A piece of code has been discovered in the iPhone operating system …
Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, discovered a URL hidden in iPhone’s CoreLocation that he believes the iPhone uses to check whether any apps on your phone match with those listed in a database of blacklisted applications. That may allow Apple to remotely de-authorize those programs, or perhaps even delete them.
 
 
“This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off,” Zdrianski wrote. “At the …

The iPhone, exclusive to Globe subscribers, will hit stores on Aug. 22 and will cost P42,000 for the base eight-gigabyte model — four times the suggested retail price of $199 or less than P10,000 in the US.
What a rip-off.
Update: 2008-August-18 Globe has decided to lower down the price of its Apple iPhone. See the prepaid and postpaid plans for iPhone…
Secret URL hidden in iPhone 1 Day to Go Before iPhone Launch