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  The iPhone turns five: Evolution of a game-changer
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  10 top iPhone apps for IT pros
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  Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS
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  Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

• The iPhone turns five: Evolution of a game-changer

  By Galen Gruman | 16 January, 2012 10:49

  It was just five years ago that Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, which despite early criticisms came to redefine mobile computing.

• 10 top iPhone apps for IT pros

  By David Strom | 13 January, 2010 11:00

  While the frivolous iPhone apps usually get most of the media attention (yes, there really are over 175 apps that can produce rude bodily noises), there are quite a few apps that can help you do your job as an IT worker. While less notorious, they are worth your time to download and check out.

• Should your IT department support the iPhone?

  By Ryan Faas | 13 January, 2010 03:40

  When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators. It didn't support any encryption of user data, could not have any enforced security policies and offered no way to remotely wipe data if it were lost or stolen. At the time, a lot of companies weren't prepared to accept those security gaps. Perhaps more importantly, the iPhone didn't yet support any third-party applications or interact with most office suites.

• Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS

  By John Cox | 08 January, 2010 08:45

  Google's Nexus One, built by Taiwan's HTC, offers much of what one expects in a high-end 3G smartphone. Yet is it enough, and good enough, to give the iPhone 3GS a run for the money? Initial reviews like its design, speed and integration with the Web. With a two-year T-Mobile contract (at $US80 per month), Nexus costs $US179 (or $530 unlocked). A CDMA version is due with Verizon Wireless in Spring 2010. In this slideshow, we focus on some of the key differences, comparing the two smartphones in terms of their published specifications, with some comments from (and links to) early reviews and assessments of the Nexus.

• Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

  By Network World staff | 03 November, 2009 15:29

  Motorola's new Droid 3G smartphone could have what it takes to grab a chunk of the mobile data market and rival the iPhone's success: Big touchscreen coupled with a sliding Qwerty keyboard, robust Web browser, the improved Android 2.0 operating system, and tight integration with Google services. This slideshow looks at both phones, based on their specifications.

• Apple reports iPhone 3GS shortages

  By Gregg Keizer | 30 June, 2009 08:27

  Apple's retail stores reported shortages of some models of the new iPhone 3GS Sunday, according to the company's own inventory tracking tool.

• iPhone 3GS costs Apple US$179 to make, says iSuppli

  By Gregg Keizer | 25 June, 2009 07:51

  Even though it has twice the storage space of last year's model, Apple's new 16GB iPhone 3GS costs the company less than 3% more to make than 2008's lowest-priced iPhone 3G, according to a tear-down analysis published today by iSuppli.

• Survey finds good news for Apple, bad for BlackBerry

  By David Coursey | 23 June, 2009 23:37

  Bad news for Blackberry: Forty per cent of smartphone users who don't already own an iPhone said they would switch to the Apple handset for their next purchase, nearly three times the percentage of non-Blackberry users who would switch to a Research in Motion handset.

• Five fab apps for iPhone OS 3.0 and the new 3GS

  By Dan Turner | 06 July, 2009 08:26

  Apple Inc. has an interesting pie-slicing problem coming as far as developers of iPhone (and iPod Touch) applications are concerned. All of those first- and second-generation iPhones run the same operating system -- the just-released iPhone OS 3.0 -- as the new 3GS model. But the latter includes new hardware such as a magnetometer, a faster CPU and faster GPU, as well as more memory. If developers build shiny new apps with only those features in mind, they'll limit their market. What to do?

• iPhone owners, beware! (of iffy iPhone studies)

  By JR Raphael | 24 June, 2009 09:57

  BREAKING NEWS: Your Apple iPhone is bound to break! At least, if you believe a new study by an electronics warranty company that, by pure coincidence, happens to be promoting an iPhone warranty plan on its home page right now. Breaking news? Broken news might be more like it, as far as I'm concerned.

• Apple's iPhone 3G S dissected: What's the real cost?

  By JR Raphael | 25 June, 2009 06:47

  Apple's iPhone 3G S is the talk of the tech world this week. While some folks were disappointed a cheaper iPhone didn't debut at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, the 16GB iPhone 3G S may actually be a better deal than you'd think: The phone, according to a new analysis, costs nearly US$179 to make. It retails for US$199.

• iPhone 3G S: My life is still the same, only faster

  By David Coursey | 24 June, 2009 00:34

  Not to burst anyone's balloon, but the Phone 3G S isn't a world-changer--unless you've never had an iPhone, of course. For the rest of us, it's simply the world's most successful "speed bump" for an existing product.

• iPhone 3G S: What's missing

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 24 June, 2009 01:22

  Now in its third generation, the iPhone handset has made improvements with each successive model. This year, though, the improvements are less about what you see and more about what's packed under the chassis--and what's available in the iPhone OS 3.0 software update (accessible to current iPhone owners and on new iPhone 3G S units).

• The case for an iPhone 3GS 'B'

  By Michael Scalisi | 24 June, 2009 02:07

  The new iPhone 3GS is a conservative, yet intelligent addition to the iPhone family. Its faster processor and greater operating memory are exactly what the doctor ordered. However, the lack of a keyboard, UMA and better battery features allows the competition an edge with business users.

• iPhone 3G S is evolution in action

  By Paul Venezia | 23 June, 2009 01:09

  The iPhone 3G S handset is well appointed, functional, and nicely packaged, but it's not at the high-end of the smartphone hardware scale. The OS and interface -- and the richly stocked App Store -- remain the best reasons to buy an iPhone. Unless you need 16GB or 32GB of storage, a compass, and a faster CPU, the iPhone 3G will suit you as well as the more expensive iPhone 3G S.

• iPhone 3G S teardown reveals significant speed boost

  By Gregg Keizer | 20 June, 2009 10:02

  The iPhone 3G S' hardware, including a faster microprocessor and a faster graphics processor than those in last year's model, supports Apple's claims that the new device is two to three times faster overall, a just-completed teardown shows.