EA was able to develop a new game for the iPhone within 2 weeks, and they’d never seen the SDK prior to that. They took and old classic “Spore” and put it on the iPhone. “The animation technology in the iPhone OS enables us to build awesome games. I think iPhone consumers are going to be blown away by the games ... continued »

The iPhone Dev Team have once again proved their worth by Jailbreaking Apple's Firmware 2.0 for the iPhone - yes, the firmware that won't be officially launched until June. The screenshot they provided - with a video apparently coming soon - shows apps running on the new firmware, which would normally require an as-yet-unawarded developer's certificate. continued »

I’m still baffled as to why Apple decided to leave out or is incapable of offering Copy and Paste on the iPhone. Preston Monroe got sick and tired of waiting on Apple so he took matters into his own hands and developed iCopy. iCopy is a javascript bookmarklet that lets you copy and paste text or URLs between ... continued »

CUPERTINO, California—March 12, 2008—Apple® today announced that more than 100,000 iPhone™ developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6. The iPhone SDK provides developers with the same rich set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools that Apple uses to create its native applications for iPhone and ... continued »

Copenhagen / London, 12 March, 2008 - mobilePeople's award winning liquidTM mobile search platform now supports the iPhone, extending new monetisation opportunities for directory publishers and directory assistance companies. This news comes swift on the heels of Apple's announcement that the majority of mobile internet usage in the US is conducted on the iPhone and Google's announcement that it monitors ... continued »

Hackintosh and Gizmodo both posted screenshots and a short video of the forthcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware. New stuff easily seen consist of support for Exchange, AppStore, Parental Controls, SDK Support, more advanced calculator, Cisco VPN support, Mail mass deletion. One feature I was hoping to see but not shown or supported is Spotlight Search icons in contacts. Click over ... continued »

Apple have announced the dates for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2008, which will be held June 9th through to the 13th in San Francisco. With the slogan "A landmark event. In more ways than one", Apple will be focusing on development for OS X Leopard and the new iPhone SDK, while the keynote will likely be held ... continued »

If you received the rejection letter below, don’t take it personal. You’ll be happy (or sad – depending on how you look at it) that a lot of other folks are in the same boat. Apple did say in the press release accompanying the SDK announcement that “a limited number of developers will be accepted into Apple’s new ... continued »

Our cellphone-loving sister site PHONE Magazine has been invited to Apple's exclusive iPhone SDK Roadmap event today, 10am PST, and will be live-blogging the whole thing at http://live.phonemag.com/  We're expecting news not only of the SDK - which will finally allow developers to produce official third-party applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch - but about new "enterprise features" ... continued »

The same geniuses who brought you the iJailbreak solution for Apple's latest iPhone and iPod Touch 1.1.3 firmware have gone that extra mile of tweaking and created iJailbreak Mobile: now you can enable unofficial third-party software on your cellphone or PMP without even needing to use your Mac or PC.  Requiring your device has already been Jailbroken for versions 1.1.1 ... continued »

The stability of the latest iPhone Jailbreak method - which allows unofficial third-party applications to be run on handsets with the latest 1.1.3 Apple firmware - is being questioned, as multiple users report issues with their iPhones after installing the patch.  Most common is for AT&T customers who have previously upgraded to 1.1.3 being unable to connect to the network ... continued »

If you're both an iPhone and GMail user then you might have another reason to eschew any illicit unlocking and go straight for the 1.1.3 firmware upgrade: it quietly changes the connection between the Google email service and the Apple handset from POP to IMAP.  Basically, that means that any changes performed on the iPhone - such as marking emails ... continued »