How bad is the iPhone 4's signal loss?
Pretty bad, say engineers who have measured the effect of the "death grip." But it's not fatal. It's been nearly a week since Steve Jobs famously told a new iPhone owner with reception issues to "stay tuned," but Apple (AAPL) still hasn't solved the new device's Death Grip problem -- its tendency to lose signal...
10 Apple vs. Google battles to watch for
Silicon Alley Insider peers into the future and sees nothing but conflict
Google and Apple have already butted heads, first in mobile phones with Google's (GOOG) release of the Nexus One, then in online advertising with Apple's (AAPL) announcement of the iAd platform.
But those conflicts are just a prelude to bigger brawls to come, says Silicon...
Survey: Android surges, iPhone stalls
While demand for BlackBerries and Palm Pres is drying up, according to ChangeWave
Take this with the usual grain of salt, based, as it is, on a survey of early adopters who have already decided to buy a smartphone in the next three months.
But in a ChangeWave report released Wednesday, 30% of respondents said they would...
Surprise! HTC Doesn’t Agree With Apple Regarding Suit
HTC has finally spoken out regarding the pending lawsuit Apple launched against the smartphone maker regarding its use of multi-touch as an interface navigation mechanism, and around 20 other technologies. It should surprise absolutely no one that the Taiwanese company doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the iPhone maker regarding the appropriateness of its use of the...
Day 74: iPhone, Droid, Nexus One
Measured by revenue, the Apple's first million units easily swamped the "iPhone killers"
Flurry Analytics' report comparing the initial sales of three leading smartphones generated more than three dozen stories Tuesday. (See here.)
Most highlighted Flurry's discovery that in the 74 days post-launch that it took Apple (AAPL) to sell its first 1 million iPhones, Motorola (MOT)...
Blackberry users ready to abandon ship for the iPhone, Nexus One
Filed under: Surveys and Polls, iPhone
If a recent survey from market research firm Crowd Science is anything to go by, there's dark times ahead for RIM, maker of the Blackberry smartphone. 40% of survey respondents said they plan to ditch...The Flash saga continues: Adobe responds to charges of “laziness”
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Internet Tools
Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, has posted the latest riposte in the ongoing fencing match between Apple and Adobe concerning the lack of Flash support in Apple's portable products, including the iPad. Apple's latest...Nexus One sells only 20,000 phones its first week
Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, iPhone
Another "iPhone killer" has failed to deliver on its hype. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, Google's Nexus One phone sold a mere 20,000 units in its first week in the market.The...
Rumor: New iPhone by April
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Apple, iPhone
You TUAW readers came up with a long list of features for a possible iPhone 4.0, and now it turns out you might not even have to wait too long for a new revision....The Street: Features can’t sway Apple customers’ trust
Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
Jason Schwarz over at TheStreet has written an article analyzing Apple's current position in the marketplace and what Apple's competition needs to do in order to catch up.The...
Nexus One tips for iPhone users
Filed under: Hardware, Portables, iPhone
Here's an interesting post from Scott Knaster, a happy iPhone user and Google employee who made a cold-turkey switch to the Nexus One for three months (yes, some employees can get their hands on things early). Google phone vs. Apple iPhone
At the end of two years, the Nexus One will have cost you $500 less than the iPhone
On the heels of Google's (GOOG) release of the HTC Nexus One — popularly known as the Google phone — the folks at BillShrink have done us all a favor.
They've put out one of their handy charts comparing...

