Palm's new smartphone, the Pre, is off to a rolling good start and has plenty of room to grow, but it isn't likely to emerge as a solo iPhone killer, said ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan. His assessment comes amid widely reported news accounts of a note from Charter Equity Research estimating sales of the Pre approaching 400,000 in the month since it launched on the Sprint network.

Josh Clark, author of O'Reilly's Best iPhone Apps: The Essential Guide for Discriminating Downloaders says he waited three decades until the iPhone finally arrived in 2007. "Apple's fabulous device is the only thing that's ever resembled my childhood notions of the 21st century, the first time the future got here," writes Clark. "A computer. In your pocket." And for his new book, Clark scoured ...

Reports are coming in that the iPhone 3G S gets really hot. Oddly, not mine.

Thanks to the release of Apple's iPhone 3GS availability utility, we can get a glimpse into which versions of this newest device are selling out like crazy... or staying on store shelves. Unless you live in Alaska, that is--you're always going to be 0 for 0 no matter what.

iPhone 3GS owners have been reporting problems with some units overheating and becoming too hot to touch. The handsets are getting so warm that the white plastic cases are discoloring to a brownish/pink as seen in the picture above from Ben on the French site Le...

Is shopping mania for the iPhone 3GS finally over? It's hard to say. Apple recently released an online tool that tracks the status of iPhone 3GS shipments across each of its 210 retail stores in the United States. This suggests that Apple is still concerned about the retail availability for it customers. While store employees might welcome the decrease in the number of times they have say, "yes ...

Separate Browser Required to Prevent Exposure to Inappropriate Websites ATLANTA, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- InternetSafety.com today called on parents concerned about exposing their children to objectionable content on the Apple iPhone to combine Apple's new parental controls with a child-friendly iPhone browser like Safe Eyes Mobile (www.safeeyes.com/iphone).

THE second coming of Apple's iPhone was greeted by hundreds of keen adopters who lined the streets of three Australian capitals at midnight on Friday.

How hot does an iPhone have to get before Apple might do something about it? 113 degrees.

The manager at my local Apple Store looked a little grim when I mentioned iPhone 3GS overheating and battery problems yesterday. "If that's what it is, you're going to have a flood of phones coming back," I told him. As if he had to be told.