A British online satnav retailer has started taking pre-orders for the TomTom iPhone kit and app, priced at £113.85

TechRadar has spoken with TomTom reps in the UK and we are still awaiting the 'official' confirmation of pricing and a release date, which we should be hearing about soon. For now, the release date is still down as 'summer'.

If you are an iPhone owner and are in need of a pocket-friendly GPS device to guide you around the UK and the rest of Europe that you can easily pop into the dashboard car-dock

Spotify has submitted its first iPhone app to Apple, and hopes to have its streaming music service on the mobile phone within the week.

According to the BBC, Spotify has finally submitted its eagerly awaited app to Apple, and will now suffer the nervous wait over approval.

The service has been a roaring success since it arrived in the UK, offering a wealth of music for no cost – using adverts within the streamed music to fund itself.

The iPhone application apparently offers the same functionality as you'd find on the desktop version, but with

'Breaking the ice' could take on a whole new meaning in future – that's if TAT's new concept Augmented Reality app takes off. Simply point your phone at a stranger and, using facial recognition tech, the new app will pull up their entire digital identity.

Dubbed both "mindblowing" and a "terrifying vision of the future", the possibilities of the Augmented ID app have so far left critics conflicted. The potential is exciting – but do you really want your latest drunken tweet to inform someone's first impression?

It's not quite ready

Google is 'finally' announcing Latitude for the iPhone, but can't put it on the Google Maps application at the request of Apple.

The reason behind the 'request' is Apple doesn't want confusion between a Google Maps App and the native one that comes installed on the iPhone.

However, it's also likely that the iPhone's inability to run applications in the background was a stumbling block too, something Google alluded to in its blog:

"Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to

TomTom's CEO has confirmed that the company's iPhone navigation app is still on course for a summer launch and that it is set to debut on the App Store in the U.S. and Europe at the same time.

Speaking in a conference call announcing the latest financial reports TomTom CEO Harold Goddijn said: "The launch planned for the iPhone this summer is on track."

TomTom's car cradle for the iPhone will be available via all the usual channels, with the TomTom boss adding "hopefully that will include Apple stores."

As far as financial news

Universal Studios is to launch a Blu-ray app for iPhone and iPod Touch that will allow users to access bonus content from the movie they're watching.

Timed to coincide with the Blu-ray release of Universal's Fast & Furious on July 28 the new app will allow users access to a 'virtual car garage' of vehicles from the film that can each be rotated through 360 degrees.

Real-time reference

While this alone is hardly an earth-shattering development, future apps are expected to facilitate more useful tasks including direct access to

Google has stated that it thinks the future of the mobile phone won't be based on mobile App Stores, despite Apple's version tipping 1.5 billion downloads.

Vic Gundotra, Google Engineering VP said that the web 'has won' and in the future will be the platform to find and run all applications.

He believes the problem is the sheer amount of platforms available for applications, such as those from BlackBerry, Apple and Nokia, mean it's hard for a company to support all of them.

Google at the forefront

Speaking at the recent

Apple has released its official figures for a year of the iTunes App Store - and it reached the frankly amazing landmark of 1.5 billion downloads in its first 12 months.

The App Store - providing third party add-ons for iPhones and iPod Touches - has been a phenomenal success.

"The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.

Hard for others to catch up

"With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch

Have you seen the demo of Spotify on Android yet?

If not, check it out and listen really carefully. That sound you can hear in the distance is Steve Jobs swearing.

It looks like Android has found its killer app.

Google's phone OS is pretty nifty, but so far it's lacked the cool factor of Apple's iPhone. Spotify, though, is cool - and if it feels free to the user, it could drive a great big truck through Apple's iTunes business and its iPhone business too.

Being able to stream music from Spotify wherever you go is immensely attractive, but