Written by Aitan Roubini | 01 September 2010

After watching today's announcements, reading through the specs and feeling the afterglow of the news fade, I can't help but wonder, whether this is why I have lost time on the phone and walking from store to store to find an iPhone 4.

It makes sense though. Apple has a lot to gain from getting the new iPods into the hands of all of those stocking stuffing parents and holiday gift givers. Seriously, it's a huge setup. Everyone who has an iphone would love to upgrade to an iPhone 4 if they're eligible, and iPhone 4 users are far more dependant on their phones than say an iPod user would be. With ubiquitous data access in the palm of your hand, we've been feeling the pinch of the processor lag on the 3G iPhone. Apple did at least tip their hat to the masses lining up at their stores by informing us that iOS 4.1 will fix 3G performance bugs. That particular market of hungry wannabe upgraders will still be there after the holiday season. The potential iPod touch buyers won't be, After all, the other edge of the sword? If one can't get their daughter the iPhone she really wanted, she'll definitely love the iPod. "It is the same after all. It just doesn't have the phone, and she has a phone already, so this is better anyway."

So where is my iPhone 4? Well I recon it's guts are on the shelves in iPod Touch boxes. Even back in June, Gearlive suggested that the initial supply expectation of 4 million units a month would be cut in half. Was production diverted to build up stock in anticipation of the holidays?

Expect to see iPhone 4's coming back into regular supply over the next month or two. That's my forecast.

Written by Aitan Roubini | 31 August 2010

Reflecting back on the initial buzz of antenna gate, Ars metions something potentially relevant here. No antenna technology this innovative (if you can call it that) is solely dependant on the external hardware. Likely most of the engineering work to be done to finesse the design will come in the background. If Apple did use the capacitors that Ars suggested back in September, you're going to end up seeing a baseband update in the near future.Expect this to be spun into an opportunity to showcase how advanced their technology and design really is.Picture Jonathan Ive on Apple's signature videos delivering the wonderful news about the flexibility in their design. Who knows...maybe they'll reveal the antenna was made from the new "liquid metal".

From Ars Technica — "A reader indicated to us via e-mail that Apple may be using digitally adjustable solid state capacitors to tune the iPhone 4's antennas, which if true would make a software fix possible."...

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Written by Aitan Roubini | 31 August 2010

I have my doubts this will be the case. A couple of years back Apple offered a $100 credit to compensate those that had bought a 3G prior to the price reduction. I can't see this happening this time to be honest. They've put considerable effort into highlighting the deficiency with other manufacturers.

From Boy Genius Report — "Mexican technology site canal-mx is reporting that Apple will be reengineering its iPhone 4 antenna design and that the redesigned handsets will be available after September 30th. The news comes courtesy of Marco Quatorze, Tecel’s Director of Value Added Services. Telcel recently began offering the iPhone 4 to its customers and Mr. Quatorze was on the record when he explained that his company would have the same version of the iPhone 4 that is sold in the U.S.; complete with antenna attenuation issues. He noted that Telcel’s customers would be eligible for a free case until September 30. Quatorze then stated that after the 30th a new revision of the iPhone 4, with some sort of internal antenna fix, would be made available by Apple. The news, if true, certainly will rekindle the antenna-gate talks, lawsuits, and comment flame wars that — to be totally honest — we haven’t really missed all that much. We’ve reached out to Apple for comment and will update the article if we receive a response"...

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28 August 2010

This is a dynamically fed article and is not authored by Mac Zen

So you've been computing for quite a few years now, and you've built a nice collection of hard drives, internal or external, collecting dust in the corner. Here's how to put them to good use.