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iPhone OS gets upgraded
Apple has announced a teeny upgrade to the iPhone OS – meaning a few improvements to the platform.
Well, we say improvements, but these will mostly be Japanese-speaking, battery-watching third-party application lovers.

iPhone 3GS – just not good enough

The new iPhone 3GS… does it have enough to best the Palm Pre?
Apple’s latest update for the iPhone drew the mandatory whoops and cheers for the crowd that seemed to not care that Steve Jobs was being replaced by Phil Schiller, and the iPhone 3GS seemed to satisfy their [...]

Rumours abound ahead of Monday’s supposed iPhone reveal

No madam, I don’t really think it will be an iPhone nano on Monday
There’s nothing particularly fresh or surprising about new iPhone rumours, as pretty much anything is possible when it comes to the predicted revamp, but we hadn’t expected a considerably cheaper model to be on the [...]

Apple bans Kama Sutra iPhone e-book
Forces British programmer to put block in his app

Nothing naughty allowed on here, says Apple
Any iPhone users hoping to get to grips with an e-book version of the Kama Sutra on their handsets will be disappointed after Apple effectively banned the manual from its App Store.
That’s the indirect result of [...]

High-end 3D gaming on Apple iPhone
Unity claims to have cracked the secret to mobile gaming

High end 3d gaming on the way to Apple’s iPhone, claim middleware specialists at Unity

Unity Technologies, a provider of 3D game development tools, claims to be able to offer high end 3d gaming on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.
Unity claims [...]

Turn your iPod touch into a free phone
Courtesy of the good people of Truphone

Turn your iPod touch into a free phone with Truphone

Want to make free phone calls to your fellow iPod touch owners? Now you can, courtesy of the recently announced Truphone for iPod touch.
“Make free calls to other iPod touch owners: no SIM, [...]

Apple gives away over 50 iPhone Apps for free
Got an iPhone? Want some awesome apps for no money?

Apple gifts us over fifty free iPhone apps

Today is Black Friday in the US of A and, to celebrate, it seems that Apple has decided to make over 50 formerly paid-for applications for the iPhone now cost absolutely [...]