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Citi: Verizon iPhone Delayed Due to 'Key Component' Problems

Another analyst has piled onto the growing sentiment that Verizon will not offer a CDMA iPhone by the middle of 2010 – or not until 2011. Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner said Wednesday a 2-month manufacturing delay in a "key component" will push the CDMA handset's launch back to the fourth quarter of 2010 or the [...:]

iVerse Comics Preview Shows iPad's Depth, Features

If you're wondering whether iPad is just going to be a big iPhone or iPod Touch, look no further than the preview released by iVerse Comics to see the depth and complexity of the iPad's touchscreen features.
Comics and other traditionally text and image-based reading material have been somewhat less than satisfying to read [...:]

Analyst: Apple to Develop Own Search Engine in Five Years

Remember all the talk earlier this year that Apple was developing its own search engine, possibly even picking Microsoft's Bing to replace Google as the default iPhone search? Well, such speculation has reignited. A popular Apple analyst now believes there's a 70 percent chance the Cupertino, Calif. company will create a mobile search engine in [...:]

Analyst: CDMA iPhone Talk Aimed at Countering Android

If you've heard those rumors of Verizon selling the iPhone this summer, don't hold your breath, suggests an analyst. The talk is just the latest gamesmanship by Apple in an attempt to throw Google's Android phones off-stride.
Although Verizon's 90 million customers would allow Apple to directly confront the growth of Android-based phones, there remains some [...:]

Analyst: 'Unlikely' That Verizon Will Get iPhone in 2010

Despite a report Monday suggesting Verizon Wireless could offer an iPhone this summer, some analysts see such a future as unlikely. Instead, if Apple produces a CDMA iPhone, the Cupertino, Calif. company probably has another customer in mind: China.
UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard J. Um calls a report that U.S.-based Verizon would get the CDMA [...:]

iPad Apps? Devs Race to Be First

When you first get your hands on an iPad April 3, there will probably be about 200 apps for sale for the touchscreen device.
The San Jose Mercury news reports that a frantic "land grab" is taking place as software developers race to be among the first apps available. These early settlers may make the most [...:]

Chinese iPad Clone Is A Big, OS X-Skinned iPod

Interested in picking up an iPad but a couple of bills short? The electronics sweatshops of Shenzhen again come to the rescue with their own counterfeit iPads, completete with WiFi, Bluetooth, 4GB of storage and a cute, knock-off operating system skinned like OS X 10.0.
The company who makes them, Shenzhen Huayi, says their iPad [...:]

Linkin Park is Releasing A Chirpy, 8-Bit iPhone Game

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If you'd told me yesterday that I'd be eagerly anticipating a new release by nu metal doofus band Linkin Park, I would have promptly puked up my entire central nervous system… but today, I'm holding my stomach, keeping my mouth closed and my nostrils pinched shut, because Linkin Park's upcoming iPhone game doesn't just look [...:]

Is The iPad Camera Connection Kit Just A Rebranded 2005 iPod Camera Connector?

Although his fingers are always yellow with nicotine and his teeth are always brown with Marmite, Gadget Lab's Charlie Sorrel is my very favorite of secret boyfriends, and it's mostly due to that wonderfully sinuous memory of his.
The latest fragment of mnemosyne plucked from the pickled depths of Sorrel's gin barrel mind? Charlie realized [...:]

Apple Store Workers Also Await Hands-On Time with iPad

The person who sells you the iPad on Saturday will probably be seeing it for the first time, too.
Keeping in line with air-tight secrecy around new product launches, Apple retail store employees have not had any hands-on time with the new touchscreen device.
Reuters reports:
Apple store workers say they have yet to see or touch the [...:]