Apple introduced the new iPhone 3GS mid-way through 2009 and it is speculated that Apple will introduce the next generation iPhone around mid-year 2010.
The struggling smart-phone company delivered the demo many believed it didn't have in it on Thursday, showing off features that match--and in some ways improve on--the Apple iPhone that kicked off the touch-screen phone fad two years ago.
The pent-up demand for the iPhone was immense given that Apple posted its best-ever iPhone launch in China last month, posting sales of over 2 million units in the opening weekend itself.
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Nonetheless, I make it to yoga and experience my desired helping of Zen, only to return home and find my 64-gig-4S-runs-my-life-and-makes-it-complete- Apple iPhone missing.
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Further, considering the huge pre-order demand for the iPhone 5 (Apple saw twice as many pre-orders for iPhone 5 as the 4S on the launch day), we believe that an increasing number of people are choosing to adopt the pre-order route this time.
And it wasn't the eye-popping sales figures for Apple's iPods or its new iPhone that sent Apple market capitalization--already up 25% over the past quarter--vaulting past IBM .
We'd been disappointed to find that iOS 4.2 only brought AirPlay video support to built-in Apple apps on the iPhone and iPad, but it looks like that's changing soon -- Apple just posted up the first iOS 4.3 beta, which allows devs to send video from apps or websites to an Apple TV.
Leading us on to believe such incredulous things such as a next-to-definite Apple tablet, an almost-certain iPhone, sure-to-be-impending widescreen (and wireless) iPod, forthcoming iSight-ed Cinema Display, and an 802.11n-compatible iTV may actually see the light of day.
The question is whether there's time for the once-pioneering BlackBerry to catch up to Apple's trend-setting iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.
Apple updated its poor-selling Apple TV set-top box, iPod Touch music player and the iPhone, and built out Apple's lineup of notebook computers with a new, lightweight laptop.
Additionally, a court ordered Apple to pay iPhone-using lawyer, Kim Hyung-suk, one million won in a civil suit against the company.
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The CEO kicked off a wave of excitement around Apple's iPhone--which began selling in June--when he unveiled the new product at Macworld last year.
In some cases the technologies sit side by side in devices - Apple's iPhone 5, for example, features a PowerVR GPU based on Imagination's architecture, and Apple's A6 CPU which is based on ARM's work.
So behind that sleek new Apple iPhone whatever-it-does application are a bunch of software developers crowded into a brick building that 100 years ago housed a meat warehouse, a button factory, or maybe a flophouse.
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What would a post-iPhone Apple look like?
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To use the service, customers simply attach the cover to their Apple iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s and follow the on-screen instructions to download the TouchPay app from the Apple App Store.
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The Mountain View company is not the first to do this -- Apple did it with the iPhone and iPad back in 2010 -- but email is a relatively new frontier.
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For many people, Windows is far removed from the mass-market smartphone experience, which was first shaped in 2007, when Apple launched its iPhone, wrong-footing traditional phone makers and ultimately contributing to Nokia's woes.
So the first Apple TV boxes couldn't tap the millions of new YouTube clips posted each month--in contrast, Apple's new iPhone made YouTube a special opening-screen feature.
Talk about Apple's new Verizon-friendly iPhone, which could be coming out as early as this summer, has left Apple the clear winner and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, has dropped the call. (See: " Verizon Could Soon Serve Apple Pie").
This early leader in mobile phones was caught off-guard when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and integrated mobile phones with its desktop OS, a difficult leap for non-PC players.
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Given the ever-increasing expectations for the Apple iPhone 5, the Street has been ratcheting up expectations for mobile-related component companies.
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But it fell behind when Apple introduced the Internet-friendly iPhone in 2007 and never caught up.
Samsung's Galaxy S line has emerged as the strongest challenger to Apple's industry-leading iPhone.
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Go ahead and download Waze for your Apple iPhone or Google-powered Android-powered smartphone.
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Apple released its much-ballyhooed iPhone 5 recently, injecting the latest iteration of its mobile phone into a volatile market.
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Apple sells the best-selling iPhone and iPad devices, while Samsung sells a range of phones that use Google's Android software.
Of course there were the die-hard Apple fans and iPhone users, but many who bought the iPad did so for practical reasons.
Apple's latest iPhone - due for release on Friday - is set to be the focal point of another lawsuit involving the two firms.
Here we have two companies that are struggling for their very survival in a smartphone market that is dominated by the Apple iPhone and Android-based Samsung phones.
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