This week started off slow as far as iPhone news, but by the end of the week, things had picked up considerably. A very interesting piece of information was found in the Network.plist file of the latest beta of iPhone firmware 2.0. The option to toggle 3G on and off. It is suggested that the preference will not show up ... continued »

News is extremely limited at the moment, but TUAW reports that another version of the iPhone SDK and iPhone firmware have been released by Apple, and are available now to download. The news is still coming in from the developers that have gotten a hold of the new firmware and SDK. continued »

The new iPhone firmware is going to bring many magical things to the iPhone loving masses. We all know that, and there is no doubt about it. This little gem though, makes it even sweeter. There are rumors, that the latest build of the iPhone SDK, suggests that handwriting recognition may be included in the 2.0 firmware. Unfortunately, as of ... continued »

In a sit down with Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Engadget Mobile's Ryan Block discussed the process of porting the Java platform to the iPhone. Overall, Schwartz seems very confident that Java is going to be in the future for the iPhone. He says they are having no problems on the technical side of things, but may face ... continued »

McAfee's anti virus solution for the iPhone, called Stinger, would be the first of the of it's kind. A version of it was leaked to the public recently, and the official statement from McAfee is that the software is a proof of concept and is not ready for the public to use yet. This is very clear when you consider ... continued »

Unless you have been living under a rock the last few months, then you know that the 3G iPhone is one of the single hottest news items being discussed right now. This week is no different. One rumor of it may offer a little light at the end of the tunnel though. The 3G version of the BlackBerry has been ... continued »

The new iPhone SDK is going to give developers another tool in their arsenal. The new iPhone SDK has a sort of semi background process support that has been discovered. It is important to note that this is not background process support, at least not in the true sense of the word. Also, the documentation that comes with the SDK ... continued »

Apple has made the 4th beta of it's iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) available to iPhone developers. The new version of the iPhone SDK has support for OpenGL ES for the iPhone emulator that is included in the SDK. Before the support for this came out, to truly and reliably test iPhone applications, the developers would have to load the ... continued »

Infineon's S-GOLD3 has seemingly been confirmed as the chipset to be used in Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone, as predicted from examination of the recently released iPhone SDK Beta 3.  According to DigiTimes, Chinese paper Economic Daily News has confirmed that United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have been selected as the foundry that will produce the chip on Infineon's behalf.  The chip, PMB8878, will ... continued »

While enterprise features such as Exchange support and VPN might make your company IT department tremble with excitement, the rest of us are slyly eyeing up the possibility of arcade-style gaming on the iPhone.  Back at the roadmap event, Apple announced it had been working with SEGA to bring Super Monkey Ball to the handset, using the iPhone's accelerometers to guide ... continued »

Developers NetBlender have just announced their BD Touch software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Using the official Apple SDK, they've come up with an app that links your handset, via WiFi, to your Blu-Ray player; not only can you control it remotely, you could use it to transfer content from the player to your iPhone, direct from the Blu-Ray ... continued »

The new build of iPhone OS 2.0 now features contact search.  Alleluia!  I have over 1,500 contacts I’ve been collecting over the past ten years.  After flicking through the list a few dozen times does get old.  Anyways, the search function is also included with the revised iPhone Simulator that comes with the SDK build 9M2158a, beta 3. continued »