Don’t trust me, listen to Jimmy Fallon: if you live in NYC you need to get your iPhone 4 upgrade now.

The old school Apple guys like me will love this one.

CNET reviews the two big players in Apple mobile video.

I keep wondering who was surprised that FaceTime didn’t wind up looking more like iChat.  Is this going to make it easier or harder for those of us who want to use our home boxes to chat with mobile folks?  I want to be able to call my wife when she’s in another town, for example, and I want to do it from the iMac sitting at my desk.

Pretty good article on the antenna problems some have experience with their iPhone 4 devices.  Easy to forget this is not the first time the antenna has been the subject of problems for a phone manufacturer.

If you’re one of those people that thinks more megapixels mean better photos, that’s not accurate at all.  More megapixels mean more data, but more data doesn’t mean good data.

It’s like wanting a local phonebook and instead getting one with some numbers from your neighborhood and some others from a neighborhood in Zimbabwe – and none of them are correctly matched to their owners.

If you missed it we’ve seen this movie before (or should I have said ‘photo’?). DSLR manufacturers have finally stopped the megapixel war in favor of getting quality from the megapixels their sensors process, and even the current iPhone came out well ahead of the higher megapixel Droid in recent shootouts.

The entire Apple blogosphere is going to report this translated article from the Czech Republic as significant because some guy’s got his hands on an iPhone 4 before its release, but they’re missing the real news here.  This is arguably the first time we’ve seen photos taken by the iPhone 4 that were not Apple-sourced.

What do they reveal?  Apple iPhone 4 is the first ever phone based point-and-shoot camera for the rest of us, and that means the end of the non-DSLR camera segment as we know it.

So why did you click through to read it anyway? There’s nothing new to say about the iPhone possibly coming to every single carrier not named AT&T. Or for that matter there’s nothing that hasn’t been said whining about AT&T’s service.

Two things we can promise:

(1.) If you’re looking for news regarding who else is going to carry the iPhone (especially you Verizon lovers out there who are pretending to love that Android device so your iPhone-toting friends don’t laugh at your cobbled-together Frankenphone) wait until Apple tells you it’s coming because none of the rest of us can be trusted to ‘scoop the truth’ at this point.

(2.) If you haven’t had another carrier besides AT&T in the past few years, you’re missing far less than you think. Carriers generally suck badly at one or more very important aspects of their business, be it customer service, locking out or delaying features, finding ways to shaft potential defectors, the service itself, or a combination of these.

People generally love blaming the phone for crappy service or crappy service for the phone, and often don’t get it right either way. But one thing’s for sure: your world isn’t going to change the minute the iPhone becomes available from a new carrier. Bliss will end. The grass only looks greener.

But when you finally break down and buy the iPhone, your world will change – especially if the important, yet subtle details of how things work (and work together) are important to you. Your mistake was letting the last three years pass you by because someone or something convinced you that any one of the American wireless carriers comes close to being good enough to lock your business. And trust me, even an occasional dropped call is worth suffering in exchange for most every one of the other crap handsets out there.

If you think your time is wasted calling someone back, consider all the time you waste trying to do the simple things you can only do with the right equipment. You won’t get this until you start using an iPhone.

Now back to dreaming of a life without [insert AT&T, your boring lover, your horrible life, or whatever soothes your dramatic flair here].

We’re posting this as a warning to anyone expecting to just drop in to an Apple Store and grab a new iPhone.  If you haven’t already figured it out, iPhone 4 is going to be the biggest selling phone in history and even Apple didn’t anticipate the months and months of catch-up they’ll be doing to meet demand.

Don’t say you weren’t armed with the info!

“Prospective buyers in both the US and the UK — at minimum — found themselves unable to order the next must-have Jobsian device due to server overload, either in Cupertino, at the carrier level, or both.”

I don’t know anyone who got through, unless they used the brand new Apple Store app made available yesterday.  Makes you wonder if that record 600,000 orders could have been 6 million instead.

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In short: shut the heck up naysayers!