Apple said yesterday that the white version of iPhone 4 will not be available until later this year. During the iPhone 4 press conference last Friday, Steve Jobs said  that the white phone would be available by late July. Apple’s explanation for the new delay is devoid of  details. In a press release the company said: “White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging [...]

Microsoft had in the past managed to rope in leading hardware and OEM manufacturers for its software , and continuing the tradition its lineup of manufacturers for the upcoming and promising Windows Phone 7 launch is very impressive.  After the regular rounds of rumors, Microsoft has confirmed that HTC, Dell, ASUS, LG, and Samsung  will be making Windows Phone 7 phones. These companies should [...]

During iPhone 4 press conference last week, Steve Jobs said that Apple would provide free cases to anyone who buys the iPhone 4 before September 30, the free case offer includes a choice of either Apple’s bumper or a third-party case. As part of that offer, Apple said it would offer refunds to iPhone 4 users who had already bought bumpers from Apple. True to its words, Apple has started the refund [...]

According to an online dashboard Google provides to developers, nearly 60 percent of all Google Android devices that recently accessed the Android Market are running Android Froyo  or Android  Eclair. It took nearly nine months since Android 2.0 was introduced, but more than half of those frequenting the Android Market have the most recent and polished versions of Google’s mobile platform. 55.5 [...]

One of the least surprising Internet milestones of the past few years is finally reached, Facebook announced few hours ago that it has reached 500 million active users around the world, an unprecedented number for a social-networking site notwithstanding the backlash about the privacy concerns and the various quit-facebook movements which were seen recently. “This is an important milestone [...]

Google has announced last week  that it will close its Web store once the latest  shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out and sell only through its carrier partners, including Vodafone in U.K. and that day has arrived, and that was fast, we did not anticipate that it would be sold out so  soon. As shown in the image above, Google’s official online store for the phone now just shows an ominous [...]

Skype has launched a new version of its iPhone app,not surprisingly, the new features take advantage of Apple’s  iOS 4 capabilities.Skype for iPhone (now version 2.0.1) users no longer have to keep the software active to receive calls and IMs. Multitasking allows calls to be received even when other apps are running or the phone is locked. Users can even continue a call while switching to [...]

Image by Sigalakos via Flickr Apple has announced profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 a share ( Nasdaq),  for the last quarter, thanks to runaway sales of iPhones and iPads — as well as a surprise surge of Macintosh computer sales — gave Apple record-breaking revenues for its third quarter.. In a quarter in which Apple introduced both the new iPhone 4 as well as the iPad, it notched a 61 [...]

During the press conference last week, when Steve Jobs showed how the BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris and Samsung Omnia II suffered from signal loss while held in a certain way, even though he had omitted mentioning Nokia, Nokia claimed it always prioritizes antenna performance over physical design. Apple has now rectified its mistake, now Apple’s Smartphone Antenna Performance page has added [...]

From October BT want to eek a little bit more money out of you to say thanks for being a loyal customer. They’re set to increase the monthly line rental by 50p per month, while also increasing the connection cost of each call by 1p, which tops it up to a nice round number for 10.9p. Of course BT have their calling plans which help of set some of these costs, but even so the BBC reports that [...]