Mint brings budget management to the iPhone

Free money management webapp Mint rolls out an iPhone app that puts most of its basic data-mining, alerts, and money-watching tools in a few simple screens. From the Mint app’s home screen, you can see your total balances and click through to check out transactions on balances on everything you’ve registered over at Mint’s web site. [...]

Smudge introduces Post-It app for the iPhone

Smudge Apps releases Remind Me application for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Every time you unlock your iPhone, you'll find this note (that you can save as a wallpaper) is insanely useful. The app costs 99 cents in Apple's App Store. Remind me has six different backgrounds and eight different note ...

Test your tipsiness with the iBreath for the iPhone

It’s late at night, you’re stepping out of local club into the cold autumn night after a few drinks, and as you head towards the car, you stop and take a deep breath, realizing that it might not be the right time to drive. But how can you know if you’re legally drunk? Simple — [...]

Happy Holidays from iPhone Buzz!

We here at iPhone Buzz would like to take the time to wish all of our readers a happy holiday season this year no matter what holiday your celebrating. All the recent news and rumors of the iPhone Nano have made our heads spin, luckily the holidays came just in ...

Limited Edition iPhone?s Christmas Contest: The Winners

Hey guys, Alan here. I have the results for our Christmas Giveaway! Whoo! I?m sure you guys are just dying to know who won. Well, here we go, I?m gonna list the winners by prize. Before I begin, let me just say thank you just one more time to MagicTap, ...

Popular Shazam app update available for the iPhone

The popular music identification service Shazam has been enhanced to provide a more personal experience for Apple iPhone users. It’s the one shown on that commercial, remember? Shazam enables users to identify the name, artist and album of a song they are listening to before purchasing the track through various affiliated partners. In the latest [...]

Dev Team to release 3G unlock on New Years Eve

The Dev team have announced on their blog they will be releasing a software unlock solution for the iPhone 3G. We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed ?yellowsn0w?. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that [...]

We have a real iPhone 3G unlock!

The iPhone Dev Team has been hard at work since the iPhone 3G was released back in June. They now have the most exciting news to report so far, you guessed it an unlock for the iPhone 3G. Just how long will we have to wait before seeing this unlock ...

A NSFW section coming to the App Store, according to Apple

The developer of the previously rejected “Pull My Finger” iPhone app just got good news from Apple: there’s a NSFW category coming for these types of programs, the slightly more adult, risque kinds of apps. This is good news both for adults and for the creativity of future iPhone apps. The developer stated that Apple didn’t [...]

Walmart creates iPhone web app for quick browsing but not purchases

It appears that much of the online world is accepting and adapting to Apple?s iPhone. Walmart is the latest to adapt their online store specifically for the iPhone. Just navigate to Walmart.com and you will be directed to an iPhone specific portal.
The site is very much like the regular HTML ...

Taiwan iPhone 3G is reportedly unlocked

It looks like those in Taiwan who went out and picked up the iPhone 3G this weekend after the launch Saturday will be able to use just about any SIM they wish. Initial reports said that Chunghwa Telecom would be selling the iPhone 3G SIM-locked to their network. Many users have ...

App from Target a great way to find holiday gift inspiration

Target is one of the most popular stores for shopping and bargains in the US, and now they’ve released an app that basically gives you gift ideas based on a person?s gender and age. When you open the app, you will get a loading screen and then the main screen (with some cheery jiggle bells that [...]

Apple brings back at home activation

It appears Apple and AT&T are bringing back the home activation for the iPhone. Going to their site you will find an advert telling all about purchasing the iPhone online and being able to activate it from home. It appears that this was brought fourth just for the holidays. Those of ...

Truphone has newly added inbound calling

Today Truphone added the Truphone Anywhere functionality to their iPhone application, enabling users to make international calls for as little as �0.03/$0.06 per minute even when not connected to the internet. Truphone also added inbound calling on the iPhone for the first time.
Truphone currently works in 33 countries around the ...

iPhone Buzz Week in Review - Week 49 2008

This week we were happy to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple?s iPhone. So far the development team has managed to get a serial driver, frame buffer driver, serial over USB driver and Interrupts and MMU Clock. Eventually we will be seeing support for sound, ...

