AOL has joined the iPhone 3G frenzy with the launch of three of its very own iPhone OS applications which are now available for free download at the Apple App Store. These applications are the instant messaging client AIM, the online radio service AOL Radio and the video search engine Truveo. All these applications were built using the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), hence providing full-featured applications for the new iPhone.

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A recent patent application filed by Apple sheds light on a new application possibly coming soon for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Although at first glance the application looks almost exactly the same as the current Short Messaging Service (SMS) application for the iPhone, it is actually quite different. Some of the main differences would more »

For all of you iPhone hackers out there, the first native (that means no Safari) AIM client for the iPhone has been released today. This means that it runs as a native iPhone application, and doesn’t have to be run through/with Safari on the iPhone. Named Apollo IM, the client has a version number of -1, and will be updated in the future to include the ability to transfer files, as well as MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, and all of those other services that no one uses. Developed with Shimmer and PXL, the app can be installed with Installer.app, and auto-updates when needed.