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Gizmodo (surprise!) is reporting that touching the steel frame of the iPhone 4 may reduce the quality of an already important AT&T signal.  It is hard to argue with the video they provide:

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Gizmodo has about 30 user videos showing issues as well as a link to a Danish scientist who predicted these issues. Something tells me those bumpers are going to sell pretty well.

Meanwhile MacRumors users are posting pictures of brown spots o nthe bottom right of their iPhone 4 Retina displays (below).

Comic book publisher, DC Comics has jumped aboard the iPad express, introducing a new self-branded app for Apple

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Here is a video clip of a real live Apple CEO Steve Jobs walking through the company campus in Cupertino. What does it prove? Not much, except Steve walks. And we

Anyone still in denial that the future of the smartphone business is in the war between Apple and Google needs to take a look at the latest lawsuit to come out of Apple HQ.

The latest litigation claims HTC and its Exedea subsidiary have infringed four distinct Apple patents, and, as Patently Apple notes, the lawsuit

Apple has sold 600,000 of them already and it looks likely they will be in short supply, but it looks like the new iPhone 4 may have a problem — the glass used on the front and back of the device may pick up scratches a little easily.

Up above there

Your shiny Android phone is a pocket full of risks as research claims one-in-five apps can steal your private files. And that’s why Apple and its curated App Store policies mean the iPhone really is the phone for the rest of us as smartphones go mass market.

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Surprise! The new iPhone 4 is faster than the 3GS but slightly slower than the iPad, new tests from Geek Bench claim.

With that in mind, tests show the iPhone 4 to be 31% faster than the iPhone 3GS. We know that both iPad and iPhone 4 use the A4 processor, but we don

Did you manage to pre-order an iPhone 4? We hope so, because if you didn

Bad news iPhone fans as it seems over 25 per cent of iPhones break down within two years, according to Computerworld, though this is actually an improvement on before and not bad as an industry average, a firm involved in repairing the devices has claimed.

Allegedly the iPhone 3GS is more reliable than the 3G, but critics are concerned that the iPhone 4

The latest Multitasking-savvy app is one of those you just might use — a lot — Twitter for iPhone is now one of the happy few apps updated for iOS 4

Walt Mossberg reviews the iPhone 4. He had some calling issues in New York City (shocker) but otherwise seems smitten.

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Apple stock is heading North, there

Just like the years of on-off whisperings which came before the launch of the iPad, Wall Street chatterers are focused once again on Apple’s fairly imminent move to offer the iPhone via Verizon in the US — will Sprint come too?

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Apple is delivering those iPhone 4

Apple kept background wallpapers off of the iPhone 3G because it just didn’t work well enough.

No, this isn

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It took a few short hours, but the iPhone Dev Team have already managed to jailbreak iOS 4, introducing their own redsn0w tool to unshackle your iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G.

As per usual — don

Good old AT&T, if ever a company has really begun to develop a knack for grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory, it seems to be Apple

Pandora Radio — equipped with support for multitasking — has shipped, just in time for the release of iOS 4, which is expected within the hour.

This excellent app lets you create personalized radio, streaming music to your ears via your iPhone or iPad. All you need to do is input one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it.

The introduction of multi-tasking support within the app means you

Google has introduced an all-new Compose Interface for Gmail on iPad.

When you write an email you now get a big full screen compose window. Previously Gmail would split the screen between your inbox and the compose view. It means that more text is visible at once and there are no more distractions with messages on the side.

With a view to future development of Android-based solutions, Google notes,