Well, Apple’s special iPhone 4 press conference is over and it’s all said and done, the facts and figures, the apologies and deflectithe updates and announcements, and quite a bit of downright confusion. TiPb’s iPhone 4 review covered a lot of that — a wondrous handset with a few killer flaws. Taken as a whole, many users will be extremely happy. Others… not so much. It really is the ecstasy with one crucial spot of antenna band agony.

If you missed any of the press conference coverage or you — like us — just want a chance to digest and mull it over, to see if it holds up or falls apart, here’s your chance:

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We had problems with typing accuracy and speed on Nexus One from the get-go. At first, we though it was because we were not used to the Android keyboard. However, after four days the results are pretty much the same, with only moderate improvement.

We used the same typing technique on the Nexus One as on the iPhone: either holding the phone in the palm of your hand and typing with one thumb, or holding it with two hands and typing with both thumbs.

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Google Nexus vs Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre: Total Cost of Ownership (Price Wars)

Since then, Google announced complete details about the Nexus (exemplar, superphone in Google speak) — specifically, that you could buy the phone unlocked directly from Google for a hefty US$529.99, or through T-Mobile for only US$179.99 plus a two-year contract. Which got us thinking: how do those numbers compare with the competition?

As you can see from the chart below, we did a total-cost-of-ownership comparison of the Nexus, Droid, iPhone, and Palm Pre — the current “must-have” handsets of T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint, respectively. We looked at the phone cost with and without a two-year contract, as well as the monthly costs of both an average plan and one with unlimited calling/texting/data.

Once you get past the sticker shock of “I’m spending THAT much for phone service in twenty-four months?!?”, it turns out the Pre and Nexus have the lowest TCOO on the 450-500 minute plans. Now, while these are important factors to consider when getting that smart phone du jour, they’re not the only things to consider. Verizon’s higher total price, for instance, comes with a larger and more reliable network — AT&T, while having the single hottest phone (and a gazillion apps for it) recently admitted that yeah, their 3G network is still the pits in some locations. Likewise, the Pre’s attractiveness, both feature- and plan-wise, is tempered by lack of apps (yes, compare to other offerings)

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It is fairly difficult to do head-to-head tests between smartphones in a really scientific way, in most cases, but we can now be assured that the iPhone has the most accurate touchscreen in the land.

Trying to do a smartphone-to-smartphone competition quickly turns out to be an apples against googles, uh, I mean oranges, situation. Smartphones are at once so similar and so different that scientific comparisons break down quickly. People like one smartphone more than another based more on the total experience provided, rather than on individual features, which are often quite similar given their similar goals.

Therefore, it is at least semi-refreshing to see that at least one scientific test that can be fairly easily performed and that there is a clear winner. According to a PCWorld story, the Moto Development Group has tested the touchscreen accuracy of four leading smartphones, Nexus One, Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Eris, and the Apple iPhone 3GS. In this test, the iPhone was the winner. This is important, according to Moto, because “When a manufacturer gets it right, the device tracks touch inputs almost as if they were connected to physical objects in the real world. Get it wrong and consumers end up with inferior touchscreen systems that are inaccurate, insensitive, and absolutely infuriating to use for typing.”

As nice as it is to see a test like this, and we hope that we will see many more, in isolation they mean very little. The only test that really matters is how the phones perform in the marketplace and that is a much more complicated matter than that of touchscreen accuracy, though the latter is a part of the former. From early indications, the Google Android phone seems to be the first new phone in quite a while to have most of the right factors to succeed in a big way in the marketplace. Still, they are going to have a long uphill struggle against the iPhone, the favorite of consumers and the Blackberry, still the darling of the corporate world.

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Google will be releasing their Nexus One aka Google phone today. Will Nexus One be an iPhone killer? The answer is no. Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky managed to get his hands on a Nexus One early, and posted his very detailed review up on Engadget. Go on and check it out, he did a good review of it. Joshua’s verdict is that the Nexus One is just another Android phone, and I’d have to agree with this judging by the videos and reviews I saw on the web. The iPhone will always win because of it’s simplicity!

