AT&T Delays iPhone 4 Retail Sale Date

iPhone 4 orders had to stop last week due to such high demand. The Apple smartphone will be available through AT&T starting June 29th.

Tuesday AT&T said they would start notifying people who pre-ordered the iPhone4 when their order has been shipped. People who preordered the device at AT&T stores would receive telephone calls from the carrier's representatives when the buyer's iPhone arrives.

On June 29, AT&T will offer the iPhone 4 on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. If inventory sells out, AT&T will offer customers the option of buying the device and having it delivered to a home or business or an AT&T store. Customers will receive an email when their order is available.

AT&T halted sales of the iPhone 4 June 16, one day after the smartphone became available for preorders. The carrier was forced to suspend taking orders because it was unable to keep up with demand.



AT&T wasn't alone in suspending sales. Apple moved back the date on which customers who ordered the device can expect to receive one. The company originally planned to ship preordered phones June 24, and then moved the date back to July 2. IPhone 4s ordered as of Tuesday were not scheduled to ship until July 14.

While the delays are an inconvenience to iPhone fans, they're also a sign that Apple may have another big hit. The iPhone follows on the heels of the iPad, a tablet-style computer Apple started selling in April. As of Monday, Apple had sold 3 million iPads, according to the company.

The iPhone 4 features a number of improvements over its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS. The enhancements include higher screen resolution, a front-facing camera for video chats and a longer lasting battery. The device is also 24% thinner.

New Droid

The first Droid was excellent, while great for what it could do it was fairly chunky and had “ok” battery life. It ran an old Android 2.0(I guess that version would be considered old) operating system and the keyboard wasn’t the easiest to use. Motorola listened to the complaints and went back to the lab and they are coming out with a second version of the Droid.



The first thing they did was double the speed of the CPU from 500MHz to 1 GHz. They were able to do this because the Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 inside was built on a 45 nanometer process. Smaller transistors enable raw clock frequency to go up, while at the same time they also require less power to operate. The Apple A4 chip for example, or the Samsung chip inside their flagship Bada powered S8500, both use 45 nanometer processes.

The directional pad got replaced with arrow keys. The gold trimming, which I though was gorgeous, but many of you complained looked tacky, or worse yet a poor attempt at imitating something out of a Batman comic, has been replaced with silver trimming. Speaking of trimming, the device got a bit thinner, and … well that’s it really.

Expect this device to launch some time in the summer of 2010, probably right before back to school season

EVO 4G in white?

Just when America’s first 4G phone could not get any hotter, along comes this… a striking hot white version of the HTC EVO 4G(so much for that unavailable white iPhone4 huh). I’ve received confirmation that there is a white EVO 4G coming and sold exclusively through Best Buy with an official launch date for July 11th. I am also told that Sprint will eventually sell the white EVO 4G as well but not until August 8th with other retailers joining in sometime in September. So, if you were someone who managed to hold off from getting the black EVO 4G you can pre-order the white version from Best Buy now.

Droid X sooner than later?

Looks like Motorola and Verizon are coming clean with the Droid X a little earlier than planned. It just appeared on the official Droid page. It will host a 4.3 inch screen. Interestingly enough, rolling over the image reveals a box that says it has a “720 screen” which would be outrageous….especially since the Droid X prototype had what looked to be the same 854 x 4480 resolution as the original Droid, although that couldn’t be confirmed at that time. A true 720p screen res would also be far denser that the 800 x 480 on the EVO 4G, so I am thinking that Verizon actually means 720p out over HDMI. Only time will tell…the official launch is still set for June 23 and I am still waiting to find out about the slider Droid 2, so that means there are a lot of potential surprises yet to come.

EVo Back in stock at Sprint

Have you tried to purchase the HTC EVO 4G just to get told by the staff that they are currently out of stock? If you want to get your hands on the latest smartphone from Sprint, you now have a chance to purchase it from Sprint. Log on now so you can start placing your order before it becomes “out of stock” again. If you are not aware of the situation from last time the EVO 4G was so in demand that it already became sold out during the last couple of weeks.

Although there are still no official announcements from Sprint, it is so obvious that they already have new shipment of the device. Of course they would not let their website take orders online just to create anticipation and frustration especially now that iPhone 4 is coming soon. This is actually the second time that the HTC EVO 4G became sold out since Sprint released it this month.

When T-Mobile launched HTC HD2, the model also became unavailable for numerous times since the smartphone was released. At the same time, the HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon is also sold out as of the moment. Verizon is still ordering more from the manufacturer and hopefully the new shipment will come soon. The Motorola Droid is also sold out as well. The CEO of Motorola admitted that they still can’t have more stock of the said smartphone as of now.

HTC is really making a big splash in the market now and they may become a formidable opponent to Apple with the upcoming launch of the iPhone4.

Get the HTC EVO 4G for only $200 plus a 2-year contract with Sprint

HTC EVO 4G Specs

The HTC EVO 4G is powered with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor which is capable of proffering a high speed to its users. The quality of the display is awesome and provides the owner with a 4.3 inch LCD screen and a resolution of 480*800 pixels.

