The current iPhone’s relatively poor JavaScript has been a point of lament for users experiencing slow rendering of AJAX pages and a virtual inability to use JavaScript-heavy, Web-based games. With the latest builds of iPhone OS 2.0, however, Apple has dramatically boosted JavaScript performance. While the new MobileSafari’s performance still doesn’t rival that of contemporary [...]

Apple has unveiled a slew of updates in preparation for the iPhone 3G and iPhone AppStore launch on July 11th.

SDK 8 Apple has posted the eighth beta of the iPhone SDK to its developer site. Registered developers can now access Beta 8 at the iPhone Dev Center. Release notes reportedly state:

“Beta release 8 is compatible [...]

SplashID, SplashShopper and SplashMoney, collectively a series of popular Palm OS applications, are making their way to the iPhone’s AppStore.
SplashID
SplashID is a popular secure password manager that is currently available on a large number of handheld devices. Retail pricing for the application has been set at $30; if such pricing carries over to [...]

O2, the United Kingdom’s official iPhone carrier, has announced pricing for iPhone 3Gs purchased under the firm’s “Pay and Go” program, which allows users to eschew a contract for a monthly “top-up” fee that provides a specified number of prepaid minutes and text messages.

With Pay and Go, the iPhone 3G 8GB will be priced [...]

AT&T’s customer service representatives certainly aren’t known for delivering accurate information about soon-to-be-released products. As such, the following should be taken with a grain of salt: we’ve received corroborated word that an AT&T employee memo lists MMS (multimedia messaging service) support — allowing transmission of text, pictures, and potentially video to other MMS-enabled phones — [...]

The anxiously awaited iTunes AppStore, due alongside the release of the iPhone 3G on July 11th, is sure to debut with a few surprises given the reticence of many major third-party developers thus far. With the aid of some keynote demonstrations and a few NDA-skirting announcements, however, we’ve cobbled together a list of currently planned [...]

Hitherto demonstrated native iPhone applications will provide functional augmentation to the the device and branch into areas untapped by Apple’s included software: gaming, instant messaging, image manipulation, and more. So far, however, we haven’t seen any planned applications that directly compete with or replicate the functionality of Apple’s bundled applications. Since the iPhone is now [...]

Two suspect reports today from two different analysts would have Apple spending $100 to make each iPhone 3G and reaping a $325 subsidy on each device from the company’s US wireless partner, AT&T. With a sale price of $199 for an 8GB iPhone, that would put Apple’s profit at $425 per phone — representing an [...]

Reports from users in possession of the latest iPhone 3G firmware indicate that the device will have support for both FM radio and FOTA (firmware over the air).

FM radio support means that the iPhone 3G may be able to make use of devices like Apple’s own “iPod Radio Remote,” which includes an FM tuner and [...]

While much attention has been paid to AT&T’s consumer voice and data rate plans for the iPhone 3G, little scrutiny has been paid to corporate and business plans — and therein lies confusion. AT&T generally offers special employee discounts for corporate rate plans, including reduced device pricing, reduced plan pricing, and free trials, but whether [...]