When the very first iPhone arrived, it was a revelation compared to most existing mobile handsets. You didn’t have to endure a painful process in configuring your device, mastering that tiny physical keyboard, and coping with inept user guides to figure out the hard stuff. Indeed, for most of you there wasn’t any hard stuff. […]

I suppose you could call Apple’s iPhone launch the lesser of what was expected, although the hardware changed quite a bit. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. The anticipation for Apple’s iPhone media event, at the corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, was unprecedented. Early on, it almost seemed as if the cat […]

The basic form factor of the iPhone was nailed down in 2007. The changes since then have been relatively minor in the scheme of things, moving the case from tapered to square, aluminum to glass, and adjusting the position and appearance of the few external controls. Sure, a lot has changed inside. The processor is […]

It’s clear that Apple paid close attention to the needs of the user when crafting new features for iOS 5. The Notification Center, and the sensible changes in such warning prompts, is clearly logical, and it doesn’t matter that Apple “borrowed” a few ideas from the Android OS. Innovation also means being able to distill […]