The big announcement today is the Apple iPhone 3G. Putting speculation to rest, buyers now know exactly what features the 3G iPhone will contain when released July 11. 3G data starts at $30 a month, while voice plans will start a $39.99.

Everything you always wanted in a mobile phone, plus double the storage. Apple rolled out the 16GB iPhone with no fanfare. With no announcement at Mac World the new 16GB iPhone comes as a pleasant surprise. ($499)

If you buy the iPhone, the expectation is that you follow Apple’s restrictions. This class action lawsuit regarding iPhone modifications is a waste of time. If you modify a device, whether with software or with solder, you run the risk of damaging the product, and voiding the warranty.

Apple can create as many ways as required to keep the device working as intended. Users can create ways to circumnavigate such methods. However, when doing so you waive rights of authorized and intended use. Continue ►

Hoping to find Bluetooth in the iPod Touch so you can h4×0r / homebrew up an 16GB iPhone? Well keep waiting. Like a hopeless romantic, you believed ifixit would find the iPod Bluetooth chip and end your agony. Don’t worry you are not alone. Continue ►

If you thought you were going to wait it out for 6 months to a year until the Apple iPhone came to your carrier, think again. AT&T and Apple, according to USA Today are destined to be in bed together at least until 2012. Continue ►

I was fapping away some time earlier when I spotted a post on ValleyWag citing Viacom for having double standards. Taking it up a notch, Nick Denton & Co. posted a video of Oprah the Almighty on the Viacom owned iFilm to show the company’s contradictive ways. Continue ►

Like trained lap dogs a good majority of the online world is slobbering on the shiny knob of Apple and the yet to be released iPhone. Countless acolytes have submitted their sonnets of praise and worship for the still unreleased device. The Apple iPhone will no doubt be cool but could the community please not do the same thing with the iPhone that was done with the iPod, namely dubbing every potentially equally cool, if not cooler device a “Killer”. Continue ►

“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything…”

If, there is anything, that should be considered a must have gadget, this is it. The thousands of sacrificed virgins, the swearing off of other handsets, the faith, the patience, the trust of your inner-being, it all finally bears fruit. The Apple iPhone is reality.

Steve Jobs and MacWorld have essentially stolen all of the power from CES with the iPhone announcement. The device is a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone and a internet communications device… all rolled into one. The iPhone. Continue ►