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

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...

iPhone Atlas claims that while the jailbreak method for 1.1.3 has reached a state that is suitable for end users, the developers of the jailbreak are still debating whether or not to release it ahead of Apple's official SDK release. There appears to be some limitations to the 1.1.3 jailbreak, with applications running in "restricted user mode" meaning that the popular Installer application...

Reuters reports that Apple is in talks with Thailand's Advanced Info Service about selling the iPhone in Thailand. "We are negotiating on details, including a revenue sharing standard. Apple needs a local operator to promote iPhone," Prattana Leelapanang, assistant vice president for AIS's wireless business marketing, told Reuters.The news comes after reports of Apple and China Mobile...

As rumored, AT&T launched business plans for the iPhone today. To use iPhone as a business customer, youll need to sign up for a 2-year service agreement or a renewed 2-year service agreement if youre an existing AT&T wireless customer. $45/mo. 200 SMS. Unlimited Data. Visual Voicemail ...

Lonman06.com reports that Firmware 1.1.3 has been successfully jailbroken, and provides video "proof". The site reports, however, that the jailbreak however will not be released on the Apple released the Software Development Kit for the iPod and iPhone. The SDK is due sometime in...

Uneasysilence created a web tool called Clipalizer which essentially allows you to create custom Webclip icons for any website for use on your iPhone/iPod touch. With Clipalizer you can easily create your own custom webclip icons for your favorite sites. All you need to do is visit Clipalizer put in your favorite sites name and URL and upload a 5757 PNG icon. Clipalizer will then give you a...

Readers in our MacRumors forums, along with some other websites, are beginning to identify hidden features of the latest iPhone software, released this week. Among them: - SMS storage capacity bumped to 75,000 (from 1,000) - Multi-touch keyboard - Gmail defaults to IMAP - Manually managing songs There are also reported bluetooth connectivity bugs, to which a clunky workaround has been...

Electronista cites an anonymous source saying that AT&T will begin offering the iPhone to business accounts on January 21st. Among the details includes the continuity of corporate discounts and the requirement of having a data plan at or above $25/month. There will also reportedly be no equipment discounts, and users will be required to pre-activate via iTunes. Just yesterday there was news...

Notcot reposts some very interesting concept designs and screenshots of a possible iPhone / iPod touch game, which uses multi-touch to provide a unique controller method for a skateboarding game. ...

Dan Dickinson posts instructions on how to create your own custom WebClip Icon for your website: - Create a 57x57 PNG. - Name it "apple-touch-icon.png" - Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server, the root of your web documents.) More instructions for web designers available at

Multimedia designer, Phil Lu, has created some mockups of an iPhone application that he calls "QuickOrder": Surprisingly, the mockups were created before the publicized patent application in which Apple explores to-go ordering from the iPhone. The series of images show how such a system might...

Earlier this week, a third party package named "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep" became available via Installer.app. ModMyiPhone.com was first to identify it as malicious, and F-Secure later confirmed the low-risk threat. The trojan installation package contains false application installation information that causes legitimate third party applications to be removed if the trojan is uninstalled from...

It has been nearly a year since Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage at Macworld San Francisco and devoted nearly his entire speech to the introduction of the iPhone. Since then, it has become a favorite addition to our MacRumors Editors', as well as 5 million other users' pockets. Looking back, what are some of our favorite things about the iPhone? What are some things that we still hope...

An FT.com article reports on findings from O2's recent launch of the iPhone in the UK. One interesting statistic that was revealed was that 60% of U.K. iPhone users are sending or receiving more than 25 MB of data a month. This information alone is difficult to interpret, but O2's chief appears to believe that this...

Intuit will be offering an iPhone-friendly web-version of Quicken for $3 a month starting January 8th. The version that Intuit has developed for iPhone has been designed for use on-the-go, offers fewer features than the version for regular Web browsers and is optimized for iPhone screens. Intuit reportedly targeted iPhone users first for this mobile version "because Apple enthusiasts tend to be...

New reports have suggested that Apple is in talks with DoCoMo to bring the iPhone to Japan. Tech.co.uk claims that this must mean a 3G iPhone is in the works as there is no EDGE network in Japan: Wherever the iPhone ends up in Japan, it means one thing - it has to be a 3G model, as there simply is no GSM network in the country. Suggestions of a new model with a CDMA chip of some sort appearing...

Catamount software has released a beta for PocketMoney for the iPhone. PocketMoney was designed to do one thing and do it very well - track your finances quickly with the smallest amount of work. PocketMoney will help you keep your checking, savings, credit card and petty cash accounts in line. Some

PartFoundry is working on an actual GPS module to plug into the iPhone's dock connector. At present, the hardware is still under development and the software interface is primitive. It is able to pull longitude and latitude coordinates from the GPS module and then display it on Google Maps. A YouTube video is also available...