Looking for some good iPhone blogs where you can read more about your favorite mobile device? I thought I’d put together this list of my top 5 favorite iPhone blogs — in no particular order — for your reading pleasure:

1. iPhone Atlas

   

   A CNET site, iPhone Atlas publishes a good deal of news on Jailbreaking, iPhone unlocking and third-party apps and development. The tone of the site is often technical and “newsy,” rather than personal and blog-like, but it’s worth a look.

2. Apple iPhone School

   

   Apple iPhone School is a comprehensive resource on iPhone apps and Jailbreaking how-to. They update regularly about all kinds of cool third-party apps that enhance the functionality (and fun!) of your iPhone.

   Doug and Brooke also publish a great “iPhone 101″ video podcast covering all the latest interesting things going on in the iPhone community. This iPhone blog is highly recommended, particularly for those of you with Jailbroken iPhones.

3. The iPhone Blog

   

   The iPhone Blog takes a humorous approach to iPhone news. The posts are written in a funny, Gizmodo-esque tone, and all articles are accompanied by a laugh-out-loud Photoshopped image.

4. iPhone Freak

   

   iPhone Freak publishes a nice variety of iPhone news in an easily-digestible format. The articles are reasonably short and to the point. I recommend this iPhone blog as an all-encompassing iPhone news source.

5. And of course, my personal favorite: Apple iPhone Review

   

   What, you actually thought I’d leave out this iPhone blog, my very own pride and joy?

   I like to think I take an “out-of-the-box” look at the iPhone. Although I love my iPhone, I consider the device’s flaws and how it can be improved. I also ask questions and emphasize community involvement on my blog, always encouraging readers to participate in the comments.

   You can read more about Apple iPhone Review on my About page, or click here to subscribe now.

   Do you read any of the above iPhone blogs? Are there any other iPhone blogs you recommend?

Just wanted to mention that because of a server failure at my web host, HostGator, I’ve lost my two latest articles: Top 5 iPhone Blogs I Recommend and the April Fools joke I posted yesterday, BREAKING: FCC to Issue iPhone Ban in the US — Yes, it was a joke, no need to panic!

I’ve also lost all reader comments on those articles, plus all comments that were posted on the site from March 30 on.

I’m not happy about how HostGator has handled the situation, since they failed to inform me of the server issue until many hours after I contacted them — I contacted them 3 times before getting a straight answer. One HostGator representative even told me he “had no idea” why my website was down.

Can you help?

If you’re subscribed to Apple iPhone Review by e-mail, it would be a huge help if you could e-mail me the content of my 2 latest articles so that I can get them re-published. Unfortunately, I did not have them backed up.

I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks in advance, and thanks for reading Apple iPhone Review.

iPhone owners in the United States may have their devices recalled come June due to a Federal Communications Commission ban on the iPhone, which is reportedly in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act requiring mobile devices to comply with a cap on dangerous radiofrequency energy emissions.

An FCC investigation found that the iPhone emits a “substantial level of RF energy, well in excess of what federal regulations allow,” according to the FCC report.

The Food & Drug Administration illustrates the potential health risks of radiofrequency emissions: “Large amounts of RF energy can heat tissue … two areas of the body, the eyes and the testes, are particularly vulnerable to RF heating because there is relatively little blood flow in them to carry away excess heat.”

“This is a public health issue as well as an environmental one,” said FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin. “We have no choice but to forbid further sales of the iPhone until Apple upgrades the device’s hardware to comply with federal law.”

The iPhone recall will take effect June 15 to allow time for iPhone customers to switch their wireless carriers if they choose. AT&T said it will not bind iPhone customers to their 2-year contracts if they decide to cancel their wireless service.

In an open letter, Steve Jobs apologized and said Apple is “doing all that we can” to expedite the process of upgrading the iPhone hardware and getting it shipped out to iPhone owners “as soon as possible.”

To make up for the inconvenience, Apple will grant all iPhone customers a $100 Apple Store credit, just like they did last September after dropping the iPhone price.

What you can do

Because it might not be feasible for Apple to roll out the new iPhones in time to meet the June deadline, go here to petition the FCC to extend the deadline.

If you have a blog, please link to this article to spread the word about the petition so that we iPhone owners are not left without phones while the transition to a safer iPhone takes place.

To be notified of updates to this story, be sure and subscribe to this blog.

iPhone owners in the United States may have their devices recalled come June due to a Federal Communications Commission ban on the iPhone, which is reportedly in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act requiring mobile devices to comply with a cap on dangerous radiofrequency energy emissions.

An FCC investigation found that the iPhone emits a “substantial level of RF energy, well in excess of what federal regulations allow,” according to the FCC report.

The Food & Drug Administration illustrates the potential health risks of radiofrequency emissions: “Large amounts of RF energy can heat tissue … two areas of the body, the eyes and the testes, are particularly vulnerable to RF heating because there is relatively little blood flow in them to carry away excess heat.”

“This is a public health issue as well as an environmental one,” said FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin. “We have no choice but to forbid further sales of the iPhone until Apple upgrades the device’s hardware to comply with federal law.”

