iPhone Dispatch Blog

We’ve just put up a whole new section of free iPhone ringtones at MacMost.com. The idea is to have a bunch of ringtones for people that want something different, but don’t have the time or know-how to make their own with GarageBand.
We’ve organized them into themes. You can easily get the ringtones on your iPhone by just “subscribing” to the podcast feed. This will download the ringtones to iTunes, and then it should automatically sync them over to your iPhone if you have sync turned on. Then you can use them as ringtones in your iPhone settings. You can also download them manually, and listen to previews.

Looks like Amazon is testing a new iPhone interface. I was surprised by it when I went to check a price yesterday while out in a store. Just check out their web site while using an iPhone to see. Looks like they are soliciting feedback. I just hope they retain the ability to use the regular site as well.

Wow. Have you checked out Google lately? If you just go to their main page on the iPhone, it will automatically detect that you are on an iPhone and give you a special page. Very nice. Google is now the most useful iPhone site all of a sudden.
I wonder why Apple didn’t create a killer portal for the iPhone?

A lot of fuss is being made over IMAP support in Gmail. IMAP is a big improvement over POP, because it basically remembers the state of messages between computers (and the iPhone). So you can read your email sometimes over the iPhone, sometimes over your computer, and never have to worry about which email you read or replied to over each — they are in sync all the time.
But I have to say that using Gmail with IMAP is still a drag. It doesn’t group emails in threads, and it is too easy to throw an email away, as opposed to the preferred Gmail action of archiving email.
On the other hand, one of the mobile versions of Gmail is fast and easy to use, and looks brilliant over the iPhone. If you disagree, it may be because you are using the very stripped-down mobile versions of Gmail that is meant for lesser phones. I’m not exactly sure how you insure you are viewing the iPhone version of Gmail — the same URL will take you to a lesser version in your Mac browser. I assume they are now sniffing your device type and showing you the good one. You should see Archive, Delete and Search buttons (not links, buttons) at the bottom of the page.

Apple just launched a huge directory of iPhone Web applications at http://www.apple.com/webapps/. I guess this makes all the other iPhone app directories obsolete. I’m glad to see that almost all of my iPhone Games are listed. I’ll have to dig in deeper to see what other apps Apple has unearthed.