After spending a couple of weeks with the latest edition of Apple's mobile OS, I have one clear reaction: the line between an iPhone and an iPad is becoming more of a perceptual thing.
Ever since Apple introduced the App Store, someone or other has written weekly (perhaps daily) about why Apple's tight control over the App Store is a bad idea. Every time an app is rejected or delayed, the teapot is stirred again.
AT&T has given the green light for Apple to distribute applications that can make internet phone calls, like Skype. Does this have anyone else wondering how long it's going to be before Google Voice is approved for distribution through the App Store?
Bad news for TriQuint Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, Samsung, Broadcom, and other companies the sell computer chips to Apple: the electronics giant is taking steps towards designing its own chips.
Potentially bad news now if you happen to be an avid tech consumer in the United States holding back on an iPhone purchase while waiting for AT&T's current exclusivity deal and its lock-in policy to come to an end.
A new version of Yellowsn0w, the one and only unlock program for the iPhone 3G, enabling you to use any SIM card with your iPhone 3G, has been updated to v0.9.7. Currently it works with iPhone firmware v2.2.
The Clarifi iPhone Case with Macro Lens fits on your iPhone 3G iPhone 3G macro - note carefully not earlier models - allows you to take macro pictures. That is pictures up close and personal so that the beauty of the inside of a flower or of a spider's web becomes apparent.
The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application, and it's very easy to install. Here's how. Updated: Bad news. It doesn't work right.