Guides

Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone contains hazardous substances, Greenpeace claims

Apple is once again being bitten by Greenpeace, this time for its alleged use of toxic brominated compounds and hazardous PVC in the high-demand iPhone. As a result, the organization’s data has spurred at least one lawsuit against Apple.

Will Apple open the iPhone?

An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January's Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard, Business Week reports.

NAND pricing turnaround coming, thanks to iPhone, some analysts say

Some analysts say that despite a marked increase in capital spending in the overall flash memory market and a host of new memory chip fabs, flash manufacturers are "scrambling" to meet demands brought about by an influx of orders for Apple's iPhones and iPods. Such demand could bring tightness back to the memory market, which has suffered from oversupply and falling prices since the beginning of the year.

Inside Apple's iPhone: More than just a dial tone

EDN's Prying Eyes column examines the engineering inside history's most hyped cell phone. See which processors, memory devices, and other ICs Apple's engineers selected, and ponder the architecture decisions that hint at future iPhone generations.

Apple posts record sales on iPhone debut, strength of Mac computers

Apple Inc.'s stock price hit a new record high after the company's fiscal Q3 report bested analyst estimates and revealed a whopping 73 percent year-over-year profit growth.

Apple's iPhone: Apply to MY headphones

EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert discusses headphone compatability with the iPhone in this blog post.

Apple's iPhone: Initial hands-on impressions

EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert reviews an 8GByte model of the iPhone.

iPhone in-hand ...

EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert identifies and examines an iPhone glitch -- that activation requires not only iTunes 7.3 but also OS 10.4 -- in this blog post.

Stocks soar for Apple, iPhone component suppliers on handset's early success

Apple and its component suppliers have seen marked stock market price gains in the past week, with some contributors hitting 52-week highs, as the iPhone made its debut.

The coveted iPhone contract in europe

According to reports in British newspapers, mobile phone operator O2, looks like its in the lead for the race to bring the iPhone to the U.K.

Samsung, Infineon big players in iPhone

According to iSuppli's teardown analysis, Samsung, Infineon, Marvell and National Semiconductor are among the component suppliers for Apple's $599 8GByte mobile phone product, which has a hardware bill of materials and manufacturing cost of $265.83.

EDGE upgrade: Thanks, Steve

Apparently the data-centric nature of the Apple iPhone has finally persuaded AT&T to open up the purse strings and the wireless pipes, along with the wired or microwave pipes feeding the base stations, EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert writes in this blog post.

iPhone and H.264 encoder: Two architectural fingerposts

The iPhone, standing at the end of a long tradition in hardware-block-oriented SoC design, points aloofly into the past, and an H.264 high-profile CoDec chip from Mobilygen, coming from a very different tradition points into a possibly very different future.