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Walmart Locations Begin Advertising the iPhone 3G

Adding to the confounding evidence that Walmart will soon be carrying the iPhone, a few of the mega-retailer’s locations have already begun advertising the device’s availability.
If for some reason by now you have not bought into these reports, AppleInsider notes reader reports of Walmart window decals and cardboard display jackets that depict the device [...]

iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple

Apple’s App Store is an interesting, exciting and frightening place all at the same time. iPhone application developer Chris Nikkel knows this first hand. His application “Newber” has spent nearly 75 days waiting for approval from Apple, and he has yet to hear a word.
Chris Nikkel and FreedomVoice Systems have spent nearly half a million [...]

Leaked iPhone Nano Case Renderings Come In, As Promised [U]

MacRumors has first published some expected photos that have been released by iDealsChina. While the unsteadily reliable site promised us these photos last week, they have only been released today. This information does correlate with information we’ve heard throughout the year pertaining to the likelihood of a new, smaller iPhone.

iDealsChina claims to have access to [...]

AT&T and Apple May Not Be Seeing Eye to Eye With Future Distribution

Apple and AT&T are reportedly butting heads when it comes to various aspects of future distribution of the iPhone. The recent addition of nearly 4,000 distribution centers through big box retailer Walmart has seemingly opened the floodgates internally.
Sources at AT&T explain that the addition of Walmart was more of an AT&T initiative than that of [...]

Microsoft Enters the App Store With Seadragon Mobile (VIDEO)

Microsoft has officially entered Apple’s App Store with Seadragon mobile. With intuitive scrolling, pinching, loading and data presenting techniques, the application is aimed at allowing users to browse massive amounts of data like never before.
Seadragon mobile (iTunes link) lends itself well to the cloud computing movement that has revolutionized data storage over the last [...]

Palm to Unleash New User Friendly OS and Hardware at CES [U]

Wired.com explains that Palm is expected to unveil a new operating system as well as new hardware at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas come January.
Roughly ten years ago Palm was a highly active and extremely innovative company. With the Palm Pilot, and later on with its Treo smartphones, Palm helped shape the [...]

Wired Unveils New iPhone Application, Reviews Go Mobile

Wired has unveiled a new iPhone application aimed at allowing users to read Wired reviews while on the go. The new application (iTunes link) is available now in Apple’s App Store.
Wired is an integral brand of media giant Condé Nast Publications, which owns other premium content publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and [...]

CrunchBase Should Rollout An iPhone App Section (CrunchApps.com)

In response to the ongoing, back-and-forth dilemmas between iPhone App developers and Apple, Crunchbase.com is perfectly setup to rollout a bridge that could play an integral role in in the current App Store/iPhone App setup.

As the website itself states, “CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.” The [...]

App Store Issues Get Heated, Apple Remains Silent

A slew of opinions have hit the web over the past few days directly surrounding the methods behind Apple’s App Store. Primarily focused around pricing, distribution and marketing, the debates have grown heated, and Apple has remained silent.
After established iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry wrote a personal letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a discussion thread [...]

Pastebud Brings Copy and Paste to iPhone Between Mail and Safari

Pastebud is a new service for iPhone users that will allow copy and paste functionality between the Mail and Safari applications.
Gizmodo first posted Pastebud’s video. Currently, the service doesn’t require anything extra to be installed. It avoids Apple’s App Store by using two bookmarks in Safari. “One prepares and loads the page you are viewing, [...]

AT&T Testing Femtocells, Home Reception A Top Priority

As Crave’s Nicole Lee explains, AT&T is experimenting with in-home cell phone boosters, also known as femtocells, which are designed to boost the cell phone signal via your high-speed Internet connection.
According to one iPhone Atlas reader’s experience with the already-on-the-market zboost, “It’s a pricey solution at around $250 US, but it does work. [...]

Caught in the Wild: Super-Mini Edition iPhone

It’s finally here! The official Global Limited Initial Publication Super-Mini Edition iPhone. Feel free to breathe a sigh of relief as the much anticipated, widely rumored iPhone mini has made its global debut. For a mere 568 yuan, or approximately $82, you can be the proud owner of this piece of technological [...]

Established iPhone Developer Writes Personal Letter to Steve Jobs

Craig Hockenberry is an extremely talented Phone developer currently working at the Iconfactory. He’s been in Apple’s app store since it first launched, and is voicing a few of his thoughts regarding the app store in a heartfelt letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Below is the first section of Hockenberry’s letter to Apple. The [...]

Hidden SDK Gaming Features, iPhone Games On Your TV

Ars Technica has been hard at work uncovering hidden features in Apple’s iPhone SDK. Today, they broke ground with their research and have turned the iPhone into a complete gaming device fit for the big screen.
The following video is a demo that Ars Technica’s Erica Sadun, and Freeverse, makers of Moto Chaser, have collaborated to [...]

300 Million Apps Downloaded, 6.4 Billion To Go

CNBC’s Jim Goldman points out some incredible information regarding the success of Apple’s App Store. Of note, users have downloaded over 100 million apps in the past 6 weeks.
In the fine print of Apple’s advertisement in the New York Times this morning, Apple quietly mentions that users have “downloaded over 300 million” applications from the [...]

Mobile Optimized Websites, More Harm Than Good? 7 Sites Compared

Many websites automatically redirect iPhones to mobile versions of their sites. These mobile sites often deliver limited content, wasted space, and eliminate zooming. Below are mobile versions and the real version as seen on the iPhone.

Amazon
As you can see, a lot of content has been removed for Amazon’s mobile site, and the navigation has been [...]

Walmart to Sell 4GB $99 iPhone While AT&T Slashes 12,000 Jobs

New information from Boy Genius Report points to a $99 iPhone with 4GB of storage to be sold at Walmart, while AT&T is slashing nearly 12,000 jobs to stabilize itself during the economic downturn.
BGR has been reporting information regarding the iPhone’s arrival at Walmart since early October. See here, here, and here. Today’s new [...]

iPhone Nabs 16.6% of Smartphone Market; Staves off Industry Decline

According to a recent note from Needham analyst, Charlie Wolf, the iPhone is now not only the world’s second most in demand smartphone, but has actually had a hand in rescuing the entire market from decline.

Elecronista reiterates that for the second quarter which ended in September, the iPhone held 16.6 percent of the global smartphone [...]

Images: iPhone 3G Hardware Unlock Shops

29 year old Tuan Anh Do owns five cell phone repair shops in Hanoi, Vietnam. Due to the black market Apple’s iPhone has created, a big part of his business is to unlock iPhone 3G’s at the hardware level.
The following is first hand from Cnet’s Dong Ngo:

First the iPhone is opened up by the technician.
Ngo [...]

Linux Ported to the iPhone, Android Coming Soon?

iPhone devteam member planetbeing has managed to successfully port Linux over to the iPhone. While it certainly needs some polish, the hack shows promising signs for running alternate operating systems on the iPhone.

Planetbeing explains, “I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first [...]