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

In industry related news, Microsoft announced on Monday that they had acquired Danger, Inc. Danger is the company responsible for the popular Sidekick marketed through T-Mobile. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The founders of Danger previously worked at Apple as engineers before leaving to found the company. Some see this is a response to the Apple's recent success: Tim Bajarin,...

Apple's largest competitor in the smartphone market, RIM, today experienced a data outage that spanned multiple carriers. RIM said BlackBerry subscribers "may be unable to send or receive messages and may also be unable to "register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing." The outage began at roughly 3:30pm and affected all North American carriers, ...

GCap Media has launched a new mobile website that provides iPhone and iPod Touch users a way to listen to live radio over the internet. The new site launched at MusicRadio.com provides a mobile Safari optimized browsing experience that allows users to listen to live radio streamed over the internet. 5 stations are presently offered from the London based company: Capital 95.8 - hits and...

A new Silicon Valley startup is showing off their new integrated circuit that will offer higher quality noise suppression than existing circuitry in today's cellphones. Their technology is said to be able to block up to 25 decibels of extraneous sound The company demonstrates its system by placing a cellphone call from a room where loud rock music is being played. When the noise suppression chip...

Apple posted another iPhone ad which demonstrates the advantages of having the internet on your phone. "What's so great about having the internet in your pocket? Well, then you can see the trail map when you are on the mountain. Find a good place to eat in town, when you're hungry. And change your flight when you're just not ready to go home. -- That's what's so great."...

billyripkin kindly posted some unboxing photos of his new Smoke White and Midnight Blue custom colored iPhone from Colorware. He ordered the iPhone new from Colorware: The first thing out of the box that I noticed is the extreme shine the paint has. I went with Smoke White and Midnight Blue which has a nice sparkle in the light. The paint job is PERFECT and matched exactly what I thought I...

After some initial confusion, iLounge received clarification from AT&T regarding the possibility of replacing your current iPhone with a 16GB one. Mark Siegel, Executive Director of Media and Analyst Relations with AT&T, told iLounge in an email, If you upgrade from an 8 to a 16 GB iPhone, you sign a new contract. However, we automatically backdate it to the starting point of your contract on the ...

Apple aired two new iPhone ads yesterday. The first advertises the use of Facebook on the iPhone. It states: "If you love Facebook so much that you check it all the time on your computer, just think how great it would be to check it every time... you're, well, nowhere near your computer." This new ad has been posted to Apple.com, along with another which demonstrates how you can use the...

Erica Sadun over at TUAW has found evidence in the latest iPhone firmware that Apple had built in table support for to-do tasks. CREATE TABLE Task (ROWID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, summary TEXT, priority INTEGER, due_date INTEGER, completion_date INTEGER, calendar_id INTEGER); Erica notes that as of now, the support is left unused, as the firmware does not have the capability to sync or...

When I was on line for the Macworld keynote, I talked to some folks around me (everyone had iPhones it seemed). Almost everyone said they had jailbroken their iPhones at some point, but some said they had reverted theirs to a clean install for various reasons. With the recent 1.1.3 jailbreak news and the upcoming SDK, we invite you to a poll (in the thread) on what iPhone software you are...

Britain's O2 is bumping up the call and text allowances for its iPhone plans (via Macworld UK). Users on the cheapest plan will now receive three times the call allowance (now 600 minutes) and be able to send 500 SMS messages (up from 200) as part of the new deal. Other iPhone plans have seen similar bumps. The allowance hikes apply to both existing and new customers. O2 says the new...

Ed note: Katie had her own reasons for stopping her column, but things ended amicably between us. This is a previously unpublished iTunes mix from Katie which will serve as her last post. - arn. Katie's iPhone Mix - Songs I love put into a playlist for easy iPhone in-car listening. 1. When Your Mind's Made Up - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova 2. The Bitch is Back - Elton John 3. No Hay...

For those looking for a simpler method to upgrade from a Jailbroken phone to 1.1.3, iJailBreak.com released iJailBreakMobile 1.0, which is an Installer.app application that allows users to upgrade from a Jailbroken 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 iPhone to a Jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone. To jailbreak, go into Installer.app, tap sources at the bottom right, then Edit at the top right, then Add at the top left, and add...

Informationweek documents a new issue that appeared under iPhone 1.1.3 which resulted in SMS messages being displayed in the wrong order for some users. Apple has posted a support document which offers a possible solution. This can occur if the iPhone is not displaying the same date and time setting as the carrier network time. Make sure iPhone is setup to receive the network time. Choose...

Forum user Sbrocket has compiled a guide to jailbreaking and updating your 1.1.3 iPhone. The guide organizes a lot of information found across the web about this potentially confusing topic: Right now there exist, I would approximate, about 10 to 15 different guides on the web supposedly telling you how to upgrade to and jailbreak 1.1.3. The only problem with these guides is that while they for ...

Cre.ations.net posted the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak, allowing you to install unofficial 3rd party applications: Here's how you do it: - Start with a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone with Installer.app installed. - Plug in your phone via USB to your computer. - Download, extract, and run iBrickr Special 1.1.3 jailbreak edition (ibrickr.exe in the archive). - iBrickr will determine...

IBM is clearing the air from an AP report last week that it would be introducing an iPhone/iPod Touch compatible version of Lotus Notes this week. News.com has more: "It's not something that (is) ready to go out and market or launch," an IBM spokesperson told ZDNet Australia. IBM explains that the confusion may have been spurred by an earlier demonstration of the software. The release will be...

DealExtreme sells a 6x Optical Zoom lens for your iPhone's camera. As noted by Mobilewhack, the attachment costs $15 and doubles the weight of your...