This week in iPhone news

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August 3, 2007 |

iPhone productions about face

In a direct contradiction to our previous story on the iPhone productions dropping, DigiTimes advises “Sources at Taiwan-based component makers have said iPhone shipments schedules are still on track.” Of course DigiTimes has been wrong about many things in the past including production issues and in regards to the G5 iBook and the Powerbook they were so off the mark it was scary. I would take this report with a grain of salt and wait for Apple to make a statement and their silence today speaks volumes.

Microsoft Exchange on the iPhone

Mobile Gateway 3.0 allows mobile synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and the email client for the iPhone. Synchronica announced that they will allow free trials for iPhone users. Owners of the Apple Smartphone can now try Mobile Gateway free of charge to send and receive corporate e-mail using their iPhones.

20,000 iPhone Widgets
Plusmo is a free service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your iPhone. Mobile widgets are tiny killer apps that offer a much better mobile experience for a specific purpose. There are over 20,000 widgets on Plusmo, most of them created and shared by users like you. These widgets include being able to read any RSS feed, allows you to keep track of your favorite sports team(s), up to date weather, traffic, and local news headlines. Many more options are available as well.

The Unlocking of the iPhone
The iPhone unlocking project is looking to be as tough as any one had anticipated. The security has two layers, first the one running in the CPU that runs the operating system and second is the nucleus that runs a secondary chip that controls the access to the baseband’s memory. The iPhone Dev team has reverse engineered the software allowing them to get one step closer to allow the iPhone to be used with other providers. This is a huge step in the process and now it seems that the final two obstacles are set to fall. When this happens an update will most likely come out to combat this attempt to free AT&T’s tight grip on this device.

Protecting that screen
One of the biggest concerns with a touch sensitive device is the possibility of scratching the screen. Not to mention all the other things that get on your hands that create smudges and marks that can create that cloudy look that makes you wonder why you spent all your allowance on the the thing in the first place. Luckily invisibleSHIELD has come to the rescue with their Made from a unique material originally created for the military to protect the leading edges of helicopter blades, the invisibleSHIELD offers protection that other screen protectors just can’t match. With over 1,000 copyrighted, precision-cut designs for a variety of gadgets, including PDA’s and mobile phones the invisibleSHIELD is the industry leader in screen protection.