The iPhone recall will take effect June 15 to allow time for iPhone customers to switch their wireless carriers if they choose. AT&T said it will not bind iPhone customers to their 2-year contracts if they decide to cancel their wireless service.

In an open letter, Steve Jobs apologized and said Apple is “doing all that we can” to expedite the process of upgrading the iPhone hardware and getting it shipped out to iPhone owners “as soon as possible.”

To make up for the inconvenience, Apple will grant all iPhone customers a $100 Apple Store credit, just like they did last September after dropping the iPhone price.

What you can do

Because it might not be feasible for Apple to roll out the new iPhones in time to meet the June deadline, click here to petition the FCC to extend the deadline.

If you have a blog, please link to this article to spread the word about the petition so that we iPhone owners are not left without phones while the transition to a safer iPhone takes place.

To be notified of updates to this story, be sure and subscribe to this blog.

Looking for some good iPhone blogs where you can read more about your favorite mobile device? I thought I’d put together this list of my top 5 favorite iPhone blogs — in no particular order — for your reading pleasure:

1. iPhone Atlas

   

   A CNET site, iPhone Atlas publishes a good deal of news on Jailbreaking, iPhone unlocking and third-party apps and development. The tone of the site is often technical and “newsy,” rather than personal and blog-like, but it’s worth a look.

2. Apple iPhone School

   

   Apple iPhone School is a comprehensive resource on iPhone apps and Jailbreaking how-to. They update regularly about all kinds of cool third-party apps that enhance the functionality (and fun!) of your iPhone.

   Doug and Brooke also publish a great “iPhone 101″ video podcast covering all the latest interesting things going on in the iPhone community. This iPhone blog is highly recommended, particularly for those of you with Jailbroken iPhones.

3. The iPhone Blog

   

   The iPhone Blog takes a humorous approach to iPhone news. The posts are written in a funny, Gizmodo-esque tone, and all articles are accompanied by a laugh-out-loud Photoshopped image.

4. iPhone Freak

   

   iPhone Freak publishes a nice variety of iPhone news in an easily-digestible format. The articles are reasonably short and to the point. I recommend this iPhone blog as an all-encompassing iPhone news source.

5. And of course, my personal favorite: Apple iPhone Review — what, you actually thought I’d leave out this one, my very own pride and joy?

   

   I like to think I take an “out-of-the-box” look at the iPhone. Although I love my iPhone, I consider the device’s flaws and how it can be improved. I also ask questions and emphasize community involvement on my blog, always encouraging readers to participate in the comments.

   You can read more about Apple iPhone Review on my About page, or click here to subscribe now.

Do you read any of the above iPhone blogs? Are there any other iPhone blogs you recommend? Please share in the comments below.

SMS Preview — the iPhone feature that interrupts what you’re doing to display an excerpt of an incoming text message on your screen — has been a privacy concern of mine since the iPhone was released last June. Now RiP Dev, a third-party development team, has released a solution.

By the way, I’m not the only one concerned about SMS Preview. When I asked how iPhone’s SMS Preview has gotten you into trouble, a number of you responded with stories of embarrassing situations you’ve been put in because of text messages popping up while other people were using your iPhones.

One notable story, from a commenter with the alias “Nyprg”:

A friend and I were texting back and forth about stuff while I was shopping with another girl friend of mine. The girl I was with asked to use my phone to look up something on the internet while I changed. When I came out the dressing room, she looked hurt and on the verge of tears! I later found out that while I was dressing, the girl I was texting started writing about the girl I was with and it was kind of cruel. Needless to say I got in huge arguements from both girls over that!

Although I posted about a sort of solution to turning off SMS Preview last August, the method is not reliable and it requires you to set a tedious Passcode Lock on your iPhone.

Unbelievably, despite the overwhelming public interest in this privacy issue, Apple has yet to do anything to address the SMS Preview problem.

The answer is simple: issue a firmware update with the option to customize SMS notification settings. So what are they waiting for?

I was happy to hear from a reader, apparently a blogger from Limited Edition iPhone, that the RiP Dev team has taken the matter into its own hands and created a software called Caterpillar that lets you adjust iPhone’s SMS privacy settings (among other things).

The Caterpillar app is available on a subscription basis only — $20 for 6 months, $35 for a year or $45 for unlimited use — and requires a Jailbroken iPhone, but the Privacy Level feature solves the SMS Preview problem and might be worth paying for if you are particularly concerned about this issue.

I purchased a 6-month subscription so I could test out Caterpillar’s Privacy settings for this review.

After installing Caterpillar, the app creates a RiP Dev menu in the iPhone’s Settings that allows you to tweak your Privacy Level.

The Privacy Level options are:

This is what appears on your screen when you choose to “Hide SMS Sender and Text”:

“Hide SMS Text” looks like this:

Additionally, you can adjust the SMS notification mode to: Default, Silent, Vibration Only, or select a custom sound.

If text message privacy on the iPhone is a concern for you, you might want to purchase a subscription to the Caterpillar app. The software also has other cool features, which I’ll review in a future article.