iPhone Journal

Google’s G1: Better than the iPhone?
Google’s entry into the cellphone market is no longer a rumor. The company’s new G1 phone, unveiled this week, will go head-to-head with Apple’s iPhone in an effort to capture part of the market in cutting-edge “app” phones — wireless phones that marry standard wireless telephony with data-driven applications.
Judge Says [...]

Starting on Oct 10th Apple will be replacing power adaptors that came with all iPhone 3Gs bought here in the United States but also Japan, Canada, Mexico and Several Latin American countries.
Apple has determined that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter’s metal prongs can break off and remain in a power [...]

Are you looking for a unique ringtone for your phone?
I just came across this website that is run by a composer. They sell unique, original composed ringtones for $.99 a piece.
You pick the genre and then describe the mood of the song you want.  They will then compose a unique ringtone just for you!
I [...]

The iphone 2.1 software update has been released this morning and is available for download.  According to Apple this update includes bug fixes and these upgrades:

Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
Significantly better battery life for most users
Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
Faster installation of 3rd party applications
Fixed [...]

Links:
Apple Silent on Customers’ iPhone Problems
3G iPhone problems caused by faulty Infineon chip - report
Orcale Reports More Than 23,000 downloads of it’s iPhone App
Turn-by-turn GPS app for iPhone working, waiting on Apple

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So I have updated to firmware 2.0 on my iPhone.  As most of you know, and those who don’t where they heck have you been the last few weeks, that you can now put third party applications on your iPhone.
I have started to test some of the applications and can give you a brief review [...]

The new iPhone 3G has come into our lives.  If you were lucky enough to get one on launch day you’re probably digging the 3G, GPS and better speaker quality.  However, early reports show that if you had an exisiting iPhone, these 3 features are not much of a selling point.
3G is still a bit [...]

Speculation is starting to rear it’s ugly ahead again, this time about 3g iPhones shipping in June.
All three Apple stores in New York: Soho, 59th street and West 14th street were all sold out of iPhones this week. Now as well all know this is a very popular phone and it could mean absolutely [...]

During a conference call Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen announced that they will work with Apple to make sure flash applications run on the iPhone.
Whether and how Flash applications would run on Apple’s iPhone has been an open question since the device’s launch. Narayen’s comments indicate that Adobe will be able to create a version of [...]

As the iPhone SDK gets into more and more hands we have come to find it’s limits.
One of these limitations being that third party applications won’t be allowed to run in the background. Now in terms of games and other such applications this poses only little issues. In fact I’m all for protecting [...]