Skype has released their newest app, Skype WiFi for iPhone. It allows you to connect to 1 million different WiFi hotspots around the world and pay with Skype Credit.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

Get online at over 1 million WiFi hotspots around the world. Pay per minute with Skype Credit. The must-have app for trips abroad and international travelers.

• Use Skype WiFi to connect to WiFi hotspots at hotels, airports, train stations, bars and restaurants – available at over 1 million hotspots worldwide.
• Just one tap to connect – then browse the internet, check email, use Skype, check Facebook, update Twitter, upload photos, download music or ebooks.
• Only pay for the time you're connected – there are no limits on the amount of data you can upload or download.

Skype WiFi is available on the iPhone for free.

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Apple has proven time and time again that they’re driven to innovate regardless, that they can successfully compete against themselves, but nothing drives them to innovate and compete faster and in a more focused fashion than a successful rival. Sadly, when it comes to iPad, rivals are proving anything but successful at the point.

• Sprint has canceled plans to launch a WiMax BlackBerry Playbook citing lack of interest from enterprise customers. [WSJ
• Best Buy is rumored to have only sold 25,000 of the 270,000 HP TouchPad’s they received in stock, and that number might not include returns. AllThingsD

Meanwhile the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung can now once again be stocked in the EU, but the Motorola Xoom LTE update has been once again delayed, this time until fall, and we’ve yet to get sell through numbers in any meaningful volume for any of the them.

Part of this is certainly the unbaked nature of virtually all iPad competitors to date, so perhaps the race should now switch from who can ship a rival tablet first, to who can make a much better, much more compelling tablet at a much better value first?

Bad news for everyone if the answer to that continues to be “nobody”.

Apple Chief Financial Officer, Peter Oppenheimer, was asked what he thought about Android maker Google’s intent to purchase handset maker Motorola Mobility during a Gleacher & Company conference call. Oppenhemier’s response?

"$12.5 billion is a lot of money.”

Indeed.

[Cult of Mac]

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Meta

• Google-Motorola purchase podcast special!
• ZENandTECH 11: Boundaries

iPhone 5

• New iPhone on October 7, no new iPad until spring 2012
• iPhone 5 pre-orders to start September 30?
• iPhone 5 with LTE in carrier testing?
• Why would AT&T be installing LTE equipment at Apple Stores? [Updated]

Competition

• Google buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion [Updated]
• TabCo (Fusion Garage) announces Grid 10 (JooJoo2) and Grid 4 (JooJooPhone)
• BlackBerry Bold 9900 gets reviewed
• BlackBerry Torch 9860 gets reviewed

Apps

• LinkedIn for iPhone receives a makeover
• TextExpander for iPhone, iPad updates with Dropbox support
• Elements 2.0 – Dropbox And Markdown Powered Text Editor for iPhone and iPad now available

Tips

• Daily Tip: How to rearrange your status bar icons with ArrangeStatusBar [jailbreak]
• Daily Tip: How to find the UDID or serial number of an iPad, iPhone

SpeechTrans Ultimate is a translating app powered by Nuance. It knows 13 different languages and has speech recognition for many of them. One of the new features is Facebook chat with Speech Input and Voice Translation Output.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[iPhone App Store link] [iPad App Store link]

SpeechTrans Ultimate is the absolute best app if you need to instantly speak English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Dutch or Japanese. Now you can seamlessly communicate with Facebook users all around the world! SpeechTrans is here to eliminate all language barriers and provide you with an accurate spoken translation in the selected language.

• Facebook Chat with Speech Input and Voice Translation Output
• 400 transcription preloaded, more available via in-app purchase
• Speech recognition in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and German
• Free unlimited Text to Speech translations
• Male and Female voices available for English, Spanish, French, Italian, German Portuguese, Russian and Polish. Female only voices for Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Korean.
• Ability to Cut and paste text from other APPS for it to be read aloud and translated
• Translation is saved automatically in your Translation history
• Email translated Text or Audio file
• 55 second Voice recording time
• Free Lifetime Updates to new languages!

SpeechTrans Ultimate is available on the iPhone for $19.99 and on the iPad for $19.99.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Yodel-Oh!: He wants to climb the mountain. They want to shove him off. And your challenge is simply to score as many points as possible before Hans takes a header off the cliff. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link] [$0.99 for iPad - App Store link]

• Smarter Shopping: Loaded with unique recipes, nutrition analysis, reviews of new products, and many other resources to help you understand your food, health, lifestyle, and shopping options. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Verbs: Now with Facebook chat! [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• GENESIA: A turn based strategic game. Several crafts are at your disposal to build this New World : farmers, lumberjacks, blacksmiths, carpenters, soldiers… But all of this won't be done easily for other Governors are striving just as you, on other territories. It's your economy's development, your military force and technological advancement that will lead you to the term of your engagement. [$6.99 for iPad - App Store link]

• Wikipanion: Now you can browse and find supported third party mediawiki-powered wikis! [Free for iPhone - App Store link] [Free for iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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We’re getting a lot of questions from Jailbreakers and would-be Jailbreakers both on iOS 4.x and iOS 5 so we figured it was time to once again take a look at the state of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Jailbreak. Here it is:

If you still have an untethered Jailbreak on iOS 4.3.3 or below and want to stay untethered, don’t upgrade just yet.

If you’ve already updated and you currently have a tethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.5, you’ll probably have to stay tethered until the release version of iOS 5 drops this October.

Why not? Because if they release an untethered Jailbreak based on an exploit in iOS 5 beta, Apple could easily patch it in the next beta and it’s back to square one.

I’m currently on iOS 5 beta and personally can’t wait to have my jailbreak back. iOS 5 is a major improvement but I still miss apps like Mail Enhancer and SBSettings. I’d much rather wait and have an untethered jailbreak for the iOS 5 final release than a quick fix now that Apple kills off during the beta.

There have been some fantastic Apple Store designs already, everything from the glass cube in New York to the glass cylinder in Shanghai, but some recent designs for a massive glass roof in Santa Monica, a redesign of the glass cube on 5th Ave., and a spectacular design for Grand Central Station — not to mention the enormous new Mothership in Cupertino — show that Apple’s ready to take things to another level.

Apple already makes some of the best phone, tablet, and computer hardware in the word — precision crafted aluminum and glass. Do they really have to push the envelope in architecture and retail design as well? No, but they want to. They could spend less on the stores. They could do less. But they consider it an investment. They believe it matters. That’s what makes Apple, Apple. They’re dragging us, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the future.

Now if I could just get them to build one of those giant glass tower Flasgships in Montreal’s Old Port. Where would you want one?

Check out the pictures after the break.

[Curbed via Macrumors, Gothamist via MacStories, The Real Deal via MacRumors]