Crunch Gear has a review of the HTC Touch, a member of the iPhone-killer cadre. The phone gets high marks for being easy and fun to use, quality screen, and fast WiFi, but the reviewer doesn’t believe it’s really appropriate to think of it as being a threat to the iPhone, with a release date in the fourth quarter of this year and the still-unpleasant Windows Mobile operating system.

If you haven’t subscribed to Apple’s iPhone emails, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has the highlights from a recent message from Apple. Most of it is just a reminder of how to keep your Mac optimized to take advantage of the iPhone’s features, useful if you’re known for–ahem–falling behind on the ol’ iCal.

For those Apple fans that are so hardcore they need to know which factories in Asia are making their beloved products, AppleInsider has word that reports of Foxconn making the iPhone are not true.

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