If you plan on getting the Nexus One, I’d like to know why you would choose it over the iPhone so leave a comment and tell me!

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* Converts your speech to text very accurately
* Offers suggestions for text that wasn’t converted from speech to text properly
* Saves you a lot of time

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* There is a 30 second time limit for dictation, but you can keep adding more text after every 30 seconds
* Requires you to have an Internet connection
* Doesn’t work well in noisy environments

I’ve been using the Dragon Dictation iPhone app for about a week now and have found it really helpful. I still type with my keyboard sometimes but whenever I need to type an e-mail using this app saves me a lot of time. It really surprised me how accurate this iPhone app was. Check it out by clicking the download link below! Let us know how it works for you

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Who makes the iPhone? If you answered ‘Apple’, you’re wrong. The iPhone is a global effort. Tens of thousands of people at more than 30 companies on 3 continents work together to make Apple’s first phone possible.

Apple, of course, designs the product, and also created the single most important ‘component’ – the software that gives the iPhone its unique personality.

iPhone launch But, while Apple gets the credit, behind the scenes there are a host of other players, each of which has to build and deliver complex parts on schedule to make the iPhone possible.

Some of them are well known names, like US-based Intel, which supplies the NOR flash chips which hold the iPhone’s updatable system software; and Korea’s Samsung, which makes the video processor IC. Two famous names from consumer electronics, Japan’s Sharp and Sanyo Epson, are among the suppliers of the phone’s bright 3.5-inch display.
Unknown suppliers

Then there are the unknowns, each of which plays a small but vital role. Ever heard of Balda AG? Chinese factories owned by this German firm make the touch sensitive modules which are fixed onto the iPhone’s LCD to make its innovative multi-touch control possible. It’s also Balda’s technology which allowed Apple to switch to a tough scratch-resistant glass screen, to avoid the complaints over scratching that tainted the iPod Nano launch.

Another low profile firm, the UK’s Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), is the creator of the iPhone’s Bluetooth module, in a deal that reportedly earns the integrated circuit design house $1.20 for each iPhone made.

You might have heard of the companies behind a few of the other iPhone chips – if you’ve ever wrestled with network driver installation on a PC. Marvell designs the WiFi chip, for example. Broadcom, best known for its networking chips, is the company behind the specialized interface chip that interprets the movement of your fingers on the multitouch screen.

While these chips are designed in Europe or the US, most of them aren’t made there. Instead they are rolling off production lines in Asia, from companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), undoubtedly the world’s biggest unknown chip maker, or its slightly smaller rival, United Microelectronic Corp (UMC) – both companies are based in Taiwan.

The distinctive aluminum and stainless steel iPhone case is also made by a Taiwanese firm, Catcher Technology, according to analysts in Taiwan.
Final assembly mystery

No matter where the iPhone’s myriad components are made, they all end up in one place: the factories of a lead contractor whose identity is now something of a mystery. Apple’s iPod manufacturing partner, Taiwan’s Foxconn, was long rumored to be the company that assembled the hundreds of components into a sleek iPhone. However, Foxconn’s CEO recently surprised investors by telling them that these reports were incorrect, according to Reuters. Another likely Taiwanese candidate, Quanta, is rumored to be working on the iPhone, but only on the next generation, so-called ‘iPhone 2.0′.

Analysts in Foxconn’s home base of Taipei however, still confidently list Foxconn International Holdings as the iPhone’s assembler, despite the company CEO’s apparent denial. Whoever the assembler is, it is there that the chips are planted onto printed circuit boards supplied by Taiwan’s Unimicron Technology Corp. Then all the components are fitted into the metal and plastic case to make a completed iPhone, ready for shipment to the US.
A second 3G iPhone?

