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To place a call on hold on an iPhone 4, tap and hold the Mute button. Tapping the Mute button a second time returns you to the call.The iPhone 4 Mute button is also the Hold buttonWhile using the Mute button to hold a call isn’t exactly intuitive, at least the feature is still available. Hopefully…

iFrogz LuxeThe Luxe, Luxe Lean, Luxe Transition, SoftGloss, Fusion and Frosted Swerve are hard cases. The Treadz and Wrapz are softer cases made from silicone. All include access to the iPhone’s Dock and audio ports, microphones and speakers, sensors, cameras, and buttons.Pricing for iFrogz iPhone 4-compatible cases starts at US$14.99. They are currently available at…

“Just as it did with the iPad, Apple has thrown away the electronics playbook with the iPhone 4, reaching new heights in terms of industrial design, electronics integration and user interface,” Kevin Keller, principal analyst, teardown services, for iSuppli, said in a statement. “However, the BOM of the fourth-generation model closely aligns with those of…

“68 percent of respondents stated that Facetime (video chat) was the most attractive new feature for iPhone 4 while 24 percent said that new HD capabilities were the most enticing,” he said.Mr. Um added “The majority of respondents (80 percent) were upgrading to the new iPhone from either the 3G S or 3G iPhone.”About 64…

“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected,” the company said in a statement.Only the black iPhone 4 model was…

Apple’s coveted iPhone 4 Shop Early, Shop Often Apple retail stores and and possibly Walmart will have a limited supply of iPhones on hand for launch day, so odds are you’ll want to show up early to increase your chances of getting one. Apple and AT&T stores will opening at 7AM local time on the…

The new 3.7V 1420 mAh Li-Polymer battery also takes up a substantial amount of space inside the iPhone 4 case.The iPhone 4, in piecesThe iPhone 4 includes 512MB RAM, instead of the 256MB RAM found in the iPhone 3GS and iPad. Presumably that extra memory will help with video editing and gaming performance.The new 5…

iPhone 4 reservations are different from pre-orders in that they weren’t pre-paid, and one’s iPhone 4 must be picked up at an Apple Store. If you used the Apple Store iPhone app to reserve an iPhone 4, you have just that, a reservation, and should receive an e-mail reminder similar to the one below. We…

Apple and its partners began accepting iPhone 4 pre-orders and reservations for in-store pickups on June 15. Within a day, AT&T and Best Buy stopped accepting pre-orders, and Apple pushed the delivery date for new orders out to July 14.iPhone 4 delivery: June 23The new iPhone model is 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS,…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 during his keynote presentation at the company’s World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 7. The new version of the combination iPod and smartphone is 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS, sports a higher resolution display, and includes a built-in gyroscope and digital compass,…

Many potential iPhone 4 buyers deal with frustration on the 15th, the first day of iPhone 4 pre-order availability, thanks to overworked servers that couldn’t keep up with the demand.Apple is currently showing July 2 instead of June 24 as the ship date for new iPhone 4 pre-orders, and AT&T has temporarily stopped accepting new…

Instead, the military will more likely choose a platform that it can more easily adapt to its needs, such as Google’s Android. Officials are also concerned over the cost to build proprietary iPhone apps, which the estimate at US$200 each.Military interest in smartphone technology extends beyond the iPhone and Android. The Army Apps challenge, for…

Apple Apple introduced the iPhone 4 during Steve Jobs’s keynote presentation at its World Wide Developer Conference on June 7. At the time, Apple confirmed it would begin accepting pre-orders for delivery on June 24, although the company has remained tight-lipped over whether or not it will let customers reserve iPhones for in-store pickup. Just…

Jobs said, “…there’s a magic number, right around 300 pixels per inch, that when you hold something ten to twelve inches from your eyes, is the limit of the human retina to differentiate the pixels.” What he wanna say that for? A brainiac and owner of DisplayMate Technologies (yes, he’s selling something), Dr. Raymond Soneira,…

Why did I stay away from the iPhone, and what has me intrigued? In the wake of yeaterday’s keynote, I thought I’d share my thoughts. I’m already wired all the time. Some people might actually need a smartphone — traveling salespeople, for example. For everyone else, I’ve always thought that the real killer application for…

To check your upgrade eligibility, just dial *639# from your iPhone. AT&T will send you a text within a few minutes detailing how much you’ll pay to move up to the newest iPhone model — excluding the cost of the phone.AT&T’s upgrade eligibility messageIn my case, I’ll be paying US$18 in addition to signing a…

Mr. Marshall is currently estimating Apple will sell some 40 million iPhones by the end of 2010, and another 50 million in 2011.Despite his claim that the iPhone will drive Apple’s stock, Mr. Marshall is optimistic about the iPad’s success. “Amazingly, in its first quarter of introduction, we believe the iPad family will easily exceed…

Skype 2.0 also includes several performance improvements and bug fixes. It’s free and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

Seesmic is free and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

What struck me most about Fitzgerald’s column is how little of what he said had anything to do with what I actually wrote. He clearly had some arguments he wanted to present and intended to do so, even if what I wrote didn’t apply. What follows are some quotes from his column with my response.…

Along with sharing information with social networking services, Apple’s patent includes a system for quickly exchanging data with other people. For example, a user could share their contacts, calendars, task lists, photos and more from their iPhone to someone else’s iPhone, iPod touch and presumably an iPad.The patent also includes an automated system for exchanging…

The new iPhone will allegedly ship with a 960×640 resolution display that uses in-plane switching (IPS) and fringe-field switching (FFS) technologies, which should offer better viewing angles and improved visibility in sunlight. It will also include a 512MB Arm Cortex A8 processor, doubling the amount of memory available to the device compared to the iPhone…

If the labels are accurate and do identify the processor powering Apple’s as-yet unannounced iPhone 4G as being an A4, it would be the first iPhone not to use a third-party processor. Among the unknowns, of course, is the clock speed of the processor inside the prototype, let alone what Apple might actually ship. The…