It can be frustrating at the best of times that you cannot simply copy files to and from your iPhone. The closest we have at present is the DCIM folder which computers treat as a digital camera but you still can’t add files to this from a computer. Third party apps can access this data (which is why apps can easily make use of your photos and videos) but that is about it.

The Beta SDK for iPhone OS 3.2 is currently only for the iPad but there’s nothing to suggest that it won’t be made available to the iPhone either in a 3.2 update or a 4.0 update. OS 3.2 provides a shared storage folder for files to be easily shared between apps and synced to a desktop (much like photos are currently handled but hopefully with write permissions from a desktop!).

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Tesco finally announces tariffs for for their iPhone offer due to go on sale on abouts 14th December. They are only currently offering three options, Pay as you go, 12 Month contracts and 18 Month contracts for the 3G, 3GS 16Gb, & 3GS 32Gb. These are £20 pm and £60 pm.

Downsides are having to buy the iPhone upfront, but the upside is only being tied into a 12 month contract. And if you compare this with the Orange offerings on a like for like basis the Tescos option looks to be the smart choice, although the draw of not having to buy the iPhone upfront may be a win for Orange.

Decide for yourself. Tesco – Orange

We all know about the crazy sales called “Black Friday” in the USA the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, well ALK have hit the road early with a huge $15 discount on the CoPilot Live GPS Navigation App. Normally sold for $34.99 the price has been reduced to $19.99 from now until midnight on Monday 30th November.

This special offer pricing applies to both the iPhone app in the Apple AppStore and the Android app from Android Market. Happy Holidays!!!
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ALK’s CoPilot Live app for iPhone has hit the UK Appstore.

The feature list includes turn-by-turn voice directions, UK & Ireland maps data, full UK post codes and 2D/3D map data.

Additional features include ‘LiveLink’ location sharing and messaging, 5-day weather forecast and lane indicator and clearturn displays.

Best of all, ALK have matched the price of CoPilot in the Android Market store, at £25.99 it’s very reasonable.  So reasonable that as I’ve a long drive ahead of me later today I’ve gone and bought it.

Nav N Go’s iGO My Way 2009 is now available for iPhone in the AppStore. Available in three flavours (Western Europe, Full Europe and North America) each with free quarterly map updates until December 2010!

iGO My Way 2009 appears from the screen shots to be primarily based on their iGO Amigo software and would be well suited to the iPhone UI using gestures for sliding between menu’s etc.

Read more for pricing and iTunes links.

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Envivio have launched a hardare platform for the delivery of live video feeds to the iPhone. Whist not directly applicable to the device it is interesting to see what is going on with the behind-the-scenes infrastructure. This announcement allows for live streaming of encrypted video to your iPhone.

A typical use could be at an event such as a motor race, horse race, or other sporting event where the live video can be streamed over WiFi or even wireless.

The Envivio press release:

Envivio and Telemak Partner to Provide One Stop Shopping for Mobile TV, Web TV and iPhone Operations

From System Sales to Complete Managed Headend Operations, Offers Solutions to Deliver any Content to any Device

Brussels and Paris – June 23, 2009 – Envivio Inc. and Telemak today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that addresses the content encoding and distribution needs of mobile operators, broadcasters and internet service providers. Under the agreement, Telemak will sell, integrate and support Envivio products to its customers. Telemak is also deploying Envivio mobile TV and web TV headend solutions at its own operations center in Belgium. The installation includes Envivio 4Caster™ C4 convergence encoding solutions and the new Envivio iLiveTV™ solution for the Apple iPhone.

Ok so here we are at Wired4iPhone.com trying to fill a gap in the market bringing you some reviews and news targetted completely at the iPhone users…