According to Boy Genius, the online mobile phone blog, the iPhone 5 will be announced in late August and launched in the first half of September. It is said that AT&T is currently preparing for the launch of GSM-version iPhone 5. According to Verizon Wireless spokesmen, iPhone 5 will offer global roaming capabilities. Are you ready to upgrade your iPhone? I am!

Verizon Wireless invited journalist to iPhone launch event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. It is expected that Verizon Wireless will officially launch the world’s most popular smartphone in the event. To prepare for the fight, AT&T wireless today slashed the price of iPhone 3GS to $50 from $100, in order to get more customers lock into two-year contract agreements. There is now news that when the iPhone will hit the shelves of Verizon stores yet. Please stay tuned for more updates.

If you have some money to spare, and would like to impress your friends and family, who are coming to your house in coming holidays, you could get this awesome looking speakers, BeoSound 8, from Bang & Olufsen.
Bang & Olufsen, the Danish company that made the BeoSound 8, said the speakers are designed to be light, well-suited to be placed on just about any place you want it to be – on a wall bracket, in a corder, or freestanding. The speakers have a AUX port, a dedicated remote, and stream music from a computer over Wi-Fi using Airport Express.

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Mobile phone processor maker, Qualcomm, today announced that they are planning to launch 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor in Q1 2011. The new processor will not only get 50% speed improvement, but also provides high-quality multimedia performance with 3D graphics, HD video, built-in GPS and more. With the launch of 1.5GHz processor, 2011 is definitely an exciting year to watch and see whether Android device or iPhone will have the fastest mobile processor.

iPhone has some cool games, but it isn’t fun to play all by yourself. iPhone Accessory maker, Griffin, came out an interesting accessory called Griffin PartyDock that enables up to 4 players to play games on a single iPhone / iPad. The Griffin PartyDock has 4 wireless controllers that comes with three free games (Midway Motors, Fishing Frenzy and Flippin’ Frogs). If you think the screen size of iPhone or iPad is too small, you could hook up the PartyDock to an external display. This cool accessory will only works on iPhone 4 and iPad. There is no pricing info yet.

Cell phone accessories makers are trying to cash-in the release of iPhone 4, the latest iPhone that sells like hot cakes since it was launched by Steve Jobs early this month. Since the world is also crazy about the World Cup games, accessories makers launched World Cup theme crystal covers for iPhone 4. The selling price is $290 USD. If you have 300 bucks to spare, you might want to get one to show your support to your favorite team.

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If you look at the share market, you will find that Apple market value is raising fast in this few years and is set to match Microsoft’s. Microsoft knows that Apple is the beloved technology company in the world now, and although they don’t really like to corporate with Apple, they still have to develop this MSN messenger app for iPhone. Picture shown above is the screenshot of Windows Live Messenger App for iPhone, which Microsoft promised to develop since November of last year. It takes too long for the world’s largest software maker to develop this iPhone app. The latest expected release date is June 2010.

Gizmodo.com was fortunate to get the first-hand photos of iPhone HD, the fourth-generation of iPhone that is expected to be launched in June. The iPhone HD features a 3.5-inch touch screen (940 x 460 resolution), a digital camera with LED flash on the rear of the phone, and a secondary digital camera on the front for video calling. Like Apple iPad, the iPhone HD has a microSIM card slot, instead of a regular size SIM slot. It has IMEI and UDID.

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Starbucks today announced that they are now “taking iPhone app payments in over 1,000 Target stores nationwide”.

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I am sure how useful this holder is, but you sure can impress your friends with this Spiderpodium iPhone holder that is made of 8 bendable spider-like legs. The holder also holds IPod, and it also can holster iPhone / iPod on a bike’s handle bar. The selling price is about $23 USD.

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Although these are not official release pictures, we are pretty sure that these are leaked photos of real fourth generation iPhone. The Internet rumor said that the phone will be named iPhone 4G, but we doubt that Apple is going to use “4G” name, as 4G means 4G network, which is currently provided by Sprint in some cities in United States. Unless Apple is going to release a CDMA version of iPhone, the name of “iPhone 4G” will sounds quite stupid if the 4th generation iPhone doesn’t run on 4G network.

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Now you don’t have to spend a couple hundreds bucks to get a Kindle to read ebooks from Amazon.com. Amazon.com today announced the Kindle App for iPhone, allowing iPhone / iPod touch users to buy eBook from Amazon.com Kindle Store and read on iPhone without using Kindle. The Kindle app automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersyn, making reading eBook on iPhone a lot more convenient. It also support text size adjustment, booksmarks, and annotations created using Kindle.