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T-Mobile USA has long been on the sidelines of the iPhone revolution, but the carrier is working hard to change that.

Until very recently, T-Mobile had very little shot at being able to carry the iPhone. Although it uses the same type of network technology as AT&T, it uses a different band of spectrum for its higher-speed data network.

That has meant that one of two things would have had to happen in order for there to be a T-Mobile-capable iPhone. Either Apple would have to build in support for

The iPhone’s Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that’s something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an interview regarding the launch of Fantastical for iPhone today. But “pretty good” also means there’s plenty of room for improvement, and that’s where Simmons and co-founder Kent Sutherland saw opportunity.

“iCal for Mac at the time was broken, it was bad,” Simmons explained, describing why they went to the Mac first. “At that time, everyone, even beta testers and family members were like ‘Why aren’t you doing iPhone? iPhone’s hot, iPhone iPhone iPhone,’ and we just didn’t have anything in our minds that we thought was needed. We thought the built-in calendar for iPhone at the time was pretty good.”

Research In Motion ceded the consumer smartphone market to Apple and Google years ago, and soon it will cede business market as well. New research from IDC indicates that enterprise — perhaps the last stronghold of RIM’s once great BlackBerry empire — is increasingly switching to iPhone and Android and suggests the BlackBerry’s days as the business world’s smartphone of choice may soon be over.

“Apple iOS devices are being brought into the enterprise in droves, both by corporate and by employee purchase,” IDC explained. “In fact, [we believe] that by the end of 2012, iOS will be the number 1 corporate-liable operating system (OS) device by volumes

Video-sharing site Vimeo has updated its iPhone app, working to improve its upload process and simplify navigation for watching other people’s videos. A lot of the big changes in the iPhone app revolve around things that Vimeo has taken out, rather than what it’s put in. For instance, the app has streamlined the process of getting their videos onto Vimeo, first by removing the editor — which not a lot of people used anyway — and by making uploads a lot faster.