Our friend Jens Chr Brynildsen, a Flash expert who maintains a number resources for the standard including Flash Magazine, has reportedly confirmed with Adobe Systems’ Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem, that Flash is coming to the iPhone. However, Betlem says that “Apple calls the shots as to when it’ll be available.”

Brynildsen got the [...]

Ted Landau
October 2008

Later this week, I’m off for a trip to Japan. I never go anywhere without my iPhone anymore. Japan will be no exception. But I will be taking the phone with some trepidation. Knowing that international charges can be exorbitant, I’ve spent a good deal of time determining what, if anything, I could [...]

Perhaps because the categories had become unwieldy with the huge number of application submissions, Apple has suddenly removed the aggregate categories that combined all subcategories: “See All iPhone apps” and “See All iPod Touch apps.”

Per iPhone Atlas reader Craig Crossman:

“Without (these categories), now you really can’t browse the entire library anymore, seeing what has just [...]

Apple has made an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong, letting consumers pick whichever carrier they so choose.

This is in sharp contrast to Apple’s policy for the almost everywhere else on the planet. Unlocked iPhones are rampant worldwide, but that isn’t something that Apple has sanctioned.

Freedom doesn’t come cheap. The 8GB [...]

Apple has taken action to improve the iTunes App Store experience for developers by responding to a major complaint regarding App reviews. Under the new scheme, users cannot review applications unless they have purchased or downloaded them first. Users attempting to post a review of application that they haven’t downloaded or purchased are [...]

Apple’s dubious rejection of applications that are deemed of little utility or duplicative of built-in functionality has drawn harsh developer criticism.

In contrast, the jailbroken iPhone software market is completely unrestricted. Google’s Android marketplace claims a similar unfettered approach. The unrestricted mobile application market is ground already tread by Palm, where concerns over malicious software and [...]

Apple Debuts New Safari Interface in iPhone OS 2.2 (screenshot)

While details regarding the newly released (for registered developers only) iPhone OS 2.2 are still trickling in, sources report that the MobileSafari interface has been tweaked. The new iteration of MobileSafari eschews the magnifying glass and refresh buttons at the top of the screen, instead displaying [...]

Apple has posted an iPhone OS 2.2 beta for developers. Specific enhancements in this release are not yet available, but we should have more details shortly….

As previously noted, users continue to report poor 3G signal strength under iPhone OS 2.1. To be clear, iPhone OS 2.1 does not purport to actually boost signal strength. Instead, it provides “more accurate” signal strength display, which, in most cases, means more bar bars, but not necessarily better reception or ability to make/receive calls. [...]

Many users have reported an issue in which the iPhone’s mail application fails to retrieve messags in the background, no matter what checking interval is set and regardless of whether or not push is enabled. An Apple Discussions thread harbors more than 275 posts on the issue.

iPhone Atlas reader Anil Panigrahi writes:

“After updating to the [...]