During recent months, sources at a few of the component manufacturers named in this article have told regional media that Apple appears to be working on two different iPhone designs. The key feature attributed to ‘iPhone 2.0′ is 3G, as well as the GSM standard supported by the original iPhone. At least one of the smaller components suppliers has reportedly already delivered parts for this forthcoming product.

iPhone Primary Contractors
A partial list.

Connector and cables
Cheng Uei, Entery Taiwan

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We’re showing you ours and we encourage you to show us yours. If you discover your own killer iPhone apps, by all means, let us know in comments so we can check them out.

1. Wolfgang’s Concert Vault

Wolfgang’s Concert Vault is an app that provides you with free access to the largest collection of concert recordings in the world. Some of our favorites include The Who, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Elvis Costello, and David Bowie. And if those particular artists don’t appeal to you, you’ll find concert recordings by hundreds upon hundreds of other artists.

2. Instapaper

Do you ever come across a Web page you’d like to read later, when you have the time? Sure, you can bookmark those pages, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could somehow save them to your iPhone and read them at your convenience? And wouldn’t it be even nicer if you could read them without Internet access, such as when you’re on an airplane?

We’re happy to inform you that you can if you just download the Instapaper iPhone application from Marco Arment. Then, when you’re surfing the Web on your Mac, PC, or iPhone and see a page you want to read later, select the special Instapaper Read Later bookmarklet. From then on, you can read the page whenever you choose with the Instapaper iPhone app.

3. reQall

reQall is much more than just an iPhone app. It’s a complete and feature packed system that captures information that’s important to you and makes it easy for you to remember that info at the appropriate time.
The cool part is the unique way reQall works. You speak to the reQall application. Then and after a short time, your words are converted into text and sent to you by e-mail, text message, or instant message (or any combination of those three) as well as saved right in the reQall iPhone app.

4. Now Playing

We like movies, so we both use the Now Playing app a lot. Feed it your zip code, and then browse local theatres by movie, showtime, rating, or by distance from your current location. Another nice feature is the ability to buy tickets to most movies from your iPhone with just a few additional taps.

5. Pandora Radio

We’ve long been fans of Pandora on the computer. So we’re practically delirious that this custom Internet radio service is available gratis on the iPhone. It works on the iPhone in much the same way it does on a PC or a Mac. You type the name of a favorite musician or song title and Pandora creates an instant personalized radio station with selections that exemplify the style you chose.
Tapping QuickMix plays musical selections across all your stations. Tapping New Station, at the bottom of the screen, brings up the iPhone keyboard so that you can add a new station built around an artist, song title, or composer. You can also select from stations Pandora has packaged together around a particular genre.

6. Amazon Kindle

The folks over at Amazon made a splash with the company’s Kindle electronic readers. (When it comes to introducing high-profile products, we think the folks at Apple know a little something about making a splash too.) But although Ed is a fan of the Kindle reader, even he thinks they’re expensive — $359 on up at the time this book was in production.

Kindle for the iPhone, on the other hand, is perfectly free, though of course you’re still on the hook for buying electronic versions of books. You can do that from a PC or a Mac and wirelessly transfer them to the Kindle app. Or within the app, you can tap Get Books, which transports you to Safari on the iPhone. And from there you can purchase titles in the online Kindle Store. E-books for Kindle are deeply discounted compared to their physical counterparts; most new release bestsellers cost just $9.99.

7. Remote

Leave it to Apple to come up with one of the coolest iPhone apps money can’t buy (because it’s free). It’s called  Remote, and it lets you control music playing in iTunes on your computer, Apple TV, or AirPort Express.
With Remote, you can use your iPhone to do almost everything you can do in iTunes: Play, pause, skip, shuffle, search, or browse your iTunes library.

Better yet, you can perform these actions from anywhere in your house that has Wi-Fi. Remote is free, but it does require a couple of basics: a computer running  Apple’s iTunes software and a Wi-Fi network.

