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Yeah, that's kind of my point. If you're releasing a major version a month or so before you launch new products, you'd hope you have the OS for those products squared away.

This sounds like they pushed out iOS 8, ran into problems and released iOS 8.0.1, and apparently 8.0.2, and then 8.0.3.

And now they're rolling out 8.1.

That is a lot of churn in a relatively short period of time. Which tells me I'm still going to wait a while, because I expect 8.1.1 or 8.2 to appear within a month or so.

Well, that's nothing on Google. Supposedly Android 5.0 Lollipop will launch 11/3 - but 5.0.1 was already reported in the wild over a year ago: http://www.phonearena.com/news...

There seems to be major errors in how they benchmark. Sony Xperia Z3 has been named king of battery life by everyone who's tested in (magazine reviews as well as consumers) - only falling behind Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.

http://www.phonearena.com/news...

Z3 compact seems to fit the bill of a small yet full featured phone. And with a awesome battery life to boot.

Yes, they did. It was called the Original iPhone.

Other than the bigger display, and thinner case, the iPhone 6 clearly takes its design cues from the 2007 iPhone "1", which Samsung (and others) then shamelessly copied, Home Button shape notwithstanding.

So yeah, I stand by original statement; especially because, rounded corners or no, without the iPhone, y'all would still be using flip phones or Blackberries.

And once you [blah blah blah] you will understand now the world actually works

I thought it works on Android now?

That's not true. It was true in 2012 but not in 2013 or 2014. The carriers have been trying to prevent the formation of an Apple monopoly in the USA and pushed Android subsidies up to Apple levels. Apple is currently negotiating for yet another increase for the iPhone 6 so this may happen 4Q2014 but for about 18 mo it wasn't the case.

Why would carriers push other manufacturers subsidies up that would cause then to spend more money.? If anything, carriers are trying two things to spend less on subsidies:

1. Encourage contract customers to buy cheaper Android phones so they could spend less on subsidies.

http://www.phonearena.com/news...

2. Move away from a subsidy model and offer 0% financing on the phone so that the customer pays for the phone and plan separately.

http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

Now moving away from subsidies could hurt Apple, but would a consumer really balk at paying $25/month for an iPhone over paying $18/month for a high-end Android?

Wrong... Here's some benchmarks:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpre...
http://www.phonearena.com/revi...

As you can see, the A7 is substantially more powerful, and gets roughly double the FPS of the S4 in most benchmarks.

Well if you read any of the articles, there is no real information or than the contention that pressure from Google has delayed the release of this tablet.

Thing is, the pieces are all there.

First, the OHA agreement (which you must sign in order to get Google Apps, including Google Play) prohibit releasing "Android compatible" devices. It's a blanket ban, too - sign the agreement and you CANNOT release anything Android compatible anymore. If you're someone wanting to release an AOSP phone alongside your Google version? You can't.

Second, Google has already reminded OEMs of that obligation and blocked the launch of the Aliyun phone. Rather emphatically, too, forcing the sudden cancellation of the launch event and release at the last minute.

Android is Free alright. However, sign the OHA agreement and you're really Google's bitch. The ironic part is that this comes from the freedom Android provides.

It all stems from the success of the Kindle - prior to that, well, any Android device not running the Google Market was pretty worthless. But with the Kindle, well, there's suddenly a very compelling piece of Android hardware NOT tied to Google, and that Google cannot exert control over.it. Amazon now has control over the entire thing, and the Amazon App Store is considered to be third most lucrative (by money - first is Blackberry, second (close behind) is Apple, third (with about half as much as Apple) is Amazon. Google Play is a very, very, very distant way back (probably anywhere from a tenth to a fifth of Amazon)).

Basically the OHA agreements are used to "lock up" Android OEMs so Amazon can't use them for design help or manufacturing, etc.

there's a very strange thing going on. Mobile web traffic has iOS using TWICE the amount of data over Android. Or, put another way, 1 iOS user consumes as much data as 8 Android users.

Only in your mind.

