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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 […]
Apple Announces The iPhone 3G - Has 3G & GPS, Costs $199, Coming July 11th
During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs announce the iPhone 3G, the next version of the iPhone.
This new version of the iPhone has a new look with beveled edges, flush headset jack, and all metal buttons. It also features, as we thought, 3G and GPS support. It also sports the same gorgeous display, and […]
Apple Ships OS X 10.5.3
Today Apple released another free minor update for users of OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Depending on which version you’re coming from, it weighs in at somewhere in the 200 to 400MB range, which is pretty frightening for something that’s mostly fixes rather than new features. It will take a few days for people to figure […]
140 million copies of Vista sold. How does Leopard compare?
Apple has no numbers to compare with the 140 million copies of Vista that Bill Gates says Microsoft has sold since the latest version of Windows started shipping in late 2006.
Literally, no numbers. The last time Apple released a Leopard sales figure was Oct. 30, 2007, when the company said that it had sold […]
iPhone vs. BlackBerry 9000: The keyboard wars, round 2
Do smartphones need really need physical keys?
The folks who designed Apple’s iPhone bet that touchscreen keys would be good enough for most users, and based on a February survey of iPhone owners that found 72% “very satisfied” (versus 55% for RIM), Apple’s gamble seems to have paid off.
The complaints about the virtual keys that were […]
Apple iPhone 2.0 Software Preview
On Thursday, March 6, 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs hosted a special event at the Apple Town Hall on Apple’s Cupertino campus, where he and two other company executives detailed plans for iPhone 2.0, an upcoming iPhone software update that dramatically enhances the value of a product that is already, quite frankly, pretty darn valuable. […]
