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# iPhone Application List is a blog of iPhone web applications. They're posted live, and, since the iPhone's browser is Safari, will work, modulo iPhone-specific features, in Safari on your Mac. [tuaw]

# Apple - iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time - 6 hours of internet use, 7 hours of video playback, 24 hours of music playback, and up to 250 hours of standby time (> 10 days). Also, the surface is now glass, instead of plastic; no scratchy. [everybody]

# Apple - iPhone - High Technology - QuickTime animations on the iPhone's Multi-touch, OS X, Wireless, and Sensors.

# John Heilemann at New York Magazine - Steve Jobs in a Box - Has Steve Jobs peaked? The iPhone launch will tell, says Mr. Heilemann. Personally, I doubt it. Good article. [tuaw]

It took half an hour, no more than that, after Jobs unveiled his gleaming new toy for the bloggers to dub it the Jesus Phone. Here was the gizmo we'd all been pining for lo these many years: a music player, camera, e-mail tool, Web browser, and cell phone, all rolled into one impossibly seductive package. After watching Jobs enact the ta-da moment with typical brio--"I didn't sleep a wink last night"--even cynical observers were smitten. "What a weird fucking day Tuesday was," Josh Quittner, the editor of Business 2.0, remarked. "It was as if we were all participating in a shared consensual hallucination ... All these supposedly hard-bitten tech reporters wandering around like they were getting laid for the first time."

The panting over the Jesus Phone must have satisfied Jobs no end: Every product he crafts he regards as a sacred object, the primary aspiration of which is to incite naked lust. And in the months since then, the breathing has only gotten heavier. At the launch, the sales goals Jobs set forth were demure: 1 percent of the world market, about 10 million units, by the end of 2008. But industry analysts are less bashful. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster forecasts sales of 15.6 million units in that time--and 45 million in 2009. "Apple has been so good at executing these different multimedia elements with the Mac and iPod that they might be able to take over with their phone," says a London-based telecom investor. "Nokia and the rest of those guys are absolutely shitting themselves."

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