iPhone 4 orders null and void?

Another day and another fiasco coming out of both the Apple and AT&T camps. Reports are coming in that people are receiving emails notifying them their iPhone 4 orders have been canceled, either from Apple or from AT&T. With both camps placing blame on the other camp, no one knows for sure what's going on here or who's really to blame. Are iPhone 4 orders actually being canceled? Is it just a mechanism coming into place after the whole debacle that ensued the day pre-orders went live to cancel duplicate orders (for those users that pressed "Submit" more than once)? No one knows for sure, but it looks like my iPhone 4 order will be real once I actually receive that phone. Unless, by the way things are going, they mistakenly send me a brick-in-a-box.


Source: Gizmodo

iPhone review - coming soon

I'm going to be pre-ordering the new iPhone 4, set to launch on June 24. Pre-orders are available (on a limited basis) on June 15. I'm going to do my best and snag a unit on launch. Afterward, I'll post an official, hands-on review detailing the inner workings and the exterior of the unit. Since this will be my day-to-day phone (as I'm just an ordinary guy that blogs and not sponsored), I cannot "stress test" the device, but I can give an accurate interpretation of its performance. Let's hope my internet connection doesn't fail and leave me high and dry with Sprint's former flagship device. Stay tuned.

Update: I was actually able to pre-order at the crack of dawn on June 15 and avoid all the madness that ensued shortly thereafter. Hopefully, AT&T will live up to expectations and deliver my golden egg device on June 24. Here's hoping.

Source: Boy Genius Report

New iPhone - worth it?

Well, Apple went and delivered at WWDC 2010 - they unveiled the fourth generation of iPhone technology, the iPhone 4. Equipped with their very own A4 processor (to go toe-to-toe with Qualcomm's beast-of-a-processor, Snapdragon) and sporting an aluminosilicate glass enclosure, with a stainless steel band around the phone (which houses the Bluetooth, WiFi, and 3G signal antennas). The iPhone 4 boasts a 5 megapixel camera with illuminated LED flash and also records video in 720p HD. iPhone 4 comes equipped with iPhone OS 4 (now dubbed iOS 4) with all the trimmings and features, which Apple previously detailed. Is this phone worth leaving your current contract for on another carrier or upgrading, if on AT&T? Depends on your experience with AT&T and if your carrier's cancellation fees won't have you up in arms. However, if you just recently got Sprint's new gem, it probably wouldn't be worth it to leave and head over for something that may, from a technological standpoint, be playing catch-up, instead of breaking ground. Only time will tell, though.

Sources: Apple, Spike, Sprint

Apple set to release new iPhone tomorrow at WWDC?

Apple kicks off their WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference, for those not in the know) tomorrow and the biggest rumored announcement is that of a new iPhone (which Gizmodo graciously demonstrated about 2 months ago). Speculation is that this new iPhone will be called the iPhone HD and will carry iPhone OS 4, which finally has multi-tasking capabilities for those frenzied, app-switchers. Pricing plans, upgrade eligibility, and availability are anyone's guess, but the word is this phone will drop sometime before the end of June, as AT&T ramps up their stores' quotas for the month of June. No better way than to kick off summer 2010 than with a nice, shiny new iPhone in-hand. Stay tuned.

Sources: Apple, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report

Sure, I'll take the $30 Unlimited...wait, it's not Unlimited anymore!?

AT&T couldn't find a way to make their network any faster, so they went and did what they felt [as a corporation] was the next best thing: they removed the Unlimited Data usage add-on plan for their smartphones. In its wake are two "simplified" plans that are supposed to make things easier to understand and use for the majority of their customers - the DataPlus plan, which provides 200MB of data usage per month and the DataPro plan, which provides 2GB of data usage per month. AT&T states that 98% of its customers who use the Unlimited smartphone data plan do not exceed 2GB per month. Could they just be blowing smoke and forcing customers to move to data plans that are unnecessary? Possibly. However, AT&T is letting customers who currently have the Unlimited data plan stick with it indefinitely, unless they want to add data tethering to their smartphone. Adding tethering requires the DataPro plan, which means bye-bye Unlimited data plan. Oh, Unlimited Data plan, It's been a great journey and we hope to see you again, one day. Sadly, we know that day will probably never come.

Sources: Wired, IntoMobile

Hello, webOS? Are you still there?

Since HP announced it was going to assimilate Palm into its corporate infrastructure (while maintaining the executive hierarchy - or whatever's left), no real new announcements have been made regarding Palm's own brainchild, webOS. All we've heard about webOS, since the HP buyout talks is that an update is impending and developers would need to test against it via the SDK to ensure stability and compatibility. However, where is this update? Mum is the word from the Palm camp, even though the development community is pumping out updates at a steady pace. While this HP acquisition may look good for Palm in the long run, Palm shouldn't fall asleep at the wheel for too long - especially while frozen treats are sliding into the present.

Sources: HP, cNET, Palm Pre Blog, Preware, YouTube