Apparently, iPhone 3Gs grow on trees. If current whispers about Apple's future plans hold out, we just might be getting a deluge of iPhone 3G units in the market. Now I've heard of Metal Gear Solid 4 shipping in numbers of 3 million copies worldwide. But this... 45 million iPhones?! Whoa.

Developer jonz (Jonathan A. Zdiarski) was recently able to give the NES emulator NES.app a new upgrade, bumping up the iPhone homebrew emulator to version 2.3.1. The latest build adds a new option, which allows users to toggle the magnification filter while running the application. Find out what else is new with NES.app v2.3.1 in our full article.

Download: NES.app v2.3.1

Despite the odd complaint here and there, the iPhone 3G is still a smashing success. However, if you own the Bose SoundDock, you might find yourself as one of those with complaints as the device apparently doesn't charge the iPhone 3G. You might want to get yourself a Sound Dock Series II to solve that little problem. Details after the read more link.

Get equal parts of Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, and a generous dose of '50s sci-fi movies, and you get the makings of Astro Ranch. Primarily marketed for the iPhone, the game is also set to come out on the DS and N-Gage platforms. Screens and more details in the full article.

British game developers have launched an all-out war against illegal file-sharers. They're not about to take piracy in the industry sitting down. But the music industry, another victim of the pirates, aren't backing them up on this cause. It's an apparent disagreement in approach and disposition.

Firmware 2.0 giving you problems? If you've been experiencing the crash bug that's been plaguing those who've upgraded to iPhone formware 2.0, don't worry. Apple's on the case and will be releasing a fix soon. So says Steve Jobs.

In a move that is sure to be welcomed by many, Microsoft has stopped the distribution of all Xbox Live-related iPhone applications at the Apple's AppStore. Why is this going to be welcomed? Because Microsoft wants these apps to be absolutely free of charge. More on this after the jump.

Apple has released the latest private build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 to devs. The new seed has no known bugs when it was released, but several new fixes from the previous version came along with it. More details in the full article.

If you want to pull up some quick information about your World of Warcraft character (or anyone else's for that matter), why don't you try browsing for it on your iPhone. I'm not talking about the WoW Armory. There's a quicker way for you to do that - on the new and updated version of the Warcraft Characters app for the iPhone.

Another case of a spontaneously combusting iPod Nano was recently sighted when The Consumerist reader Dale reported having his first generation iPod Nano suddenly "explode open and start shooting sparks and spewing smoke" while charging it on his PC's USB port. More details regarding this can be found in our full article after the jump.