iPhone News Updated

Stacks for iPhone Adds Spring-Loaded Launcher

Stacks is an add-on for jailbroken, or hacked, iPhones which brings a distinctly Mac-like tweak to the iPhone UI. As the video shows, Stacks lets you replace the icons in the home row (the non-moving row of icons at the bottom of the screen) with, well, stacks.

Touch one with your finger and it expands to show a bendy column of extra icons. Think of it as piling up app shortcuts and then fanning them out like a pack of cards to pick one. Stacks has been around for a little while, but the video shows the soon-to-be-released v3 which adds renaming and drag’n’drop editing.

As Erica Sadun over at the Unofficial Apple Weblog notes, it’s a shame that you need a Jailbroken iPhone to run this neat and rather handy tweak. On the other hand, though, the OS 3.0 search feature all but renders this obsolete.

[Thanks: http://www.wired.com]

My iPhone 3GS: Not So Hot

Reports are coming in that the iPhone 3G S gets really hot. Oddly, not mine.

Over the weekend I read several reports from various sources claiming that the iPhone 3G S was getting abnormally hot — hot enough to discolor the case, apparently. I’m not saying that these reports are wrong, or somehow invalid, but I’ve been using my iPhone 3G S constantly and consistently for the past 16 days and haven’t noticed anything like this.

Perhaps I’m not doing something that others are doing, but last Friday I drove for an hour with my 3G S in a Belkin TuneBase. The iPhone 3G S was charging, playing MP3s, using GPS and the magnetometer, linked to both 3G and EDGE networks depending on availability, and making the occasional phone call via a BlueAnt Bluetooth speakerphone. I arrived at my destination, pulled the iPhone out of the dock and did not notice any heat issues whatsoever.
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