iPhone accessories Congratulations: Santa has rewarded your good behavior with an iPhone. Now it's up to you to keep it clean and pristine, through icy, salty, and sandy New England winters.

In the year of the iPhone, one of the newcomers to the cell phone market was the Helio Ocean. This phone has a clever design with keypads that slide out in different directions.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs promised a revolution when he unveiled the iPhone in January — and he delivered. "Apple reinvents the phone," Jobs boldly declared at the time.

The gPhone and iPhone dominated this month but Asus and Panasonic also won some column inches with new launches

From the launch of the Apple iPhone in June to the mall shooting in Omaha, Neb., in December, 2007 was overflowing with retail headlines. Here's a look at the top stories from each month: --Jan. 30: Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp. 's newest ...

10:30 PM -- Haven't seen these Chinese iPhone clones locally before. The fact that the CECT p168 is designed to work with "Windows 2000 and XP" is not going to appeal to the Apple faithful.

Apple's iPhone and Nintendo's Wii were among the year's high points; delays in Boeing's 787 and Jones Soda's stock performance weren't.

Microsoft chair Bill Gates has a tough job ahead of him at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

Speculation is building on the web that Apple will use next month's Mac World conference to unveil a new type of laptop, possibly one that utilises the iPod and iPhone's touch-sensitive screen technology.

Wishes for the future often accompany the celebrations that ring in the start of a new year. For technology fans, there's plenty to put on the wish list. For while 2007 was a big year for product rollouts, in some ways it was transitional: offering us mere glimpses of the better things that might come. Apple's iPhone was clearly a hot item in 2007, but there was just one problem.