Apple seems to be putting the pieces together to begin building its own chips for the iPhone and iPod.  With its new IBM hire, and the acquisition of PA Semi, it’s become quite clear what Apple has its eye on.

While email doesn’t take up a commanding presence on the iPhone 3G, the first-generation iPhone is a different story- especially those sporting only 4GB of disk space.  With the amount of music, photos, videos, etc. we load on our iPhones, conserving disk space in any way is more beneficial than you might think.  Email is the perfect starting point to conserving the ever-so-precious storage space. 

At Adobe’s recent “Flash On The Beach” event, a senior exec. finally confirmed that a team at Adobe was “currently developing a Flash player for the iPhone.”  Before you get to excited, it’s still up to Apple whether the player will actually make its way into a future firmware update, given the many reasons Apple might not want it in the first place.

Not that Apple needed another problem to plague iPhone 3G users, but it announced that the included iPhone power adapters pose a shock hazard, and therefore are recalling all of them sold since mid-July in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and several Central and South American countries.

The launch of the highly anticipated Blackberry Bold was delayed yet another month- being scheduled for a November launch instead of October.  A likely reason being AT&T wasn’t at all ready to handle the influx of 3G data usage that the iPhone brought. 

The upcoming launch of the first Android-based handset will garner its own hype undoubtedly, but will it match the frenzy that surrounding not only the first generation iPhone, but the 3G version as well?  Most likely, it won’t, but it’s because of some fundamental differences in the two and doesn’t mean that one is better than the other.

As if $830 for a 16GB iPhone 3G wasn’t crazy enough, it still costs $730 for the 8GB version in India these days.  Because sales were obviously slowed by the extreme pricing, carriers in India are finally offering "easy payment" plans for the iPhone 3G. 

While it was widely speculated that the 3G chip installed in the iPhone was the cause of some ill-fated owner’s connection problems, some new data coming from Wired.com is stating the exact opposite.  A study is showing that AT&T and other wireless carriers around the world are to blame for the issues, not the device itself. 

Apple’s latest firmware update, 2.0.1, seems to have caused more problems than it was worth.  Users are reporting that even though dropped calls and slow data access seem to have been curbed for the time being, other problems are now arising that are worse than the ones the update was suppose to fix in the first place.

The banking giant is going over the idea of possibly dropping its Blackberrys to switch over to iPhones for its employees.  If they make the move, it could result in a order larger than 200,000 units for Apple, the largest single order to date.