Or maybe if you're still living in 2008. Android data usage overtook iOS in mid-2011 and is currently sitting at a little over double Apple's usage numbers. Looking at actual recent US carrier data suggests that there's little difference between the two, and owners of both OSs consume roughly comparable amounts of data.

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2011/android-leads-u-s-in-smartphone-market-share-and-data-usage.html
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-users-were-responsible-for-more-than-40-of-global-mobile-data-usage-in-December_id50847
http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/average-android-ios-smartphone-data-use-across-tier-1-wireless-carriers-thr-1

Doesn't Verizon also collect and sell location data? Yep, routinely. You don't need a car, just a phone. In fact, Verizon could determine I'm speeding just by way of my passenger.

Here's an idea that should help you with this problem... STOP FUCKING SPEEDING.

You utterly fucking fail at understanding security. [...] The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.

It ain't just a river in Egypt.

And that's not even considering threats that come from Apple itself, without any need to install apps or change settings. Something magical happens and things just work.

So what you've got is malware requiring physical access to the device, a dodgy app that slipped through the accreditation process but was subsequently pulled and a theoretical vulnerability that Apple have patched.

If you thing that compares to the privacy sham or security shambles that is Android then you really must be a Google or Samsung shill. (It was obvious from the links you included in your post.)

Know how many people get viruses or malware on their iPhone (without jailbreaking) ... 0.

Looks like you don't know enough people. It has been done, without jailbreaking, and we only know because the developers publicized that fact themselves.. If you want to keep the same answer, perhaps you could rephrase the question as "How many times that Apple admit that they served up viruses or malware in their App Store?"

So you think its better to run extra software, waste more ram, cpu and storage space ... so that you don't get something that iOS users just aren't going to get in the first place?

But what if I don't _want_ a misplaced sense of security based on faulty assumptions?

You utterly fucking fail at understanding security. [...] The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.

It ain't just a river in Egypt.

And that's not even considering threats that come from Apple itself, without any need to install apps or change settings. Something magical happens and things just work.

Until then [I] just make it obvious [I'm] nothing more than a fanboy.

No argument here.

A lot of Apple's product stasis comes down to the idiotic decision (from Jobs?) to go with fixed pixel resolution which really limits their room to manoeuver on screen resolution and aspect. While Android scales everything on the fly, Apple apps have to be recompiled, probably the source code has to change too. To dig out of that mess Apple needs to bite the bullet and go to variable resolution just like Android. But the logistics of doing that are apparently just too scary for pencil pusher Tim Cook.

Look, even Steve Wozniak says this is stupid. I say, totally typical Apple. When Jobs died Apple lost the mojo but kept the hubris.

Tim Cook: wears the turtleneck, but doesn't fill the shoes.

I only ask for a changeable battery, the rest is going to be replaced at once every 1-2 years anyway.

Umm...then buy an android...or a BB...or anything besides Apple, really. There you go, problem solved.

You don't honestly think Apple is going to buy into this concept, do you? The same people who won't even let you add software unless it's blessed by their own priests and issues from their own holy garden? The ones that are now actively blocking aftermarket hardware too? Their claims that it is to protect their hapless users from these evil third party vendors is pretty laughable, as in they saw nothing funny about people refusing to pay their apple tax on frigging cables, so now they're 'protecting' people while laughing all the way to the bank...

"So either apps don't get written for android or if they do blah blah blah belm"

Lol. Nice troll there Ian.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Androids-Google-Play-beats-App-Store-with-over-1-million-apps-now-officially-largest_id45680

"Android's Google Play store has just officially reached over 1 million apps and it is now finally outgrown the Apple App Store and its 900 000 applications."

I suppose you think PC software has to be tested on every individual PC in the world too?

Insightful my arse.

Unless you can show examples of Samsung breaking the law in the same industry as Apple, there's no reason to believe Apple is any better.

Samsung, LG, Pantech fined over phone price fixing in Korea Google is your friend.

And Apple.

Apple is not the exception. They just fudge the numbers in a different way. Really, they're all bastards though and I don't trust them any further than I can throw them.

