Ever since the iPhone was announced, we’ve known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven’t known exactly when. Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular gave us that date late Thursday, but, alas, said he didn’t have any additional information […]

The two-megapixel sensor in the iPhone will be manufactured by Micron Technology in Italy, reports setteB.IT. The two-megapixel, 30 fps (frame per second) device, which is about a quarter of an inch across the diagonal, is about $11 per sensor, according to prior estimates by iSuppli; however, the report says that the cost price to […]

Top of the line Nokia phone, iPhone worst competitor even though not really direcly comparable, will finally be released in a few days. The rumored price: $1300! Not that worth as I can buy a 42″ plasma TV at this price! iPhone price does not seem that high now.
While taiting for the N95, specs […]

A survey among current music phones revealed that 52% of the users would say no to the iPhone. It either cost too much or they were happy with their current phone. I am personally not surprised, with several tough screen phones being announced recently Rean the entire article on Engadget.

Too bad the did not display the miniOne at CeBIT, not even a plastic mockup. It looks like Meizu is planning a miniOne release for the European and North American markets, but initially just as audio/video player only. The miniOne model will lack a camera and cost $195 for the 4GB model and $305 for the 8GB version. So the $285 and […]

Interesting design

SanDisk’s latest offering in in the SSD realm is far from the largest, but just a bit after releasing their 1.8″ edition, they are unveiling a laptop (and external enclosure) friendly 2.5-inch. I know, it’s the 2.5″, but prices and specifications for the 1.8″ are pretty colose. Sandisk calls this a ”drop-in replacement for the hard disk drive,” […]

Great article with Forbes: An rather interesting point they bring is that even though the “new AT&T” has nearly 70 million subs, the iPhone’s only going to grab new or renewing customers—it doesn’t necessarily have access to that whole base. Yoon speculates that this exclusivity could be a way for Apple to draw envious eyes while […]

Iphone Killer?
I’m not sure whether the pictures leaked are accurate (looks too much like an iPhone, no?), but here is what I have learned from my inside source:

Blackberry-like, slick device
C++ core w/ OS bootstrap (some version of Linux?)
Optimized Java running on the C++ core (similar to what Andy did at Danger)
Vector-based presentation courtesy of Skia’s […]

Now that the pricing was announced…
Meizu is ahead of the game now that they’ve unveiled the pricing for their M8 cell phone. The 4GB model with built-in camera will go for $310 while the 8GB version will go for $400. The entry-level model (with no camera) will go for only $195 at 4GB and $285 at […]