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The new Apple iPhone 3GS feels fast, but it's always good to see your feelings confirmed with hard numbers.

I have a confession: I recently woke up with a hot iPhone. In fact, it happened twice. And that was just during the first week I owned my new iPhone 3GS. This is, apparently, a reasonably common phenomenon--the hot phone, if not waking up with one.

Google are expected to unveil a social-networking mobile phone today, which integrates online-sharing sites Twitter and Facebook and Flickr into its software.

As the first Android phone, T-Mobile's G1 was a much welcomed entry into the smartphone market. And it may have been considered the must-have smartphone were it not for a certain device from Apple. The reason is that while the Android platform itself has a lot of possibility given its open nature, the G1 hardware simply was not great when compared to something like the iPhone.

When Apple starts selling what it bills as the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet on Friday, the company's latest entry will only heat up the already sizzling smartphone landscape.

Bits is providing live updates and analysis from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

A version of the iPhone that would work on Verizon’s network could be available as soon as next year.

The electronics maker reports $1.21 billion in net income, or $1.33 a share, on $8.16 billion in sales that include 11 million iPods, up 3% from the year-ago period, and 3.79 million iPhones, up 123%.

A new report is backing rumors of Voice Dialing support inside betas of Apple's iPhone 3.0 Software but adds that capability may be just one of several features included in a new Voice Services framework that may also facilitate voice control of the new OS.

AT&T's exclusive deal to carry the iPhone in the U.S. expires next year, according to people familiar with the matter, and Mr. Stephenson is now in discussions with Apple Inc. to get an extension until 2011.