iPhone

Android global share goes up!

The iPhone is a blip on the radar and is meaningless in the long war for the OS. We have recently seen newcomers join the battle, but there was a time when Microsoft’s Windows Mobile powered 3 out of every 10 smartphones. There was a time when Palm was the world’s second bestselling smartphone. There […]

Latest iPhone rumors all together

Having trouble keeping up with the flood of iPhone rumors in advance of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, which opens next Monday?
The Green Room Blog has done the tech world a favor and summarized them all — or at least the ones we’ve heard — in the color-coded graphic shown at right.
The rumors are annotated […]

G1 vs. iPhone: The tale of the tape

Apple’s iPhone 3G and the G1 with Google unveiled on Tuesday have a lot in common.
Both are smart phones designed for users who want easier access to the Web than is offered by the current generation of RIM BlackBerries.
They share a lot of features — high res (320 x 480 pixel) color displays, motion […]

iPhone nano: A rumor before its time

Is Steve Jobs preparing to launch a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone in time for Christmas?
That’s the rumor — based on a brief item in London’s Daily Mail – that had Apple watchers buzzing over the weekend. “Report: iPhone nano to ring in the holidays” read the headline on Crave, CNet’s gadget blog. “Holy […]

One million iPhone 3Gs sold!!!

Defying sluggish sign-up procedures and a worldwide crash of its computerized activation system, Apple sold its one-millionth 3G phone Sunday, three days after its debut, according to a company press release Monday morning.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original […]

BlackBerry Bold 9000 vs. Apple iPhone 3G

Starting soon: the smartphone smackdown of summer ‘08.
Apple’s iPhone 3G goes on sale in less than three weeks, on July 11. The official U.S. release date of RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9000 is “July/August,” although according to the Boy Genius Report, the device could arrive in Canada as early as this Wednesday.
So how do the year’s […]

iPhone 3G pricing: U.S. $199, Germany 1 euro, U.K. free

Last week, Steve Jobs announced that in “almost every one” of the 22 countries selling the iPhone 3G on July 11, the maximum price in would be $199 for the 8G model.
AT&T went with the maximum. Some of Apple’s international partners are going with the minimum or close to it.
O2, which carries the phone in […]