What does Apple do to follow up iPhone’s release-day success? It makes a smaller, cheaper version, of course. Or does it?   Rumors of a smaller, less expensive follow-up to the iPhone may be greatly exaggerated. The rumors started last week when astute bloggers looked up the database of the U.S. Trade and Patent Office. It seems Apple ...

Blackberry finally gets WiFi on a dual phone, but will Crackberry addicts really care?   Research in Motion has just announced features for its Blackberry 8820, the thinnest Blackberry yet. The 8820 is a dual mode phone that can take advantage of a GAN network (Generic Access Network). It’s an amazing technology that allows you to roam ...

It’s iPhone release day folks - welcome to a new world.   Seriously, iHype has reached the boiling point. We gadget writers are already liberally slathered in news of gear and accessories for iPhone. You can buy third party accessories from utilitarian acrylic stands to superfluous sexy desktops from Playboy. But that’s not ...

We’ve seen a lot of hype at the core of Apple’s new cell phone. Is this Apple’s next iPod or Apple’s next Newton?   iPhone will go up for sale on June 29th and will be served through AT&T’s GSM/EDGE network. Timing could be everything for Apple as there are surprisingly few options for North Americans to get everything iPhone ...

Is there a Zune phone in Microsoft’s future? That’s almost a certainty according to Chris Stephenson GM of Zune Marketing. Apple won’t go it alone converting its popular media player technology into a cell phone. Fans of the new iPhone say it stands to revolutionize the current genre of media phones. You can bet Microsoft will be looking closely ...

The struggle between Apple and Cisco over “iPhone” is getting nasty as Cisco appears to be announcing to the world it has no desire to let go of its ownership of the name. According to the NY Post, Cisco bought a full page ad in the NY Times to toot their horn over its upcoming iPhone, in case there was any doubt about where this war over the ...

American wireless networks will soon get a boost from T-Mobile. The FCC recently awarded T-Mobile permission to use the AWS spectrum (Advanced Wireless Service), used for broadband wireless network services. T-Mobile believes they’ll have WCDMA 3G network services up and running in key markets, including New York City, as early as 2007. ...

 According to a study by J.D. Power and Associates price and style are the biggest factors that sell cell phones, not advanced features. Is there something genetically ingrained about how we like our cell phones? Newer and better features like email and MMS messaging are growing in popularity, but despite the fact that people are using them, ...