We have no problem with Apple pumping out iPhone OS updates that measure in the hundreds of megabytes. In fact, the bigger the better – more features are never a bad thing. Except when those feature-packed update files are sitting around wasting space on your hard drive, as iPhone Atlas so helpfully points out. With…
iPhone scores another goal for Apple with 1% global mobile phone market share
Apple is firing on all cylinders recently. Having just announced that the company has met its self-imposed goal of selling 10 million iPhone and iPhone 3G handsets before the end of the 2008 calendar year, Apple is now the 8th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. A new report from ABI Research has the…
Adobe coming to Mobile World Congress with Flash for iPhone?
We’re looking forward to big things at Mobile World Congress, which kicks off in just a couple weeks time. There’s a lot of hardware that we’re dying to get our hands on (not to mention some choice software), and we’ll be bringing it to you live from the Fira Barcelona show-floor. Mobile World Congress is…
Crackulous goes live – iPhone users recruited to crack iPhone apps
The iPhone application pirating community just got a helping hand. The folks at Hackulous have released their Crackulous iPhone application, in beta form, to iPhone-app pirates around the world. For those of you previously unaware, there is indeed an iPhone application pirating community working to subvert Apple’s software DRM scheme. With the release of Crackulous,…
Adobe Still Working Hard on Flash for the iPhone
If you’ve been waiting and waiting for Flash to hit the iPhone, you’re not alone. Over the past few days however, some promising words have come out of the mouth of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. In an inverview with Bloomberg Television, he noted: “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple…
iPhone Dev Team cracks iPhone 2.2.1 OS – PwnageTool 2.2.5 jailbreaks iPhone and iPhone 3G!
Well, there you have it, folks. It took the iPhone Dev Team no more than a few days to crack the new iPhone 2.2.1 OS. Apple went official with their new iPhone 2.2.1 OS firmware update for iPhone and iPhone 3G users just a few days ago, and The Team has already managed to jailbreak…
AT&T posts lackluster Q4 2008 financials despite iPhone 3G successes
The iPhone 3G has been a boon for the second-largest US wireless carrier. With over 4.3 million iPhone 3G activations since it’s launch, the iPhone 3G has brought in more than its fair share of subscribers and new revenue to AT&T coffers. Unfortunately, even the 1.9 million iPhone 3G activations that AT&T pushed through in…
Apple mulling integrated 3G data connection on future MacBook?
While netbooks with integrated 3G data connectivity garnered significant interest over the just-past holiday shopping season, larger laptops were largely left out of the party. Today, we’re hearing that Apple might soon change all that with a rumor that has AT&T and Apple possibly collaborating to integrate AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband service with Apple’s laptop…
Apple sued over misleading iPhone 3G data performance
Apple is being sued yet again by an irate iPhone 3G owner in Northern California. Disgruntled iPhone 3G user Jason Medway filed a 14-page suit that includes himself and all iPhone 3G owners in California as part of complaint. In the suit, Medway alleges that Apple has continued to push iPhone 3G sales with the…
New iPhone Spotted in 2.2.1 Firmware Code
Hello… Some snooping around the recently-released iPhone 2.2.1 software code has revealed a section referencing something called iPhone 2,1. (The original iPhone was referenced as 1,1, the iPhone 3G as 1,2.) It might not be anything more than planning for an iPhone with extra storage space, but wandering imaginations might lead us to more iPhone…