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SmartScreen 1.1 update

A new version of SmartScreen has been released today. The SmartScreen includes these features and updates:

● Auto-Hide LockBar
● Supports Text Input in the widgets, such as Search Bar and TwitFeed
● Improved Performance

Some bugs were fixed and, overall, the application is more stable than ever.

Hop over to SmartScreen’s product page to learn more about it, or download the app through Cydia. Once you get used to it, you won’t be able to live without it!

Also, the SmartScreen SDK 1.1 has been released today. Now it’s support Notifications feature, such as OpenURLNotification, ShowAlertNotification and LaunchApplicationNotification.

You can get the SmartScreen SDK 1.1 from our web site.

And one last thing today: New widget by MediaPhone - Search Bar. It will let you perform searches on the web, with a search engine of choice, directly from your lock screen. Supports Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Baidu, Wikipedia, Twitter, MySpace, Yandex. Already in our repository!

The contest has been extended

The closing date for the best SmartScreen widget contest, with a prize of a one iPod Touch 3g and 5 licenses for SmartScreen, has been extended to December 24th (12.00 PM CET). The contest was previously scheduled to close on November 20th.

Contest Rules

That’s great! SmartScreen is now available

Today MediaPhone SA are releasing a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch - SmartScreen. In late September we announced the SmartScreen application and released a demo onto YouTube.

SmartScreen is an application for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow informational widgets to be placed and used on the lock screen. Widgets are similar to those offered by Apple’s “Dashboard” and they follow this familiar look and feel.

SmartScreen Features:

● View a various widgets on your iPhone “Lock” screen (Weather, Calendar, Twitter, Notes, and more)
● Rearrange your “Lock” screen
● Multiple screens
● Controls Screen (iPod control, toggles for Wireless interfaces and Services) by double tapping Home button
● Enable “iPod Shake to Shuffle” on “Lock” screen
● Simple organizing widgets in the SmartScreen.app. You can rearrange, hide or show and preview widgets

We are releasing two versions of the SmartScreen: “Lite” and “Full”. The following features are NOT AVAILABLE in the “Lite” version:

● Controls Screen
● “iPod Shake to Shuffle” on “Lock” screen
● Show/hide and preview the widget
● Updates with new features

Also “Lite” version has a limit of 3 widgets.

For 3rd party developers we have made available the SmartScreen SDK. Any developer can create their own unique widget.

“Lite” version is Free, and “Full” version costs $5.00.

Both versions are available in our Cydia repository: apt.media-phone.ch

SmartScreen requires a Jailbroken iPhone OS device and 3.0 software update or later.

Buy it now

Learn more about application on our web site

PS: All widgets from gallery by 3rd party developers will be available soon, because their release doesn’t depend from us.

SmartScreen Contest Rules

Today we are opening a contest for the best SmartScreen widget.

The contest will run until 20 November 2009. Then we’ll stop to take widgets and begin to evaluate your widgets. Each developer can upload any quantity of widgets.

We’ll evaluate each widget by following criteria:

• Idea
• Usability
• Quality

Each criterion will be evaluated from 1 to 10 points. All estimates are summed up and calculated the average score for each widget. The widget, which pick up the maximum grade point average, will be recognized as the best. Another four, having picked up as close to the winner, will be given consolation prizes.

All evaluations will be posted publicly with some commentary from us. The winner will receive an iPod Touch 3g and 5 licenses for SmartScreen. A consolation prize - a two licenses for SmartScreen.

Please send your widgets to with marked “Contest”

Requirements to send information:

• The name (nickname) of the developer and contacts
• Title and description of the widget
• Widget bundle (zipped)

SmartScreen Widget Gallery & Contest

Today we’re launching the SmartScreen Widget Gallery on our web site. This will showcase the widgets that the SDK developers have created alongside some of our own.

Also on this Wednesday will starting a contest for the best widget for SmartScreen. The winner will receive an iPod Touch 3g and 5 licenses for SmartScreen. The finalists will be given consolation prizes - 2 licenses for SmartScreen. The contest rules will be published on this Wednesday.

If you provide a SmartScreen widget that you want to have included here, please send over a description of your widget, a screenshot and a summary of why you created it, pop this info into an email to .

PS: The Beta 3 of the SmartScreen SDK is ready and will be releasing this week.