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Apple posted more details for AppleCare for the iPhone today and is now available for purchase from the Apple Store. Each iPhone comes with one year of hardware repair coverage and up to two years of technical support. AppleCare for the iPhone extends your repair coverage to two years from the original purchase date. You can purchase the AppleCare plan for the iPhone anytime within the...

Arstechnica notes that Newsgator has announced an iPhone specific version of their online RSS reader. The mobile/iPhone version is at http://m.newsgator.com. The obvious benefit to NewsGator Mobile for iPhone is that if you already use a NewsGator Online account, either online or in conjunction with any of NewsGator's products (like NNW for the Mac or its Windows software), the mobile version...

Following news that there were 146,000 iPhone activations in the first 36 hours of sale, analysts are showing disappointment, and are changing their forecasts. Bloomberg.com relates that analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray & Co. downgraded his prediction of units sold during the first few days from 500,000 to 200,000, calling AT&T's activation results "disappointing." However, he does not ...

Forum user villanova329 posted a large collection of unboxing photos as well as a brief review of the Apple Bluetooth Headset which has just started shipping. villanova329's first impressions are as follows: QUICK REVIEW - I re-did my voicemail using the earpiece, and the playback quality was great - The foam earbud covers are back, the set comes with two - It uses the standard "0000"...

Apple has posted some information and tips about optimizing the battery life on your iPhone. Paying attention to just a few commonsense pointers will pay off with a longer battery lifespan and battery life for your iPhone. The most important thing is to keep your iPhone out of the sun or a hot car (even the glove box). Heat will degrade your batterys performance the most. Apple indicates that...

Following the original 23 Step Ringtone installation tutorial, are a couple of applications which claim to provide a friendly interface to accomplish the same task. Please remember that all these iPhone software modifications have some risk of turning your iPhone into a $600 paperweight, so proceed at your own risk -- but early reports have shown success. For Windows users, Efksoft has...

After his iPhone's metal trim became scratched, forum user MeekB2G gave his iPhone's trim a brushed metal look with a scotch brite sponge and some electrical tape (how to)....

iPhoneDevCamp ended a while ago, and ever since, Ive been playing with all the apps pretty much non-stop. All of them are so neat and useful, but there are a few that I especially love.Gas App Gas App will lead you to the cheapest, closest gas station. The thing I love most about this is Google maps integration. This app is another reason I wish the iPhone had GPS. The only...

Earlier this week, a story came out that Duke university was having major wireless network issues and blamed the Apple iPhone. Several parts of the story didn't quite add up, and as it turns out in a statement today, that this issue was in fact a Cisco issue: Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue. Cisco ...

If you thought polka dots were a thing of the 80's, you were mistaken. Some iPhone users have had the fortune of receiving units that have a screen issue that manifests itself with little white dots in a checkered pattern over the screen. Forum users have identified that affected units have display model number 7455232, although not all models with this screen are affected. The issue...

Colorware has announced that it is offering iPhones in 29 different colors in both 4GB and 8GB models. You can supply your own iPhone for modification or buy a pre-modified one from them. The color customization adds a $149 premium to the price of the...

Forum user, hexproject, spent three hours replacing the back casing of his iPhone with a replacement black metal cover ($48.99). The actual replacement process appears to be very involved, requiring you to disassemble your iPhone, but the results look nice. More photos in the...

Forum member, Powerhouse, has compiled an impressive list of available iPhone cases and links to their respective sites: AB Sutton (http://www.absutton.com/iphone_menu.php) Belkin (http://www.belkin.com/ipod/iphone/) BoxWave (http://www.boxwave.com/products/easy...ories_2661.htm) Case-Mate (http://www.case-mate.com/phones/apple) Contourdesign (http://www.contourcase.com/) Crystal Icing...

Last week, Apple released a sample Web 2.0 game for the iPhone called Puzzler. "Puzzler" is a fun and interactive game that illustrates the use of web standards and JavaScript for the iPhone. This application makes advanced usage of mouse-handlers for user-input. To play the game simply double-click or double-tap on any set of 2 or more balls of the same color that are touching. The balls...

Apple is hosting iPhone Tech Talks for web developers interested in optimizing their Web 2.0 applications for the Apple iPhone. Bring your notebook, your code, and your iPhone After a morning of in-depth presentations and demonstrations, you'll work with the experts to design, code, debug and test your solutions on iPhone. Access to your code is required. The day-long event is free for ADC...

One tip can could be useful to some is a trick to encode data into a "data:" url to encode all the information into one long URL. This allows you to access the URL on your iPhone even when not internet-connected. This can work for simple web applications, or even large PDF files. Pimm describes how he used the URI Kitchen encoder to convert a PDF to be stored into a URL. The recommended...

The son of Hartmut Esslinger, a designer for Apple in the early 80s posted a collection of never before published images of Apple Designs from the early 80s including several Apple phone designs. This design resembles Apple's Apple //c...

Anandtech explores the validity of Apple's decision not to use 3G wireless network technology in the iPhone. Jobs' explanation for not using 3G in the iPhone came down to issues with size and battery consumption: "When we looked at 3G, the chipsets are not quite mature, in the sense that they're not low-enough power for what we were looking for. They were not integrated enough, so they took up...