Looking or something new to play around with on your iPhone? Then check out Tech Digest's roundup of our favourite apps of the week.

This week includes apps from the world's favourite wizard Harry Potter, civilization building with The Settlers, song recognition with the updated Shazam Encore and an MP3 alarm clock from TimeTuner.

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It may be a year old, but the iPhone is still breaking records. Orange recorded over 30,000 iPhone 3GS units sold yesterday, their first day selling the handset, breaking the record for single day sales for a mobile phone.

It's a massive figure. But with so few differences between the services offered by Orange and O2 it is a little hard to explain. A loyal customer base perhaps, or the multi-million "You're Covered" ad campaign boasting Orange's strong coverage might have helped the surge in interest. Little perks like Orange Wednesdays too swing support in Orange's favour.

It will be interesting to see whether or not Vodafone can match or beat these big numbers when they start selling the iPhone in early 2010.

Vodafone aren't even selling the iPhone yet, but already they are wading into the war of the smartphone, claiming to have the fastest download speed on the iPhone 3GS.

In a test against their as yet unavailable Vodafone-connected iPhone, Vodafone claim that downloading a 10 minute YouTube video was significantly faster with their 3G network compared to O2 or Orange.

With O2 and Orange giving away little to separate their iPhone services, Vodafone's boast may sway attention their way in preparation for their own 2010 iPhone launch.

Tech Digest will be sure to test Vodafone's claim once the iPhone is available on their network.

Via: FoneHome

Waze, the user-generated road mapping service goes global today.

The Waze application runs on users' smartphones, automatically and anonymously sending back GPS points as they drive. This data is then used to build and continuously update the Waze system map, giving users up to date information on traffic, road closures and more.

The program has already proved popular elsewhere around the globe. Drivers have organically formed their own groups and have started using Waze to build local maps in over 20 countries around the world, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and Trinidad and Tobago.

"Even without specific country support, we were amazed to see Wazers on our live map in clusters all over the world self organizing," said Noam Bardin, CEO of Waze. "We are committed to fostering this community of users and supporting them with the new infrastructure launched today. I would like to thank these motivated Wazers from all over the world for helping us bring better maps, free navigation and an improved daily commute to their regions."

As it is essentially a community driven service, the brand new global app still has some way to go before it is truly useful to UK road users, as so few have yet had a chance to try out the software and build the UK road grid. Still, it's a nice idea and watching the live map grow on the Waze website is quite a sight.

Definitely one to keep an eye on in the future.

For more information, visit www.waze.com.

Klipsh are ready to launch a new updated version of their popular iGroove SXT dock. This latest incarnation of the speaker system can accommodate all the latest iPod and iPhone models, including the iPhone 3GS.

The iGroove SXT employs dual long-throw 2.5-inch woofers in a ported enclosure and dual 19mm horn-loaded tweeters. Each driver is individually amplified to lessen distortion and Klipsch has also re-tuned the bass ports on the sides of the system to remove any "port noise".

The dock also has S-video out, allowing users to play videos on their TVs, and a 1000mA charger built into the dock to keep your Apple gadgets powered up.

"The iGroove SXT has always been our smallest, most affordable dock speaker," said Don Inmon, Klipsch director of marketing and product development for personal audio. "And even with all its new updates, we're keeping the original system price of £129.99. I think consumers will be really pleased with the results."

The iGroove SXT dock is available here from Amazon, priced £114.99.

Sky and Apple have joined forces, launching Sky Mobile TV on the iPhone.

The Sky Mobile TV app will let iPhone and iPod Touch users stream live TV via a Wi-Fi connection from a selection of live channels. Content from the Sky Sports channels (including Sky Sports News and live Premiership football), ESPN, Sky News and At The Races will all be available.

The app is free to download, but is subject to a £6 monthly fee. O2 users however will be able to access the service for free for a trial period of three months.

The iPhone is available to buy from Orange as of today, following the end of O2's exclusivity deal on the handset. But how does the smartphone compare across the two networks?

In terms of pricing, there is barely a whisker in it. Orange are just about cheaper, with their lowest priced monthly deal costing £29.36. That's a mere 2p less than O2's most comparable offer. It's practically this close across all the other price ranges with only a penny's difference between the two. Orange do however offer the more advanced iPhone 3GS 16GB and 32GB models on their cheapest deals, whereas you have to cough up £34.26 a month on O2 to get them.

If you're grabbing an iPhone you're probably looking forward to using the internet on the go, and straight away Orange come a cropper here. Their unlimited data usage is in fact anything but unlimited, capped at a miserly 750MB a month. Anyone planning on streaming music or video will burn through that allowance. While O2's fair data usage policy is decidedly vague, so far it has seemed reasonable, allowing users to get on with their browsing without much hassle.

If you travel a lot, roaming charges are worth looking at too. O2 have a pretty good policy on roaming; International Travellers Service is included in pay monthly deals, which they claim saves you about 80% on roaming charges, with calls costing from 35p a minute. Orange lose a point here; you have to be on their massive £122.34 a month price plan to get just 100 roaming minutes and 20MB of data, with calls starting at 38p. Do the math and O2's International Travellers Service saves you a pretty penny.

It's also worth considering that O2 notoriously have poorer network coverage than Orange, though many have claimed that limitations in the iPhone hardware will mean that there may be little noticeable difference between the two networks in this respect.

It's a tight race then so far. Some will decry Orange's "unlimited" data usage (capped at 750MB a month), but O2's fair usage policy is so vague that there probably isn't much difference between the two in that respect.

We may have all hoped for a price war, but that has certainly not been the case. Perhaps once Vodafone get in on the iPhone action next year things will heat up a little, but until then it's nearly neck and neck.