Revelations from the device emulator included with Apple’s current iPhone SDK indicate that the company has added support for true GPS hardware to the platform. This functionality could show up in the form of built-in GPS hardware, a dock-connected peripheral, or not at all — but the software is ready.

As discovered by user Steffen Voigt, […]

Several iPhone users have reported an issue where WiFi connection repeatedly drop, reverting to EDGE connectivity. Like many iPhone troubleshooting issues, there are a number of potential solutions for this problem that sometimes need to be applied in tandem. Run through this list of fixes in order until the issue is resolved:

Modify router settings Try […]

Mac OS X users have been happily “pwning” their iPhones for weeks, Windows users have been shut out until today. The iPhone Dev Team has now worked to produce a Windows-based beta of the Pwnage tool, which is still buggy and doesn’t support pre-release builds of iPhone OS 2.0.

To recap, the Pwnage tool exploits a […]

Those waxing nostalgic for Apple’s Newton can take comfort in a new unofficial third-party application for the iPhone that can recognize handwriting (fingerwriting?) and turn it into typed text. Dubbed “HWPen,” (and described in this “modmyifone” thread) the application was developed by Hanwang.com.cn to allow Chinese character input on the iPhone, but the program works […]

Security researchers are reporting two purported security issues with the iPhone today.

ETH Zurich reports on a seemingly innocuous flaw wherein the iPhone’s quasi-GPS (cell tower and WiFi triangulation) scheme can be fooled into displaying an incorrect location to the user. The system can be tricked by impersonating known locations (falsifying MAC addresses) and jamming actual, […]

AOL has launched an iPhone-optimized version of its Mobile Search service. Mobile Search has a traditional Web search engine, but also has features specially tailored to search the content of various AOL properties, including Moviefone, MapQuest, AOL CityGuide and others. So, for instance, searching for hotels in a specific location will bring back a list […]

Though the official iPhone AppStore is only months away, developers are still delivering some incredible native applications built under the unofficial “jailbreak” umbrella. The latest is “fring,” an application that lets users make voice calls with Skype or SIP. It also has a built-in instant messaging component for conversing over Yahoo!, AIM, MSN Messenger and […]

The Associated Press has debuted a new offering dubbed the “Mobile News Network,” which will amalgamate the company’s own news coverage with that of local newspapers, then deliver the content on customized pages designed specifically for the iPhone.

A press release states:

“The Mobile News Network will provide a national platform for smart phone users to access […]

Pre-release builds of iPhone OS 2.0 are capable of recognizing YouTube content embedded in Web pages, allowing the user to click through and view video in the dedicated YouTube application. The feature works in a fashion similar to that of the bookmarklet iTransmogrify. Only YouTube content that has been encoded in the H.264 format, required […]

Apple has added a contact search function to the new build of iPhone OS 2.0, 5A240d. The search function is also included with the revised iPhone Simulator that comes with the iPhone SDK build 9M2158a, beta 3. The search works much like iTunes search — a live-refining list of result.

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