Fan boy Andy Ihnatko’s Sun-Times detailed review of iPhone 4: A month ago, I think you could have said that the differences between an iPhone 3GS running iPhone OS 3 and those of a Nexus One running the new edition of the Android OS were largely philosophical and political. Today, iPhone and Android are once … Read More »

Since when does a technology company sell 1.7-million gadgets in three days and get dressed down for a clumsy product launch? I suppose it’s when MarketWatch’s Therese Poletti entered day 30 of a 90-day period with a 29 day supply of tampons. Apple touted the fact that it has sold 1.7 million units of the … Read More »

Verizon slashed the price of Microsoft’s slow selling Kin phones. That’s never a good sign. From Rik Myslewski in The Register: Just six weeks after release, the biscuit-shaped Kin One now costs a mere $29.99 with a two-year plan and a side-sliding Kin Two, $49.99. At those prices, may we suggest that it would make … Read More »

ArsTechnica,‘s comprehensive, multipage (with loads of photos) iPhone 4 review. Downsides: The glass on the front or back may break if you drop it, though that’s not a particularly new development in iPhone land. FaceTime chats only work with other iPhone 4 users for now, and may not work well if you try it at … Read More »

Apple: Apple today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. Steve Jobs: This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not … Read More »

David Pogue weighs in on the iPhone’s strange reception problem: Some people are reporting, and even posting videos showing, that when you wrap your hand around the iPhone 4, the cellular Internet strength visibly drops. You can actually see the bars disappearing. My experience, at home in Brooklyn and at work in Manhattan (both notorious … Read More »

Andy Ihnatko on iPhone 4: The iPhone takes the best pictures of any phone I’ve ever tried. Not by a subtle margin, either. Apple has wisely abandoned the “my phone has more megapixels than yours” snipe hunt: it’s a 5-megapixel cam instead of the 8 found in most new Android handsets. Thanks to that ultra … Read More »