The 3G iPhone is coming to an Apple Store near you -- July 11th. For the time being, you can lust after the new iPhone by checking out all the details here. And be sure to watch Steve Jobs' Developer Conference keynote address, where he and Apple engineers gave some exciting demos of what you can do with the new iPhone and the iPhone SDK.

Here’s a helpful iPhone Web App Development tip or two from Macworld’s “iPhone Central” blog (BTW, iPhone Central is an all-around good source of iPhone news and gossip).

If you’re interested in developing web apps for the iPhone—and hey, it’s the hottest gadget since desk lamps, so why wouldn’t you?—there are a few things you should know. Fortunately, many of them are covered by Apple themselves in their Development Guidelines (you’ll need an Apple ID to read the Guidelines -- getting an Apple Developer Connection ID is easy and quick...and free...just go here to sign up).

For those of us mere mortals who are more interested in perusing what the iPhone can or can’t do, the page is a wealth of information about web capabilities, media compatibility, and the theories behind how people interact with the gadget.

For example, Apple makes a big point about your finger not being the same as your mouse; in some ways, it’s a lot less precise...

Check out the rest of the post here.

Here’s a quick iPhone 2.0 rumor round up!

With seven days to go before WWDC, the 3G iPhone rumor mill is pretty much on fire. Some of the rumors are pretty bonkers, but most of the more popular ones are pretty darn reasonable. In the name of science, we’ve pushed all of the rumors through our FCF (Fanboy Crap Filter), and rated the more likely rumors on the PKL (Pre-keynote Legitometer) scale. Lets take a look:

Rumor: It’ll be announced during the WWDC keynote
PKL Rating: 10/10 - With just about everyone expecting the announcement, Apple’s gotta do it. Not doing so would be a bad move for their stock.

Rumor: It’ll ship on the same day as the announcement
PKL Rating: 5/10 - As nice as this would be, I can’t imagine how they’d manage to keep the secret. Maybe if it were limited to Apple stores on launch day, but it’s crazy to think that the employees at some of the one-or-two-people-per-shift AT&T shops could fight the temptation to crack open the boxes and fire off pictures to everybody they know. People regularly risk being fired to leak info on much smaller news items. Giving it a full week to get shipped all over the country, I’d expect it to hit around June 16th.

More after the jump..


Rumor: Front-facing Camera
PKL Rating: 7/10 - One of the primary reasons for a front facing camera is video calling, which has been floundering around untapped for years now. It’s entirely feasible, and a number of handsets have it implemented to some degree - especially outside of the US. Unfortunately, it remains stunted by the absence of a handset not only popular enough to make it commonplace, but also technically capable on the hardware and network side. The 3G iPhone would be a mighty fine platform to pave the way - it’ll be plenty popular, be on a fast enough network, and Apple’s got plenty of proven experience with video communication after iChat AV.


And you can check out the rest at MobileCrunch here.

Here are some very helpful tips for folks looking into building their first iPhone web app:

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