Holy crap . Against our wildest expectations , Apple approved the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone, and it’ll be in the App Store within 24 hours. Original iPhone users should be reallllllly happy right now. Update: Now live in iTunes ! [ Opera ] More

At $2 this app is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying any the materials necessary for your own dark room, and I can guarantee it’s less messy too. Though not quite as fun, I know. More

Popups were an understandable workaround for the shortcomings of the iPhone operating system. But with OS 4, Apple missed their chance to build a good alert system. Now, popups are about to get way out of hand. More

Though iPhone OS 4’s real potency will come when developers seize the new tools and build multitasking apps that do crazy, crazy things, many of the OS’s inherent secrets are coming to light. More

The “rate on delete” iPhone prompt that greets users every time they remove an app from their iPhone is getting deleted. More

Apple’s move to ban Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists . Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: Apple scrubbed Google’s name from the new OS’s Safari search button. More

Flash “evangelist” Lee Brimelow responds to Apple cutting Flash developers off at the knees for iPhone. Adobe makes him change it. The sentence left in its place? Well that kind of says everything. Things, they are complicated. [ Flash Blog ] More

When Jobs announced multitasking for iPhone OS 4 , everyone got giddy… until Apple said that this important feature wouldn’t work in older iThingies because of “hardware limitations”. The hardware, however, fully supports multitasking. Why not enable it, then, Apple? More

We stopped by Elonex ’s booth at The Gadget Show Live for its product launch extravaganza. First is the iDock XL screen dock for the iPhone / iPod touch, which sadly doesn’t serve as an iPhone-to-iPad converter , but will let you do the usual video and photo display on its 10-inch 800×480 screen (the prototype pictured above has a smaller temporary screen). You’ll find a removable battery that lasts for about four hours or almost twice that with a secondary internal battery, or you can leave the iDock XL plugged in via its micro-USB port. Available in May for

The iPad won’t charge with all USB chargers. But that’s because your USB chargers are weak. The reVIVE II Dual USB Charger can charge both your iPad and your other weakling gadget. The reVIVE II is not weak. More