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"There’s no reason to steal a calculator color scheme, which, as far as I can tell, is the only aspect the Braun and the iPhone Calc have in common." — Thurrott is losing his grip on reality; an equals key plus ‘barely similar’ colours is design theft!?

"Apple says it actually sold 270,000 iPhones in the first thirty hours (that’s about 150 iPhones per minute)." — it seems AT&T’s claim of 146,000 is based on fully activated services, not raw sales.. and the activation delays likely did not help one bit.

"A lot of IT infrastructure is fragile rickety crap, and the people responsible for it aren’t smart enough to fix it so they make rules and place blame.." — no, the ‘people responsible’ are cost-fixated management, not the grunts expected to support it

"This does NOT unlock the iPhone after doing this, it still remains carrier dependent. But you can now use any existing AT&T or Cingular pre-paid account." — via dailytech, the first steps have been taken towards unlocking the iPhone for any carrier.

"The Broadband Reports gang has a new test application up with explicit iPhone support, and the results are both surprising and not-so-surprising.." — despite improvements, EDGE is still a lousy technology - my HSDPA handset manages over 600kbit/sec.

".. after 400 cycles, the battery should hold about 80 percent of its original capacity. But Sullivan reports that it’ll be completely dead after ‘300-400 recharges’." — the truth is somewhere in the middle, approximately 500 or so charges is a typical failure point.

"Until we publish our review of Apple’s iPhone on Saturday, June 30th at 6 PM PDT, come back here whenever the green light on the iPhone on the front pages of our websites flashes green." — quick Robin! to the bat iPhone! can we hype it? yes we can!

"June 5th, the day HTC promised to make Major announcement , it is fact and they officialy unveiled HTC Touch." — could this be an iPhone killer? Perhaps.. perhaps not.. but a windows mobile powered device has never looked so good..