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Ever since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 on both my first generation iPhone and my brother's current generation iPod touch, I'd been experiencing flaky Wi-Fi connectivity on both devices. I didn't think much about it at first: Wi-Fi coverage has always been an issue in our three-story brick-and-mortar house,...

Like most people who’ve had an iPhone 3GS in their hands, we’ve been extremely impressed with the video capabilities of this little device. Not only Does it take near-HD video, it has excellent basic editing software and video can be uploaded to YouTube over Wifi or the cell networks. Among other things,...

When I’m tooling around town, I like to daydream about get rich quick schemes. Besides winning the lottery, playing the market or getting a big old book deal, one of my most current and prevalent fantasies is of designing a best selling iPhone App. But you know what stops me - besides a great idea- not...

AdMob has released its metrics report for May 2009 (PDF download link), and looked closely at the actual distribution of users of the iPhone apps in their network this time. The main take-away? There may be tens of thousands of applications available for the iPhone, but a whole lot of them simply never...

Earlier today, reports started flowing in about Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster claiming 750,000 iPhone 3GS devices were sold over the weekend. In a news release, however, Apple claims that that number is off by more than 1/3, saying that sales actually exceeded 1 million units. In addition, the company...

The first iPhone was revolutionary, the first smartphone that really worked. People who expect tomorrow's iPhone 3GS or yesterday's iPhone 3.0 software upgrade to be equally exciting will be disappointed. Not because the product is bad, but because It's hard for any third release to be as dramatic as...

T-Mobile Netherlands has posted some hardware specs for new iPhone 3GS which largely confirm details leaked in the weeks leading up to WWDC.

The main difference is the faster, 600MHz processor (up from 412MHz and 532MHz) and 256MB of RAM — which doubles the previous model’s 128MB. Both will obviously...

On the WWDC 2009 event, Apple has officially unveiled an upgrade model for its iPhone 3G with iPhone 3Gs. Although there isn't major changes on the hardware design, the iPhone 3Gs has a faster processing speed now and a better camera that supports macro shot, 30fps VGA video recording, auto focus and...

Kindle’s initial release only let you read books in portrait mode. The new version introduces a landscape mode with auto-rotation, so you can read books as they were intended to be enjoyed—widescreen, baby. There is also a small lock icon at the bottom right of the screen that, when activated, locks...