The iPhone hype has been so strong the last couple of days that, try as I might, I’m unable to avoid it. Amongst all the talk about its features and pricing and quality and awesomeness, I’m mostly interested in cool apps developed for it, because, if anything will push the Web 2.0 phenomenon to the mobile realm, iPhone is it.

So, here’s Hahlo, a slick (everything concerning the iPhone has to be ’slick’) interface for Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, all you have to do is sign up with your Twitter credentials to Hahlo, and it works.

Scared as I am to start Safari, fearing it will destroy my otherwise rock-stable computer (I’m not kidding, my experience with the first version of Safari was nothing short of abysmal), I tried it out and it looks really nice, enabling all your basic Twitter features, some filters, and it also has some buttons that do nothing to me - but, then again, I don’t have an iPhone to really test it. It does have a weird glitch, though: if you login with wrong credentials, instead of returning an error of some sort, it acts as if you are legitimately logged in, but (unsurprisingly) shows no messages.

Oh, and while we’re on the topic of iPhone, here’s an interesting rumor that says that iPhone in Europe will have 3G, and it will be locked in to either Vodafone or T-Mobile. Since my opinion is that iPhone would be a huge flop in Europe if it…

a) didn’t have UMTS/HSDPA
b) had a lousy batter time
c) were locked to one operator

…it seems that Apple has wisened up and fixed all three problems (although I’d prefer to see iPhone in free sale, not tied to a contract with an operator). Now if iPods in general weren’t locked into iTunes, I might even consider buying one!

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