Several sites, including Mac Rumors, have reported seeing server log entries that appear to be generated by test iPhone units. This assumption is based on the user agent string being generated, which looks something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3

for comparison, the user agent […]

While the actual iPhone is in the hands of only a select few (including some Apple employees and the President of West Texas A&M University), a number of shoddy knock-offs are appearing in an apparent attempt to capitalize on the gullibility of some iPhone anticipators. Meanwhile, a few generally reputable manufacturers are similarly looking to […]

When Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone would be Cingular-only for the duration of Apple’s “multi-year” exclusive agreement with the carrier, the collective sigh of dismay from those locked into contracts with Verizon, Sprint and others was palpable.

Getting out of cell phone contracts is generally an expensive proposition, with severance fees ranging from $200 to […]

Since the iPhone hasn’t shipped yet, we haven’t had the opporunity to shoot at any troubles. However, we’re looking for your input on concerns for problems that might arise. Though calling out device issues before the iPhone actually ships would be premature, we’d like to start building a framework users can immediately reference when taking […]

This section of iPhone Atlas will house indices of iPhone-optimized Web content, accessory listings and more. Please let us know what type of directories you are interested in seeing.