iPhone 4: What you need to know

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You would think an Apple-built smartphone would be old hat by now. After all, this is the fourth consecutive summer Apple will try to capture our hearts, minds, and disposable income with a brand new phone. Surely, after the first couple launches, we should pretty much know what to expect.

iPhone 4 guide: preview, pricing, availability

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In a lot of ways, Apple’s iPhone 4 announcement was short on surprises. We’ve been playing with the new iPhone OS 4 (now dubbed iOS 4) for a while, and photos of the hardware had been widely disseminated, a rarity for an unreleased Apple product.

Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Opera Mini was just approved for iPhone according to a press release on the company’s site. The app is free and making its way across Europe as we speak and should be available in the US store soon here.
Honestly, we weren’t sure if Apple was going to approve this one (it [...]

iPhone OS 4 event summary…

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Apple presented a lot of interesting stuff today.  Probably the biggest were:
Multi-tasking including background operation of GPS, Audio (YAY Pandora), Voice (Yay Skype) and fast app switching
Folders – a better way to organize apps…wallpapers too.
Email: Unified inbox, multiple exchange (or GMail Push w/Exchange), fast switching
iBooks for iPhones.  Just what you’d think.
Better [...]

Apple iPhone OS 4 Revealed on April 8!!!!!

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Apple’s just sent an invite “for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” on April 8 at 10AM Pacific. That’s in three days! We’ll be there. Start your predictions now.

Apple sells over 300,000 iPad tablets on US launch day

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We heard some pretty ridiculous estimates over the weekend, but these figures are straight out of Cupertino’s mouth: over 300,000 iPads were sold on April 3rd.

3,266 iPad apps and counting

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AppShopper is listing 3,266 iPad apps available at the time of this writing. That’s slightly more than 100 apps added since this morning. As of the morning of April 4th there were a total of 3,122 iPad apps available in the App Store according to Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange. At launch yesterday, the Wall Street [...]

Apple’s A4 SoC faces Qualcomm Snapdragon in knock-down-drag-out benchmarking test

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Up until now, a shroud of mystery has surrounded Apple’s custom engineered A4 system-on-chip; we know it’s clocked at 1GHz, likely tied to Apple’s prior acquisition of P.A. Semi and manufactured by Samsung. Outside of that, the only other knowledge we’ve gained has come not from the mouth of Cupertino, but from the extracting wizards over at iFixit. The [...]

Two new iPhones, another iPod and future iPad found in iPad OS

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Obviously updates are coming, software clues or not.  Maybe iPhone 3,2 = AT&T and iPhone 3,3=Verizon?
Also, why is there still an iProd when it was later discovered that the iProd was the iPad?
[via BoyGeniusRepor]

iFixit profiles iPad 3G internals

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A lot of you (arguably smarter) people out there aren’t participating in iPad unboxing day today because you’ve ordered the 3G iPad. You are patiently waiting until later this month to get your 3G iPads and will smugly point out how much more awesome they are than the Wifi only versions.
Little has been said so [...]