With just a day to go before the WWDC and nineteen before the Second Coming, the thick fog of Apple-OCD is smothering the land. So I’m surprised it took this long for an Apple-juice-addled obsessive to compile a list of (fairly minor) UI changes made in the iPhone between its January debut and the even-slicker-than-usual […]

This week’s Economist has a special report on Apple, Inc. and innovation. ‘The fourth lesson from Apple is to “fail wisely”. The Macintosh was born from the wreckage of the Lisa, an earlier product that flopped; the iPhone is a response to the failure of Apple’s original music phone, produced in conjunction with Motorola. Both […]

Businessweek claims two sources told them Apple will have 3 million iPhones ready for the launch on June 29. This is an absurdly high number. For comparison, Nintendo’s Wii had 1 Million units. The PS3? 400,000. Xbox 360? Around 300,000. So Apple’s going to have about twice as much as all of them put together? […]

Not much else to say here, other than that Apple has made it official that the iPhone will be released on June 29. That’s a Friday. This means, depending on your affiliations, that you can either breathe a sigh of relief that after the 29th you’ll optimally stop hearing annoying iPhone rumors, or you can […]

As speculation about the first launch of the iPhone reaches fever pitch, it’s time for new speculation about the second version.  According to reports in two Taiwanese newspapers Tuesday, the Commercial Times and the Economic Daily News, manufacturing powerhouse Quanta Computer has landed the contract to build a second-generation iPhone for Apple starting in September. […]

From the D Conference Q&A:
Question: We’d love to write apps. Will it open up?
Steve Jobs: This is a very important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We’ve got good ideas, and sometime later this year, we can open it up to 3rd party apps…

Today, much of the tech press is interested in speculating on the iPhone’s data plan. Here’s something new to add to the conversation.
Last week, when a Cingular business sales rep told me that the date for release was June 11th, she also told me that the data plan would be $30 bucks. I have less […]

The Seattle Times got a sit down with Glenn Lurie, AT&T’s man on the ground for the iPhone. While he didn’t give much up in the way of the phone’s finer details, he did have one takeaway that left us interested. When asked about the mass skepticism over the iPhone’s price, he replied “… There are […]

Prada’s phone is as close to the iPhone as you’ll get. Everything is done with a tap of your finger. No buttons, essentially, to work with. Once you get beyond the looks, though, you’ll face up to a major cell decision: do you REALLY like that? In my case, it’s starting to feel like a […]

Indeed, another iPhone rumor. Supposedly according to a CNBC “On the Money” report, an AT&T store told them Apple’s cellphone would launch on June 20th. Which is hilarious because if you call 10 different cellphone stores you’re bound to get ten different answers regarding the launches of upcoming products — especially the hottest phones. Why? Mostly just because […]

If you thought the only thing going for the Meizu MiniOne was the fact that it looks like an iPhone, well, you’d be wrong. The recently released specs show that it’s actually got a lot of stuff going for it besides its software design.
The MiniOne will have a 533Mhz Samsung processor, 128MB of DDR SDRAM, […]

It reveals nothing of interest (unless you consider documents that read like high school physics lab reports to be “of interest”), but sure enough, Apple’s iPhone has completed that rite of passage that all handsets must traverse on their way to adulthood: FCC approval. As expected, the iPhone filing reveals just about as little as […]