8. WhitePages Mobile

Yea, yea, we know: Plenty of phone directories are on the Internet. But WhitePages Mobile is an incredibly handy resource for finding home and business numbers on the fly or doing a reverse phone lookup (you have the number but have no clue whose number it is).

9. Shazam

Ever heard a song on the radio or television, in a store, or at a club, and wondered what it was called or who was singing it? With the Shazam app, you may never wonder again. Just launch Shazam and point your iPhone’s microphone at the source of the music. In a few seconds, the song title and artist’s name magically appear on your iPhone screen.

10. Skype

You’re probably thinking, “Why in goodness’ sake do you need an app that makes phone calls when you’re already carrying a cell phone?” Well, Skype calls are routed over the Internet through what geeks refer to as VOIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol). And if you frequently call friends, colleagues, or relatives who are overseas, you can save money by not paying AT&T’s lofty international rates. As with Skype on a PC or a Mac, direct calls made to other Skype members are free, and you can also instant message them. Through Skype, you can also call landline or mobile phones in the United States and around the world at low rates while not exhausting your monthly AT&T allowance.

The biggest drawback to be aware of: You must have access to Wi-Fi to make kype calls. Forbidding Skype calls over the 3G network is a restriction that we assume keeps AT&T somewhat satisfied.

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1. Rolando: ngmoco

It’s up to you to save the cartoon world of Rolandoland and its rolypoly residents. Tilt to roll rolandos through obstacles and avoid menacing shadow creatures. Rolando drips with adorability, from the personable rolandos to the groovy breakbeat soundtrack. Just don’t let the high cuteness rating lull you; the game starts gently, but each level (36 in all) presents ever more complex puzzles to test your phone-tilting dexterity.

2. Sneezies Lite

Gives you one shot to try to clear the number of sneezies. Tap one location and try to create a chain reaction that’ll expand to other sneezies and so on. Gets really hard around level 25 or so.

3. SuperNova Blast

This Game has explosions in four directions. 250 levels for pure chain reaction explosion. You can repeat a failed level and keep on progressing unlike Pigs a Pop’n if you fail you have to start entire game over. Each level you are given a certain number of touches you’re allowed to solve it in.

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7. Labyrinth Lite Edition

Labyrinth is the classic game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth. It is available for iPhone/iPod touch and Android. The full version of Labyrinth has over 1000 levels and is controlled by the accelerometer with high accuracy. Labyrinth has been downloaded more than 10 000 000 times (Yes, 10.0 million!).

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8. Fast Furious The Game Test Drive

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9. Cricket Twenty 20 Lite Bee’s Vs Orbitors

Ever wanted to play cricket on the move? Now you can with the iphone version of Wicket Wackers. All the controls are there for you with a little touch of the screen to bowl a fast spin ball or to claim your second century in one game.

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10. Eliminate Pro

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11. Real Racing GTI

Real Racing immerses you in all the excitement, competition and glory of championship racing. This is handheld racing like you’ve never experienced before!

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12. Artificial Life: MBW Sauber F1 Team Racing Lite

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13. Rat on the Run for iPhone & iPod Touch

Help Ratty get fattened up for the winter in this hilarious PLATFORM game. Includes the bonus game RAT ON A SCOOTER!

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14. Family Guy Uncensored

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15. Backflip Studios: Paper Toss

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16. Tap Tap Revenge

Tap Tap Revenge 2 offers THREE ways to play with your friends. The addictive new Challenge mode lets you send an email to your friends, challenging them to beat you on the game you just played.

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17. Epic Pet Wars

You may already have played Epic Pet Wars on Facebook (which this version can link to through Facebook Connect) but if you haven’t; beware! It’s unusually addictive for something so simple. Fundamentally it shares a lot in common with Pokemon. It doesn’t share the exploration-focused overworld of Nintendo’s game, but the basic turn based battle system is very similar. You sent your pets into battle, boost their stats and then see them level up and take on more powerful opponents.

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