one photo instead of the entire strip.

IncrediBooth is a fun little app and does what it’s designed to do. The artwork and design is great and does a good job of replicating the photo booths that IncrediBooth is striving to imitate.

Pros

• Fun (and inexpensive) little app
• Strips looks great
• Share to Facebook and email
• 3 different effect

Cons

• No description of effects – just 1, 2 and 3
• Cannot choose the length of a strip

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

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Our new iOS 4 iPhones and iOS 3.2 iPads can have custom wallpaper, the only problem is the defaults are played out and we’re not getting new, great ones fast enough. So what are we going to do?

Why, run a contest of course!

Make us some awesome iPhone and iPad wallpapers and every week we’ll pick one, feature it on TiPb.com, and give out a prize.

You can make a wallpaper for just one device/resolution, or for all devices/resolutions (and increase your chances of being picked!) It’s up to you. Here are the specs:

• 640×960 for iPhone 4 retina display
• 1024×1024 for iPad
• 480×320 for iPhone previous gen iPhone, iPod touch

When you’ve made your wallpaper, just attach it in a reply to our official iPhone and iPad Wallpaper Forum thread (no outside links — attachments only) and you’re entered to win!

Details after the break!

IMPORTANT: no copyright infringement. Only original works will be considered, so put away your Google Image Search and open up you favorite image editor. This is one for the creative types!

Also, accessory prizes typically require US mailing address, gift certificates typically require iTunes and/or Paypal account for redemption.

Help us TiPb nation, our iOS screens are naked. You’re our only hope!

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If this is indeed a 3×3cm Apple touchscreen (multitouch screen?) then what’s it for? New Apple TV? New Apple TV remote? New MacBook Pro multitouch trackpad with display? iPhone nano? iPad nano? Secondary display? Unicorn HUD?

Give us your best guess!

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There’s a rumor going around that iOS 4.0.1 and/or iOS 4.1 have been delayed by Apple in order to combat potential Jailbreaks.

Firstly, Apple is secretive to the point that no one outside the iOS team and top brass likely knows when they’re planning on releasing any iOS update, ever. There are plenty of bugs like the antenna reception, the proximity sensor, 3G speeds, the camera roll, etc. that need to be fixed before it can even be scheduled. Everyone else is guessing or passing on hearsay, including Apple Store employees, carrier reps, and internet aficionados.

Secondly, Apple is almost as cyclical as they are secretive, so while we don’t know the precise day iOS 4.0.1 or iOS 4.1 will be released, we know when iOS x.0.1 and iOS x.1 have been released in the past.

Neither iOS 1.0 nor 2.0 nor 3.0 were bug-free and while it’s easy to forget, users were clamoring for fixes almost as much in years past as they are now. That said, iOS (iPhone) 3.0.1 was released July 31, 2009. 2.0.1 was August 4, 2008. 1.0.1 was was July 31, 2007.

So if Apple sticks to end of July/beginning of August, we have several weeks to go before we’ll see iOS 4.0.1, or see if anything has been “delayed”.

iOS 4.1 is even further out. Heck, iOS 4.x hasn’t even gone into beta for iPad yet!

Apple typically releases those x.1.0 updates to coincide with new iPod touch generations at the iTunes/iPod Special Music Events held in the fall, and then follows with an x.1.1 update for iPhone shortly thereafter. iOS (iPhone) 3.1.0 was released on September 9, 2009. iOS 2.1.0 was September 9, 2008 and 2.1.1 was September 12. 1.1.0 was September 14, 2007 and 1.1.1 was September 27.

So if Apple again sticks to the September schedule it will be a few months before Steve Jobs takes the stage to show off new iPods and whatever new features come with the next minor iOS bump.

As of now we’re taking any reports of iOS delays with huge, Cupertino-sized grains of salt. Sure, if a Jailbreak is released that will highlight a major security exploit in iOS and Apple will have to patch it. That’s been true in the past and will be true in the future. It’s why the Jailbreakers often wait until after iOS releases to go public with their exploits.

Other than that, there’s been no date other than “a few weeks” that could be delayed, and the usual schedule is far out enough that it’s take a while before even internal delays can be guessed at.

Now, with that out of the way, we’re free to speculate wildly about what just might make it into a fall iOS 4.1/4.1.1 update — but we’ll save that for weekend post…

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GPS Tracks is exactly what its name implies, a real-time location tracking application. It takes advantage of iOS 4 multitasking so that you can use other apps while tracking. In addition to tracking your location, it also keeps track of your time and distance and displays everything nicely in a built-in Google map.

• Use other apps on your iPhone without having to quit GPS Tracks because it leverages multitasking in iOS 4 to run in the background
• Track your location, including elevation if you have an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, in real-time
• Get a live view of your current track on a Google map
• Add, remove, and rename waypoints
• Export your GPS data as universal GPX files via email
• Simple and easy to use
• Configure the GPS settings to find the best mix between GPS accuracy and battery life appropriate for your needs
• Select either metric or English units
• Rename or delete old track logs

The folks over at High Order Bit have generously given us a few promo codes to give away! For a chance to win, let us know how you plan to use GPS Tracks in your life, whether it’s hiking, biking, running, or something else! We’ll randomly choose 3 of you as winners. Give away starts now, ends Sunday, July 11 at midnight PST.

(Promo codes require US iTunes Store account — Apple’s rule, not our — and they expire so if you get one, use it quickly!)

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