MacRumors iPhone and iPad Blog: Apps, News, and Rumors

TUAW reports that the latest iPhone 2.0 beta that was just released added the ability to provide "Push" email services from your .Mac account. "Push" email allows the server to push email down to your phone when it arrives. The alternative method involves the iPhone itself polling the server at regular intervals, resulting in a significant battery drain over...

Reuters reports that America Movil will be bringing the iPhone to Latin America later this year. America Movil, based out of Mexico City, is the largest mobile carrier in Latin...

PacketVideo posted a video demonstrating Telly, a mobile broadcast receiver. The "matchbook sized" device streams live television over Wifi to your iPhone (or other Wifi enabled device). It can provide 3 hours of television on a full charge. How it works is the Telly device receives television signals and encodes them in realtime into Quicktime for use on the iPhone. Telly appears to ...

Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 5. According to Apple the release is centered on bug fixes and support for the latest iPhone OS. Apple released iPhone SDK beta 4 on April 23. The final version of the SDK is expected to be released at WWDC in...

Korean developer Diotek announced today that they are developing handwriting recognition software for the Apple iPhone that will recognize Korean, Chinese and English/European characters: This newly developed handwriting recognition software, DioPen, is an input method that allows writing letters on capacitive touchscreen of Apple's iPhone by using bare fingertip. Currently, iPhone only...

After news that the latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware (due in June) had incorporated Chinese handwriting recognition, there were many readers who were interested to see the input options for Japanese language. Handwriting recognition is not available for the Japanese language in the latest beta. Instead there is the standard keyboard: As well as a Kana international keyboard: ...

The Associated Press launched a web-portal for iPhone and iPod Touch users to deliver breaking news. The new "Mobile News Network" is accessible from your iPhone or iPod Touch via apnews.com and provides an optimized site that delivers news from more than 100 newspapers. The site is very well designed for an iPhone web-application and offers both photo and Quicktime video that plays...

An anonymous source for CNet.com.au claims that Apple will launch the iPhone in Australia in late June with Optus as one of several carriers to support the phone. The source reportedly also hinted that the launch would be for the upcoming 3G version of the phone rather than the current version that uses EDGE for data. The rumor coincides with rumors earlier in April from MacTalk.com.au...

The first international developers have started receiving their acceptances into the iPhone Developer Program ($99). We've heard confirmation from readers of the same. The $99/year iPhone Developer program provides you with a developer certificate which allows you to install your applications onto the physical iPhone for testing. It also allows you to submit your applications to the iTunes ...

Applicando published an interesting speed comparison video comparing the iPhone's EDGE download speeds and a mimicked 3G iPhone. In the comparison video two iPhones load the same web page side-by-side. The 3G iPhone is demonstrated using a Wifi connection sharing the internet connection of an iMac which was connected to the internet via HSDPA (Huawei E172 HSPDA modem). In the end the...

Blackberry maker RIM is recruiting internally to form an iPhone software development team according to AppleInsider. "As part of a newly-created team, youll influence the development and design of BlackBerry software," the listing reads. "This is a very confidential brand new team and a senior position within RIM so I can't provide too many details. I guess you can figure out what it might be...

TUAW posts another rumor from the latest iPhone firmware 2.0 build released last week that indicates Apple is planning Jabber/XMPP support. Our anonymous iControl tipster has returned and tells us that a new XMPP framework has been spotten in the latest iPhone firmware. XMPP refers to the open source standard developed by the Jabber community for instant messaging. Remember back in March when...

Despite early claims that Sun was planning on introducing Java to the iPhone with the SDK, it appears Sun is still in discussions with Apple regarding this plan. But Sun still wants to put a JVM on iPhone through the iPhone SDK. "[Apple is] well aware of what we're doing, and we're in discussions," Klein said.In the meanwhile, Sun is working with a company called Innaworks who is offering an...

Evolution Robotics posted a Youtube video demonstrating their ViPR visual pattern recognition software via the iPhone. The demo video shows how you can take a photo of a Book, DVD, or CD cover with the iPhone's photo application. That photo can then be emailed to the ViPR server which will perform pattern recognition and then email you back information about the product. In the video,...

A new site called TouchArcade.com has launched which promises to report on gaming apps and news for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the planned release of the iTunes App Store in June, we can expect a avalanche of new games to be coming to the mobile OS X platform. Games such as Spore and

A Modmyifone forum post reveals a beta version of a handwriting recognition application called HWPen available for Jailbroken iPhones. The application was reportedly developed by Hanwang.com.cn. It appears the same software is also available for the Palm OS. Based on early comments, it appears the recognition for Western characters still needs a bit of...

Fring announced an early release of their Voice Over IP (VOIP) application that allows you to make telephone calls over the iPhone's Wifi connection. Besides VOIP, it is also a multi-client instant messaging client with support for Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM. Bringing PC-benefits to the mobile, fring will empower you with mobility and availability as never before,...

Gizmodo reported that the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta firmware allows users to save photos from Safari directly to iPhoto. We tried and it works: just hold your finger against an image for a longer time than usual and the popup dialog will appear.Current versions of the iPhone offers no method to download photos from Safari, and the only way to get photos into the Photo application is through...