Engadget has gotten their hands on iPhone firmware version 2.0. Some of the new features include a scientific calculator when you turn your iPhone sideways with the calculator open and the previously announced Exchange support is as smooth as it should be. continued »

Potential big changes afoot in the way Apple handles iTunes downloads, with the FT reporting that discussions are underway regarding both "all you can eat" unlimited downloads, based on an at-purchase premium, and subscription-based downloads for the iPhone. While Apple themselves refused to comment on the rumors, "executives familiar with the negotiations" cited disagreements over the price offered to ... continued »

When is an iPhone not an iPhone? When it's a spirit-level, of course; at least, that's the latest way to repurpose your $399+ wunderphone. Photographer Ben Long was seemingly staging a ghetto photoshoot but lacked a level to make sure his camera was straight. Thankfully he'd had the foresight to Jailbreak his iPhone, load iLevel - which ... continued »

Others (including many analysts) may have doubts about the iPhone’s success, but we never did. Here at iPhone Buzz, we always knew the iPhone is a revolutionary device where other phone manufacturers will scramble to imitate. Six months after the iPhone’s U.S. launch, has the device changed the mobile landscape? According to M:Metrics, the mobile media authority, the answer ... continued »

The 8GB iPhone is available on AT&T’s website for only $249. I’m sure that at this price, they’ll go like hot cakes. Don’t think that AT&T will let you hog a ton of them to yourself – because there’s a limit of one per customer. You can even buy the Apple $69 Apple Care program, which provides ... continued »

Peter Aloisson’s passion for phones and diamond really shines through the “Princess Plus” – named after half of its 318 diamonds consisting of square cuts, instead of common round stones. The 17.75 carats of diamonds are set in 18 karat white gold around the edge of the iPhone, pushed the price to 120,000 EUR, or $176,400. This makes ... continued »

Unless you're reading this via the RSS feed, you can't help but have noticed that we've redesigned and relaunched the site. We've decided to take MY iTablet back to its roots: riding the iPhone Buzz! The name might be different, but you can still expect the same great mixture of news, reviews and opinion together with our active ... continued »

Despite having only been available for less than 12 months, the iPhone's form-factor is already well-cemented; could an Apple handset sporting anything other than a full-face touchscreen be viewed as a true iPhone? Brand recognition is great, but it can be stifling as well, especially if you want to introduce new form-factors but still preserve the functionality you've built ... continued »

The iPhone is the ultimate gaming device - Nokia are you worried yet? Gameloft said it will develop more than 15 game titles for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone in 2008. A New York-based mobile-gaming developer said it intends to develop mobile game titles built on Apple's iPhone software-development kit released Thursday. continued »

Apple is really taking baby steps...keep in mind that it's only a small portion of apps that are affected by this restriction. Games or utilities can still save their application status to disk often allowing you to resume where you left off when you start it back up. But the single biggest issue we’ve found is in the 100 page iPhone ... continued »

Epocrates®, Inc., developer of mobile applications used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals, is excited to announce that it has begun development of its clinical software products for the iPhone operating system. Epocrates was one of only five companies, including Salesforce.com, AOL, EA and Sega, to be highlighted by Steve Jobs during the iPhone Software Roadmap media briefing. “By putting so ... continued »

I was under the impression that Apple said they wouldn’t allow code parser such as Sun’s JVM on the iPhone. Sun came to the conclusion it could make a JVM work on the iPhone after taking 24 hours to look at information on Apple's SDK. Sun saw nothing in the public statements preventing the JVM from being one of the applications ... continued »