iPhone 4 Canadian pricing released, $659 (16GB) and $779 (32GB)

We just received pricing confirmation from Apple Canada for this Friday's iPhone 4 Launch. Seems like "iPhone 4 will be available without a contract for a suggested retail price of $659 (CAN) for the 16GB iPhone 4 and $779 (CAN) for the 32GB iPhone 4 through Apple’s online store (www.apple.ca/store) and Apple's retail stores. An  iPhone 3GS 8GB model is currently available without a contract for $549 (CAN). iPhone 4 will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date."

We are still trying to confirm if web pre-orders will be available or whether interested iPhone 4 buyers will need to camp out in Bell, Rogers, Telus or Virgin Mobile stores to get the iPhones under their providers. Apple Stores should be carrying the unlocked phone that work with any provider, for as long as the MicroSIM card is available.

Best Buy Canada will sell iPhone 4 on Friday for all carriers

Its unavoidable, this week is all about the iPhone 4 launch in Canada and at the time of this writing only Telus and Bell have confirmed that they will be carrying the iPhone 4 on July 30th. Best Buy, which sells phones from all the iPhone carriers, updated their page announcing that the iPhone 4 will be available in their stores on Friday.

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Apple: White iPhone 4 delayed until 'later this year'

Seems like people pining for the white variant of the iPhone 4 will need to wait a little longer. Following up a statement that the white iPhone 4 was challenging to manufacture, Apple today released the following statement.

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — White models of Apple's new iPhone® 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.

India develops world's cheapest $35 Linux laptop

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal unveils the low cost computing-cum-access device in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: V. Sudershan -The Hindu

It's a laptop, it runs Linux, it has iPad-like touchscreen features and it costs $35. This is the world's cheapest laptop, a LInux powered device that is being developed in India and is poised to start an affordable computing revolution of its own.

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