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That's because Wednesday's launch is expected to be more of a refresh rather than a totally new product. However, if Steve Jobs were to show up at the launch event, that would get investors excited and likely pump up Apple shares.

At the dawn of automobile mass-production, Henry Ford famously said of his Model T: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Until recently, the iPhone was in its Model T era. You could customize it with different apps and cases, but any customer could...

Verizon is allowing some AT&T customers to trade in their iPhones for credit when they buy a new Verizon iPhone 4 and sign up for a two-year contract, although the trade-in value isn't as much as they'd get by selling their old phones on the secondary market. A quick glance at Gazelle.com,...

With a $325 early termination fee required to get out of a two-year iPhone contract with AT&T, making the switch to Verizon when it starts selling the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10 can be painful for current iPhone owners. But if iPhone owners act fast -- this week is probably best -- they can sell...

Internet-telephone service Skype may unveil a video-chat service for iPhone and iPad at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. If it's true, the service would compete with Apple's FaceTime service. The rumor stems from documents that were posted on Skype's own website -- and then quickly removed.

Radio Shack and the Apple Store may be at opposite ends of the spectrum when you think of buying an iPhone, but a deal this week at Radio Shack that reduces the cost of a 16GB iPhone 4 to $25 may move The Shack to the top of your list when buying electronic gadgets. The one-week sale started...

The smartphone of the future will be able to react to your moods, Intel Chief Technology officer Justin Rattner predicts. The phone of the future could use microphones, cameras and heart monitors to measure a user's moods and offer advice, Rattner said at a conference in San Francisco.

For the first time, consumers don't need to camp out at an Apple or AT&T store to get an iPhone. Walmart will be selling Apple's new iPhone 4 when it launches June 24 and Radio Shack has announced on its Twitter account that some of its stores will be taking pre-orders for the new iPhone 4...

College kids are opting to scale back their wardrobes and save their pennies for new gadgets, according to a study in today's WWD. Students will have spent a projected $13 billion on electronics by the end of this year -- more than twice what they'll likely have spent on clothing and accessories:...

Cell phone contracts often lock up the user tighter than Alcatraz, and the cost to escape is just as costly, with the lowest termination fees still coming in over $150. Thankfully if you want to get out of your current cell phone plan without paying out the nose, you can sell your cell phone...