Today at&t announced that the iPhone will be available in Puerto Rico and in the US Virgin Islands on October 17th 2008.

“iPhone will arrive for AT&T customers in Puerto Rico on October 17,” said Jose Juan Davila, vice president and general manager of AT&T’s wireless operations in Puerto Rico. “AT&T is committed to offering the most innovative products and services to our customers, and we are pleased to be part of this great milestone in our market.”

No word if the network on the island of Puerto Rico has been upgraded to 3G but from experience the at&t network is the best network on the island of Puerto Rico.

alltel today announced that it is the first wireless carrier to offer the nuTsie service which allows users to listen to their iTunes playlist on their cell phone. The nuTsie service is available on 10 alltel phones and will cost $4.99 a month or $19.99 for the year. alltel customers can access the nuTsie service via the alltel shop located on their handset.

“Our customers are now relying on their wireless phones to provide entertainment as well as reliability,” said Kristi Crum, director of multimedia content for Alltel Wireless. “The launch of nuTsie will maximize the music capabilities on their phones so they can now easily listen to their favorite music from iTunes, no matter where they go.”

The nuTsie application, developed by Melodeo, a leader in mobile and online media, is available on a wide range of Alltel devices including the MOTORAZRTM V3m and V3c, the MOTOKRZR K1m, the MOTORAZR2 V9m and the MOTOROKRTM Z6m. Additional handsets include the LG AX565, The Wave by LG, the LG AX8600, Samsung Muse, the Alltel Hue by Samsung and The Wafer by Samsung. More Alltel handsets supporting nuTsie will be announced in the coming months.

The iPhone ultracompact USB adapter is being recalled by Apple.

Apparently the metal prongs are breaking off and could possibly cause an electric shock, so far no one has been injured which is a good thing.

Fore more info visit HWG.

So is Apple and at&t doing enough to make it clear that 3G isn’t available to everyone? Mike doesn’t think so and he mentions how both companies are not advertising that the 3G network isn’t as large as one would thing.

3G only covers 300 Metro areas around the US and sure that may sound like a lot, it really isn’t when you take a closer look at their coverage map.

Apple today announced that they will be shipping the iPhone 2.0 software in June, and it’s currently available to some developers and enterprise business customers.

The iPhone 2.0 software will include an SDK for developer’s and Microsoft Exchange Active-Sync.

More info about this at HardwareGeeks.com

Apple has released updated firmare for the ever so popular iPhone. Apple has said little about what is included in version 1.1.4 and appears just to fix some bugs.

As of yet there is no word on whether or not the new iPhone Firmware breaks jailbroken phones but only time will tell. Best not to upgrade until someone finds out for sure.

As we mentioned yesterday, the iPhone SDK has been delayed, today Apple mentioned nothing about it.

Terry over at HardwareGeeks, is disapointed that the Apple SDK that was scheduled to be released soon is rumored to be delayed.

Many iPhone users, including yours truly have been anxiously awaiting this release. The iPhone is a great communications device but has limited platform potential without access to native 3rd party applications. Yes you can “jailbreak” the iPhone to allow 3rd party apps but the price you pay is a convoluted update process each time Apple releases a patch.

It’s anticipated that developers will submit their apps to Apple for certification and be made available through the iTunes stores.
What’s not clear is the pricing or how updates to the individual apps will work. I don’t mind paying for apps I find useful but in my mind the price point needs to be $4.99 or less. Oh and give us an MMS app . . . please ?  The iPhone has proven to be very popular and stands to gain in sales and user base with increased functionality. Make it so Mr. Jobs. 

So what does an delayed SDK mean to you? Basically you won’t get 3rd party apps anytime soon.

Klausner Technologies which is based in New York, Monday filed suit against Apple and at&t wireless over voicemail patents that Klausner claims the Apple iPhone infringes. In the suite Klausner is asking for $360 million dollars. The patent in question is,572,576.

Klausner previously sued Apple in the 1990’s and the two companies settled.

Klausner is also suing some Cable Giants over their Visual Voicemail features, and has a licensing agreement with Vonage.

For the first time, Canadian mobile carriers are offering unlimited data plans for much less than the price of your arm and leg. Bell Mobility introduced the HTC Touch a few weeks ago with an unlimited data plan for 7 dollars Canadian, or $7.04 US. The plan is also compatible with other wap-based consumer phones, and only allow for wap-access.  Unlike the consumer based unlimited wap plan, the unlimited data covers unlimited HTML based internet browsing (through EV-DO/CDMA 1X) and unlimited email and instant messaging. For PDAs, the HTC Touch is currently the only phone that the $7 plan is compatible on.

Days earlier, Telus Mobility introduced an unlimited instant messaging/e-mail plan for $15 for all PDAs and Blackberrys, but many customers have been given free unlimited data as part of the package to compete with the plan by Bell. Currently there is very little information whether Blackberry devices are compatible or not.

Rogers Wireless introduced an unlimited email and messaging plan for exclusively Blackberry devices for $15, it does not include any web browsing data, nor has Rogers responded to Bell’s $7 unlimited data yet, and they may not until much into the future.

Many believe the unlimited data plans introduced by Bell and Telus are to prepare to combat against the iPhone that is to be released on Rogers sometime in the imminent not-so-distant future.

Two restrictions that the Bell and Telus data plans have is audio/video streaming and tethering to a computer, both carriers forbid customers from doing either on their phones due to the extreme pricing on the plans.

I mean an iPhone via Orange Mobile.

Apple and Orange (for those of you who don’t know a wireless provider in the UK) today announced that the French unit of Orange will offer the iPhone in France.

The 8GB iPhone will be sold in France on November 29 for 399 Euros. Their press release didn’t say anything about pricing for plan but they will probably be similar to the pricing plans in the UK.

The French version of the iPhone will also have access to the wireless itunes store.