For a certain generation, Oregon Trail was one of the first video games they every got hooked on. And now it’s coming to the iPhone, albeit in a form that looks more like Hokkaido Trail.

On the one hand, I love Oregon Trail and would love to play it on my iPhone. On the other hand, I’m not sure how close to the original this version stays. I’m fine with graphical updates, but I don’t remember collecting coins as I forded the river or being given advice from anime characters.

But I shall reserve judgment. No word on the release date for this one, but it shouldn’t be too much longer. [IGN via LA Times]

Hey, nobody ever said the iPhone was a nice person. But like most celebrities, he’s handsome as hell so he gets away with being a complete dick. Here’s the clip:

[College Humor]

Sprint has taken their sweet time pushing out the Windows Mobile 6.1 Palm Treo Pro—but with the Palm Pre on its way, is the Pro even worth releasing at this point?

If there’s any phone in the whole world coupled with any service in the whole world that could benefit from femtocell technology, it’s the iPhone on AT&T. Luckily, the iPhone has received an update.

Through an iTunes “carrier update” last Friday, the iPhone has been made compatible with AT&T’s upcoming MicroCell—well, a .png file was added to signal MicroCell connectivity. The MicroCell is essentially a mini 3G tower for your home (connecting through your internet connection) that boosts your reception like a Wi-Fi router. And like we said, as much as we love the iPhone, it’s pretty much the poster child for femtocell technology. [The iPhone Blog]

Amazon’s VP for Kindle, Ian Freed, just confirmed to us the little nugget Jeff Bezos mentioned in the Kindle 2 keynote about WhisperSync: Kindle content is coming to cellphones.

They’re not ready to say which cellphones—or even when they’re going to announce them—but they want them on them cellphones, plural. Pretty exciting! Hopefully, we’ll know more soon.

We also talked a bit about Kindle perpetual out-of-stock problem. Two bits of good news: If you ordered a Kindle as far back as “late 2008,” but didn’t get it yet, your order is now magically for a Kindle 2. There’s also way more stock to go around at launch than there was of the original Kindle, though Ian wouldn’t commit to specific numbers.

Here’s the deal if you’re a current Kindle owner and order before midnight. Jeff Bezos said you’re first in line, but according to Ian, they’re in the same “first in line” queue as the people who ordered a Kindle way back in December (who now have Kindle 2s coming to them). So, as simply as possible, you need to already have a Kindle or have ordered one to get one anytime soon.

We teased the LG KM900 about unabashedly copying the iPhone earlier this month, but maybe we should scale that back a bit. New info leads me to believe the interface is more SUSE than Apple.

Sure, those incredibly similar menu icons are still there at the bottom, but that spinning cube is more Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop than iPhone. Novell’s been spinning their Linux desktop OS like a cube-shaped top for years, and this S-Class cube interface from LG reminded me of it today.

Says LG of their cube:

A cube-based layout provides four customizable home screens for direct access to all features. Music, movies, pictures and more are within reach, thanks to intuitive, touch-based 3D menus. The rich 3D graphics give S-Class a life-like look that makes it natural and easy to navigate.

Of course, that spinning, natural and “easy to navigate” 3D cube might not perform quite that way when the phone is loaded up with apps, music and other memory-hogging info, but we’ll know for sure when this guy officially launches at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 16.

[Unwired View]