20090701 Iphone Still an Expensive Piece of Junk

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Iphone batteries might be causing overheating

WHILE APPLE FANBOYS struggle with the reality that the fruit themed toymaker's latest Iphone 3GS sometimes gets hot enough to discolour the plastic, Wired thinks that the problem might be due to the battery.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1432081/iphone-batteries-causing-overheating

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Google Android Gets Help In Fight Against Apple iPhone (GOOG, AAPL)

Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC, which has spent the last year or so making Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile less ugly, is now doing the same for Google's (GOOG) Android. It's the first look at how gadget manufacturers and carriers will try to differentiate their phones based on  Android.

http://www.businessinsider.com/finally-someone-makes-a-better-interface-for-google-android-2009-6

Assessing Android

Despite being pressed by me, he wouldn't get into specifics (now, there's a surprise) about sales, saying only that they had exceeded expectations. But he did reveal that according to their market research, G1s were selling at 70-80% the rate of iPhones. Even allowing for margins of error and any tendency to talk up such numbers, this suggests a healthy uptake.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1974&blogid=14

Android and the Big Bang at the Edge of the Web

Android is coming. And with it comes the real big bang- the next generation WebKit document/application model.

http://openstack.blogspot.com/2009/03/android-and-big-bang-at-edge-of-web.html