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Much attention in the battle between Android and iPhone goes to the availability of apps on each platform. But one of the most important feature of a smartphone might not be the availability and performance of native apps but the performance of the mobile web browser.

A new iPhone application is designed to help blind people identify United States currency in real time by speaking the denomination aloud.

How is it that a company that's been making electronics in white for at least a decade can't produce an iPhone 4 in that color?

A new report predicts that revenues from downloadable applications will reach $38 billion by 2015. It may be hard to remember, but when the Apple iPhone had its debut in early 2007 there were only a few apps available for the device — no Angry Birds, Doodle Jump or Netflix.

The iPhone 5 is about 3, 3 1/2 months away if the annual refresh cycle runs true to form, and rumors are beginning to ramp up, just as production will in a few months. The latest appears to have shown up on a Chinese site that resells iPhone parts, as of Feb. 24. The purported part shows what looks to be the iPhone 5's digitizer panel.

Verizon Wireless CEO said the carrier sold more iPhone 4s during its initial launch than any other product, adding that short store lines were result of online purchases.

One of our Apple sources has shared some very sensitive information on first-week Verizon iPhone launch sales with us. It's quite interesting -- we're being told sales are performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated, and we have the data to show it.

Component suppliers who work with Apple shared details which imply that the company is intending to build an iPhone with a 4-inch display.

Apple is working on a line of smaller, less-expensive iPhones and a software overhaul that would make it easier for customers to access entertainment and personal photos and videos.

Verizon Wireless on Friday said its first day of taking online orders for the iPhone produced record sales, and it's stopped taking orders until Wednesday.