Further fueling already rampant speculation about the release of an iPhone capable of operating on 3G networks, Telefonica O2’s chief executive officer Matthew Key stated that his firm and Apple will be making a joint announcement in the “coming weeks.” The statement came during a conference call following O2’s quarterly fiscal results announcement.

Representing perhaps the […]

Though officially sanctioned third-party applications are, by Apple’s estimation, less than six weeks away, unofficial “jailbreak” applications distributed through Installer.app continue to enjoy widespread popularity. As an unofficial application itself, however, Installer.app is subject to some significant troubleshooting issues. The following is a guide to some of the more common problems encounter with the application.

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Intelliscreen for the iPhone was released today as a beta application, currently distributed under the jailbreak app umbrella. Essentially, the tool allows you too look at various information stored on the iPhone — calendar entries, new email, SMS messages, news or weather — directly on the “Slide to Unlock” screen. In other words, with the […]

Google Reader, the Web-based aggregator of ATOM and RSS news feeds, now sports better iPhone optimization.

From Google’s blog:

“This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy to act on items. If you’ve used list view, then it should be familiar to you. Scan […]

Representing perhaps the best evidence to date of a pending 3G iPhone release, a screenshot of the current pre-release iPhone OS 2.0 build shows a setting for turning 3G capabilities on or off. The setting is accompanied by the text “Using 3G loads data faster, but decreases battery life.”

See our previous coverage regarding what 3G […]

Fueling speculation that the release of a new, 3G-based iPhone is imminent, Apple has withdrawn the current-model iPhone from its online store. The store currently displays the message “Currently Unavailable” for both the 8GB and 16GB iPhone models.

AT&T’s Web site, meanwhile, still lists both iPhone models as available.

Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com.

Several users have reported an issue in which photos taken with the iPhone’s built-in camera will not save to the device, vanishing immediately after they are taken.

The most successful fix for this issue we’ve seen thus far is as follows:

Restore your iPhone using iTunes, but do not restore custom settings data from the computer-stored backup […]

AT&T is currently offering access to their Wi-Fi hotspots, including several thousand Starbucks locations, for no additional charge on their iPhone rate plans. No information is available as to why this has changed and a check on AT&T’s website for a press release let us empty handed.

We previously reported the early emergence of free wireless […]

The latest build of iPhone OS 2.0, 5a274d, includes a a preference panel that allows users to control settings for applications with push capabilities. The primary intent of this function: allow users to conserve battery life by turning push capabilities off for applications like Mail, which supports push for Exchange and Yahoo! Mail servers.

As we’ve […]

Apple has posted its fifth revision to the iPhone SDK (software development kit). The new release updates documentation and has various API changes. AddressBook APIs have been significantly revised, as have OpenGL-related components including the EAGL items.

The graphics changes in particular mean that some under-development applications will need to be re-written to take advantage of […]