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Schmap is a famous US publisher of several applications and services designed to improve our travel experiences.
Among these useful tools we mention the Schmap Guides series of digital travel guides including dynamic maps with suggested tours, text description and pictures from different reviews of public attractions, restaurants, hotels, parks, theaters, and museums, all covering 200 destinations in US, Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zeeland. These guides can be found online or downloaded on your mobile computer and browsed via Schmap 2.0 application.

One of the features of Schmap Guides is that it allows you to publish your own interactive online maps with pictures and reviews from your trips, for sharing with the others.
Also, with Schmap Widgets you can show maps with event schedules like concert tours or sports, on websites or blogs.

The latest Schmap announced by the company is the special application designed for the iPhone and iPod touch, which comes with the City Guides and Local Search features enabled via Rotate’n Map. When you turn your iPhone sideways this application comes to life displaying all the places on the map. It updates dynamically as you scroll the list on the right.
With Schmap Rotate'n Map enabled on your iPhone you can browse through 100 cities from all over the world and read reviews or watch pictures with different locations to decide the perfect vacation.
You can find all you need, from coffee shops and banks to golf courses and dentists, and all you have to do to locate these on a map is to turn your handset sideways.

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iLounge, maybe the world’s largest iPhone and iPod resource of information, has just announced the Design The Next iPhone, Win The Next iPhone Contest, where you can submit your ideas about how the next iPhone should and could look like, as well as what new functionalities it can come with.
After the end date, only 6 concepts will win the competition and they will win 3 Apple’s next iPhone model, while other 3 will get $100 iTunes Gift Cards.
To participate you have to submit at least a 1600 pixels wide image with the next generation iPhone and description, as well as your personal information including name, e-mail address, and location.
You can do this until May 25, when the international contest ends, and the winners will be announced in the Free iPod + iPhone Book 4 on June 1.

And now, to give you an idea about what others have submitted, here are the ideas of other designers about how the next generation iPhone could look like:



iPhone Dual Track Balls
Someone saw the next iPhone model as a handset with dual track balls, a design addition meant to make scrolling easier for those that use the iPhone for gaming.



iPhone Air
It is inspired , of course, by the MacBook Air look but not to make the handset lighter but probably just to match it with the world’s lightest notebook



iPhone Air:Thinnovation
It’s the thinnest iPhone concept, it too inspired by the MacBook Air design, but this one really matches the notebook, don’t you think?
If MacBook Air fits a manila envelope, iPhone Air: Thinnovation inserts easily into an airmail envelope.



iPhone Pico
iPhone Pico would e the world’s smallest iPhone, and it’s so small that we can’t see it.



iPhone Nil
iPhone Nil is no phone but just application icons.



iPhone Clear
A thinner version than the iPhone Air : Thinnovation.



iPhone Slide
-the slider version of the iPhone candybar. It would have two displays with multi-touch input, Video Conferencing, Ambient Light Sensor, Accelerometer, 32 GB storage, and 512 MB of RAM memory.



iPhone Bio
It’s called Bio because it uses Biometric Security technology aka Fingerprint Scanning for identifying the right user for full access grant.



iPhone Archetype
This is a concept version for the first 3G iPhone, a handset covered in a metallic black layer with backlit Apple logo. What it brings new is the glossy bezel replacing the chrome finish, and it also integrates the iCam mounted in the front.
The iBall sphere is scrollable and can be used for sound control and navigation, while there is also the multi-colored LED indicator that shows categories statuses.



Smallest Phone Ever
Smaller than iPhone Pico? Maybe but it looks kinda ugly.

iPhone 3G
Another iPhone 3G concept…



4 New Flavors of iPhone
Cool color suggestions for the iPhone.

The new surprise from Goldstriker is iPhone Solar Star edition, a 24ct gold version of the popular mobile handset included in the recently announced Elite choice collection designed by Stuart Hughes.

iPhone Solar Star is a suberb nahdset sporting a front bezel with rear logo strucked with 24ct gold, and the Lamborghini Gallardo-inspired bottom part.
Goldstriker offers it at a price of £749.95.

Another Elite cell phone from the same company specialized in luxury designs is iPhone 16GB Black Night also coming in 24ct gold.

Yet another superb decoration from Goldstriker!
The company has just announced its new and exquisite iPhone Black Night special edition created by Stuart Hughes for the elite.

You can recognize these iPhone 16GB from the front bezel and rear logo struck with 24ct gold, with an adaptable finish to match any car you prefer.
Included in the Elite collection, iPhone Black Night is also part of the Bentley diamond black metallic range and is available at a price of £699.95.

Soon, Goldstriker will unveil two new special iPhones inspired by the Jaguar XK winter gold and Lamborghini Gallardo's balloon white models.

<-125x125 Button - left->A new Apple patent application called Dual sided trackpad appeared on the Internet and it seems to describe the future iPhone model, an iPhone 2.0, which looks better than the actual model if we look at its design: a clamshell.
Of course, the classic candybar concept phone is one everyone’s taste but this new drawings show something more modern and cooler, still keeping the known iPhone functions and technologies.

The designer wanted to separate the capacitive touch sensor array from the display creating two different units practically, one being the transparent panel integrating the touch sensor array.
This way both sides would be touch-sensitive and when you close it the handset becomes a classic full multi-touchscreen beloved iPhone.
How would you use it?



To dial a number you draw it on the trackpad or the rotational dial may appear on the screen so you would rotate it sliding your finger on the trackpad.
When open, the transparent unit should display the T9 keypad with other symbols, and this can be done by polarizing the number and symbol markings seen only when the trackpad is open.

Another cool feature is that both units can be kept touch-active and you could enable the 3D gestures: the XY axis would be on the one side and the Z on the other.

There are many interpretations for this patent but we’d better wait for some public statements from Apple which we hope they’ll come out in the near future.