HTC Countersues Apple to Stop All iPhone, iPod, iPad Sales [Apple]

Two months after Apple sued HTC for violating 20 patents, HTC’s hitting back, alleging that Apple’s violated 5 of HTC’s patents, asking the ITC to ban the import and sale of all iPhones, iPods and iPads in the US. UPDATED. More »

Giz Explains: Why Streaming Video Over 3G Sucks [Giz Explains]

The thing about wirelessly streaming video to millions and millions of phones is that it’s, like, hard. More »

HTC Droid Incredible arrives as promised (Update: not yet!)

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. HTC’s impressive Droid Incredible has arrived, so if you pre-ordered one you can expect it today (if you haven’t already gotten it) — and if you didn’t, well you can pick one up at a nearby Verizon store. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our full review of the Incredible.

Update: So, a friendly tipster pointed out to us that on Verizon’s website, it actually still lists the Droid Incredible as available for pre-order. To quote: “Due to high demand, this device will ship by 5/4.”

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Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri

Apple has acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app. Siri was inspired by DARPA’s CALO — the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes — project. Originally designed to help streamline military personnel’s activities, the consumer app focuses on helping you find things like restaurants, making use of speech recognition to boot. Essentially a smart search, there’s plenty of speculation of course as to what this means about the direction that Apple might be taking… and that direction seems to lead towards Google-y territory. Now we don’t want to speculate too much, but we’ll be watching to see how this plays out over the next few weeks. The terms of the acquisition aren’t known, meaning we have no idea how much Apple paid for the small startup, but Business Insider guesses the deal could be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 to $200 million.

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Nokia N8’s full spec sheet leaks, nothing shocking spied within

Just one day after finding a pretty thorough review of the Nokia N8 on a Russian website, the full spec sheet seems to be floating about as well — also from a Russian source. Unwired View‘s published what it believes to be the full N8 spec sheet. So what do we find contained within? Well, no shockers, to be sure, but here’s what we know: the phone will boast a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen OLED, a 680MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM, swappable microSD capacity up to 32GB, and a 12 megapixel cam. Now, there are also a few rumored features floating around, which include a DRM-free Ovi music store, and LAN IEEE802.11 b/g — so we’ll let you know for sure when we do if those features are going to hit reality. Until then, hit up the source link to check out the full listing.

[Thanks, Staska]

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How Apple Conceals Prototype iPhones [Apple Iphone 4]

There’s a reason why more people haven’t seen the next iPhones before Steve Jobs makes an announcement: They’re in disguise. More »

The Next iPhone, Dissected [Apple Iphone 4]

We took apart the next iPhone. More »

28 Ways Microsoft Could Market the Kin to Non-Hipster Demographics [PhotoshopContest]

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to help Microsoft take aim at some demographics other than hipsters. And while technically these entries fit that criteria, I’m not sure how many phones they’d sell. Yikes. More »

How Apple Lost the Next iPhone [Apple Iphone 4]

The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German lagers. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell, it’s also a nice place to make the honest mistake of losing the next-generation iPhone. UPDATED More »

This Is Apple’s Next iPhone [Apple Iphone 4]

You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details. More »