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iPhone Support Agent Comments on Exploding iPhones

By Jeremy, Monday, Aug 31, 2009 a 6:09 am

Exploding iPhones have been a very popular topic as of late, but now an alleged tier 2 iPhone support agent has contacted Gizmodo to further back up Apple's claims that the exploding iPhones are not the result of faulty batteries but rather simply cases of user abuse.

Facebook 3.0.1 for iPhone -- With Bug Fixes! -- Now in the App Store

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 a 10:17 pm

Facebook 3.0.1 for iPhone [Free - iTunes link], which fixes some bugs found in Facebook 3.0, is now being served piping hot and ready from the iTunes App Store.

(And wow but can Apple approve fast in some cases?!)

[Thanks Cameron for the tip!]

Best of Smartphone Experts, 30 August 2009

By Dieter Bohn, Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 a 6:50 pm

Dev-Team: Snow Leopard Safe for Jailbreak or Unlock

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 a 7:03 am

On Friday, Apple launched their new Mac operating system, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and whenever that happens, Mac iPhone Jailbreakers everyone wonder if, on purpose or by accident (oh, hi DFU bug!) Apple will somehow break the Jailbreak. Well, good news this time around -- Snow Leopard looks to be Jailbreak safe according to the Dev-Team:

Apple to Exploding iPhones: Screen Pressure not Battery to Blame

By Jeremy, Friday, Aug 28, 2009 a 10:51 am

Apple has finished their investigation in the case of the exploding iPhones/Pods and the results are not shocking - the battery malfunction theory has been rejected. It was first rumored that defective batteries were more than likely the cause of the devices going boom but as it turns out, excess force was the reason - according to Apple.

blockquote>"The iPhones with broken glass that we have analysed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone."

Apple Developing 10", 13", and 15" iTablets?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 28, 2009 a 8:39 am

While most recent rumors have been swirling around Apple developing a 10" iTablet that would basically look like an oversized iPod touch, Gizmodo has a source, said to have been 100% reliable in the past, who's telling them Apple is also planning 13" and 15" tablets, one of which... will run Mac OS X.

Apple and China Unicom Reach 3-Year Deal to Bring iPhone to China

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 28, 2009 a 6:42 am

As anticipated -- and anticipated again and again -- China Unicom has finally announced that the iPhone is coming to China:

On 28 August, the Company and Apple reached a three-year agreement for the Company to sell iPhone in China. The initial launch is expected to be in the fourth calendar quarter of 2009. This will provide users with brand new communication and information experience.

Now all that's left is to find out if it will have, you know, WiFi, an App Store, etc...

Apple Telling Developers to Remove "Free Memory" Function from App Store iPhone Apps?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 28, 2009 a 6:34 am

According to developers Bjango, Apple is now telling developers to remove the "Free Memory" function -- the ability to clear data from RAM without force quitting or rebooting -- from their iPhone (and iPod touch) applications or those applications will be removed from the App Store.

Bjango, who makes iStat [$1.99 on sale - iTunes link] had to do just that for their latest version:

Microsoft Releases Bing SDK for iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 28, 2009 a 6:09 am

Bing Community Blog has announced that Microsoft is "sprinkling some Cocoa" on their Bing. (No laughing!):

The Bing iPhone and Mac SDK is available for download on CodePlex, open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

The SDK provides:

Convertbot 1.4 for iPhone Rejected by App Store Because Same "Time" Icon Now Confusable for "Recents"

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 a 9:57 pm

Convertbot [$0.99 - iTunes link] has seen their latest update, version 1.4 for iPhone (and iPod touch), rejected by at least 2 of Apple's 40+ App Store reviewers because the icon they're using for "Time" (the same icon they've been using since 1.0, mind you) is nigh-identical to Apple's built in "Recent" icon, and that was enough to raise that troublesome "user confusion" flag at iTunes HQ.