While the iPhone can't heal lepers or turn water into wine, it can help you do a lot of other useful things, such as sharing high-resolution videos, diagnosing your own illnesses and even creating your own virtual life form! With Apple's iPhone App Store due to go online today, we decided to take a look at some of the more interesting third-party programs, applications and Web sites that have been developed to help make your iPhone an integral tool for both work and fun.

Details of how much Apple Inc.’s next-generation iPhone will cost Canadians each month when the device goes on sale July 11 have been leaked on the Internet, a Web site claims.

According to a blog post on ehmac.ca, Rogers Communications Inc. will require iPhone subscribers to pay $30 per month for unlimited data and visual voicemail and $45 per month for an enterprise plan that will provide unlimited data and corporate e-mail.

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"Gen2 iPhone pricing is aggressive enough that it made me think Apple's really taking the gloves off on this one," said Portelligent CEO David Carey in an interview with EETimes. "They are probably not as worried about iPhone hardware profits as they are about getting a piece of the action on service revenues and getting more Macs in homes and offices all around the globe."

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Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen, speaking Monday on an earnings call with analysts, updated his company's efforts to make Flash videos work on the mobile version of Apple's Safari browser.

iPhone 3G FAQ

Is your heart aflutter at the thought of buying an iPhone 3G? Are you counting the days until the 11 July release date?

If this describes you, or even if you are just toying with the idea, there are a few things you'll need to consider. Fortunately is here to tell you all you need to know.

They’re the Cadillacs of smartphones, and the choices of the über-hip. How do you decide whether to go the iPhone or BlackBerry route?

Its ability to make emails available on the road turned the humble BlackBerry into a must-have business gadget and spawned a legion of workers who wouldn't want to go anywhere without their "Crackberries".

At Absolute Gadget we hae been eagerly awaiting the oft-rumoured 3G version of Apple's iPhone (we've had the first iPhone in for review when it came out). Of course, we have speculated which family member we would have to sell in order to get our dirty mitts on this Jesusphone, but now it looks like granny can breath easy - O2 may sell the new raprod for one hundred English pounds.

Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd’s BlackBerry increased its share of the U.S. smartphone market in the first quarter, while Apple Inc’s iPhone lost ground, according to a report from the global market research firm IDC. Apple iPhone’s market share in the smartphones category in the US is currently at around 19.2% percent, a plunge from 26.7% the quarter before.

With the European Union choosing DVB-H as the mobile-television standard over other versions of the technology in March, Samsung Electronics will commercialize a handset supporting the new format as a pre-emptive measure in the Netherlands.