Customize 2.0 got a big update. There are some nice new features but there are also some that you simple better not activate. As a result of trying to get it to work i had to restore 3 times. Every time I found a new bug. I’ll give you a heads up on what all the new features are but i will also warn you what to avoid if you don’t want to restore.
» Customize 2.0Rc1Fix – Totally customize your iPhone but be carefull

The blog page of the XGPS project has announced that their GPS hardware is ready. The hardware they are using is a Sirf III 20 channels GPS module from USBLOBALSAT and the PIC18F25J10 chip. According to the developers it’s working perfectly and best of all, it hardly uses any power from your iPhone or iPod GPS.
» XGPS iPhone hardware finalized. Finally GPS for the First gen iPhone

It’s official in Belgium also. The carrier of choice Mobistar, has opened their iPhone 3G portal. For now there’s not much information available but you can enter your e-mail and Mobistar will contact you when there’s new information available. More information can be read here.

The new sdk agreements seem to have a new annex that prohibits developers making any real-time guidance software! This basically means that we will not see a TomTom software any time soon.. Or maybe Apple already has a partnership with TomTom, it does sound a little bit strange that our new devices will not have any sort of turn-by-turn guided GPS .. If that’s really the case.. we will always have the Installer.
» No route guidance possible on the new iPhone firmware ? (no tomtom)

According to a 9to5mac report. The new iPhone 3G will support tethering. Tethering is the process of connecting your laptop or any other portable device to your iPhone for internet connectivity. This wasn’t possible with the current iPhone model. Many of us have been requesting this feature and it seems that apple has been listening to it’s customers.
» iPhone 3G will support tethering ?

Orange has officially announced that they will release the iPhone in Austria, Portugal and Switzerland, on July 11th. France will be receiving the iPhone the 17th July. Orange customers in the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Orange’s African markets can purchase iPhone later this year.
» Orange announced the countries that will receive the iPhone 3G on 11th of July.

Hon Cheng from Databinge.com released another update to his populare TimeCapsule application. TimeCapsule is a backup app that makes local copy’s on your iPhone for all the important settings. I’ll take the developers notes to inform you about all the changes to TimeCapsule. This version of TimeCapsule has undergone a lot of changes. The backup location has changed from ~/Library/TimeCapsule to ~/Library/Preferences/TimeCapsule. This may cause the program to be a bit slow at startup the first time you start TC after installation because it will move your TC backups to the new location.
» TimeCapsule v0.40b5 – A iPhone local backup app