The Apple iPhone is one of the most impressive electronic devices of our time. While not everyone has bothered to shell out the extra wads of cash to own one, it is an almost given fact that this is the most iconic and well known smart phone for the current generation of electronic devices.

The iPhone has outperformed and outsold every single other mobile device in the past two years, and counting; all devices that have been given the name iPhone killer have lived up to the hype, even the Google Phone, which most experts believed had what it takes to match Apple’s giant, fizzled out within the same month of its launch.

Sadly, as impressive as the iPhone it, it is not without flaws. First off, Apple loves closed devices. This means that the casing and the battery of the iPhone are non-removable –this has turned out to be a problem for many who would prefer to have custom cases and more importantly, have their batteries replaced.

Another catch with the iPhone is that it cannot multi task.

Specs wise, the iPhone is a powerful smart phone that can run games and applications that other mobile devices cannot. In terms of hardware, this two year old device can still keep up with the latest Snapdragon smart phone. The only thing holding back the iPhone from enabling multi tasking is Apple’s own iPhone OS.

To be technically correct about it, the iPhone will allow you to multi task with some phone specific functions –such as playing music on iTunes while doing something else, except running apps. There are many speculated reasons as to why multitasking for third party applications is disabled. The most common answer is that it may cause vulnerabilities in security and of course, eat up the battery life.

Get to know more about the lack of multitasking in the iPhone (and the rumors about possible enabling) at Stuff TV.

Men all over the world are claiming foul at the apparent double standard that Apple is placing on what apps should be allowed on the iPhone app store and what apps should not.

As we all know, Apple has pretty strict rules about which apps it will allow to be posted and made available online. While they recently eased back on the tightness a few weeks ago, a sudden change of heart from the folks at Apple saw the banishing of over a thousand applications they deemed not suitable for the app store due to the inclusion of malicious and adult content.

At the same time, applications for both Playboy and Sports Illustrated are still allowed by Apple.

Many believe that Steve Jobs has a lot to fix regarding this matter. Applications such as iBoobs offer just as much ‘adult content’ as Playboy yet only iBoobs was taken off the site. Some may argue that the Playboy application offers plenty of content for viewing while the iBoobs application is simply a novelty app that allows users to jiggle virtual breasts.

When asked about Sports Illustrated, it is defended as a “well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well accepted format”. While the rest of the statement holds true, we doubt that “well accepted format” would be an apt term when you look at all the women’s rights lobbying against the sale of both Playboy and Sport Illustrated.

Would Apple have shut down iBoobs had it been a Hugh Hefner product? We certainly doubt it, Apple seems to allow big name companies and developers to keep their wares with small independent app devs are getting a wrong end of the shaft.

In any case, this will not be the first time Apple has faced backlash over its double standards in mobile phone apps.

Read more about Apple and iBoobs on Know Your Mobile.

Reading up on mobile news articles can get pretty boring when you are already happy with your current smart phone. So instead of focusing on devices that you would not have an interest in, let’s take a few minutes to take a sneak peek into this week’s newest downloadable goodies for mobile devices.

Let us open up the list with the Good Food Guide. Most folks in the UK would recognize this title as a very famous food guide. Now, everyone gets to access all the amazing and useful info in their mobile phones. Reviews of restaurants, contact info and even menu prices are available on this application. It will even sync with your GPS for that instant reference on the restaurants near your location. Load this up for those nights when you simply cannot device where to grab a bite.

Next on the list is the port of the classic point and click PC game, Broken Sword: Director’s Edition. This sequel to the Curse of Monkey Island will bring you to fictional Paris on a quest to solve a murder. The game will have you investigating and looking for clues in its visually delightful backdrops.

Android phone users would have already heard of the Google Goggles software by now. This impressive device brings augmented reality into a whole new level of functionality. Point and view subject related info gathered online, real time. The app combines GPS and image data to give you accurate info on the subjects.

Last in today’s list is the Wordpress application for Android. Bloggers using this online medium will enjoy the easy to use interface and the custom style formats available with this useful blogging application.

For more applications, details and interesting things to download and install on you mobile phone, go to Stuff TV.

Fans of the Ace Combat series will rejoice at the newest version of their favorite flight-sim by Namco Bandai. The new Ace Combat Xi will be made for the iPhone and is promised to deliver portable high-speed air-fighter action.

The original Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception was made for the Sony Playstation Portable. It featured a fictional world with countries and governments that are allusions to existing ones in the real world. The setting of Skies of Deception is in a part of the world not so different from Eastern Europe and features intense air-to-air and also air-to-land/air-to-sea battles against squads of enemy fighters, tanks, battle ships and fictional mobile super weapons.

Ace Combat games have a tradition of being set in a singular universe, but each game is place so far apart in the fictional timeline that it is hard to establish a direct continuity, they are also released in a non-chronological order (some titles, like Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is set farthest in the future of the game timeline). “Xi” unlike most of the Ace Combat games, is a direct sequel to Ace Combat X –which makes the small “i” not just a nod to the iPhone, but also to imply that this is not a full-fledged “11” (as the Roman numeral XI would have been).

The only other Ace Combat game to be set close to the timeline of another AC game is Ace Combat Zero: the Belkan War. Zero serves as a prequel to Ace Combat 5, this makes “Xi” the first Ace Combat game to be a sequel.

Playing Ace Combat on the iPhone will prove to be both fun and challenging to players as the game will utilize the device’s accelerometer for controlling the plane (hopefully, pitch will not be controlled by tilting the device as this would make the visuals hard to see). The controls are spread on the display so players will have to tap the screen to fire weapons, accelerate and target enemies.