What would be an awesome addition to any App store, sadly has been reduced to a glorified movie uploader. Qik  has been for around for jailbroken iPhones for around a year now and is a really neat app. It lets you stream live video from your iPhone to Qik’s website. So you could start up a video and others could tune in and watch live while you streamed over 3G or over WiFi. Awesome right? Well the “official” app only lets you upload videos you have already taken with your iPhone 3Gs. The other kicker is you can only upload over Wifi. So no live streaming, no iPhone 3G support, and no upload on 3G only Wifi. So whats the point of this app again?

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Rumors a starting to gather that Apple will be holding a media event September 7th to announce a bevy of new things. We have seen alot of rumors pointing to a new iPod Touch with a camera and this would be the time and place for Apple to unveil such a product. “Back to school time” has historically been when Apple launches new iPods, so this should not come as a surprise to anyone. What is a piece of something new, is that Apple may also be releasing their album art enhancements which will, I am sure, make it’s way to the iPhone as well. This could also be a perfect time for them to let iTunes 9 out of the gate, but we’ll have to wait and see on that one.

Via: iPhone Alley

A post over at The Boy Genious Report states that Apple may be taking social networking further than just adding support for it in iTunes. Apparently Apple is creating its own application that will tie in too iTunes and possibly other Apple products and services. Here is a snippet from the BGR post of what might coming:

What does this mean for iPhione users? Hopefully we will see a official version of this app for the desktop transition over to the iPhone platform. I can see Apple doing a Mobile Me style sync where your desktop social network app stays in sync with the iPhone app as well. Of course all of this is 100% speculation at this point, but it would be pretty cool right? 

Via: The Boy Genious Report

Sling media, the guys behind the application SlingPlayer, have submitted the latest version of their application to Apple. Sadly this new version does NOT include 3G support, but does offer 16×9 viewing and some overall speed increases.

To add insult to injury, they have submitted a 3G capable version for use outside the United States. Only time will tell if it will get approved or not, but for us in the good ol’ US of A, were strictly WiFi only.

Via: Engadget

Reports are coming through that many developers’ Google Voice apps are being pulled from the iPhone App store. Even more shocking, is that rumors say Google’s own GV app was rejected from by Apple!! Apple states their usual garbage reasoning that these apps duplicate functions the iPhone already provides. It’s not clear if the apps being pulled/rejected was AT&T’s doing or just Apple’s choice. Either way it sucks for Google Voice users and a step backwards for the iPhone.

Via: Engadget Mobile

This week Geoff and I are joined by Michael Manna who is sowly but surely trying to take over every tech podcast on the internet. Come join us as we discuss push notifications, 3GS battery issues, multitasking, Palm Pre, and we choose our pick of the week. Get your dose of iPhone Docked below:

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Many of you know I am addicted to buying cell phones, and my latest purchase has been Palm Pre. Palm totes the webOS as a multitasking centric oporating system. Thus making it easy to do many things all at once, or switch between apps with ease. Over the last month this has really made me realize how much the iPhone needs some type of multitasking. Push notifications is a decent stop gap for some apps, but for some other situations, it does not help at all. With the iPhone even getting a text message interrupts whatever you are doing and requires you to leave your current app to respond. Also in most cases your current app’s state is not save 100%, and requires a reload or you to re-enter your data. That aggravation combined with the total lack of a decent notification system, makes handling multiple applications a near impossibility. Is it a limitation of the hardware? Is the iPhone’s software not capable of doing this? Or could it just be Apple’s way to insure seamlessness and stability? What do you guys think? Do you need multitasking? Send me a line via Twitter or in the comments and let me here your opinions.

The iPhone 3GS has been in user’s hands for a little over two weeks now. Since its release there have been reports of overheating/discoloration, bad battery life, problems with the oleophobic display, and of course benchmarks. My take on this is when a device sells 1 million units in 2 days, YES 2 days, there are bound to be a few glitches. So for those of you out there with a 3GS, what problems, if any have you had? Are you happy with your purchase? Let’s hear you guys sound off in the comments or hit me on Twitter.

I just want to say thanks to all the writers who contribute to iPhone Docked! Like I have said before, without you guys, this site would be bare bones. It’s the iPhone community that really makes iPhone Docked what it is. With that said, I would like to congratulate the winner of the iPhone Docked first ever guest writer contest, and the WINNER is…….drum roll………… Wyatt LeCadre with the Medical Software Triple Play post!!!!! Wyatt you sir, have won a lovely Eco Vue case from Marware!!!!! Congrats and thanks for all your contributions to the site!!!

Stay tuned fro more details on yet another guest writer contest soon……….

The iPhone Docked squad is back with another episode of our bi-weekly podcast. This week Geoff and I were joined by Michael Manna from the T4 Show and Steve Trotto of Mobile Tech Moment as we discussed the iPhone 3Gs, Webkit benchmarks, mobile Youtube uploads, UltraSn0w, and much more! Click on the links beow to join in on the madness!

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