GoSolarUSA is the company that, after having signed a deal Tuesday, is now the U.S. distributor of the quirky Apple Peel, a device which can be attached to your iPod Touch and gives it iPhone functionality.

“The brothers who invented this Apple Peel probably ran down a list of how many ways could they annoy Steve Jobs,” said Jonathan Hudis, chairman of the American Bar Association’s Trademarks and Unfair Competition Division.

The brothers are Chinese, and their company, Yosion Technology, makes the small Apple Peel, which is made up of a dock connector, battery and SIM. It’s projected to cost $60 and wraps around the iPod Touch, giving users voice call and text message functionality on the Touch.

Of course, the device has to be jailbroken first, something that doesn’t sit well at all with Apple, which bundles the iPhone with a rather expensive two year AT&T plan, a financial drawback that can be avoided with the Apple Peel.

But the story takes a slightly shocking turn when you find out that GoSolarUSA doesn’t plan on just selling the device online, but has been in contact with Micro Center and will try to start talks with Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Fry’s Electronics.

If they manage to convince even one of these companies to sell the gadget, Apple’s reaction should be worth watching.

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The iPhone OS 4.0 was announced only yesterday (yay multi-tasking!), and already its been jailbroken by the always-crafty Dev Team. Of course, this doesn’t mean the official release will feature the same security flaws that allowed the exploit to happen. But I’m just guessing they’ll find a way to crack it, anyway…they always do.

The iPhone 4.0 OS is expected to be released this summer.

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There’s a small, but vocal, contingent of ex-Palm OS users who have switched over to the iPhone but crave their old Palm apps. Their cries have finally been answered by the people at StyleTap, who have just released an emulator program for the Palm OS up to version 5.2. Be warned, however; your phone will need to be jailbroken for it to install. Once you do that, though, you’ll get support for native ARM apps, virtual memory cards, TCP/IP connectivity, audio recording/playback, and more.

The app is available for $49.99 from StyleTap — this thing won’t be on the App Store anytime soon.

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‘Stacks’ have long existed in Apple’s Mac OS, but what about the iPhone?  They are now thanks to ‘Stacks’, a piece of software that you can add to your iPhone, that is assuming it’s Jailbroken (aka hacked).

Much like Mac’s OS you can add multiple applications (in Mac OS X you can view multiple files in a folder, at a glance, from your dock) to your iPhone or iPod Touch’s dock instead of just four.  Tap on a ‘stack’ and a playing card like display of applications are laid out before you.  If you’ve added too many applications to the ‘stack’ it transforms the window to a grid like layout similar to your iPhone’s default screen.

Wired notes that there are a few draw backs to the current interation, such as the lack of icon badges (unread email), visual notifications and a few other minor hiccups.  Problems aside, I think it’s a great idea, though it might defeat the purpose of having four dedicated buttons to choose from.

If you’ve got a Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch you can grab ‘Stacks’ now, you’ll just need to make a $1 donation to the developer.

Video after the ‘leap’

[via Wired]

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