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Under: News , Phone Debates Date: October 22nd, 2008 I had a read of a an article posted by one of my colleagues here at Phones Review, on just how well the Apple iPhone is doing financially, see ( here ) Well, I’m not a figures man myself but I can recognise when a product such as the Apple iPhone 3G is doing well, and those sales figures do speak for themselves.

So this got me to thinking, could the new Google Android T-Mobile G1 actually do just as well, or even outperform the Apple iPhone 3G? I look back to when the Apple iPhone 3G was released, and the whole day was virtually all Apple iPhone 3G hoo-ha, virtually everything over the internet mobile world was about the iPhone 3G. I can’t however see the same effect from the Google Android T-Mobile G1.

Is it out yet? One wouldn’t think so beings the mobile world seems to be so quiet about this all new Google backed superphone. I believe in this game it’s all about who can promote the loudest, and Apple has that down to a tee.

Apple did lower its least expensive laptop, the existing version of the entry-level MacBook, by $100 to $999. But in the updated versions of its MacBook and MacBook Pro machines, Apple focused mainly on adding features. Some had been in the svelte MacBook Air, including thinner laptop casings and a “multitouch” track pad, which, like the iPhone, understands gestures for spinning and zooming.

In an event at Apple s headquarters, Steve Jobs, Apple s co-founder and CEO, also said Apple broadened its use of graphics chips and associated technologies from Nvidia Corp., at the expense of Intel Corp., which still supplies the computers central processors. Jobs said the change speeds up processing-intensive activities playing popular 3-D video games, for example as much as six-fold.

As at other events in the last few months, Jobs appeared thin but, in a tongue-in-cheek nod to persistent questions about his health, projected a slide with his healthy 110-over-70 blood pressure reading. The redesigned laptops are thinner and lighter, and use what Apple touted as a construction “breakthrough” when it debuted in the super-slim MacBook Air in January. All the new laptops now use casings cut and tooled from aluminum, without a stronger skeleton fused to the insides.

At the lowest end of the redesigned laptops, a MacBook will cost $1,299, while the most expensive MacBook Pro, which comes with two graphics chips from Nvidia for extra-fast graphics processing, costs $2,499 a $300 reduction from the previous top model. An updated MacBook Air, the ultra-thin portable notebook that does not have a CD or DVD drive on board, begins at $1,799, just as the previous Air did. The track pads built into MacBooks and MacBook Pros also got a makeover.