Have you been following the mystery of the “iPhone girl”? A British iPhone user says he found a photo of a young Chinese girl pre-loaded on his new Apple device. Now, after days of speculation, the Chinese government-run media has confirmed the girl is a real factory employee.
The China Internet Information Center says […]

Forget the mile-long lines so many cities saw on iPhone launch day: Poland’s mobile carrier has apparently paid actors to pretend they’re interested in the product.
The iPhone is set to go on sale there Friday, but mobile company Orange is worried Polish customers won’t be so keen on the costs, according to InformationWeek. It […]

With the sort-of-maybe-kind-of-partial-fix for 3G now deployed around the world, Apple may be moving on to another software patch for its seemingly problem-plagued iPhone.
An e-mail said to be from Steve Jobs indicates a new update slated for September. The update will fix a bug that causes the phones not to load some third-party apps […]

Apple has released a firmware update for the iPhone, 2.0.2, and there’s some suggestion that it may include a fix to the 3G coverage issues.
MG Seigler at VentureBeat reports that post update he’s getting better 3G coverage in San Francisco, but there appears to be no official word yet as to whether the upgrade included […]

After months of developer agony, Google has finally released its beta version of the Android SDK — the same day its first Android phone was formally approved by the FCC.
The SDK, 0.9 beta, builds on the “early look” releases made public in November. Google says although the full 1.0 release is unfinished, APIs will […]

Further to our report August 12 on faulty 3G iPhones, news has emerged that Apple is preparing a software fix.
iPhone 3G users worldwide have reported ongoing issues with 3G call quality, including signal issues and call drop outs, and I’m among them. BusinessWeek reports two sources saying that Apple hopes that the software remedy will […]

Not long after acquiring an Apple iPhone 3G on launch day I started noticing reception issues. Some times I’d have a full signal, but at other times I’d have little or no 3G coverage at all. In the United States, others have had similar issues, but the AT&T 3G network is still fairly new and […]

iPhone application Lifecast brings simple, geolocation and time tagged blogging to iPhone users.
The application from UK based Sleepydog allows users to record their day through text and pictures, then either immediately, or later upload those entries, complete with time stamp and geolocation data linked to Google Maps.
The key selling point is simplicity; this isn’t […]

As I drove my 5 year old son to school this morning in a wet, cold Melbourne winter morning, he sat in the car next to me playing Crash Bandicoot Nitro Card 3D on my less than 2 week old iPhone 3G. I only purchased the game yesterday on iTunes, before that his favorite game […]

The following instructions may well apply to those looking to jailbreak a 3G iPhone, but I’ve only tested it on my old iPhone, not my new one. These instructions apply to a Mac running Leopard . The iPhone Dev team is still working on a Windows version.
Step 1: Update your iPhone to the iPhone 2.0 […]

The Facebook iPhone Application, which I noted a week ago was perhaps so good as to bring first adopters back to Facebook, has been updated.
New features in Facebook for iPhone 1.1: users can now write on friend’s walls, view their photo albums, and see their full profiles. Photo browsing now includes the ability to […]

Digital travel guide provider Schmap has released an iPhone version, delivering its wide range of travel guides in a format more friendly to iPhone users.
Schmap covers destinations throughout Europe and the USA, as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. There are currently over 199 city or island guides available from Schmap, and all […]

Courtesy of one of the nice guys of the startup world Pat Phelan, the above video demonstrates how you can take iPhone screenshots.
The shorter version:
- Open the page you want the shot of
- Hold the home + power buttons for around 3 seconds
- let go, you’ll see a flash, which is the confirmation that the […]