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iPhone News, Views, and Reviews

Pangea’s latest iPhone title is another port from their set of Mac games. You play as Skip, a grasshopper whose backpack is stolen by a bee on the way to visit his famil-ee. He decides not to take this insult lying down and chases after the bee throughout the game’s 10 levels. The makeup reminds me a lot of Pangea’s most recent game, Billy Frontier, in which you play a cowboy throughout a number of different and loosely related mini games. Bugdom 2 certainly looks a lot more polished and put-together at first glance, but hit the jump to see how well their 3D adventure translates from a keyboard and mouse to an accelerometer and touch-screen.

Gameplay — basics

Excellent Web Site Tracks App Store Price DropsYesterday

Amongst the many web sites that offer news, commentary, and reviews of all things iPhone, here’s one that stands apart and offers a very useful service.

148Apps.com is one of those hidden gems of a web site that offers a few great lists — the top free apps, the top paid apps, and the latest apps to offer price reductions. The latter is of significant interest as lately several apps have seen precipitous price drops — perhaps as the novelty of the App Store wears off and the competition begins to appear. The list is especially useful to spot apps that are on sale for a limited time, not just apps with a (semi?) permanent price drop.

My one wish for the site - that it would track NEW apps to the App Store to replace the list that Apple had and did away with. EDIT: They have it! Just head here: http://www.148apps.com/newest-148-app-store-additions/

Head on over to 148

2.2 Firmware To Feature Google Maps Street View, Auto Correct Disable?Yesterday

MacRumors is reporting a few new features hidden underneath the veil of the 2.2 firmware update that is currently in the hands of developers. Amongst the changes reported are the ability to disable the Auto Correct feature and the inclusion of Street View in Google Maps. If this turns out to be true, we have two welcome additions to the iPhone in the making. Street View is handy when looking for a business or home you are unfamiliar with as you drive down the street, and many non-English speakers despise Auto Correct.

Still no news on the copy/paste front, but a guy can dream….

Excuse me - your fring is ringing.October 3

You’re still here?

Alright, well if you’re still here, you either haven’t found the download link yet (hint: click the price thing below) or you don’t quite know what “fring” is. So for the latter part of you, here’s a clip from their website … but I’ll give you a hint: IM + VoIP + extras = fring

ATTN APPLE: Stop ZATZ CrapApp Publishing.October 2

Apple: This is out of control. I’m not sure if these people are going for the award of Self-Proclaimed Kings of CrapApp or what, but this is getting to be a tad ridiculous. I mean I’m not against anyone trying to make money by selling their application on the App Store. Heck, if I had one shred of coding ability I’d already have a couple out on the store, but I know for sure I would not have 20 applications that all do the same thing!

Look, reality is this is just plain lazy coding and application whoring. They have one decent countdown application. One. They then took what was a good idea (the countdown program) and slapped 19 new icons on it and