Latest iPhone News

Here's an oddity: Arabic and Hebrew characters don't render in the iPhone's web browser. BBC News, for example, offers news in a variety of different languages, including Arabic. However, when you try...more

Over at our Mac Gems weblog, our own Dan Frakes has pointed out a solution to make iCal’s dock icon always show the current date, reminding me about one of the nice subtle touches that Apple put into...more

While the iPhone can view normal web pages, many people like top go to special iPhone-optimized versions of them. One such site is digg. Since the launch of the iPhone, many digg users with the devic...more

During the week's quest to install third-party applications on my iPod touch running 1.1.2 of the iPod software I was asked if the same technique worked with the iPhone. Nope. Try a simple downgrade...more

The iPhone's lack of integrated support for multimedia messaging (MMS) is quite the pain. Fortunately, using the iPhone's built-in support for email you can work around this lack of functionality. Wit...more

Last week's 1.1.3 software update to the iPhone brought a bunch of new features, which we painstakingly detailed over at the Mothership with a careful detail usually reserved for Talmudic study. But e...more

Last week we reviewed Belkin's Headphone Adapter, the first product we'd received for using third-party headphones with the iPhone's recessed headphone jack. We've since received another such adapter...more

That's right, it's not just slim, it's super slim. The $30 Super Slim Rubberized Hard Case for iPhone from Seidio is a two-piece, hardshell case that's designed to protect your iPhone from the harsh e...more

Having been briefly the proud possessor of a totally non-functional iPhone, I think I can say with some authority how important it is to keep your iPhone charged. Without juice to power it, your iPhon...more

If there were some venue where I could put money on software hackers, I'd have made a mint by now (if I were betting Tic Tacs, anyway). Apparently at least some of those 100,000 SDKs downloaded found...more

If you're really really dissatisfied with the crop of ringtones available on the iPhone—what, no chance of grooving to "Baby Got Back"?—then you may be a prime candidate for a controversia...more

As has been established, I'm a champion of syncing your iPhone to multiple computers. But here's a sticky situation that results from such a set-up. Let's say you're at work, and your iPhone is set to...more

Reader Markito has a question about the lyrics functionality that Apple added in the 1.1.3 software update. He asks:I was excited to see the display of lyrics as a new iPhone feature, but post-update,...more

I admit: I really haven't gotten much out of the iPhone's Calculator app, but it's comforting to know it's there. Or at least, it was until I started playing around with the other day and discovered a...more

Reader Keith has asked us to weigh in on AOL's Mobile AOL Instant Messaging (Mobile AIM) service as an alternative to "real" iChat on the iPhone. The way Mobile AIM works is that after signing up for...more

We've reviewed two headphone-jack adapters, one from Belkin and one from RadTech, that let you use third-party headphones with the iPhone's recessed headphone jack. But as reader Chuck recently point...more

Doug, a fellow resident of the greater Boston metropolitan area, wrote in to ask about the state of voice memos on the iPhone. Youve long been able to buy an add-on for your iPod that attaches to the...more

We all develop habits for the most common things we do in the course of our day. For me, I always walk when I get a phone call -- always. I usually always get a fine cup of Tim Horton's coffee for tho...more

Now here's an application for the iPhone that I can get behind. Jahanzeb Sherwani, a Computer Science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone app called Touchpad that lets y...more

OK, so I promised a list of "Obvious Features Missing from the iPhone." Basically, these are features that you would have expected the iPhone to have -- either because most modern phones have them, or...more

There's a new web-based instant messaging client for the iPhone, and it's kind of, sort of, from AOL. It's TinyBuddy, written by AOL employee James Burke and hosted by the AOL Greenhouse. It's not an...more

When I got my iPhone, one of the first things I noticed were how uncomfortable the included earbuds were. While this didn't come as a surprise to me, it was annoying, as the earbuds were the only hea...more

I made a fascinating discovery today, one which will undoubtedly land me an interview spot on CNN and a stint on all the major morning talk shows: drop your 8GB iPhone into a glass of water -- entirel...more

According to Apple, you can sync your iPhone with your contact information and calendars from Entourage. While that's technically true, a recently published Apple knowledge base document shows that wh...more

At the risk of turning into iPhone Battery Central, here's something that might bring a ray of sunshine to the lives of those disappointed with the fact that the iPhone's battery is not user-replaceab...more