With a fresh download of Cordova 2.9 and the Cordova CLI, I created Hello World application via the CLI. I also added the iOS platform via the CLI. Looking in the index.js file
The console functionality is now implemented as a plugin, which you need to manually add to your project:
$ cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-console.git