Rubicon Consulting published data from an online survey of 460 “randomly” selected iPhone users. Full PDF of results is available from Rubicon. They claim there’s a 3.8% margin of error with a 90% confidence interval, but the validity of the data depends on how truly random their sampling was.

Summary of results:

- Email is the #1 function.
- iPhone increases mobile browsing with 75% of iPhone users saying it has led to more mobile browsing
- 50% of iPhone owners replaced conventional (non-smartphones) mobile phones.
- 1/3 of iPhone users carry a 2nd phone
- 1/4 of iPhone users say its displacing a notebook computer.
- 40% of iPhone users said “strongly” that they want to add new software apps.
- 40% if iPhone users said the browser has trouble with some web pages they want to visit

A few interesting graphs:

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A nice little Web Application that transforms any RSS Feed into a nice iPhone Web Application:

http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/feed/

Via Phone Magazine
Poring through the latest iPhone 2.0 firmware that Apple has distributed to developers, The Boy Genius spotted that a new YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app has been added. At present, video embedded into webpages won

A new version, v3.0, of Zibri

Caterpillar is an unique package of little tools for your iPhone that can be installed separately from each other. Each module provides its own set of features aimed to make your use of iPhone more productive and fun. Customization, business tools, quick contacts search, system font replacement and many more

via pocketnow.com

The recent announcement of a software development kit and the Microsoft Exchange Activesync support for the iPhone has raised the eyebrows of a few users who have remained hesitant from switching to the iPhone. Our own Brandon Miniman even exclaimed that now that the iPhone has Exchange support, various device form factors was the only reason left to stick to Windows Mobile.

On the contrary, here are 42 reasons you still don

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Caterpillar 1.2 is out. It features a new component called Uninstall that allows you to uninstall applications right from the SpringBoard just like Web bookmarks and the apps in 2.0, and FaceLift that adds support for SummerBoard themes and extends them on its own allowing theme authors greater control over the look of the theme. Both technologies licensed from Nullriver Software, authors of Installer and SummerBoard.

Full version history is available here. Our own extensions to the theme format is available here. Enjoy!

Posted by Chris Davies

Love that iPhone look but hating the on-screen keyboard?

Are you tired of your old ringtones? iPhoneringpack offers iPhone ring tones that are build specifically for the iPhone. The site offers several ring packs, and depending on which you choose you will have to pay from $2-$6. If you like Top Gear, you will enjoy a free ringtone they offer.

Once you download ringtone, it will be synced into your iTunes library from where it will take no time to transfer it into your device.

While on site there are several free iPhone games to take advantage of: Golfing and CarMadillo.

Of course, instead of buying ringtones you can use your favourite songs.