Every survey I've seen. So I'm questioning the GP's sweeping assertion. The iPhone has a 90% brand retention rate when buyers replace the current phones. Android users tend to experiment more so none of the android manufacturers can match that. It doesn't really mean Apple is better or worse, it's just that you can't claim Samsung is obviously better - unless you are just expressing a personal opinion. JD Power consistently finds that the Apple iPhone ranks first in satisfaction. Consumer Reports depends on the question they are asking and their mood so they have results for everybody's taste. JD Powers http://www.phonearena.com/news/J.D.-Power-ranks-Apple-first-in-US-customer-satisfaction-followed-by-Nokia-and-Samsung_id41087 ACSI http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=281:press-release-may-2012&catid=13&Itemid=357

Give the same OS,

The same OS??? You mean no service packs, no hotfixes, no nothing? That would be a radical departure from Microsoft's practice of releasing a Beta onto the customer and then gradually fixing the most glaring bugs online.

The OS never stays the same. You actually would be better off with an old Blackberry devices - it is guaranteed to remain the same :-) It's so easy to update software that those updates occur on weekly basis - sometimes just for marketing purposes.

The same OS on a different hardware is just as bad as a different OS on the same hardware. Things change; but not every change is beneficial. Since tablets are heavily consumer devices, nobody cares about a weird 10K batch that some airline wanted to buy. This is what they move per week. Apple sold 750K iPads per day in one specific case. Do they care about a 10K order that comes with a mile of strings attached? What retailer needs that headache?

This is why professional hardware costs as much as it costs. Not only servers, but laptops and everything else. It takes real money to have a product available for ten years, even if the demand for the product is small. An example: Panasonic Toughbook. It costs like a luxury item, but it's not all that pleasant to use.

Since changes in software can easily render the product unusable (see the long history of bad patches from MS,) the certification will be definitely invalidated if you update the OS. Nobody is going to do that. And as a pilot you don't want to find yourself above clouds, having nothing but a GPS location but no faintest idea where you are, and what airspace is around, and what is the landing approach (this one is also interesting.) Try to land there without knowing the route :-)

this right there. People have been shocked and killed by a counterfeit Apple chargers. Apple is trying to save lives and people are bashing Apple for it? Seriously android fan boys need to give it a rest.

Err... the article you linked to says nothing about counterfeit chargers. It said a woman's iPhone battery "not quite exploded" while it was charging overnight.

Since it doesn't mention the word "counterfeit" anywhere, we can presume this was an official Apple charger, plugged into an official Apple iPhone. So that pretty much rules out "Apple is trying to save lives". What does that leave? Well, the most obvious explanation is that they want to get rid of the competition on overpriced accessories by refusing to work with third-party cables - I sense an antitrust case at some point in the future.

Ill never own one either, but keep in mind those chargers are shit and break. Its not that hard off the beaten trail to assume they are trying to protect their brand by eliminating the levels of suck.

this right there. People have been shocked and killed by a counterfeit Apple chargers.

Apple is trying to save lives and people are bashing Apple for it? Seriously android fan boys need to give it a rest.

Bullshit. 1) The iPhone 4 started the race for better pixel density. Screen specs were so important to Apple that they had to redefine 'Retina' twice afterwards just to be able to milk the concept for tablets and laptops. 2) Samsung's 2Q2013 smartphone market share was about 30%, with LG, Lenovo and ZTE hovering around 5%, and 'others' (mostly not Nokia) taking 40%, according to IDC (sauce). I'm no mathmagician, but that makes Samsung holding a 90% of the Android market somewhat unlikely. 3) Go to Samsung's web page for the Galaxy Note 3. What are they pushing? Specs? No, the pen and its software interface. Sony's Xperia Z1? Water resistance, then camera. In fact, specs are so alike these days that they're impossible to differentiate by.

So you got everything wrong, except perhaps your last point, which merely lacks any credible evidence.

