There is no doubt that the Apple iPod has been one of the most spectacular success stories of recent years, and it looks like the Iphone will be just as popular. Check out this article to learn where to get Iphone software at zero cost.

Thanks to Apple’s new technological advancement, it is possible to carry your music collection around on your cell phone. The iPhone is also capable of giving users access to the internet. To avail yourself of all of the advantages of this wonderful new piece of hardware, you will need to get software to use on it.

Apple are strictly not allowing other companied to develop software for the iPhone itself, and are limiting them to developing peripherals. Hackers have already compromised Apple’s iPhone, and companies on the internet are now distributing software applications which allow the iPhone to be used on any number of cell phone networks, instead of just the ones which Apple themselves are integrating into the machine. This is just what Apple cannot afford to happen, and they have issued warnings stating that this kind of hacking will invalidate all guarantees.

Apple themselves may well be about to release an update to the operating system, as part of what they claim is a "game of cat and mouse with the hackers". Nobody is yet sure whether this update, or further updates, will compromise the hackers’ code which has allowed iPhone buyers to sign up with other networks. It seems highly likely, given the company’s stance, and the huge amounts of money involved, that that will be the primary consideration. The new updates are also expected to allow the iTunes Music Store to be accessed via Wi-Fi. These updates will, of course, be free iPhone software-download it for free.

Assuming that you want legitimate software which is compatible with Apple’s terms of service, you will be pleased to know that Apple has committed to giving free updates of their own software, and to improving the features on an ongoing basis. No exact details have yet been released, but this will be great news for the millions of people latching on to this latest hardware craze. It will be fascinating to watch, over the coming months, and years, how creative the developers at Apple can get. Whatever they come up with, they have promised that it will be free iPhone software-download it for free.

With the iPhone news of the Apple launch, the number of iPhone hacks has increased exponentially and a great deal of energy has been put into working through the iPhone software to find where the passwords and the “glue” is for a number of apps. The “Holy Grail” at the moment is iPhone unlocking.

iPhone unlocking is in fact most requested hack, and unlocking means that the iPhone can be used on any network and not just AT&T’s. There have been a couple of claims to have managed this iPhone hack ultimate but so far it’s all just rumors though it seems that a couple are indeed getting close and have managed to gain ownership of the file system. Sieving through the iPhone software and especially the gif images that are embedded seems to be the number preoccupation of any self respecting iPhone hack merchant around the globe.

One writer at GigaOM claims that they have gotten all the iPhone functions working except the telephone, voicemail and text features. To be honest I don’t see the point in all of this, getting an iPhone hack to unlock the beast is not going to be of much use unless you use the iPhone overseas and on top of that you’ll have no 3G support.

Where I do see a value in getting the iPhone software opened up, is that once we have the iPhone unlocked then being able to use the device as an ultimately portable minicomputer working over a wifi network then we have something that’s going to be useful.

On the iPhone news grapevine, it’s not just iPhone hacks that are streaming in thick and fast, there are also a series of full-blown web apps which I have to say is pretty impressive – well done guys! Probably the best one at the moment is the iPhone hack “iChat for iPhone” which provides you with IM capability on AIM. More than that, the iPhone software source is available for this hack and you can host it on your own machine. If you are really serious about keeping up-to-date with the latest in iPhone unlocking and iPhone hacks then check out the iPhone Dev Wiki that seems to me to be the closest to getting an iPhone unlocking hack.

iPhone software that you can download onto your new iPhone can be found at iPhone Applications on the web. Here you’ll find all iPhone software and applications such as iWeather and more games than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, until we get iPhone hack that will open up the iPhone to third party applications we are going to have to make do with Apple iPhone software that we’re allowed to play with at the moment.