White IPhone 4 Creates Long Lines in Beijing

May-7th-2011

The launch of Apple’s iPhone 4 in a white casing generated a long line of Chinese customers outside one of the company’s stores in Beijing on Thursday. Hundreds of people lined up outside the Apple Store in the Sanlitun district of China’s capital throughout the day. Some customers reported waiting to buy the device for [...]

White iPhone 4 to Arrive, Finally, April 28

May-6th-2011

The iPhone 4 first dropped into customers’ hands on June 24, 2010, more than ten months ago. But something was missing: When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest revision of Apple’s smartphone earlier that month, he said that it would be available in black or white. The white version never materialized, though — until [...]

Building the Great White iPhone 4

May-6th-2011

So, how hard was it to produce the white iPhone 4? (No that’s not the setup for a joke). Phil Schiller and Steve Jobs dish on the elusive version of Apple’s iconic device. Elsewhere, T-Mobile puts its money where its smartphone is, and one Apple exec gets a heck of a payday. The remainders for [...]

Android’s Honeycomb Will Not Change the Face of Tablets

May-2nd-2011

If you caught a glimpse of Google’s live Android Honeycomb presentation this morning, you know that the company touted the latest iteration of its mobile OS as quite a game changer, one that they hope will set the standard for how tablets will better serve the end user. But I feel like everything I heard [...]

Why We May Never See Native USB 3.0 for the Mac

May-2nd-2011

Apple’s been a front runner of technology since the company’s inception. From the desktop-computer mouse, to the initial adoption of USB as an input, Apple’s been speedy about adopting technology before its prime. The Cupertino-based computer giant has also birthed some of its own proprietary technology like FireWire and the Mini Display Port, and while [...]

Is iPad 2 the Future of Apple TV?

May-1st-2011

In less than a year’s time, Apple has gone from offering the quaint, albeit entirely impressive, first-generation tablet device that was the iPad, to the beast of a machine we now know as iPad 2. Thinner and lighter than its predecessor, iPad 2 boasts front and rear facing cameras and nine times more graphical chutzpah [...]

10 Things Steve Jobs Has (Allegedly) Killed

May-1st-2011

Steve Jobs is a very powerful man. With a single word, he has been known to lay waste to inferior products and technologies. Okay, maybe that’s not true. Look at Windows, it’s been around for ages and Steve hasn’t exactly been quiet about how much better the Mac OS is to Windows. Still, that hasn’t [...]