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Apple planning UMTS/CDMA ‘worldmode’ iPhone

The long rumored iPhone nano could be on the verge becoming a reality, according to a rumor out of Taiwan. Moreover, reportedly smaller version of Apple’s world changing smartphone will pack quite a wallop as it’s expected to bridge incompatible CDMA and UMTS wireless systems, raising hopes once again of the iPhone coming [...]

Smartphones, iPhone still growing

It seems that nothing, not even a tenacious worldwide recession, can keep the smartphone market from growing and the Apple portion of it from growing even faster than the overall niche.

The latest quarter’s smartphone results are in from IDC and the news is [...]

Rumor: $99 iPhone 3GS by Christmas

With the world going mad, mad, mad for the Motorola Droid and HTC Android from Verizon, AT&T is purportedly looking for a strategy to counter the hype. Then again, slashing the price of Apple’s flagship phone so early in the product cycle might be more than Steve Jobs is willing to [...]

iPod touch still best of class, wins Editors’ Choice

Although the journalists handing out the award withheld judgment until they could get a look at offerings from Archos and Microsoft, consumers had already made up their minds, buying twice as many of Apple’s “funnest iPod ever” in the company’s fourth fiscal quarter as the same period as 2008. However, if [...]

iPhone App Store passes 100K apps, issues linger

Although the mothership gets endless grief for their byzantine app vetting process and for barring some apps, there’s no question the iPhone’s the smartphone to buy for the biggest selection, both in terms of quantity and quality, of mobile software. Still, those issues linger, though the FCC and Verizon seem to [...]

Droid: Motorola and Verizon vs. Apple and AT&T

The Motorola Android phone may or may not be an iPhone killer (probably not) but it looks like this first solid platform for the Google Android operating system will heat up the smartphone wars.

It shapes up to be a [...]

AT&T sues Verizon over ‘there’s a map for that’ ads

For the cynical, the obvious conclusion here is that Ma Bell’s marketing team didn’t have anything to counter Verizon with so the company decided to hit back with a legal filing. Although there may be some merit in AT&T’s legal machinations, bringing in the lawyers is a “jump the shark” inflection [...]

Top 10 best free iPhone and Touch role-playing games

Ten of the best free RPGs to kill time with on your iPhone and iPod Touch

Chinese fail to flock to iPhone

Although the reception to the iPhone going on sale in China was warm, the event does not seem to have engendered the sort of sellout reception that a new model iPhone introduction does in most markets.

There were hundreds of people in [...]

App Store spammer Khalid Shaikh indicted by FBI

The same lovely fellow who got himself banned from the iPhone App Store for creating more than 900 mostly useless applications, as well as over 100 complaints from competitors about stolen software code, is back in the news. This time around it’s the feds making the accusations and they’ve filed an [...]