It's been a bad few weeks for Apple. MobileMe issues, iPhone 3G connectivity problems, and on Tuesday Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reported that two new reports of minor fires due to suspected iPod nano battery overheating occurred in Tokyo this month.

If you have an AT&T Premier account, through your work or other means, anyway. Yep, although AT&T and Apple aren't going to sell it online to everyone, as they did with the original iPhone, you can order it through AT&T, if you don't mind waiting 7 - 10 business days for delivery (of course, this also means you don't have to stand in line).

The finger-pointing has begun. Much has been made over the iPhone's 3G connectivity issues on AT&T's network, and some (including me) have pointed to the fact that AT&T's 3G network performance isn't exactly stellar. Of course, that doesn't mean it's still not an Apple issue.

T-Mobile, on the other hand, made no bones about it: the issue lies with the iPhone 3G itself, either in software or hardware.

Downloaded some new tunes from the iTunes Store, but forgot to synch them to your iPhone or iPod Touch? Drat, right? For now, anyway. A new patent application filed by Apple seems to point to them working on a method for you to stream your music over the Internet to your device.

Copy & Paste functionality is one of the most desired iPhone features, and as such, software developers Proximi may have struck gold with MagicPad, which they recently submitted for inclusion to the App Store.

Solid-State drives (SSDs) have had a lot of coverage lately, mostly negative. Battery life, performance, reliability, those sorts of things have been under close scrutiny of late. Monday, in Sandisk's earnings call, Sandisk placed the blame for at least one of those issues squarely on the shoulders of everyone's favorite whipping boy: Windows Vista.

Lines continue to circle city blocks in America as people line up to get iPhone 3Gs are Apple Stores around the country. Since Apple started opening dedicated retail stores in 2001, however, there have been none in China. That drought ended on Saturday as the first Chinese Apple retail store opened in Beijing’s Sanlitun Village.

As hackers get more sophisticated, the time it takes them to unlock devices such as the iPhone becomes shorter and shorter. Much as with DRM on CDs and DVDs, the question must be asked: are companies like AT&T and Apple simply hurting honest consumers in their quest to hang onto a monopoly?

Yes, Virginia, there is cellular phone news that doesn't involve the iPhone. That doesn't mean I won't mention it at least once - or twice.

AT&T and Palm have lowered the price of the Centro to $69.99.

I commented on this earlier - I was concerned that the in-store activation would take a long time, or worse, totally fail. Looking at how complex it was going to be, it seemed obvious. And now real-life experiences show I was right.