I’ve used iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS since Day One of the official release. For the most part, the experience has been essentially as I expected after examining the material from Apple’s hype machine. That is a good thing, although there are some rough edges. Aside from the minor interface quibbles, my biggest problem […]

So the highly anticipated, newly renamed iOS 4 arrived Monday morning in iTunes 9.2 for millions of expectant iPhone and iPod touch users. Predictably, Apple’s update servers were no doubt slammed by the incredible demand, as users clicked their Update buttons in iTunes over and over again to get in line to receive the upgrade. […]

In the days of the original Star Trek TV show in the 1960s, the crew of the starship Enterprise would explore a new world equipped with a handheld computer known as a Tricorder. According to the Wikipedia entry and the innate knowledge of any “Treker” on our planet, this gadget was “a multifunction handheld device […]

Apple’s Thursday morning rollout of iPhone 4.0 was more about meeting expectations than necessarily beating them. For long months, the iPhone, the iPod touch — and now the iPad — have been severely criticized for the lack of certain features. Most prominent in this list is expanded multitasking, which had, up till now, only supported […]