If you already own an iPhone with a mobile data subscription, why should you have to pay for another mobile data subscription just to be able to use your iPad when on the go? Since the iPad and the iPhone use different SIM cards you can’t really move your one and only SIM card around either.

A Swedish iPhone user Jezper Söderlund decided to email Steve Jobs himself if tethering would be supported on the iPad, and he got a direct response from Steve himself:

No.
Sent from my iPhone

From Steve Jobs emails Swede that the iPad won’t tether to the iPhone (9to5mac)

It seems that Apple has added a new category for application submissions: the “Explicit” category.

So it looks like fans of titles such as Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes From Outer Space (one of over 5000 applications that were removed in the App Store Cleanup Process) will soon enough be able get their credit cards warm again.

In the latest iPhone OS 3.2 SDK beta 3 for the Apple iPad it has now been confirmed that the iPad is using the same graphics hardware as the iPhone 3GS.

Using OpenGL ES on iPad is identical to using OpenGL ES on other iPhone OS devices. An iPad is a PowerVR SGX device and supports the same basic capabilities as other SGX devices. However, because the processor, memory architecture, and screen dimensions are different for iPad, you should always test your code on an iPad device before shipping to ensure performance meets your requirements.

What this means is that the graphic chip used for the iPhone 3GS will now have to power a display that is over 5 times larger ((1024*768)/(480×320)). While the CPU and MMU is faster on the iPad than the iPhone 3GS (the iPad uses ARM Cortex A9 at 1 Ghz where the iPhone uses an ARM Cortex A8 at 600 Mhz) it still remains to see exactly how much slower games will run on the iPad in native resolution than on the iPhone 3GS.

Not sure if you have heard the news, but Apple has recently banned thousands of “bikini” applications from the App Store. The following standard email was sent out to numerous developers last week.

“The App Store continues to evolve, and as such, we are constantly refining our guidelines. [...] We have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately.  We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application.”

The developer of iWobble, one of the banned applications that has been downloaded almost one million times from the App Store, spoke with Apple last week and received the following new rules:

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn’t ask about Ice Skating tights for men)
3. No skin (he seriously said this) (I asked if a Burqa was OK, and the Apple guy got angry)
4. No silhouettes that indicate that Wobble can be used for wobbling boobs (yes – I am serious, we have to remove the silhouette in this pic)

Not sure if you have heard about “iWobble”, but it is in my opinion a fairly harmless application which only contains one picture of a female – a silhouette image in the main menu. Now one might think that the App Store is completely void of all sexual nudity, but that is not true at all. Nude content from big publishers is still actively being approved by Apple, such as:

• GQ Magazine. Their February issue contains “Victoria’s secret hot model alert”
• Playboy. No comment on their content

Now someone please tell me the morale for keeping applications such as GQ Magazine and Playboy, while removing applications such as iWobble (which only contains a silhouette of a female)? The only reasons I can find for keeping those applications are (a) they come from major publishers, and (b) they generate huge amounts of revenue for Apple. In either case the App Store rules just became even more complex, especially if you are into the swimsuit business.

Are you going to Mobile World Congress? Do you own an iPhone? Then don’t miss the official GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 iPhone application!

The application offers:

• Full maps over the entire venue with positioning support
• Exhibitor search (you can also click the map to find out the name of the exhibitor)
• Full conference schedule

When starting up the application you are immediately taken to a map view over the congress area, indicating your own position. Clicking at the bottom center button you can then proceed to search for an exhibitor:

Clicking at the bottom right button brings you to the complete conference agenda:

Very sweet! I’m looking forward to testing it on-site on Monday. Now I just need to fix a one-week flat-rate 3G subscription in Spain… Any ideas?