As technology grows so does the capability to automate almost any tast, I doubt it will be only at 45% in 20 years as I really suspect that it will be closer to double that or 90% as manufacturers are getting a mouth full of business as usual in china are looking for ways of saving money. Ways that don't include out sourcing and the unseen cost of training a new work force to manufacture product 'X' for the reduced price they want. Automated assembly lines are where most of the major manufacturers are heading to. Take Foxcom for instance when his workers started committing suicide at its high-rise factory in china when they began suffering from work related depression, Foxcom then hung nets to catch the suicidal workers, when the workers then went on strike, Foxcom(Alan, 2012) then announced they were going to automate their entire manufacturing process. The companies logic was that machines don't complain about work place stress or low pay they just work. There are a lot of reasons to automate industrial work as it relieves people from doing dangerous or just tedious work. But in business the bottom line no matter where you live is king. The real King of all reasons to automate is to save money, and automating a job does that. You just have to amortize the automation systems cost out through the saved wage expenses and expanded production capacity. When the cost to automate a job becomes the equivalent of four years of an employees cost to do the same job then automating then becomes attractive. Now if you want to have an debate on the ethics of the logic behind this business evolution, I would agree that I too find it distasteful, but, also totally unavoidable. Alan, F. ((2012, October 06)2012, October 06). Foxconn workers go on strike to protest working conditions while assembling the apple iphone 5. Retrieved from http://www.phonearena.com/news/Foxconn-workers-go-on-strike-to-protest-working-conditions-while-assembling-the-Apple-iPhone-5_id35255 (Alan, 2012)

And that's what really annoys me when I see idiots complaining after every refresh that Apple will just release a new model in just a few weeks or months with minor changes. I don't challenge valid criticisms, like outrageous price bumps for more storage, they're falling behind on wanted features (a consequence of taking TOO LONG to release new models), or even their suppliers' working conditions (though they are hypocritically silent when told the working conditions are as bad or worse at their competitors'), but that false one is total malicious ignorance.

Fortunately there's an effective response to that: point out that Samsung will have released over 25 smartphone models in 2013 alone, and dare them to show the same scorn at Samsung for releasing so many models with minor feature differences. No one spouting their false accusation has ever replied after being slapped across the face with that revelation.

Samsung is rumored to be working on a 12" Galaxy Note. This may not be a perfect replacement for paper, but with a full pressure-sensitive stylus and sufficient size, it's a good start. I can't wait.

Foreign governments have famously gotten their feathers ruffled because RIM makes it clear that there is no way to snoop those connections.

And then they caved in and allowed it to happen.

There is a way, and they've started doing it ... so, what were you saying about how super awesome the security is again and how impossible it is to snoop on?

RTFA.

It was misleading because the summary and headline intentionally left off and totally ignored the following line from the article so that it could have a better chance of getting posted on Slashdot.

There’s every chance this is a temporary solution until Microsoft completes its wider management restructuring.

So... what you're trying to do is deflect a bluntly stated fact by desperately clinging to speculation by TFA's writer? Funny, around these parts it's generally the other way around, where we use facts to shut down rampant, baseless speculation, but if that's the way you like to see it, I guess we can't stop you.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

A major reorg of MS is imminent,

While it's likely a good guess, as the end of major development cycle often brings big changes and most CEO's don't tend to collect direct reports, claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

Please RTFA or buy a fucking clue. I am so tired of stupid Slashdot stories and commeters who only get their Microsoft news from Slashdot and don't even RTFA. This is turning into something worse than reddit, same with the Secure Boot and Vista DRM FUD that was spread on here.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

>claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

If that is misleading and biased, then what you said is just plain dumb and shows how Slashdot has declined into a sad circlejerk of deluded 14 year olds railing against M$ after reading made up stories to gather karma points. Point out a fact that's not anti-MS or is anti-Apple or anti-Google and get overrated mods for days. Last one out turn the lights off.

What about people like me who bought the Xperia Z, why do we do it?

You can install CyanogenMod in most android phones and restrict yourself to use only open source apps too. Or try Mer based ones (i.e. Sailfish), Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, or Firefox OS

BTW, as the video reveals, this limit is based on adult male head sizes, but is applied to all humans (with children having much thinner, more vulnerable, skulls).

