In the news

New competitors on the horizon for the iPhone, new apps for iPhone users, raising the limits for iPhone owners to download those apps, prior inconsistent statements from Steve Jobs on the iPhone, and delicious and "powerful" oranges ... all in this Friday's edition of iPhone J.D. In The News:

• DataViz showed off Documents to Go to the folks at The iPhone Blog at the Mobile World Congress 2010 that was held this week in Barcelona, and the result is this YouTube video.  Upcoming features revealed by DataViz in this video include (1) upcoming support for multiple Exchange and/or Gmail accounts; (2) support for Google Docs in an update that will be submitted to the App Store in a few weeks, and (3) support for other cloud services similar to Google Docs in the future.  Right now, Quickoffice has the edge on access to cloud services, but it looks like DataViz is working hard to catch up on that front.  And as I noted just the other day, DataViz already has other advantages over Quickoffice such as the ability to edit PowerPoint files and the ability to work with footnotes.
• Microsoft has been making operating systems for smartphones for a long time, but for a very long time now has shown very little innovation and there has been little reason for someone to go with a Windows Mobile phone over an iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Pre.  This week, however, Microsoft announced its next version of Windows Mobile called Windows Phone 7 Series.  Phones using this WP7S won't be available until later this year, but Engadget has a hands on with a demo unit and it has a very interesting interface, one which reminds me of a Zune HD.  Hopefully, Microsoft will have a competitive product that will help make all smartphones better, including of course the iPhone.
• Attorney Reid Trautz and I are preparing for our 60 iPhone Apps in 60 Minutes session at the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago next month.  As a result of our starting to put our heads together, Reid posted a great list of the Top Ten iPhone Apps for Busy Lawyers.
• Speaking of cool apps, the L.A. Times talks about 21 useful travel apps for the iPhone.
• Moreover, Tom Kaneshige of InfoWorld talks about the Six Best iPhone Apps You've Never Heard Of.
• Apparently Kaneshige is thinking a lot about the iPhone right now, because he also wrote on article for CIO about iPhone security, in which he offers opinions that iPhone owners are too lax about security concerns.  As even Kaneshige hints at in his article, many of these concerns are unfounded except for users who have jailbroken their iPhones.  As I've written in the past, I do not recommend that you jailbreak your iPhone because of potential security risks, but otherwise iPhones are very secure.
• Curious what a magazine might look like on an iPad?  Wired posted a video preview of a version of its magazine on a tablet, and it looks pretty darn cool.
• It used to be that if you were using 3G on your iPhone and wanted to download an app, a song, a podcast, a video, etc., you could only do so if the file was under 10MB.  As widely reported on sites like MacNN and TUAW, Apple has just raised this limit around the world to 20MB.  You are still going to need Wi-Fi to download a very large app or other file, but it is nice to get a little extra breathing room.  For example, I like to listen to the daily Mac OS Ken podcast when I can, and sometimes when I am away from my Mac (the computer I use to sync my iPhone) I try to download the latest episode on my iPhone over 3G, but the editions tend to vary from around 7MB to 13MB so in the past I had mixed success.  Going forward I suspect that I'll rarely have a problem downloading that podcast over 3G.
• It's a good thing that the ceiling was lifted somewhat, because apparently we need it.  Charles Starrett of iLounge reports on a study prepared for Consumer Reports that reports that iPhone users consume, on average, 274 MB of data per month, compared to 54 MB for Blackberry users and 150 MB for other smartphone users.
• In 2003, Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal that Apple wasn't interested in making a smartphone: "We didn’t think we’d do well in the cellphone business. What we’ve done instead is we’ve written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices.”  Clearly, Jobs changed his mind on that one, and Wired's Bryan Chen complies a fun list of what he calles "Steve Jobs' Six Sneakiest Statements."
• I reported last month that the $999.99 bar review app BarMax is now the most expensive app in the App Store.  MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch that just a few weeks after BarMax came out, competitor BarBri has already made some changes to compete, even though BarBri has been in this business a heck of a lot longer than BarMax.  It appears that this app is actually getting pretty good reviews, so if you are a law student in California — Click here for BarMax ($999.99): 
• I see that BarMax now also offers a free MPRE prep app, and a slimmed down MBE-only version of its app.  Click here for BarMax MPRE (free):    Click here for BarMax MBE ($499.99): 
• Aron Trimble of TUAW reports on ZoomMediaPlus, an upcoming $60 device ($50 if you pre-order now) that adds an SD card reader to your iPhone.
• Patently Apple reports that as of February 9, 2010, Apple now officially owns the trademark for "iPhone."  Well it's about time.
• And finally, PR company Imperial Leisure came up with a viral marketing campaign to raise awareness of Jaffa oranges, a sweet orange exported by Israel:  they produced a video showing how many oranges it would take to power an iPhone.  Too funny: