The iPhone Siddur is coming out incredibly well. The iPhone Zmanim is all native to the application, so it does not need to call the Internet to get accurate times. In fact, currently, none of the features require Internet. This is a key feature because we did not want to compete with the iPhone web based applications that run in Safari.

The Zmanim does utilize GPS or location services but it is not required. We made a zip code and time zone offset, with a data changer, if you need to change that. I.e. your flying to a different location and you want to know the zmanim there before you get there. Otherwise, it defaults to your current location and date.

Okay, first the bad news. Last night Apple said we had to remove the "Mizrach" tab because it was a "feature-limited version." So we got rid of it and resubmitted within the hour. I am not sure if Apple will review the application right away or if it will take an extra week. So I am sorry.

But there is good news to this. The previous version we uploaded was very limited. The zmamin were not 100% complete, the siddur text as not so clean, the zmanim date picker and changers were not available and the explanations were missing. The new version (binary) we resubmitted to Apple last night contains all these additions. Keep in mind, the Ashkenaz version looks awesome, but the Sfrard is not 100% cleaned up yet and Mizrachi Sfrard has yet to be added (we are working on that now).

In any event, we have added some more screen captures and details to the official iPhone Siddur page. Make sure to check it out and sign up there if you want notification of the release. We hope it is released soon and we have a lot of interest already (a lot, I am not kidding).