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Just one day before Apple's iPhone 4S hits store, the team from iFixit disassembled the iPhone 4S and took a peek inside the new smartphone and posted photos. The results suggest that the iPhone 4S is not so good as Apple claimed and we thought earlier. The iPhone 4S features A5 dual-core processor, 8-MP camera, up to 64 GB storage capability, iOS 5 and iCloud.

Apple's latest device iPhone 4S preorders were sold out at wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon and Sprint on Thursday, Oct. 13, just one day before the device officially hits the retail shelves.

Apple's iPhone 4S, the last product created under Steve Jobs, hits the stores on Friday and the pre-orders for the smartphone were sold out ahead of store launch, reports AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Web sites.

From a server glitch at a Japanese carrier selling iPhone 4S to Steve Wozniak taking his position in a line at an Apple Store in California, and from the spectacle of people braving the weather to others bringing in cattle to stand in the queue, the iPhone 4S launch day is shaping up in colorful way. There ought to be solid reasons why iPhone 4S is a good buy right now. The following are some of them:

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Friday it would in future focus entirely on the fast-growing smartphone market as it posted in-line quarterly profits, making no reference to a report electronics giant Sony would take full ownership.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on Oct. 4, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S will be hitting the stores Friday, but iPhone 5 remained a mystery after all. Analysts are anticipating Apple to release a 4G LTE iPhone 5 in 2012.

A four-day service outage has cast a shadow over BlackBerry's reputation in India, one of the smartphone maker's few growing markets, where the frustration of hundreds of thousands of users could mean a chance for its rivals to gain ground.

The new iPhone 4S may have disappointed reviewers who expected a newer machine, but the device has already become huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs

Apple iPhone 4S is being sold in stores on Friday. iPhone users have been anticipating the arrival of the iPhone 4S, so much so that pre-orders for the new smartphone sold out ahead of the store launch, according to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's Web sites.

Now comes the latest -- a three-day outage of BlackBerry services including email and Internet across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India plus some spotty outages in the U.S. Here's where you start to feel for the company: While the RIM and BlackBerry have been all but dead in the U.S, life remained for the company, its products, and services in these other countries.

Apple's new iPhone 4S will be available in Apple Stores from Friday, and the same day, customers who pre-ordered the new smartphone will get the product in their hands.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion faced the prospect of a compensation bill from network providers on Thursday as the world's dominant provider of mobile email struggled for a fourth day with service glitches.

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Apple has won a preliminary sales injunction against Samsung in Australia, to block the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from hitting store.

A Florida based computer hacker was arrested on Wednesday by FBI for allegedly infiltrating the emails of Hollywood stars including Scarlett Johansson, naked pictures of whom appeared online last month.

iPhone 4S will be available in two models - a 64-gigabyte model for $399 and a 32-gigabytes for $299 - with a two-year carrier contract.

Today is the day for the Apple release download of its new iOS 5 operating system for mobile devices. With some 200 new features, it was eagerly awaited, to say the least by owners of Apple's bestselling iPhone, iPad and iTouch. But for Apple in the past week-and-a-half, it has been the best of times and the worst of times.

Apple will finally release the new iPhone 4S in stores on Oct. 14. In addition to the online and physical Apple Stores, here is a list of the various retailers selling the iPhone 4S on its big launch day.

Will the release of the iPhone 4s to Sprint (S) spark a renaissance in the wireless sector, including for longstanding iPhone carrier Verizon (VZ)?