Skype Could Hit iPhone as Soon as Next Week

Service will be free for Skype-to-Skype users

(NEWSER) - As of today, Skype users are no longer limited to their computers when it’s time to make a free video call. The service added video chatting to its iPhone application, allowing users to make Skype-to-Skype video calls over the 3G network or WiFi for the first time, the New York Times reports. A VP warns that the video quality will suffer if you don’t have a strong network connection, but a handy gauge in the app will let you know whether video is recommended. More»

(NEWSER) - AT&T has had a change of heart—perhaps prompted by an ongoing FCC inquiry into competition—and will now allow iPhone users to connect with Skype and other Internet phone services over its 3G wireless network. Previously, AT&T had allowed such services in only a limited capacity—through hot spots or Wi-Fi networks. More»

(NEWSER) - The iPhone itself isn’t in a class by itself as far as smartphones are concerned, Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate—but the App Store makes it unbeatable. Apple boasts more than 50,000 applications, and the rate is increasing; Google’s Android operating system only supports 5,000. “The iPhone has attracted something that none of its rivals can match,” Manjoo writes: “a devoted following of developers who are building amazing programs for the device.” More»

It 'shouldn’t be a place where a bunch of outlaws can run amok,' blogger pleads

(NEWSER) - Though the $1,000 “I Am Rich” iPhone application that so enrages Don Reisinger seems to have disappeared from Apple’s store since his original Mashable post this morning, his call for the giant to impose some order on would-be price-gougers stands. “There’s nothing stopping other developers from charging too much for apps,” writes Reisinger, blasting the program whose jewel icon is almost literally all it does. More»

PC Magazine gives you the scoop on the new slate of titles for Apple juggernaut

(NEWSER) - The best part about the iPhone 3G's debut, writes PC Magazine, is the new abundance of software for the handset. Most of the apps work on the original iPhone, too. The cream of the crop:

• AIM: Should need no introduction, although it was a major omission from the original iPhone's slate.
• Bejeweled 2: A popular time-waster gets a suitably beautiful iPhone port.