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Rene, Georgia, and Seth talk training for iOS 5 and iCloud, iPhone 5 camera test, Apple loses another iPhone prototype, want more iPhone variety?, Spring says no to AT&T-Mo, Andy Rubin inspired by Apple, Jailbreak, Facebook, Google+ and more! This is iPhone Live!

Hosts

Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb)

Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Credits

Thanks to the TiPb iPhone accessory store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

Our music comes from the following sources:

• I Called You — iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy
via Sneakmove iPhone Ringtone Challenge

Google has released an official iPhone app for their blogging platform, Blogger. It supports multiple accounts and location information.

It’s great too see Google offering a native application for Blogger, but it irks me that in Google’s announcement, they refer to the app as Blogger for iOS. This implies that it is for all iOS platforms – but it does not have a universal binary. This is technically an iPhone app. Sure, the iPad has the ability to run iPhone apps, but you have to either run it all tiny in the center of the screen or hit that dreaded 2x button.

So, since Google says that you can now access Blogger from “your iOS device”, does this mean that Google is not planning on making it a universal app? Do they actually think this is good enough for iPad users?

With Blogger app for iPhone and iPod touch, you can easily publish posts with pictures, labels and location information. Also, you can view the list of posts and if you have multiple accounts or blogs, you can easily switch between them.

• Select account/blog if you have more than 1.
• Include pictures from the gallery or by taking a picture directly from the app
• Add labels
• Add location information
• Save as draft or immediately publish
• View list of saved/published posts

Blogger is available on the iPhone for free.

[App Store link] [Google]

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

New Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent out an email to employees detailing a new program whereby Apple USA will match personal charitable donations up to $10,000 annually. The email reads:

Team:

I am very happy to announce that we are kicking off a matching gift program for charitable donations. We are all really inspired by the generosity of our co-workers who give back to the community and this program is going to help that individual giving go even farther.

Starting September 15, when you give money to a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Apple will match your gift dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000 annually. This program will be for full-time employees in the US at first, and we’ll expand it to other parts of the world over time.

Thank you all for working so hard to make a difference, both here at Apple and in the lives of others. I am incredibly proud to be part of this team.

If you’d like more information on the program, you can get it on HRWeb, which can be easily accessed through AppleWeb.

Tim

Welcome to the post-Jobs era indeed.

[MacRumors]

PDF Printer is a family of iPhone and iPad apps that allow you to save documents as PDF files. For anyone in business or education, this can easily be a must-have. PDF Printer does the job and has been recently updated with a new interface.

Save documents to PDF and share them with easy right from the iPhone/iPad. PDF Printer is the simplest way for you to convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote files as well as Photos and Contacts to Adobe PDF format on the iPhone.

Save to PDF and share:

• Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
• Photos
• Pictures and Texts from Clipboard
• Contacts
• Web-pages

Other features:

• Open files from official MobileMe iDisk and other cloud storage applications
• Transfer documents from desktop computers
• Copy & Paste notes from the Notes application
• Open documents from Mail and Safari
• Download documents or pictures from your Dropbox account for converting
• Upload ready PDF documents to your Dropbox account

PDF Printer is available on the iPhone and iPad for $2.99 and $5.99, respectively.

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

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

The especially awesome Phil Nickinson from Android Central went hands on with the Android powered Samsung Vitality on Cricket, and I have to say I liked what he saw quite a bit — namely:

As you’ll see in the video above, Muve is an easy-to-use music service. But what really makes it shine is that Cricket’s made the billing process as simple as can be. Actually, there is no billing. No per-song fee. You pay $65 a month for unlimited voice calls. And unlimited data. And unlimited Muve Music. And for our money, it doesn’t get much better than that.

Now TiPb’s heard going back to WWDC 2011 that Apple has an iPhone nano (or budget iPhone) type device pretty much done and ready to go, and TiPb’s since heard that it may not be getting the traditional plans on traditional carriers either (or at least that we might be surprised where it ends up.)

A stripped down, low cost iPhone is one thing when it still requires $100+ on monthly voice and data charges, but a low cost iPhone with a low cost plan like $65 a month to go with it? Super. Sweet.

Apple doesn’t compete in the bargain basement computer business. They kick it in the head with something like iPad or the new MacBook Air. But Apple does compete in the lower end MP3 player market with iPod shuffle and iPod nano, so they do understand the market for smaller, less expensive consumer electronics that still tie (not going to say seamlessly!) into their ecosystem.

Whether they ultimately pull the trigger on this, only Tim Cook now knows for sure, but again — inexpensive iPhone nano with a cheap $65 all-you-can eat service plan? That’ll bring a lot of young, mainstream more price sensitive, first phone and feature phone users into the Apple fold, wouldn’t it?

Check out Phil’s full hand’s on via the link below and then come back and tell me what you think — will we get an iPhone nano version of this deal?

[Android Central]

For today only, the TiPb Store has the Marware SportGrip Edge for AT&T/GSM iPhone 4 on sale for only $4.95 — that’s a whopping 75% off. The coolest bumper in town in translucent black, white, red, pink, or blue — Get it before it’s gone!

Shop Marware SportGrip Edge for AT&T/GSM iPhone 4 now!

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!

• Food Fight!!: Compare the nutrition of over 100,000 grocery products. It’s a showdown between your favorite foods. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• FaceConnect: Designed to bring people together using FaceTime, found on Apples iPhone 4 and new iPod Touch that possess video conference calling capabilities. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Thrutu: Share location, photos, contacts and more while you’re talking on the phone. Now you can draw together! [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• I Don’t Know How She Does It: A companion app to Sarah Jessica Parker’s new movie. You can find and buy fashion on sale inspired by the movie, view exclusive clips and images from the movie, find showtimes and buy tickets at a theater near you. [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Catculator: The Catculator is a curious creature, half cat, half calculator. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Saks Fifth Avenue has found a rather innovative way to celebrate Fashion's Night Out. Working with Stylelist and designer Gin Lane Media, it has produced an interactive window display using sixty four iPads in one window and nine 27-inch Apple Cinema Displays in the other two windows.

"The iPads are running a native iPad application specifically built for the installation," said Dan Kenger, Digital Creative Director at Gin Lane Media. "Using a local network, which we setup, we are able to get all the iPads to talk to each other as well as perfect the timing to produce elegant fades and control what device should display what."

The displays will feature images from Stylelist, tweets from around the world and even customer submitted photographs. If you want a chance to get your tweet or picture up on the display, just tag them with the hashtag #StylelistatSaks.

If anyone gets the chance to wander past the display, let us know what you think!

[The Loop]

 

According to randomly accurate rumor site Digitimes, Foxconn is currently rolling out around 150,000 iPhone 5 units a day. The information comes from industry sources. Pegatron Technology who were thought to have won around 15% of the iPhone 5 manufacturing orders may not start shipping until 2012 according to the same sources.

Lens maker Largan Precision, touch panel maker TPK Holding, reinforced glass supplier G-Tech Optoelectronics and battery vendors Simplo and Dynapack are all operating at full swing currently, the sources indicated.

The iPhone 5 should reach shipment levels of 5-6 million units in September leading to over 22 million units in the fourth quarter. Suppliers will ship a lot less iPhone 4 models in the final quarter; it will probably become the entry level iPhone model. This would follow previous years where the current model becomes a cheaper model with a reduced storage capacity.

[Digitimes]

 

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Geoff and Rene talk about the trend of core fitness, how it relates to functionality, and what to look for in a proper core fitness training program, be it Yoga, Pilates, MBF®, etc. (Yes, even one that you might pick to do on your iPad!). This is Superfunctional!