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Busy day for iPhone users on September 9th

September 9th, looks to be a busy day for iPhone users. It looks like some significant updates are due that day, including possibly iTunes 8 and the iPhone 2.1 firmware update.

Many sites are reporting on the potential of some previously unannounced additional functionality for the phone with the firmware update and also, hopefully a bug fix for the “frozen apps” problem.

Also due is the iPhone version of Spore, which I’m sure is going to keep people hooked.

iPhone 3G Telescope!

I’m fairly convinced this must be a joke, but Coolest Gadgets has posted details about a telescope for your iPhone 3G!

If it is a wind up, it’s a pretty good one

Has anyone seen or used one of these things? Does it really exist? I’d love to find out!

Get synching with Things

The latest iPhone version (1.1) of Things - my favourite GTD app - now supports synchronisation with its desktop counterpart.

Setting up the sync is a doddle. Make sure both your iPhone and Mac are on the same network, select iPhone from the Preferences menu, start Things on your iPhone, enter the supplied access code and you’re all set. From then on, as soon as the app is open on both your Mac and iPhone, they’ll automatically sync themselves.

This latest functionality now escalates Things to being my favourite iPhone app.

Caught by the dreaded App Crash bug

I’m pleased to say I’ve had absolutely no issues with my iPhone 3G since I purchased it. Until yesterday. The dreaded and well publicised App Crash bug finally reared its ugly head, stopping me from running any third party applications.

I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, in that, having deleted many installed apps that I never actually use and synching with my Mac, the problem seems to have cleared itself. Still, this is a pretty major bug - I can imagine what the response would be if all Windows users were told “you may not be able to run any third party applications until we get the bug fixed next month”!

Have you been hit by the bug? Did you manage to resolve it?

Push Notification removed from latest firmware beta

AppleInsider reports that the iPhone Push Notification Service has been disabled in Beta 4 of the iPhone 2.1 update.

I’m sure this isn’t going to endear Apple to the many developers who have likely already started on developing apps that require this service and which has been in previous beta’s.

The official line is apparently that is has been pulled for “further development”.

Let’s hope it’s back in soon.