iPhoneology has stumbled upon a file in the iPhone system software that suggests several widget programs were removed from the current iPhone, are being planned for a future iPhone update, or both.

Included in the list are a unit converter, and a radio application that iPhoneology suspects to be an FM tuner. While they are listed in a system preference file, the applications themselves are nowhere to be found.

30 Jul 2007

Most of these seem to be redundant OS X services already installed on the iPhone, such as the phone book and world clock features. The possibility for streaming audio or an FM tuner could be interesting, but as several people have noted, Apple has never included an FM tuner in the iPod. It seems a bit unlikely that the company would suddenly have a change of heart regarding the iPhone.