As I speculated in yesterday’s column, the makers of competing smartphones are trying to mirror Adobe’s approach on the Flash controversy with smoke and mirrors responses to Antennagate. Whether HTC, Motorola, Nokia or Samsung, the spin control reads the same, using near-identical talking points playbooks. They know all about antennas, and Apple doesn’t, and is […]

When someone predicted Apple would release that highly-anticipated fixer-upper Thursday for at least some antenna-related issues on the latest and greatest iPhone, I was skeptical. How could anyone outside of Apple possibly know. Yet a Greek-language site, iPhone Hellas, had it right on, all the way. Now unless I’m missing something, the only advertised fix […]

It seems as if Apple can’t escape bad news these days. Most recently, it was all about the alleged antenna shortcomings of the latest and greatest iPhone. If you held it the right way — or the wrong way depending on your half-empty/half-full point of view — sensitivity dropped seriously. Apple’s claim, after a few […]

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 […]