Ben's Talk3G Blog

Eleven long months have passed by since Steve Jobs announced iPhone 4 at WWDC. In past years we would now be feverishly awaiting Apple's next incarnation of the popularly-dubbed "Jesus phone", and yet curiously, despite far-intensified competition, all appears quiet from Cupertino, California at this familiar time of rumour and speculation.

To find out why, we have to remind ourselves what, exactly, Apple unleashed upon the world last year.

iPhone 4 was a ...

Something remarkable is happening.

In the face of overwhelming competition from Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry high-end smartphones Apple's iPhone 4 should not be a runaway success. But, with over 600,000 pre-orders filled on the first day, it already is.

This is not a bad thing.

For Apple's iPhone, the mobile phone that took an extremely tired and uncompetitive industry and turned it on its head, to fall slowly into obscurity so soon would be ...