Apple launches 1 iPhone a year, Android shows off 8 last week No starker contrast could be drawn between Apple’s iPhone 4 strategy and Google’s Android than this past week where iPhone 4 made its traditional once-a-year debut — just as Motorola showed off a new Verizon Droid X, T-Mobile Charm, AT&T Flipout, and Samsung announced the Galaxy...

What do you think of iPhone 4’s design? iPhone 4 is the first redesign to hit the iPhone since 2008’s iPhone 3G. Back then some users complained it was a ploy to make them buy new accessories. When iPhone 3GS landed in 2009 with essentially the same design, other users complained Apple was stale and unimaginative. Cardfan in our forums...

Come chat with us on iPad live, 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am BST) Waiting on iOS 4 — us too! — we’ll be getting together to chat iPad in the meantime tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT, 1am BST to find out! Come join us. We’ll hang out, talk, and bide us some time. Tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT, 1am BST: http://www.tipb.com/live/ DON’T FORGET OUR...

Happy birthday iPhone 3GS A year ago today many of us were standing in line outside our local Apple Store waiting to get our geeky little hands on the iPhone 3GS, then king of the mobile space. Twice the speed, video recording, and VoiceControl were the killer features, even if the form factor was unchanged. Over the last twelve...

Complete Steve Jobs D8 interview now on iTunes Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D8 conference interview with Steve Jobs has been posted in its entirety on iTunes for your higher quality, uninterrupted viewing and/or listening pleasure. It’s quite a good interview and we get to see Jobs excited, pensive, and — to quote him —...

What happened to iPhone 4 “July” release in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.? Apple Online Canada has changed the date for iPhone 4 release from “July” to “soon”, while the Australian and New Zealand Apple Online Stores only show iPhone 3GS — no iPhone 4 in sight. Thin, yes, but when you consider US sales of the iPad on April 3 were higher than expected...

iPhone 4 confirmed to have 512MB of RAM TiPb first heard rumors that iPhone 4 would finally beef up onboard RAM to 512MB back in January and it looks like those rumors are now being confirmed via information given out during the WWDC Advanced Performance Optimization Session. Why does RAM matter? Going from 256 to 512MB of RAM let the Palm Pre...

Update: Maybe not? Verizon Droid X going 720p to battle iPhone 4 Retina Display? Verizon has a teaser up for their new, big DROID X which is claiming a 4.3″, 720p display (which is usually 1280×720) — a significant challenge to the iPhone 4’s 3.5″ 960×640, LED IPS Retina Display. It’s more pixels but it’s also a bigger display, so it could...

iPad Made Simple eBook – 50% off I had the pleasure a few months ago of doing some technical editing for Martin Trautschold and Gary Mazo’s new book, iPad Made Simple. It’s now available and here are the details: iPad Made Simple explains all of the key features of the iPad, introduces what’s new, and reveals dozens of...

Apple iPhone orders pushed back to July 14. Last night, Apple sold out of iPhone 4’s with a June 24 delivery date and pushed back all orders to July 2. Now those orders have sold out and the new shipping date is July 14. It’s no question that the iPhone 4 is a huge hit this year, more so than previous years. We learned earlier that...