I have 2 iPhones since I upgraded to the 3G S. The older one is the first gen edge iphone. Is it possible to put both iPhones on one line when the new plan is a 3G? I have heard putting two phones on one line before, but never in the case when it comes to iphones.

with the ipod touch it is half the price of the iphone outright. Iphones have mic,camera,radio etc. we get none of those plus we have to pay for a $12 update.

2nd of all we have problems with the update and the ipod and what do we have to do reset,restore and reset and restore why should we always have to waste all our time fixing it. They should at least make an update thats useful fixing things.

Or will I have to pay to unlock it or something? If I just don’t pay for the phone, will everything that the Itouch has be free? Please don’t say “Why not just buy the Itouch” It’s because the Iphones are cheaper on apple.com

Okay folks, it’s time to step back, take a deep breath and relax.

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There has been a lot of talk today about Apple supposedly admitting it has heat issues with the new iPhone 3GS. The simple fact is, that is not true.

What Apple did do is update a previously published tech note advising customers of the safe operating temperatures of the iPhone. Now, why would Apple do this? Because it does it every time it releases a device like the iPhone 3GS. It’s standard procedure for the company to continually update tech notes for all its products.

If you’re not familiar with them, tech notes are a way for companies to offer advice, best practices, workarounds, and other tidbits of information for their customers. They are not a way to advise customers of disastrous heat issues that they may have with a device.

For whatever reason, some people picked up the tech note today and wrote that Apple had admitted to an overheating issue. Here’s what the tech note actually says.

Apple recommends that you don’t:

• Leave the device in a car on a hot day.
• Leave it in direct sunlight for extended amounts of time.
• Use certain applications in hot conditions or direct sunlight for long periods of time, such as GPS tracking in a car on a sunny day or listening to music while in direct sunlight.

I hardly see that as an admission that there are heat issues. Best practices for operating the iPhone, sure.

I’ve been through several incidents over my 15 years of covering Apple where warnings were issued about products. Whether it was a notebook battery or a power cord, we usually learned of the problem from Apple, and they were always quick to respond and to offer replacements.

It is true that Apple has been quiet about this so far. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because they have not been able to replicate the heat issues some users are reporting.

You will know when Apple acknowledges a serious problem like this. It won’t come in the form of a tech note. It will come directly from a company representative.

Originally posted at News - Apple

Apple expects to have a fix later this month for a vulnerability in the iPhone that could allow an attacker to gain control of the device remotely via SMS, a security researcher said on Thursday.

An attacker could exploit a weakness in the way iPhones handle SMS (short message service) messages to do things like use GPS to track the phone’s location, turn on the microphone for eavesdropping, or take control of the device and add it to a botnet, Charlie Miller, co-author of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook and principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, said in a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore. The presentation was covered by IDG News Service.

Miller said that under an agreement with Apple, he was barred from providing too much detail on the vulnerability. He plans to give a more detailed presentation on the hole at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas at the end of the month.

Despite the SMS hole, which “could be a critical vulnerability,” the iPhone is more secure than OS X on computers, Miller said. That is because the iPhone doesn’t support Adobe Flash and Java, only runs software digitally signed by Apple, includes hardware protection for data stored in memory, and runs applications in a sandbox, he said.

Apple representatives did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment.

Originally posted at News - Security