The day the iPhone 3GS launched, I wrote a column entitled “364 days and counting to iPhone 4G.” Since then, thanks to Google, I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from folks wondering just when the fourth-generation iPhone will come out, whether other carriers besides AT&T will offer it, whether it will actually work on 4G networks, and just what features it might have.
Until I hear otherwise, I’m sticking to my guns and saying the iPhone 4G–or whatever Apple chooses to call its next iPhone–will arrive almost a year to the …

Samsung still hasn’t committed to a formal launch date for the e-reader line it launched at CES, but the company narrowed down the launch date from “early 2010″ to “this spring” this morning — which makes sense, seeing as spring has nearly, uh, sprung. We’re only hearing about the six-inch E6 at the moment, along with a new Barnes and Noble partnership — we’re not sure anyone will pick the Samsung over the the popular Nook, especially at the $399 price point we heard at CES, but at least there’s …

Now phones didn’t have much to give us as far as power enhancements were concerned. It was always the few extended hours of talk time that were added to the phone so as to brag about the durability. However, we have something from Olive Communications that totally sets all other concepts aside. It’s got an awesome AAA battery backup that it uses to power the phone in case the Lithium battery runs out of juice. This of course is for emergencies.
This gives the phone a cool name of FrvrOn …

We somehow missed that when watching the Olympics coverage but apparently Nokia used the event to release a limited version of their handsets. The Finnish company collaborated with Oakley to produce 200 limited edition Nokia N97 mini handsets, which were then given to Oakley-sponsored athletes.
These phones exclusively have the Oakley Thunderbird (a logo created specially for the Olympics) laser-etched on their backs. That aside, the Nokia N97 mini Oakley edition only differs from the original Nokia N97 mini by the preloaded content.

Nokia N97 mini Oakley edition
 
So if you are …