The problem with electronics in space isn't the vacuum, but rather radiation of all sorts, including solar flares and cosmic radiation.

That is sort of what makes building spacecraft electronics sort of expensive. Consumer electronics typically can't survive that sort of punishment.

If space electronics have to be so hardened why is NASA sending satellites running on Android phones to space?

I own this - http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Nokia-1616_id4206/fullspecs

I drop it on the floor atleast once a week, I have dropped into a bucket of water once.

They are not only cheap models, ZTE its releasing this http://www.phonearena.com/phones/ZTE-Nubia-Z5_id7609 this month. Quadcore processor at 1500 MHz, 5 inches display on 1920 x 1080 pixels and 441 ppi.

Maybe for another few months.

Earlier this month, we saw that the iPad market share had dropped to just 50.4%, so it may seem odd that it would take another 6-10 months before Apple finally slips under 50% of the tablet market, but Sameer Singh, analyst for Tech-Thoughts, says that the recent drop was something of an aberration, and Apple iPad market share will surge before dropping below 50 by mid-2013 will surge again before falling back.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPad-market-share-will-surge-before-dropping-below-50-by-mid-2013_id36694

Errm, this was the quarter before the iPad Mini came out.

Maybe for another few months.

Earlier this month, we saw that the iPad market share had dropped to just 50.4%, so it may seem odd that it would take another 6-10 months before Apple finally slips under 50% of the tablet market, but Sameer Singh, analyst for Tech-Thoughts, says that the recent drop was something of an aberration, and Apple iPad market share will surge before dropping below 50 by mid-2013 will surge again before falling back.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPad-market-share-will-surge-before-dropping-below-50-by-mid-2013_id36694

Technically speaking, the CPUs are about the same in both.

That's some good bullshit right there.

The A6X processors are about 4x faster with graphics (GPU). Guess what's the single most important part of a touch OS? Graphics.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Breakdown-of-the-Apple-A5X-vs-NVIDIA-Tegra-3-benchmarks_id28223

It can't possibly be that the Ax chips are more efficient than the Tegra chips, could it?

Yes, yes it could.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Breakdown-of-the-Apple-A5X-vs-NVIDIA-Tegra-3-benchmarks_id28223

It was Steve Jobs' idea.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-Maps-was-Steve-Jobs-idea-but-that-misses-the-point_id35158

Probably the last time that happens though.

That's because Symbian is being discontinued. There will be no more new phones coming out with Symbian. All existing Symbian phones are scheduled to have only one or two more updates before EOL.

Nokia has deprecated Symbian. Nokia won't be making any more Symbian phones due to the exclusive nature of their relationship with Microsoft, even though the number of Symbian users converted to Windows Phone were essentially zero - as any but a fool would have expected. The deal essentially eliminated all of Nokia's considerable Symbian profits and revenues, replacing them with not a darned thing. But Symbian is open source, and those things have a way of springing back from the dead. Long after BSD was written off it lives on in OS X and iOS. If carriers want a third ecosystem Symbian with an installed base of still over 300 million is a good bet for it - far better than BB10 or Windows Phone. Symbian needs an open app store ecosystem, and a facelift, a few handset OEM sponsors, a community build that will go onto extant phones for the transition. But that's easier to do than selling 300 million Symbian users Windows Phone when they bought it because it was "not Microsoft".

Nokia got their half-billion Symbian units sold from a bygone era when smartphone sales were much lower. It took them a long time of huge market share to lift that bar so high, it wasn't even until last year that both iOS and Android combined could reach it and just this year that both did - due to the huge growth of the smartphone market.

