Skype for iPhone will be released today

Sometime on Tuesday US time, expect to see Skype for iPhone hit the AppStore. It's not going to look much like Skype, rather more like a standard iPhone app, which will disappoint some people. Another downer is that it will only make calls over WiFi, not 3G, so it's not going to be VOIP in your pocket from anywhere. Why not, Skype? Your version for the T-Mobile G1 (or HTC Dream in Australia) works over 3G. Until it supports 3G this is something to be only mildly excited about, but excited nonetheless.

Great article on iPhone ebook readers at Macworld

The iPhone e-book readers' guide | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld

I've looked at a few of these apps and I think they all look a bit clunky. It's all well and good being able to change type sizes and faces, but you can't do that in a real book. Indeed, you wouldn't want to because highly trained book designers create the pages to be readable and select type to convey the text in a certain way. That's part of a book to my mind, and much of the pleasure of reading goes with it. None of these apps seem to really honour the book designers' art.

I've settled on using Stanza myself, but the iPhone screen is still a bit small for comfortable reading. I tend to read over lunch and the constant page turning is annoying, as is tendency for grease from the burgers to build up on my screen. At the end of the day nothing beats a good 'real' book, though I love the free Shakespeare app in the AppStore.

Pocket Informant for iPhone almost here

Pocket Informant, arguably the best Calendar, Agenda and Task management application for mobile devices, has now been developed for the iPhone and version one-point-oh has been submitted to Apple for review. Shouldn't be long before we see it in the Appstore and I for one am counting the minutes.

I've long spoken about the frustrations of the iPhone's pitiful Calendar application. For a device that's supposed to be a PDA, the iPhone lags  along way behind its rivals on other mobile platforms. For this reason I believe 'PI' as it's affectionately known will become one of the handful of killer apps for the iPhone. In fact, I am surprised that competitors like AgendaOne and Agendus are not rushing into the Appstore.

I've not even seen the application yet, folks, but I am confident this will be a keeper. Get your credit cards ready!