Users of Apple's iPhone are using the device to do everything but talk on the phone, according to a new study, transforming the product into a mobile entertainment platform rather than just a cellular phone.

Owners of competing products - such as Nokia's N92 or Research in Motion's Blackberry - use their phones for voice communications 71.7 percent of the time market researcher, iSuppli discovered, while iPhone owners spend just 46.5 percent of their time with the product engaged in voice calls.

"This usage pattern shows Apple has succeeded in producing a true convergence product that consumers like to use for multiple purposes," said Greg Sheppard, chief development officer for iSuppli.

I hardly ever used it to talk on the phone.

The iPhone (or iPod Touch) is a 667MHz computer (albeit one that is only running at 412MHz) with 128MB of RAM and between 4 and 32 GB of flash. For software, it is running a pared down Mac OS X with its standard compliment of a FreeBSD-based userland over a Darwin kernel. While some people wonder why anyone would attempt to use it as a Unix workstation, to me and many others it seems ludicrous not to.

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For distribution, I have chosen Debian's APT, which I have ported to this new platform along with a few custom tweaks to integrate better with Apple's network settings. I have also spent the time to write a UIKit front-end to APT called Cydia, in order to make the transition easier for a larger number of users. (Cydia pomonella is the scientific name for the codling moth, which is what we often think of the as the stereotypical apple worm. I felt the name was fitting.)

Sweet, I love apt.

There's a week to go before Apple's commitment to release the iPhone Software Developers Kit in February runs out of room. I'm hearing from one source that its going to be late. I'm not yet hearing any reasons why, and it's sounding like the official release date could slide by anywhere from one to three weeks.

Well, we've just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon.

To be honest, I wasn't missing it. I can imagine that viewing a website with three flash ads on it is going to suck. Though I guess the upside is homestarrunner.com now fits in my pocket, too.

Apple today added new models of the iPhone and iPod Touch which have double the memory. The new 16GB iPhone is available for $499, while the 8GB model remains at $399. The 32GB iPod touch comes in at $499 while 16GB and 8GB models are priced at $399 and $299, respectively.

Again, isn't a $500 phone crazy?

Here is our video proof that iPhone 1.1.3 firmware is, in fact, real.

• The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people is now there
• Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation
• Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
• You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen
• The home screen supports pagination
• You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen

Lockbox is a password & secret information storage program for the iPhone. It stores passwords for websites (or any system), credit card info, or any secret information you need to keep ready at hand, encrypted on your iPhone.

This looks to be promising. Even better would be if the Wallet software I currently have would produce their own iPhone utility, that would be great. (No, storing the data remotely on a server that I access over EDGE or WiFi is not an acceptable solution).