It's late and the thread is old so you're likely the only one left reading this. I'll gift you with some historical juice: Counting coup on Nokia was one of the boxes Bill Gates left unchecked when he retired. He had Nokia envy for a decade. Besting Nokia was an undone task he had to let go to get away. Steve Ballmer, gifted with the CEO slot on the top of a tech and financial bubble, and then cursed with maintaining dividends and share price while the largest stockholder divests felt he didn't have a fair shot at success. Pressed on all sides and ridiculed in every corner Ballmer needed a win like wrecking Nokia to restore his self esteem. So he cheated. One day maybe the tale of how he cheated by subverting the Nokia Board and especially the Chairman in the critical CEO selection moment will be laid bare in some court somewhere. Or not. The connection should be well protected. But that's what happened. Wrecking Nokia by putting a puppet in, destroying the economy of Finland by deliberately bankrupting their biggest taxpayer, impoverishing the many retirees whose retirements rely on Nokia investments is just an intended consequence, a byblow, of Steve Ballmer proving to himself that he can do something even the legendary strategist he subconsciously knows is superior to him - Bill Gates - couldn't do. Steve Ballmer needed a win at any cost, and he got it.

Bill Gates really could have done it, and more gracefully, but it was out of phase with his retirement plan.

I could maybe propose some hypotheticals about how SteveB cheated. You see, as a multibillionaire CEO of what was then the world's largest technology company he travelled in rarified circles and rubbed elbows with movers and shakers. He could suggest, for example, that if some banks invested in a company dedicated to suing users and publishers of the cancerous Linux, they might make good their losses with favorable future tips. He could suggest to US bankers and financiers that they contact Nokia chairman Jorma

Is the Samsung P10 anywhere near market yet??

iPad - 2592 x 1944 pixels
Surface - 1366x768 pixels
Nexus 7 - 1280x800 pixels
Advantage iPad - Loser Surface

WP7 never had native code and never will. WP8 will, but it completely replaces the WP7 ecosystem with an incompatible one.

Not true at all. After reading this, it's clear that the WP7 ecosystem will work on WP8, albeit with a few little tweaks here and there (like going from XP to Vista/7 in a way).

Meego has zero ecosystem support, unlike Android or iOS. Unproven, not ready for market. On Lumia 920, you better get the facts correct. It is based on Windows Phone 8 and display, camera, navigation are the best in all respects. E.g. Display is more sunlight readable than any other phone, you can operate it with keys or with gloves (no other phone can do that), best image stabilization in phone camera, navigation (they own Navteq, best maps period), first with build-in wireless charging, etc. etc. Search the net, you will find dozen links which actually show how Nokia 920 is better http://www.phonearena.com/news/Photo-contest-against-the-Nokia-Lumia-920-shows-how-the-Galaxy-S-III-and-iPhone-4S-shoot-in-the-dark_id34152

Meanwhile I got a Google Galaxy Nexus , and a friend got the Galaxy SIII

Galaxy Nexus faults: Microphone cuts out. Poor barry life. Random reboots.

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/05/22/verizon-samsung-galaxy-nexus-problems-via-gottabemobile/

Samsung SIII faults: Build quality. Battery life. Overheating. Wi-Fi connection problems.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-remains-deaf-to-Galaxy-S-III-build-quality-issues_id33091
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/360123/20120706/samsung-galaxy-s3.htm#.UGxA3bTIBdw

The iPhone is the worst smartphone except for all the other ones. It gets more press about what few issues there are because the iPhone is just generally more news-worthy than the rest of the phones. Good stuff and bad stuff all gets more column inches.

...my Droid 2 still works well enough (-ish) that I haven't discarded it. But it continues to run Gingerbread, and will until I run a process which is neither slick, fast, nor easy.

Eh, what's this about then?

So is the competition. Your point?

In actual practice, the "fix" turned out to be not clutching your phone too tightly when you are in a marginal signal area. And this turns out to be good advice for all phones without protruding antennas, not just the iPhone. Most people do this pretty much automatically.

iPhones no longer need/use a USB port. Everything is wireless except charging.

Really? According to this, the iPhone 5 which was just released has a proprietary USB connection and computer sync (in addition to "OTA sync"). I also see an earphone connection. Both wired connections appear to have nothing to make them waterproof.

I guess Apple doesn't agree that nobody needs a USB port and everything is wireless except for charging. Maybe they know they have customers who might want to connect it to their computer to transfer data, instead of maxing out their data plans transporting movies and music there.

What about it?
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Honeycomb-and-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-source-code-released-early_id23768