MediaPhone

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!

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.