The memory capability of this mobile phone is amazing. There is 512 RAM and 1GB ROM which is more than enough to store your important data. If the users still have a need for more space the EVO comes equip with an 8 GB microSD card but can support up to 32GB of memory.

HTC EVO 4G News Update

On June 4th Sprint released the HTC EVO 4G to excellent reviews. A couple of days later the carrier announced that the EVO 4G had broken the carrier’s launch day sales record, even selling “three times” as many units as the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct did combined on their respective release days.
A few days later however, the nation’s third biggest carrier apologized for overstating the figures.

Today I am reporting that there was an under the radar part of the story, in which a Sprint employee was fired for posting unofficial sales numbers online, using the company’s inventory system.

The original post was made on XDA-Developers, but was taken down since. Part of the post is still cached, courtesy of Google, and it says: "according to sprint we as a [company] have sold 66,483 theres a whole bunch of stores though that dont have any more inventory i dont think any major city sprint does." The post was made June 6th, one day before Sprint posted any numbers.

The 66,483 units sold was from Sprint stores only, and did not include those sold through WalMart, RadioShack and other retailers.
After the post, an internal Sprint team member traced the post back to an employee in Florida, and the employee was fired the next day.

the Iphone 4 is coming

Well, months after leaks, drama and speculation Apple announced the iPhone 4 the other week. We received detials on the device as well as release information. Starters the actual name of the iphone is "iPhone4" and not iPhone HD or iPhone 4G. The device has a glass front and back with a stainless steel band around the phone that actually functions as the antenna system with the Wi-Fi, GSM/UMTS, Bluetooth, etc. radios stuffed in. There is a front-facing camera to take advantage of Apple's new video calling feature, titled FaceTime, that will be available only on iPhone 4.

The iPhone 4 will use the Apple A4 processor like the iPad is using. The device is slimmer than the previous versions with a larger battery to provide up to 7 hours of talk time.

While there have been several hardware changes, there have been just as many software changes. The new operating system, now titled iOS4, will automatically upscale text and buttons, though Steve Jobs urged developers to make their apps fully compatible with the new device. iOS4 will be availble for free for eligible devices on June 21st. FaceTime, mentioned earlier, will be available only on iPhone 4, can use either the front or rear cameras, and will only be available for use over Wi-Fi in 2010.

The new iPhone 4 will be available on AT&T starting June 24th in either white or black. Pricing is $199 for the 16 GB version and $299 for the 32 GB, with an 8 GB iPhone 3GS available for $99. It's interesting that the storage capacities have stayed the same considering a storage increase was one of the few things people were sure would come to iPhone 4. If your AT&T contract expires any time in 2010, the carrier will be giving you the option to upgrade to the iPhone 4 on June 24th as long as you're willing to sign a new 2 year contract. Pre-orders for the device will be starting on June 15th. Apple will be making its own case, similar to what they did for the iPad, and dock for the new iPhone for $29 each.

HTC EVO 4G Completely Sold OUT!

Are you still deciding if you want to pick up the shiny new HTC EVO 4G smartphone?

You may be out of luck this week as I am here to report that Sprint’s new flagship Android phone is entirely sold out nationwide.

I knew the device was shattering Sprint’s sales records and now it appears that the demand has been extremely hot that the EVO is actually unavailable everywhere. If you manage to find a secret stash of these phones or convince any Sprint or Radio Shack employee to let you in on the next available shipment be sure to let me know.

In the meantime, the HTC EVO 4G is neck and neck with the new Iphone 4 and once the Iphone 4 becomes available later on this month I will be able to give you a side by side comparison between the two most anticipated smartphones in recently history.

For now, we can just continue to patiently wait for the next shipment of EVO 4G’s.

HTML 5 Update

Here is some recent news I happened to come across that I wanted to share with you all


Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.

Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference in March that IE 9 won't be offered for XP. The reason, technical evangelist Giorgio Sardo said at the Web 2.0 Expo on Wednesday, is that IE 9 is a "modern browser," and getting the benefits of the hardware acceleration and other performance gains that it will offer requires a "modern OS."


"I reckon this is a problem," agreed Doug Crockford, a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo. "I recommend all users of XP migrate to another browser that's not IE."
At issue is the adoption of HTML 5, an upcoming revamp of the Web's markup language that will add significant new capabilities, including standard ways to implement video, animation, audio and offline storage, that are not included in the current HTML standard.

It's important partly because it should help to reduce fragmentation on the Web, which forces developers to build and test applications for multiple browsers or use proprietary technologies such as Flash and Silverlight.
But if IE 9, which will be Microsoft's first browser to fully support HTML 5, isn't available for XP, then those users will be outside of that HTML 5 compatibility sphere. And IE 6 still has more users than the Opera, Chrome and Safari browsers combined, according to Crockford. In some countries it accounts for as much as 40 percent of browser usage, he said