AT&T Wiping the Decks For the 3G iPhone?

Nobody keeps a secret like AT&T, and by that I mean nobody keeps a secret quite so poorly. Boy Genius Report and other sites are talking up an internal Death Star memo that asks employees to hold down the fort during the June 15 - July 12 window. Vacations should be moved if possible, says [...]

TreasureMyText: Online Storage for Your Text Messages

If you shed a tear every time you have to delete a text message at the bottom of your inbox, or if you can’t bring yourself to part with the latest ROTFLOL SMS sent by your best friend, then TreasureMyText is for you.
TreasureMyText is an online service that will store all of your text messages [...]

AT&T’s Mobility CEO Hints Toward 3G iPhone

Gizmodo posted on an interesting topic that came up during a lunch with AT&T’s Mobility CEO, Ralph de la Vega, regarding the iPhone and 3G support. He said that AT&T expected to have all of the smartphones on their network integrated with 3G. PC Mag’s Sascha Segan asked whether or not this would include iPhones, [...]

The iPhone Has the Potential To Take Over Handheld Gaming

Roughly Drafted has a nice, long analysis of the iPhone as a gaming device, and they hit on a lot of great reasons why the iPhone seems destined to be a great gaming platform. Not only will it have the hardware chops to play games (including a few input devices that no other handheld gaming [...]

Apple To Offer Unlimited Music Plan?

Financial Times reports that Apple is currently in discussions with music companies to allow customers to have unlimited access to the entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices (presumably for the life of the device).
The plan sounds similar to Universal’s Total Music plan in which the [...]

iPhone Dev Team Claim iPhone 2.0 Breakthrough

It hasn’t even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software.
The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone’s bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone authorizes code that can be written to [...]

New AT&T Unlimited Talk Plan For iPhones

Over the last couple of weeks several of the big cell carriers having been rolling out “unlimited” talk packages, including AT&T. Well it appears that they’ve gotten around to adding the iPhone to the mix as the Apple iPhone rates page now features an unlimited plan. For $119.99 a month you get unlimited talk time [...]

Apple Targeting Business World for the iPhone

The New York Times is running a couple of stories about the future of the iPhone in the business world and Apple’s plan to maintain control of application development. Now that the iPhone SDK has been released and the “App store” has been demonstrated, Steve Jobs is pushing for the adoption of the iPhone as [...]

Apple/Microsoft Were In Talks for ActiveSync Before the iPhone Launched

Exchange support in the iPhone has been rumored almost as long as the iPhone itself was rumored to exist. Much as the iPhone turned out to be real, so has ActiveSync on the iPhone. Microsoft released an interview with Terry Myerson, corporate vice president for Exchange, which includes a very interesting tidbit.
Mr. Myserson says that [...]

Apple Announces iPhone SDK, Plus Other Goodies

So you may have heard, Apple threw a little press event today. And while we won’t get into all of the gritty details (Engadget has already done a pretty good job of that), we did want to highlight a few of the more exciting announcements related to the iPhone SDK:

Apple has licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology [...]

Zibri’s Jailbreak Works with iPhone 1.1.4

*UPDATE* (2/29/08): If you happen to own an iPhone, and you happen to have updated to the 1.1.4 firmware, you can now easily jailbreak, activate, and unlock your phone with a couple of simple solutions. As you may have heard, iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 is out, which will do all sorts of non-Apple approved things [...]

HowTo: Getting DVD Movies On Your iPod touch, iPhone

If you’re like me, you take one or more of your DVD movies, TV shows, podcasts and other content with you on your iPod or iPhone when traveling. Heck, I even take stuff for long car trips across town, or to watch when I’m sitting in the waiting room at the doc’s office.
Most of the [...]

BBC Bringing iPlayer To iPod touch / iPhone

Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday’s sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone “in the coming weeks.”
Why on earth is this important? The much-maligned quarter-billion-dollar iPlayer project [...]

Software-only Unlock For 1.1.2/3 iPhone Firmware Announced

As many have you have emailed to tell us, hacker teen wonder George Hotz a.k.a. GeoHot, of the hardware iPhone unlock heard ’round the world, has apparently made something unexpected: a software-only unlocking procedure for the iPhone’s 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 firmware versions. With George’s tools in hand (freely downloadable from his website), iPhone owners in [...]

Upgrade To 16GB iPhone Without Changing Your Contract

iLounge is reporting that some people have received incorrect information when contacting AT&T about upgrading their 4GB or 8GB iPhones to the new 16GB iPhone. In a recent thread on the Apple Discussions, an Apple employee “Nathan C.” said that you can just replace the SIM with your current iPhone’s SIM. He later updated his [...]