Canada, home to more than 100,000 subscribers to ConsumerReports.org, will be getting the iPhone for the first time when Apple launches the iPhone 3G later this week. But any jubilation among Mac fans north of the border is being dampened by anger at Rogers Wireless, the 3G's exclusive Canadian carrier. A post yesterday to an impressive protest site, iphoneincanada.ca, "Where Canadian iPhone Users...

We praised and recommended the original iPhone (available to subscribers). And we have no reason to think the new iPhone 3G, available this Friday, will be any less compelling to buy—especially at prices that start at $199, half or less what the original version cost. That said, unless you're bent on buying the iPhone 3G (Click on the image at right for a closer look) the moment it's available, h...

In what could be a glimpse of the future, Sony announced last week that it would offer its hoped-for summer blockbuster, Hancock, as an Internet download to Web-enabled Sony Bravia TVs before distributing it on cable, satellite, DVD, or Blu-ray discs. The company hasn't revealed some important details, such as whether the download will be high-definition or even DVD-quality. Nor has it disclosed wh...

Since it's little more than a week before the upgraded iPhone hits stores, it's hard not to measure the Samsung Instinct, a new Sprint-Nextel phone with multimedia features and a touch screen, against Apple's second-generation multimedia, touch-screen smartphone. (Click on the images for closer looks at the Instinct.) Some comparisons are impossible until we actually get the iPhone 3G. In initial t...

Just how fast is the Nikon subcompact Coolpix S600? According to the company's magazine ad featuring Ashton Kutcher, one of Hollywood's slick young actors, the S600 is the "fastest starting camera of its kind." (Mr. Kutcher can also be seen snapping away with a Nikon at www.ashtonscoolpix.com, along with Nikon's claims that the $300, 10-megapixel S600 takes "0.7 seconds from start-up to shoot.") Of...