WalMart Rumored to Sell iPhones for $99

Earlier this year (October) the website The Boy Genius Report, reported that a tipster notified them that WalMart would be selling iPhones after Christmas and now making this rumor even juicier, is the fact that WalMart would be selling 4GB iPhones for only $99.Keep posted for the latest news ...

Go fishing and record your catches on your iPhone with Gone Fishing

Finally the fishing application for real, hardened fisherman. Whether you are a Coarse, Game or Sea angler, record your favorite catches with Gone Fishing. Attach new or existing pictures and catch details to the Fish Log Database on your device. Its easy to add and edit further details such as species, weight, bait, time, date, [...]

iPhone tripled their market share in 3rd Quarter of 2008

Apple saw the iPhone’s market share triple over the past year, capturing 12.9 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, according to a new Gartner analysis. This is a huge number in this market. For the quarter ending September 30 2007, iPhones accounted for 3.4 percent of the market. That figure was more than 3x higher on [...]

Wal-Mart to possibly sell $99 iPhone?

Boy Genius Report (a reporting website) first broke the story back in October that Apple would begin selling the iPhone at Wal-Marts. The actual date of release appears to be December 28th that Wal-Mart will officially be offering iPhones. Wal-Mart employees are already receiving training on iPhone activation (see photo). Today, a new report claims [...]

Apple wins lawsuit against Chinese company

Apple this week has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against a Chinese electronics company. New Apple Concept Digital Technology Co. was ordered to pay 400,000 yuan (~$58,000 USD), completing a battle between the two companies that began in 2006 when the Shenzhen-based manufacturer was ordered to stop using its trademark in their name, according to [...]

The App Store gets Amazon shopping app

It appears that not long after the T-Mobile G1 comes out the iPhone starts snatching features like there is no tomorrow. First feature the iPhone received was Google Street View, a feature thought to be an Android exclusive. Now the iPhone gets its own Amazon store. While this Amazon application is ...

iPhone firmware 2.2 reportedly locking unlocked iPhones

Other than your usual SIM card unlock the only place to get an officially unlocked iPhone is through Hong Kong and parts of Europe. Unfortunately for those who spent untold amounts of money to get an unlocked iPhone 3G, your efforts may all go to waste. The new iPhone firmware ...

Silicon Touch iPhone Case brings the iPhone to visually impaired users

Touchscreen phones have been a thing that the visually impaired have been forced to live without for so long. Bruno Fosi has set out to change that for everyone with his new concept Silicon Touch iPhone case. This case is designed not to take away any of the iPhone?s basic ...

Taiwan will get the iPhone 3G on December 13th

The largest operator in the Taiwan region, Chunghwa Telecom, has finally given us a date when they will be releasing the iPhone 3G in Taiwan. Looks like those who have had to wait for so long will finally get their hands on the iPhone 3G in less than two weeks. The ...

iPhone finally running Linux

Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.
The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple?s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the ...

Another iPhone 3G ad bites the dust in the UK

Wow, the advertising conditions in the UK are pretty strict! An Apple ad was pulled earlier this year, but now another iPhone 3G ad was pulled from UK TV because it apparently exaggerated the performance speed of the iPhone 3G. The ad shows the iPhone speeding along between web pages and ...

Google admits to violating development terms with their new search app

Google?s voice search function on the latest version of its Google Mobile search app is pretty slickly implemented: it knows when you put it up to your ear, prompts you to speak, and then searches when you move it away from your ear. No other application has even used that same functionality yet, and?as it [...]

Great ?Black Friday? Deals on iPhone and Apple goodies

The holidays are upon us, and the biggest spending day is right around the corner (for some parts of the world anyway). The day after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest shopping days of the entire year, and we’re here to help guide you to the great deals that await you. And best of all, you [...]

Telia also trying to bring MMS to the iPhone

For over a year now the iPhone has torn apart because it lacks the basic MMS functionality that has become and industry standard. There have been a few work around that have worked for some but not others such as Swirly MMS, but they all require you to first jailbreak ...