The iPhone User Guide

A leaked memo from AT&T to staff:

“iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT&T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

Here’s a look at some of the milestones we achieved:

• Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
• Second-largest traffic day in our retail stores
• Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
• Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
• Largest order day in att.com history
• Largest features sales day in att.com history

On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.

A major vulnerability in how the iPhone handles SMS has been found by security researcher Charlie Miller. During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller announced the vunerability and warned of its capabilities.

“The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network. The malicious code could include commands to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.”

According to HotHardware, Miller has made an arrangement with Apple giving them until the Black Hat USA expo in Las Vegas to fix the issue. Apple says they will have a fix ready “later this month.”

Imagine being able to have your iPhone flip from Ringer to Silent the minute the GPS notices you are at work. Well along with a slew of other patents today, Apple have patented this sort of technology. This is particularly handy, if the iPhone knows you are running, and so diverts all your calls to voicemail, until you slow to a walking pace. We’re not sure when this will surface but it will be very nice to have your iPhone react to your surroundings like that. Stay tuned.

Apple has published a very interesting patent application in which they explore how to provide a Karaoke experience on the iPhone. Not only would users be able to sing along with their favorite songs, but Apple wants to give real-time feedback to singers letting them know how they are doing.

Rolando 2 improves upon the existing Rolando formula by adding a “2.5D” display system which provides a 3D-looking environment to travel across. Beyond just this aesthetic change, the game also introduces a number of new characters, skills, weapons/vehicles and puzzles throughout the game’s 46 levels. The game shares the same basic controls as the original game with tilt movements to roll the Rolandos and swipe controls to jump.

Are you fed up with typing in your favourite websites in to the small Safari bar on your iPhone? There is a simple way to gain easy access to your favourite websites quickly, and here’s how.

1. Navigate to your favourite website
2. Touch the “+” icon at the bottom of the screen
3. Touch “Add to Home Screen”
4. Enter a name for your shortcut
5. Voilá… you now have created your own icon that will open Safari and your favourite site with just one click.

One of the most addictive games on iPhone is now two player, simply both have the app on your iPhone and you can play head to head and help land all those aircrafts in a ridiculously small airport. Just when you thought this game couldn’t get any more fun, it does.

Upgrade now to version 1.3 in the iTunes App Store